Clippers closed: There was nothing at all, where did the dust get!

50 wins and 32 losses, and was eliminated in the first round of the playoffs 3-4. This is the result that the Clippers have delivered this season. As the head of this team for most of the time, how would you evaluate Harden's season?

Before evaluating Harden, we need to list a premise: the Clippers were hopeless this season.

Before the start of this season, many media were in a state of disapproval of the Clippers. The Athletic contributor John Hollinger predicted that the Clippers would 36 wins and 46 losses in the regular season ranked 13th in the Western Conference. Among the predictions of nine CBS Sports writers, all of them ranked the Clippers outside the top ten in the Western Conference, and eight sports experts even believed that the Clippers' final record would be outside the 12th in the Western Conference.

Although not favored by most people from the outside world, based on Harden's existence, the Clippers this season are not completely desperate.

played 79 games in the regular season, making it the best attendance in the past ten seasons. It averaged 22.8 points and 8.7 assists per game in the regular season, with 5.8 rebounds and 1.5 steals and 0.7 blocks. After two years of separation, he returned to the All-Star again and won the last four games of the regular season. After four years of separation, he won the first player of the week since February 2021. In early March, he scored 50+ points in a single game after leaving the Rockets with nearly 60% of the shooting percentage. The last time he scored 50+ points in a single game was in December 2019.

Combined with the salary of 33.65 million this season, it ranks 44th in the league, carrying the team's outstanding record of 50 wins and 32 losses, looking at the Western Conference second only to the Thunder with 68 wins and 14 losses and the Rockets with 52 wins and 30 losses.

The Clippers finally advanced to the playoffs with fifth place in the West and got rid of the playoffs. Harden averaged 18.7 points, 9.1 assists, 5.4 rebounds, 1.3 steals and 1 block per game with an all-around data with a better shooting percentage of 43.6% and 36.4% of three-point shooting percentage than the regular season. His playing time was also the most 39.4 minutes in the team.

But unfortunately, Harden and the Clippers are not the winner after all. The seventh game in the first round of the series may be enough to show that the teams of both sides are evenly matched. The winner and loser of the series have been decided. Now, looking back at the tactics and players is basically meaningless, but there is only three games in the series that ended up with the score gap below three points. Looking back at the post-match referee report of these three games, it is actually worth reviewing.

Referring to the referee report at the last critical moment of these three games given by the league official after the game, there was no misjudgment in the last two minutes of the fourth quarter of the first game of the series. The two teams entered the overtime 98-98, and in the last 57.1 seconds of the overtime, Aaron Gordon's obvious foul on Leonard was not called. In this round, the Nuggets made a profit, and in the end, the Nuggets won the game 112-110.

and then the second game of the series. With 1 minute and 42 seconds left in the fourth quarter, Jokic obviously violated the defense for three seconds, but the referee did not call the penalty, and the Nuggets benefited again. Fortunately, it did not affect the results of the game in the end, and the Clippers won the second game 105-102. In the fourth game of the

series, 1 minute and 30 seconds into the fourth quarter, Jokic made an obvious foul against Harden, and the referee did not call the penalty. In the end, the Nuggets won the game, and in the end, the Nuggets won the fourth game 101-99.

Three matches with similar scores, three misjudgments and three Nuggets gained.

For this round of the series with equal strength between the two sides, one move will affect the whole body. Of course, the referee is also a human being. People are not sages, so who can do nothing. However, it may be difficult to fully accept the referees' losses repeatedly because of misjudgment.

For the Clippers' season, from the perspective of fans, how would you summarize it? Is it disappointment? Or sad? Or is it frustrated? Maybe you have too many extra expectations. Perhaps fate only allows the Clippers to come here, and players as mortals naturally have nothing to do.

The wind is calm, the Clippers dock, and sail again next season!