Greatness? 🥴

In a playoff game,

From James Harden?

What greatness? Dudes a generational pants crapper

He was an MVP like 10 years ago lol

It’s just always been a thing to shit on Harden as much as possible.

Zach Lowe did a half hour long podcast segment where he went through an entire playoff series where Harden averaged 30 ppg and explained why he didnt think those points should count.

Bill Simmons campaigned other voters to never vote for Harden again after 2018 because he lost to the Kevin Durant Warriors with his 2nd best player hurt

this shits normal. Any team he goes to he gets the most blame regardless of how past his prime he is

Yah but he’s 36. Why is he expected to be the savior when Mitchell and Mobley are right there?

That was 10 years ago and even then, 28/7/5 and took possibly the greatest team of all time to 7 games in the playoffs of his MVP season. There was still a narrative that Harden was a playoff choker, people look for confirmations of that narrative no matter the situation.

Unless you’re Steph?

Its his team he needs to lead and make his teammates better. If he has deferred to Harden that speaks to weak character and leadership.

Has he?

He is only 29, it is HIS TEAM he is being 50,000,000 to be “The man” , he isn’t.

I have always thought he was extremely overrated. He is a really good player, but no more.

hes making luka look like toumani camara atm

Mitchell is at fault. He gets paid like the guy, now play like it.

The guy is one of the most overrated players in the league. One 1st 1 2nd all NBA and MVP 5 are his biggest accomplishments.

The guy is Teflon, never gets shit on for being mediocre

Mitchell has been inconsistent this postseason, but I thought (minus 4th quarter game 1) has easily outplayed Harden this series, and Mitchell is still averaging like 26 points per game overall and has played better in closeout games.

Even this game, he wasn’t moving as well offensive in the first half, but was getting a lot of good kick outs early. Hell Harden actually played fine offensively (just, not great defensively). The Cavs got blown out because Max Strus, Sam Merrell and Jaylon Tyson shot a combined ¹⁄₁₄ from 3. I actually think Mitchell and Harden both got them great open looks but they were missing everything.

Mitchell is averaging 26/4/2 on 21 of 41 shooting which includes being 6 for 18 from 3. That might be statistically “well” but its not good enough for a number 1 option who you are paying 50 million dollars a year for when youre supposed to be a title contender and you were the only team to start the season over the 2nd apron.

Never mind the fact that the rumors are they went out and got Harden in the first place because they were worried if they didn’t do something Mitchell might leave.

Everything about his play in his first conference finals screams “good 2nd option” to me but he’s being treated like a first option while somehow getting none of the blame.

Yeah he was so bad tonight.

Especially after the last two games were he was productive.

Ehhh not really.

Having them contribute helps everyone out, maybe get them going to close the game out or hitting some of those threes helps wake the rest of the Cavs up from a poor shooting performance.

Wonder what they’ll do with Mathurin…think he gets sign and traded?

It’s not really rare at all the Clippers make a good move.

Betting it all on PG and Kawhi ended up being a huge mistake obviously.

But you don’t put together 15 straight winning seasons making terrible moves lol. That’s the 4th longest streak in NBA history and Kawhi and PG played like 50% of the time

Theres already TBD On whether Garland is their long term PG

Garland looked good when I saw him playing for Clippers. The big question on him is if he can get healthy, not if he can be a solid point guard.

Not a worse player in 2026, just constantly unavailable. DG is a killer when healthy. (Not that he probably ever will be again)

The Clippers would much rather be in the position they’re in than being in a conference finals getting absolutely dominated by OKC or San Antonio.

That’s literally why they made the trades they did despite the fact that they were absolutely cooking after a terrible start.

LAC now has Garland, pick #5, and a future Pacers 2029 pick that could be valuable. Thats better than have a ceiling that will never exceed OKC or SAN in the next 6 years.

Its suppose to be funny because some dumbass first posted it in earnest and got shitted on. But it has gotten old, really quick. Not funny anymore. Im with you

Mitchell did all of his major scoring once the Cavs were already down double digits

Harden glazers are so desperate to defend him they’re just making up factually false stuff lmao

he did this after going down on the 18-0 run which like i said was started by him playing like he was drunk to START the 3rd qtr

please read carefully

Basketball is a 4 qtr game

Which is weird he played good on Kat and another Knick, just terrible on Brunson in Game 1.

lebron come home

You wanna win, put Boobie in. 

He had 1 assist tonight.

He’s a score-first combo guard not a true point guard

he just doesn’t have that iq that comes with a passing ability to run the offense

Ricky Rubio and Mike Conley were the point guards

He’s doubled and can’t see open 7 footers under the basket constantly.

He’s basically a 2 guard

Damn, I’m washed

Cause people are highly reactionary. Harden stunk it up in the first 2 games against the Pistons and then balled out the rest and won the series. Not saying it will happen against you guys but you would think people would calm down with the extremities.

You just want them to run it back so the Knicks can stomp them again next season.

They went to 7 against two mediocre teams. Pistons were lucky that Wagner got hurt and the magic shot ⁴⁄₃₇ in a half

The last three years before the extension he was only making 33. Which is 2nd or 3rd option money. 40mil for a 3rd option isn’t awful now a days. He delivers as a third option and is usually why people love to bash him because he can give you wins as though he was a first option. 

Pedastool lol

I’m a Mavs fan

To be fair to Harden the people who he would dish out to couldn’t hit the broadside of a barn tonight.

Sam Merrill and Max Strus a combined ²⁄₁₅, ¹⁄₁₁ from 3.

Don’t need to sugarcoat it we all saw it

You’re right, Dirk was not one of the defensive stalwarts but harden is an embarrassment 

You don’t watch the warriors if you think Steph curry is on the same level as harden.