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Images Spotlight on James Harden y'all: how did the Thunder stop
him in Game 1?  With apologies to Messrs. Rodgers and
Hammerstein: How you solve a problem like James Harden?  In The
Sound of Music, the composers compare Maria Von Trapp to holding
a moonbeam in your hand. That lyrical phrase also aptly
describes the Houston Rockets shooting guard's Eurostep: right
when you think you've got him, he disappears.  That's when
Harden's not hitting from outside or drawing fouls at a rate
comparable to that of a Bugatti on the Autobahn.  So how do you
solve a problem like James Harden?  Based on the Rockets' first
playoff game of 2013, we really ought to ask the Oklahoma City
Thunder.   Isolation plays  Harden's game depends on beating his
man in isolation. Problem