[Highlight] Jamal Cain absolutely yams it on Jalen Duren
Duren’s agent must be having the worst week of his life
Super max? Super hell no
Super mid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QxIIz1yEsA&t=253s
He’s exactly the type of player that’s very valuable in the RS but not as much in the playoffs
Huge part of why Detroit won 60 games but not a guy you want to supermax if you want a ring
Based on what. When Cade was out, he was able to put the ball on the floor and get 30. I don’t know what the hell has happened, but he has been awful. Honestly, the Pistons’ front office must be salivating watching this series because they’re going to be able to get him on a value contract rather than having to shell out a lot of money, and they’re only just beginning to be a playoff/contending team.
No team wants to pay millions if this is the guy you get in the playoffs. He’s a young player and if he’s a great one this post season won’t define him. It could, but it’s up to him. You can’t blame a team for not paying you though. If you do you got the wrong message and never deserved it.
He’s a young player
Which is why it’s pretty crazy to me that people are writing him off as someone who can’t succeed in the playoffs. Duren is only 22. Many stars struggle in their first playoff series.
It’s obviously a disappointing series, but he’s 22 and this was his breakout season. He’s still going to be much better than anyone expected at this time last year.
Just btw, he was in the Playoffs last season. This isn’t his first series….
Cade lost this game. Did you watch? Cade had 8 turnovers and shot the ball 23 times and only made 30% of them. Duren only shot it 8 times and Cade the PG was not looking for him..
Dude can not throw an entry pass to save his life. But frankly no team in the East appears capable of an entry pass.
Fr bro was lookin like bronny out there on the entry pass
Respect bronny
Exactly, Cade has look hesitant in game 3 and 4. Surely a collapsed lung doesn’t make his processing speed slower
Wouldn’t be surprised if he lost like a mil in commission this week
that’d be a $25M contract decrease at the standard 4% NBA agent commission. def not inconceivable at all lol
what happened?
He’s been the worst player on the floor this entire series. I’m trying not to overreact but it’s such a bad stretch that I’ve begun to question how central he can be to a championship core.
Not even trying to be a hater because you listen to him speak & his self awareness in relation to his strengths & weaknesses just for his playoffs to go like this is really fucked up.
It’s funny to joke about but i hope he has a good support system & locks in hard defensively this offseason.
Yeah same. I know this subreddit loves overreacting but this is the kind of a stretch that has sent careers off a cliff. I really, really hope this is an anomaly for him.
def but unfortunately new reports say he is still backpedaling from Cain’s dunk
He may never stop
Think he may have slid across I4
Yeah, i hope he recovers & he uses this as fuel.
This is tough to watch.
He is also still reaaaaaaaaaaally young. Don’t think most nba fans know he’s only 22
Tbh i didn’t even realise that, makes his self awareness even more refreshing.
Really hope he can comeback better man the potential is there
Agreed, for comparison he’s less than two months older than Wemby. If Wemby had a stinkbomb this playoffs I would’ve been like “man this suuuucks” but I wouldn’t think he was forever doomed or anything. Of course they’re different types of players but 22 is still quite young, and there’s a lot Duren has done well this season.
Has anyone had this kind of series after making an All-NBA team? It’s one thing to have a bad series shooting but it’s another when they just completely disappear. Ben Simmons is probably the closest, but he forgot he could score a year after he made an All-NBA team.
Roy Hibbert 100% 2013-14 season
That was crazy, he looked like a really solid player who would keep improving and then all the sudden he became a straight bum.
I think Carter is just such a kryptonite match up for him. Against older Vuk or embiid I think he eats a little better. Maybe even against Allen on the Cavs. But carters size and speed just matches Duren well enough.
People act like WCJ is trash (including a sizeable portion of the Magic’s fanbase). I’ll never understand why. When he got to the Magic he was an instant fan favorite. Then, he had to deal with a plantar fasciitis for nearly 2 seasons, which limited him a lot. This season he has been mostly solid, with his ups and downs, but that’s been true for the entire Magic squad (except Bane).
It doesn’t help that Detroits offense looks completely bewildered and awkward at times. It’s obvious that Cade is the focal point, but you have to design at least some offensive sets around Duran every now and then. It’s like he’s just there to cleanup or get what he can in desperation shot clock when everything else goes to shit.
This is coming from a Magic fan, so I know a thing or two about awkward offense.
they do have sets for duren, the issue is they cannot possibly get him any kind of mismatch when wendell-franz-paolo destroy any cade-duren action
Carter Jr. has legit outplayed him.
He’s only 22, but they need a second option. Dejounte Murray?
Dejounte is not a viable second option. Hawks already tried that.
It’s just tough to play him when shots aren’t falling and asuar out there too.
He’s sucked lmao
Getting completely exposed in playoff intensity. Cant score, rebound, defend, not motor, no instincts, no dawg in him
he hasn’t shown up all series
He’s gonna get traded to Stax Records first thing this off season.
Booker T and the JDs loading
Mosley’s agent on the other hand is having a great one lol
10⁄10 poster good god
I was cooking and it made me drop the spatula
Bro keep cookin
Don’t ever stop
I was taking a sip of wine. Cab through the nose doesn’t feel so good.
Would do again 🍿
Genuine textbook poster. Duren falling down is the cherry on top
If he was a rodent, he’d be a yamster
Duren been going out sad man fight back
He doesnt do that
He just stands there and looks cool
“Man fuck them, I’ll drop another SLAM magazine cover”
He needs half of beef stew testosterone
Unbelievable aura loss
He challenges a shot at the rim lol i get he gets Mike Adriano’d but this is fi ghting back
That’s a name I thought I’d never read on r/nba
I have been snorting this series like coke
The bully’s getting bullied, and now he doesn’t want to play anymore
he’s ass
Absolutely fucking disgusting
Mama there goes that man
Man, this whole series is just a humiliation ritual for Duren
Stewart has been better this series
Stewart has been a beast paint protector.
8 blocks in 17 mins tonight
Yo wtf
I don’t like the guy, but he’s been balling.
Whole damn team getting humiliated
That was so nice of Carter Jr. to let him out of his dog cage for this.
Dude playing on a bum knee and I’m not making excuses because I had him on my fantasy but their coach needs to play Paul reed atp
you love to see it
He sonned him. You can see Duren’s soul leave his body as he hit the ground with a grin 🤣
I BAPTIZE THEE IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER, SON, AND HOLY MAGIC
Cain hasn’t killed a man this badly since Abel
Nicely done
bars
Nice👌🏾🤌🏾
To the top with you.
I thought getting emasculated by Wendell Carter for 4 games was bad enough but turns out there’s still room to go towards rock bottom
He became so ass he turned into Light too bright merchant
I hate that I can understand this sentence lmao
This is one of the best playoff posters I’ve seen good god
Will not help him with the supermax agenda
This might have cost him $5 million a year
Duren gonna have an Missing Person’s Report and an Obituary after the game
Duren’s soul has been gone since Game 1
Even if the Magic lose this game, Cain is the biggest winner tonight.
absolutely staggering backwards
Took a Cain to dat ass
Bro he flew 10 ft his soul just kept flying
One of the best playoff dunks Ive sever seen
My fucking god … right through one of the strongest guys in the leagues chest
The stumbling backwards adds to the disrespectfulness of the dunk
He turned that corner and I was like no way he’s going for the dunk, then he just exploded
To the GROUND.
He looked like a deer in headlights after that. Shell shocked
I’m not surprised tbh. Duren is not a good rim defender.
Stewart would have at least had his hand on the ball.
Stewart would’ve clotheslined him lol.
Cain would’ve been tractor beemed by that guys wingspan
i was f5ing furiously the second i saw this.
1200 upvotes after 10 min holy shit lol
The only comparable playoff dunk that immediately comes to mind is the time Scottie Pippen threw it down on Patrick Ewing
Duren just destroying his stocks in one series
Yeah Jalen Duren needs to retire before the game ends
This is a reverse Brandon Knight
Duren went from “player you’d make in a lab” in the regular season, to “plays like SpongeBob’s dad” in the playoffs
Dunked the max contract right out of Duren
Holy shit. Jalen Duren is dead now.
50 game cancellation for Jalen Durren
FTC
Flight team stand up!
wouldnt last in the early 2000s against players like jermaine o’neal
dunk of the year
gotta be a toss up between this and AB’s dunk on 4 Grizzlies
sharpe going horizontal over westbrook is up there
This one is certainly a contender, holy shit… that’s nasty
Respectfully, nothing should beat AB’s dunk, as the other poster first mentioned.
Play of the playoffs so far lmao. Holy shit.
OOF
RIP JALEN DUREN
HOLY FUCK MAN. That was legit a murder poster
Dog I’m crying this motherfker is so bunzzz😂😂😂
what the fuck
HOLY SHIT
This game could not get any worse for Duren
This series couldn’t have been worse timing for him. He’s up for his rookie extension this summer and he’s played himself out of at least $10 million a year so far and dropping.
Like, he was about to get \(45 million a year….Now, I’m not sure I’m even giving up \)35m for him
Suddenly that 3 year 59 mil extension with a team option at the end we gave to Wendell is starting to feel like one of the best contracts we’ve given out.
Legitimately one of the best playoff posters I’ve ever seen.
Might be the greatest playoff poster of the last decade.
Grady says “I don’t think Abel had it that bad” 😭
He’s so good, I’m sad we lost him but happy the rest of the league gets a good play by play for national games 😭
Out of absolutely nowhere
H O L Y S H I T
FAHHH
Lmao dude on the pistons bench almost got up
Then he looked around lmao
He tried to play it off lmao. So good
Duren you fucking bum bro
That was so nasty man
This is the biggest aura loss a player has suffered in a series since Ben Simmons against the Hawks in 2021.
I’m sorry, where the FUCK did that come from?
CAINIACS SOUND OFF
Jamal Cain has the best dunk of the playoffs. As expected.
Woah calm down Jamal, don’t pull out the nine
Jalen Duren
2003-2026
Duren leaving in a body bag
Crowd reaction is pure bliss oh my god
Man I wouldn’t have even blamed Duren or the Pistons for starting a brawl after that. That was just nasty to the point that throwing hands would’ve been understandable.
All the comments about Duren bc nobody knows who Cain is 🤣 man was on a 2 way to start the year and just closed out a playoff game with clamps on an all-nba player while catching a BODY
Fucking christer
Abel got off light.
Nah, Dunk of the year in the playoffs is crazy. Jesus. Consider yourself forever a Christian, Jalen Duren.
Madness by Cain
MY GOD
Duren speedrunning losing 40 mill😭
The commentary after was elite- “I don’t even think Abel had it that bad”
Duren went from max contract to mid contact in a matter of 4 playoff games 🤦♂️
Humiliation ritual for Duren all series
DUREN GOT VIOLATED LMAOOO
How high can Cain jump? That looked like some antigravity stuff.
Man JD is not having a good time this series
Jalen Duren humiliation trial.
Dunk of the decade?
We gotta gather all the dragon balls to wish Jalen Duran back my goodness
Ngl i had no idea who buddy was but i know now
He was on a 2-way deal just a month or two ago
LOVE when I hear an “uh oh” from an announcer seconds before a big play happens. The feel for the game is uncanny
this series is a duren humiliation ritual
OH MY GOD!?
#CAIN YOU BELIEVE IT!!??
“I don’t think Abel had it that bad” haha
That might be the nastiest dunk of the year. Damnnnn
Dunk of the year
The other angle is crazy, he mean mugged him while walking away. Hard af poster
Announcers went back to being kids with that joyous reaction. Gotta love it
Magic have both the season’s and playoff’s best dunks so far!
That was filthy.
Duren may never recover from this
raising cains
The Wrath of CAIN
Holding our crown as dunk city
Angel Reece gotta be loving this series
Holy fuck. I had flash backs of when T-mac dunked on Shawn Bradley
One of the best dunks I’ve ever seen. And I am a wolves fan who has seen a lot of Ant dunks
Miami Heat G League product. I’ve seen his hops but goddamnnnn to do this over Duren.
Just R2 turbo all the way
That rim had a family!
I fw Duren and I’ll never fault a guy for trying to block a shot - even if that means they get yammed on.
But yeesh, Cain put his ass in the shadow realm
It wouldn’t have been so bad if he didn’t get blasted back 10 feet on his butt
Announcers nailed the call. Dont know why they cut the video short here
GET HIM A BODY BAG! YEAH!!!
DOWN GOES DUREN!!!!
My man played himself into a contract this game. Very impressive
Dunk of the decade
Now thats a poster.