"So I think the most important thing for me, like, …

And when he wasn't even close to start this season, Harden said the criticism didn't bother him, because he was criticized back then for being a scorer but not a winner. "I was averaging 36 and 35, whatever the case may be, people had something to say about that. 'You can't win like that.' So then I averaged 20-something, it's like, 'Can't win like that,'" Harden said. "So I think the most important thing for me, like, people are going to talk. So I just focus on myself, things I need to do and try to get in really good shape and learn my teammates and learn how to play a different brand of basketball, because I'm not the same fast person that I was like five or six years ago."

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