immanoel | HOU

168 | 7 hours ago

Can D’Mitch start playing like the franchise player again cause my boy Harden is getting flashbacks to Houston

Niceguydan8

51 | 6 hours ago

A Chris Clemons flair holy shit you must be the only person with that

immanoel | HOU

39 | 6 hours ago

Brother, my guy was legit solid during his rotation minutes in Hou. Got that dawg in him especially at his height, crazy ass vert too. Fuck injuries. Peep my profile cause I post his highlights during the offseason.

Short guys(relatively) thriving in the league are what gets me going as a fan.

Edit: Some college stuff about my guy.
18.5 ppg as a freshman
51 point game as sphomore, 25.1 ppg, shot 42.2% of his team’s shots, most in cbb.
24.9ppg as a junior, 4th in the nation
all time leading scorer in big south history, NCAA D1 30.1ppg, 3rd highest in cbb history. 2019 scoring champ.

this guy was 5’9

mifadhil | Pacers

7 | 5 hours ago

man I hated playing against the guy in 2k

RocketsGuy

4 | 5 hours ago

Love that guy. Campbell right?

sSonga24 | Cavaliers

1 | an hour ago

are you the guy who had a chris clemons daily IG account lmao? I was following that guy for like a year and he’d make post playoff game reports up until Clemons got injured i think

immanoel | HOU

1 | 23 minutes ago

Yooo, that aint me but I’m pretty happy that CC got some other dedicated fans.

kobbled

5 | 6 hours ago

that one picture of him after the injury haunts me

GodsonxTheBelly | Celtics

7 | 5 hours ago

Flashbacks to being the only reason the sixers put up a fight against the Celtics despite game 7

AemonSteelsong | HOU

122 | 7 hours ago

64.5 TS% is elite territory. Turnovers are ugly but old man is playing his ass off. If only his superstar teammate shows up…

nutelamitbutter | Rockets

32 | 7 hours ago

His three ball is also falling which is a good sign. With us he was always good for a couple really bad shooting nights :/ Cavs need him a lot

unpracticalclause22

8 | 4 hours ago

Harden has always been a high turnover guy

OThePlacesYouWillGo

67 | 7 hours ago

He’s supposed to be the third option on this team, a classic PG with Mitchell and Mobley being the 1 and 2. Unfortunately, those two guys forgot how to play basketball

Significant-One9118

46 | 6 hours ago

Happens every year for Harden. His teammates forget how to shoot or injure themselves.

Edit: not excusing his own playoffs mishaps though. Nuanced take is that he chokes but is also super unlucky.

SkepticCritic

8 | 6 hours ago

Mobley was good this game, Sam and Schroder were also really big impactors too.

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3 | 6 hours ago

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OThePlacesYouWillGo

7 | 6 hours ago

The world that exists since he left the Nets?

Philly wanted him to be the third option behind Embiid and they wanted him to take a backseat and let Maxey develop.

In LA he was supposed to be the third option behind Kawhi and PG. Kawhi just kept getting hurt. Then PG requested out, and Harden had to carry all last season until Kawhi came back.

scarrylary | CLE

-7 | 6 hours ago

lol Mobley forgot how to play basketball? You should try watching a game.

OThePlacesYouWillGo

6 | 6 hours ago

What happened in game 4? Mobley had 8 points, and the Cavs’ bigs were bullied the whole game.

scarrylary | CLE

-6 | 6 hours ago

And what happened tonight? Mobley turned Barnes and CMB into g leaguers in the second half while going for ¹⁶⁄₅. What happened games 1 and 2?

kmsplayer69

0 | 5 hours ago

you didn’t watch the game. cavs front court was getting punked until scottie’s injury. if scottie doesn’t get injured cavs lose this game no matter how insane schroeder goes. there’s a reason ja and mobley did nothing the entire first half scottie was healthy.

scarrylary | CLE

-4 | 5 hours ago

lol I watched every second of the game. Mobley shut down Scottie in the second half. Cant use the injury excuse when you’re playing ²¹⁄₂₄ minutes in the second half. Mobley made Scottie look like the average player he is and Mobley stepped the fuck up offensively and defensively.

kmsplayer69

0 | 5 hours ago

scottie literally got injured. ofc if he can walk he’s going to play though lmao. before his injury he was playing lockdown defense with great playmaking and offensive pressure. you can literally see it in how he was defending in the first half compared to the second half. first half he’s fighting around screens and chasing down the primary ball handler, blowing up plays etc while running the offense on the other side of the floor. second half he’s sagged off and he’s just picking up harden at half court and that’s it, not as proactive of a floor general and he’s hobbling around the floor unable to even get a bit of lift out of his legs meanwhile he was easily jumping through the air swatting shots in the first half lol. cavs front court is a pair of frauds and unless they step up they’re bbq chicken for whomever they get in the 2nd round.

GeneralJMan | Cavaliers

-4 | 5 hours ago

If you’re gonna go the injury excuse route like Cavs have gone the last 2 years then you gotta acknowledge that Allen can barley jump while dealing with his tendonitis. Injuries go both ways all that matter is who wins.

scarrylary | CLE

-5 | 5 hours ago

Bros writing paragraphs cuz his hero Scottie Barnes shit the bed in the second half lmao

DenseSign5938

-2 | 2 hours ago

That also made me laugh. In order to forget how to play basketball you would have to know how to play basketball to begin with which Mobley never has.

screwt | Rockets

54 | 7 hours ago

Do you mean alleged playoff choker Harden?? No way. Nephews here told me he’s ass

wormhole222 | Heat

25 | 6 hours ago

Has always been an overblown narrative. He hasn’t choked in a bad way since 2017. 2018-2020 he was fine, 2021 he was injured. Since 2022 he has been a 2nd or 3rd option and has performed totally fine for that level of player.

immanoel | HOU

20 | 5 hours ago

Harden put up more a fight on a bum hamstring than anti-vax Kyrie. Guy returned to play on an injured hamstring which has done irreparable damage to his playstyle.

False_Pear1860

-1 | 3 hours ago

2022 Game 5 and 6 against the Heat?

2023 Game 6 and 7 against the Celtics?

wormhole222 | Heat

7 | 3 hours ago

I didn’t really think he did some kind of choke job in 2022. He was ok, but he wasn’t their best player. He wasn’t great, but he wasn’t supposed to be their best player.

2023 I feel is ridiculous. In that series he was supposed to be the 2nd or 3rd best player on the Sixers and he single handidly won 2 games in the series with his incredible play. Yeah he wasn’t good in games 6 and 7. He did his job already.

Neverslept2mins | Rockets

49 | 7 hours ago

Thats actually a very suprising TS% for Harden especially at this age, and typically how his TS% goes down against playoff defense.

AzureAhai

-42 | 7 hours ago

Harden isn’t being guarded by the opponent’s 2 best defenders anymore. He has a way easier job now than when he was in his prime.

shangalang69 | Raptors

61 | 6 hours ago

harden is seeing our toughest defenders lol tf you talking about

9SidedLemon | Nuggets

24 | 6 hours ago

Yeah they’ve done a really good job trapping him and the high tovs reflect that. But even with the tovs I feel like he’s been the better player for the Cavs this series more so than Mitchell, he just does a better job making the right reads and creating looks. While mitchell is prone to hero ball.

shangalang69 | Raptors

7 | 6 hours ago

100%

bootywizard42O | NBA

18 | 6 hours ago

Most people in this sub don’t watch games, you can assume it’s a guarantee if they’re talking about Harden

Neverslept2mins | Rockets

9 | 6 hours ago

Ya but he still gets guarded some by Scottie. Sure it’s not as bad as his prime. But also he is a faaar worst player than his prime.

Much less athletic, less speed as well, his stamina isn’t the same either so I think it’s still impressive for him to shoot like he is currently.

If he could be better with the turnovers this series would be over. Let’s see how he looks in Toronto though. It’s gonna be tough.

nutelamitbutter | Rockets

42 | 7 hours ago

Doing it against a very strong defensive team. Maybe it’s gonna be his first conference finals since 8 years?

TopCoast1170

11 | 3 hours ago

Wait its really been 8 years???

nutelamitbutter | Rockets

2 | 43 minutes ago

Only twice since leaving OKC

moondoggy_

16 | 7 hours ago

He’s one of the best to ever play the game.

bootywizard42O | NBA

17 | 6 hours ago

The stats don’t even do justice because he gets a lot of hockey assists, he’s been the Cavs’ entire offense. Even tonight, Schroeder went off because Raps were keying in on him and DMitch

loombisaurus | Spurs

8 | 7 hours ago

i wouldn’t be mention Nose wright or really anyone’s nose but that’s me

Niceguydan8

7 | 6 hours ago

I just feel like we’ve lost the plot a little on what it means to have a bad series.

Nah just look at Donovan Mitchell, that explains it pretty well.

TopCoast1170

2 | 3 hours ago

Mobley

ImpressionCertain736

6 | 5 hours ago

The system

twoyrsaway

4 | 5 hours ago

Cleveland offence starts to struggle a little and he just pushes the step back button and they’re right back in it

lolBaldy | Lakers

3 | 5 hours ago

How many turnovers?

ZonedV2

2 | an hour ago

6 I think, not horrific but not great

trav-senpai | Kings

3 | 6 hours ago

Okayyyy let’s not get James a pass on turnovers that he’s gotten his whole career just because he’s now older haha it’s just who he is at this point

Feisty_Chef_7506

-4 | 7 hours ago

Yeah he is getting up there in years, and with that in mind, he hasn’t been bad. But he certainly isn’t having a great series, defense and turnovers included.

nutelamitbutter | Rockets

10 | 6 hours ago

His defense has been okay

unpracticalclause22

2 | 4 hours ago

In the second half, yes. In the first half, Harden was letting Walter & Shead have wide open looks.

Ok_Power_2816

-6 | 7 hours ago

Theres more to a series performance than just the overall numbers.

Turnovers at crucial times and little to no points in Q4 is the issue

No-Nature3939

4 | 6 hours ago

3 quarters> 1 quarter

Ok_Power_2816

1 | 5 hours ago

Yeah so good when you play 3 good quarters and lose the game but its sweet because you got 25/8/8

TiredMillennialDad | Magic

-12 | 7 hours ago

Watch game 6

No-Nature3939

14 | 7 hours ago

One game doesnt make a series my man.

TiredMillennialDad | Magic

-12 | 7 hours ago

A career of failures in game 6 and 7 makes a man. Harden

Delicious-Hurry-8373

13 | 6 hours ago

what were his game 6 stats last year against the nuggets ?

James Harden in this series vs the Raptors is averaging 22/4/6 on 64.5 TS%