NBA Season/Playoffs 2025-26

[ozgod]

Epic beat down? The Cavs simply cannot defend New York, doesn?t matter who it is?Shamet cooked them from 3 and also made Mobley look like a traffic cone on his way to a dunk, then it was KAT turn to treat Mobley like a turnstile. Mobley is doing some serious damage to his reputation in this series. Then when they have the ball, New York?s defensive pressure is forcing all kinds of turnovers.

[ozgod]

Mobley is supposed to be defensive player of the year last season? Sure doesn?t look like it in these finals

[ozgod]

35pt Lead with eight minutes to go in the fourth.

[ozgod]

45 point lead now the New York bench is cooking the Cavaliers

[ozgod]

Last time New York made the finals was 1999

[Donoghus]

Cavs never recovered from that Game 1 choke job.

I don?t think they were gonna win the series anyways but that game changed the complexion going forward and the Cavs never recovered.

[DefenseWinsChamps]

45 point lead now the New York bench is cooking the Cavaliers

But the advanced stats show that the Cavs should have won that game.

[Goldstar88]

Harden is such a loser. He had more turnovers than FGs made. Again.

[kraidstar]

Clevelands in season trades did not work out at all.

I know Garland and Mitchell werent really working out but I gotta think they could have gotten more for Garland than a rapidly aging Harden, who couldnt even crack 20 points in any games this series and has been a turnover nightmare all playoffs long.

Shroder and Ellis werent really able to give them anything. They probably would have just been better off keeping Hunter.

Can't win anything with both your guards playing trash defense. The other team will just get inside the perimeter and do anything they want.

Amazing that their front office seems oblivious to this

[SparzWizard]

Can't root fora New York team in the finals.

Go free-throw merchant Shai OKC or go Wemby Spurs. The last time an NBA team repeated was the 2017-2018 playoff runs. I think they're due for it

[SparzWizard]

Harden is such a loser. He had more turnovers than FGs made. Again.

He should just hang it up

[celticinorlando]

Cavs will have to burn it down this summer.

[hardlyyardley]

Except for one game against the Celtics,Dean Wade has to be the most useless rotation player in the league

[Moranis]

Harden is such a loser. He had more turnovers than FGs made. Again.

He should just hang it up

he should be a 3rd option at best right now. The biggest issue was he only had 12 assists.  Harden needs to be a better passer than he has been.  Thst is what killed them.  If he averaged 8 apg like he did in the regular season, then it would be different. Also, Harden had at least 8 regular season games this year with more turnovers than field goals (and a couple of more with the same).  This isn't just a playoff thing.  He is a play maker not a scorer, he just wasnt making plays. 

White had 2 games where his turnovers matched his field goals in the Sixer series. Castle has done it in the Thunder series.   Tertiary scorers from the PG position, this happens a lot more than people realize.  Harden, though had a history of doing it when he was a lead scorer so he just built up the reputation. 

[Kernewek]

Harden is such a loser. He had more turnovers than FGs made. Again.

He should just hang it up

he should be a 3rd option at best right now. The biggest issue was he only had 12 assists.  Harden needs to be a better passer than he has been.  Thst is what killed them.  If he averaged 8 apg like he did in the regular season, then it would be different. Also, Harden had at least 8 regular season games this year with more turnovers than field goals (and a couple of more with the same).  This isn't just a playoff thing.  He is a play maker not a scorer, he just wasnt making plays. 

White had 2 games where his turnovers matched his field goals in the Sixer series. Castle has done it in the Thunder series.   Tertiary scorers from the PG position, this happens a lot more than people realize.  Harden, though had a history of doing it when he was a lead scorer so he just built up the reputation.

We're also five years, more or less, past the point that he left the Nets/Bucks playoff game with that hamstring injury and largely hasn't been the same scorer since.

Harden might be my least favourite star player of the last 20 years, but I think you're halfway right: not only does he consistently not show up during the playoffs, he arguably shouldn't be held to the standard of a leading scorer who has to at this point in his career.

Can't root fora New York team in the finals.

Go free-throw merchant Shai OKC or go Wemby Spurs. The last time an NBA team repeated was the 2017-2018 playoff runs. I think they're due for it

Massively disagree here - I'd absolutely root for the Knicks over OKC, and probably the Spurs too.