[Lowlight] Jalen Duren caught daydreaming in the paint (wide open), as Cade Cunningham finds him with a beautiful pass, but Duren wasn’t ready.
With a replay
Duren just tanking his valuation so the pistons have a longer contender window, egoless play
True team player
Selfless player
Really appreciate him doing it this year and not next year.
Figured this year isnt the year. So he is tanking his value for now
watch Pistons max him anyways
From max to the MLE lmao
Pistons shouldn’t even offer a qualifying offer and just let him hit unrestricted free agency.
Save themselves the headache.
this is a really dumb thing to say
Isn’t it a joke from the Lakers fan so they can sign him ?
I’d happily take Rui in that double sign and trade
Straight up for Ayton!
Duren for Ayton, who says yes?
Is it? This is his 18th playoff game in a row of being borderline unplayable. If you want to give him game 7 of last series, then in 17 of his 18 playoffs game he has been awful.
Don’t be ridiculous. Lakers and Celtics would sign him immediately. He’s 10x better than what either team have. If you think Duren is unplayable, you didn’t watch Embiid score on Vucevic and Garza on 8 straight possessions.
That’s not a very high bar to clear. Duren isn’t much better than someone like Ayton at all.
Y’all should def let him go
Reed been way better idk man
So make a low qualifying offer and see if you can keep him for cheap and trade him, letting him walk when there’s no downside not to is just poor asset management. What’s the downside, the GM has to do more work?
Fair but Duren was asking max money before the playoffs idk how many players are gonna stomach a qualifying offer after that despite his horrid playoff performance. Gotta remember these dudes got crazy egos. Cavs went through something similar but to a much lesser extend with Ty Jerome last season. Great player but he faded in the playoffs so they decided to pay Merrill instead. At the end of the day the NBA is about winning a championship and Duren hasn’t shown that he’d help reach that goal.
Let him hit RFA, match if it makes sense.
It’s how most teams should deal with players like this. Let the market decide. With the second apron, those players fuck around then find out.
I was at work watching game 2 and Reed came out for like 4 minutes and completely took the game over on both ends. Dude looked like a superstar
As a Heat fan, I would welcome this. We need all the help we can get.
Duren and Bam? 😂
Match made in Hell.
He’ll help you get out of the play-in seeds at least.
That’s cute, you think Duren will turn down Luka lobs to play as Bam’s backup
If this doesnt work out he can always play Tight End for the Lions.
(Watches this clip)…..Nevermind.
This is some truly braindead shit
Watch him and Reaves hire Rich Paul
Half of Paul’s leverage was “pay him or make Lebron mad”
“Duren said supermax and I said super hell no”
Duren has been fucking awful this playoffs, double double machine all year then forgets he’s a basketball player when it gets to the post season
I mean, I watched 6 playoff games he played in last year and it was a similar story. Honestly he seems lazy sometimes but he also just seems gassed after just a few minutes every game.
Show muscles
100 percent. Dude looks like an Adonis but doesn’t have the lower body strength to win positioning against Carter Jr and mobley, two guys he “looks” much stronger than because his arms, but in the reality bro skipped leg day and core day
Wendell is a huge guy. Duren doesn’t look stronger than him to me.
daaang what else does wendell have over him?
Ngl having your girl talk all that shit and still losing the series must be pretty humiliating
And Mobley has struggled to post up much smaller guards so Duren should absolutely be able to outmuscle him
Carter is 270 pounds lol he’s heavier than Duren
He needs to go spend a summer with stew on his date farm (I’m 100% serious)
He was an athletic freak coming in and now he’s Al Jefferson with no bag at 22.
Al Jefferson was lethal from the left block
He said Al Jefferson with no bag
I’m just reminding the children (and myself) how skilled that large, slow man was
Are we talking about Al Jefferson or Zach Randolph?
yup
I won’t stand for the Elton Brand erasure.
Bring back traditional lumbering/unathletic PF’s
Randle frustrates me more than almost any other player just because he could’ve become 2020’s ZBo, but wanted to SMOKE WEED instead.
David Lee
Exactly what I’m saying bro
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I’m not saying it is, I’m just saying he’s been terrible this post season.
No excuse for getting bulled by Wendell Carter Jr.
lets not act like WCJ is a bum
but at the same time maybe he let Angel Reese get in his head
He had 0 rebounds in Game 6. A center with 0 rebounds.
Experience is not an excuse for a motor issue. Kid just doesn’t give a shit about basketball.
The guy absolutely needs to add more to his offensive game tho
No but he is losing a lot of money.
10-9-2 shooting 49%😭
The DeRozan special
Clearly his mind is elsewhere. He isn’t even playing attention to the play lol
Sounds like Roy Hibert.
Nah. Hibbert had a few great post seasons, then when his shooting fell off a cliff he lost all confidence.
He made his name in that first run. Second one, he did bad against the Hawks, ok after that, then the next year (and after) OOF
Hibbert crushed us in the postseason (‘13)
That was torn labrum Melo, yeah?
Pulling a reverse Jerome James
Many such cases
He’s been working with Ayton in the offseason
That was Ayton-esque
Durenayton
“I got you today ☝️”
Oops, lmao.
“KOBE!”
DurAndre
DurAndre Jalen
DetonAyton that max contract
Sign and trade Duren for Ayton nex season
Dominduren
Literally had AYPSTD watching this
He was exactly who I comped him coming to the league. Super physical LOOKING guy that doesn’t play like it = red flag
Which is crazy, but this season makes more sense when you realize it’s contract season for Duren. Big red flag, but I feel like Detroit still needs to bring him back. The combo of Stew and BBallPaul isn’t getting you through the season and post-season.
Too good of a fake ended out fakin Duren
Yeah, he clearly saw Cade going up for the shot and was preparing for the offensive rebound. It looks silly, but it’s not an egregious mistake. Cade had an open three.
Mobley had a similar play from Mitchell in the regular season so I’m not gonna flame Duren too hard. When you’re a big expecting a shot and looking for a board that pass can surprise you lol.
It’s understandable but it’s absolutely not okay. They’ve been playing together for 100 games this year, major minutes. You have to know your teammates by now
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Anyone who’s ever played organized will know this feeling. I’ve been on both the receiving and delivering end of passes like this. It’s just unlucky timing really. If you see a shot go up and you’re in the paint, you’re always going to take your eye off the ball for a split second to look at the rim for the rebound.
I wouldn’t even blame Duren for this, you can pause this frame by frame and not have a single clue that Cade was going to pass it, until he did. It was a shot attempt.
I thought the shot was blocked from the last angle.
Ya since everyone’s comparing Cade to LeBron, I will say this is something LeBron did to his teammates all the time lol when you draw the whole defense to you, guys end up wide open when they shouldn’t be so they aren’t expecting a pass, then combine it with a great shot fake and the talent to jump high and throw a great pass, this’ll happen a lot.
Yeah, it’s a little unfair. He was getting ready for the rebound.
He got the DeAndre Ayton in him i fear
He got his 2nd rebound the second quarter and never grabbed another lol
Ayton can have good games, Duren is a total playoff dropper
Bro is in an ass-off with Ayton and losing
“Caught daydreaming” is a bit harsh here, he was expecting Cade to shoot (bc it looked like he was) and rolled to try to get the rebound
Yeah, the fake shot fooled Duren like it fooled the D, he was looking at the rim for the rebound not daydreaming.
It’s still on him to not look for the possible pass first as it is a play they’ve run many times, but it wasn’t daydreaming.
Cade knew its a free basket if Duren just glanced.
That’s fair they just weren’t in sync on the play
you really dont get the benefit of the doubt when youve been absolute dogshit the whole playoffs
He’s been bad and I haven’t made any excuses for him i’m just not blaming him for this specific possession
Wha do you mean this is completely Durens fault. They’ve made plays like this before
Durens the only one in position for a rebound, if Cade misses it’s almost a free basket anyway. I really disagree with throwing away the open three here.
Not if a 3 causes a high bounce which happens frequently. A guarantee 2 is much better mathematically here.
He was looking down at the floor, when he should’ve been tracking the ball. If he did he would’ve seen the pass.
“Caught daydreaming” is an apt description of what he was doing.
It’s not apt at all and he’s not looking at the floor, he’s looking up at the basket for the rebound (they even point that out in the clip). Still a mistake but daydreaming is not what he’s doing.
A good offensive rebounder watches the ball out of the shooters hand, if possible.
Ya are absolutely tripping trying to blame Cade for this
And what do they do if it is not possible?
They look at the rim.
Which is exactly what Duren did here, after looking around to see if there was anyone crashing on the weak side to contest the rebound with him.
He rolls, checks over his right shoulder, sees no one coming, and looks up at the rim as he settles into position to rebound and dunk a miss, but instead it is a pass and he can’t quite grab it.
He isn’t day dreaming or showing negative basketball IQ.
You sound like you have never battled for a rebound in your life.
his agent’s going from a beach house in miami to a shed in marquette
Bro playing like some rando at the YMCA
He’s cost himself some money this post season
Some is an understatement
Lost at least 40m over the next 4 years, if not 60-80m
pistons were about to pay this dude a supermax and he got exposed against minimum player goga bitazdze
Before the playoffs he was almost definitely getting the max. Just a horrible, pitiful showing. The crazy thing is that he doesn’t even have to be regular season Duren, if he just hustles and puts in more effort it would do wonders. He’s simply not trying!
That’s a killer, a free bucket to cut the lead to 12 and he just blows it.
I literally hate this guy
fox for duren? who says no
spurs say no at this point lol
JB could’ve kept Paul in with 4 minutes left in game 3 and this series could be 3-0. All momentum is lost when this pussy comes back in.
Paul Reid was a significant piece in getting them to 60 wins when Cade was out with the collapsed lung and when Duren missed a little time this season. Him and Javonte Green getting no minutes lately has been crazy.
Paul and Ausar. Once those two subbed out I said out loud that the game was over.
Tbf it looked like Cade was shooting.
They’ve run that play so many times where Cade will find him inside if the defense sags outside, no excuses his awareness has been bad all night (and series).
(And playoffs)
He’s looking at who he needs to box out.
If he ballwatches, Cade shoots and he gets blown by for the board, then what? You yell at him for that too?
You don’t have to like any of the players. You can pretend they’re all dumb and you know better. But it should at least be on a play where they actually show poor awareness.
Doesn’t matter. He should still be ready for the pass.
He glanced at Harden to see if he needed to box out right as the pass was made.
It did to me too, but then again Duren is a professional basketball player and I’m a slob who always lost at HORSE as a kid.
He should be ready for the pass, but I agree like it looked like the ball was on Cade’s tips mid shot. Even faked out the audience.
Shows how good Cade is
Nah man you can’t excuse this one
that’s not an excuse he should’ve been tracking the ball
Lmao.
lol
That’s that monstars-stole-my-talent type shit
I’d kill to be a fly on the wall during his next contract negotiations
The Duren low-light reel continues
Duren is a fascinating player.
He’s either unstoppable or invisible lol
Been stoppable all playoffs.
Whennnnn has he been unstoppable?
Riiiight before the games started to really matter.
The entire regular season
Literally 0 games with +20 points (his average in rs was 19.5) in the entire playoffs so far
Not when the other team makes adjustments on him. He’s so soft.
Damn no benefit of the doubt from any of the commenters, huh? He was looking at Cade when Cade seemingly began his shooting motion. It was incredibly bad timing that he chose that moment to start looking around for opportunities to box out. This isn’t on Duren, this is just unlucky. Cade disguised that pass so perfectly it fooled his teammate.
One of the announcers did mention that Duren was getting ready to rebound, but I guess it didn’t make it into the clip.
He doesn’t want to get paid.
His agent must be screaming at him in his head every night at this point.
His agent is busy lining up some quack doctors to try and come up with an excuse.
Duren! You are a Laker now.
They have Ayton already, same thing but cheaper.
Give this man 45 million a year 🗣️
Brights too light
His agent going thru it 😞 it was all good a couple weeks ago
He’s been so unbelievably casual through these playoffs, it’s really disappointing
Knicks in 5 man
Too generous
Thinking about his next single in the middle of the game smh
How you gunna have a play ran specifically aimed to get you open and brain fart it away?
oh no, he’s got onset dominayton
I don’t know about day dreaming, I think he thought it was a shot and was facing the hoop for the rebound.
Dreamin of all the pussy he refuses to eat
Duren for Reaves sign and trade, who says no
Honestly should start Bball. This guy stinks.
He’s been terrible
Alen Uren no J and no D
Not like he threw a bullet or something either, as perfect a pass as you can make there. In stride, softly thrown, at eye level. Duren just wasnt ready
2 things:
Duren has been awful and he should have been looking for that.
Cade should have shot that wide open 3.
Lost them all the momentum.
Working out how much money he can get in the offseason
This killed any possibility for a comeback
He had 2 rebounds lol
Congratulations! Jalen Duren has evolved into…playoff Roy Hibbert
Counter narrative to the posts I’ve seen:
That was a sick pass. Looked like he was shooting until the ball went in Duren’s direction.
Man duren has no idea why they call it pick and roll lmao what a clown
I think he was waiting for a rebound
Imagine if he played with Jokic, Luka or Trae, I’d tune in just to see how many times a pass would hit him in the head
I mean his numbers are down this postseason but plays like this happen. Cade was going up into a shooting motion and Duren was anticipating the shot and was set up for a potential rebound. He turned away a second too early. It was a quick lapse in judgement.
To be fair he gets into his shot motion so I wouldn’t judge him too fairly from this play
“Daydreaming” as if everyone including the announcers didn’t acknowledged we thought Cade was shooting that 3; you even see Duren react afterwards to Cade motioning the shot thinking his ass was gonna shoot that 3
That just ragebaited the hell out of me and im not even a Pistons fan
Bro is the Dwight Howard of Reggie Evans’s
Doesn’t make sense why he’s been so bad. Huge mental lapses.
He can look like a generational player one game and look like a bum the next
Cade shouldn’t have hesitated on the 3 imo. Big part of Duren’s game is offensive rebounding. Don’t think he deserves this misleading caption he was just looking for the o board. You can also see him glance at harden to see if he needs to box out right when the pass was headed towards him.
Looking like trash, he needs to step up and just get 15 points ffs
Ni Hao, Duren!
actually trash lmao
That’s a deadly move during the late stages of a pick-up game too. Except somehow my teammates are generally even more surprised than Duren was here, often times it sails past their heads before they even realize it’s on the way.
He saw Cade begin to shoot an open 3 pointer so he went to get the rebound.
Sign and trade incoming
THIS GUY STINKS
I had a lot of faith in this kid…
Still do. He’s got loads of talent. Loads of potential. Had a great year for the most part. Anyone can have a slump. Anyone can struggle under the bright lights sometimes. Anyone that age can benefit from more experience and come back stronger in the future.
But he needs to get his head in the game.
Hate this man