Former 76ers coach Doc Rivers appeared on The Dan Patrick Show Wednesday and said that James Harden not being selected for the All Star Game changed his approach to the team for the worse.
Rivers said Harden was a “terrific player” for the first half of the 2022–23 season because he was “being a point guard,” referencing how Harden was facilitating and passing the ball, and wasn’t chasing numbers. Rivers even said a coach called him during the team’s impressive start to the year and said, “I never thought anyone could get him to do that.”
Harden has always been a high-volume shooter, but he started to regress back to his old ways as the season went on. Patrick outright asked Rivers what changed and he gave a blunt answer.
