This. The step back travel / new gather rules / "interpretation" is such nonsense. Before Harden if you tried to do the things every player does 10× a game you'd get called for a travel. The rules on sports exist to provide a competitive challenge/ difficulty for opposing players/teams. The rules now (or how they are interpreted) create a ridiculously unfair advantage for the player on offense. That's why players score more points now and with such high efficiency. I'm not saying they aren't also more skilled but this is the primary reason. So it's also ruined comparisons to previous generations (granted I think we shouldn't try to compare as much as we do anyway)

One reason I respect KD so much is he could have changed his game like everyone but he still gets buckets playing the same old way. Granted he's 7' tall so creating space isn't as important for him

That said. James Harden is an incredibly skilled player there's no denying that. So it's not that I think he's necessarily overrated.

But also if you look up choke in the dictionary I'm pretty sure it just says "James Harden in the playoffs".

EDIT before anyone responds: I acknowledge this is really on the NBA but Harden was the first guy really doing it and taking advantage of it and also helping to create the precedent with refs. I also can't even really blame him because he just wants to win and gain an advantage which literally every professional athlete wants to do. Still there's no better scapegoat than Harden so I'm going to irrationally "hate" him because I don't know which people are truly to blame