[Highlight] Mikal Bridges scores the easy bucket to send Cavaliers fans to the exits, and Jalen Brunson scores the easy layup, as the Cavaliers simply stop playing defense, giving up.
The Knicks will take game 3 and will go up 3-0 in the series.
Strus the only Cav who played like it was a must win game
Honestly Harden was pretty good but asking him to play 41 mins at his age isn’t going to end well
5 assists and 6 turnovers. Harden now has 85 turnovers now in 18 games. He’s now in the top 10 all time for most turnovers in a playoffs. He is the only player in the top 10 that played less than 20 games.
Tatum’s record of 100 turnovers in 24 games looks to be safe unless a miracle happens now.
All time negative stats are overrated when you have that kind of longevity. Just like LeBron. You do something for almost 20 years you’re gonna end up making way more mistakes than someone who only did it for 2 years.
Top 10 all time for most turnovers in a single playoffs is what they meant.
Got it.
That’s literally the opposite of what’s true. A 15 year vet should make way less mistakes than a sophmore player. And this isnt all time negative stats - it’s leaders in one single playoff run.
Yeah a lower percentage of mistakes is what i meant. I agree with you. If you do something for 100 years you’re obviously going to top total mistakes. That’s my point. LeBron has stats just like that.
Edit: I totally misread your original comment my bad.
Did you watch the game?
Too bad Atkinson I guess literally has no other option because he’s been asking him to do way too much this entire postseason
Hes 36. And he was never ever good in the playoffs
Man at least the Pistons would compete defensively, these Cavs players don’t give a shit
If mods don’t fade their flairs tonight, then we got a problem
Wdym by that? Idk what it means
That the Cavs are eliminated for the playoffs (even though they’re technically not, he’s saying they effectively are because they just gave up).
We could’ve done it after that game 1 choke job
The mods fade the team flair once a team is eliminated from the postseason. Some mobile apps don’t show it, but check on a desktop and you’ll see eliminated team flairs to be dimmer.
They’re saying you can fade (dim) the Cavs flairs now, they’re cooked.
ok that makes sense. I probably don’t notice the difference so thats why I didn’t know
Even worse the Lakers played hard throughout the okc series in which they were clearly out matched. Have some pride.
pistons would be getting broom to ass as well
To be clear I don’t think Detroit wins this series the way y’all are playing but it’s a tragedy we don’t get to see. I’ll be rooting for y’all if you play OKC
Pistons can’t shoot for shit. No one in the East matches up to us.
Beat the Knicks by 15, 31 and 38 this year in games that don’t count. At least the series probably wouldn’t have been this bad.
Mike breen is trying so hard not show his bias and not orgasming that the Knicks are 1 game away from the finals
He’s a complete professional.
Finals at the Garden
I truly hope that if the Knicks win it all he’ll just jump on the announcer’s table and grab his dick and say fuck you reggie miller you little bitch I fucking hate you let’s go Knicks.
I get the feeling he would triple bang on any Finals-clinching shot for us idk
The only disappointing thing about this playoff run is that the games haven’t been close enough to get many bangs
Over under is 4.5 bangs
he said he would on roommates.
would pay to see this and i hate the knicks lol, i hate reggie miller more
Unfortunate that the Spurs and Thunder roster are dropping like flies with injuries while the Knicks are cruising fully healthy to the finals
Normally the West kill each other(basically every West team in the 2000s) but they face a weak East team. Now they got to face a actually good team lol
The past four or five ECF winners haven’t been weak, well besides the Heat
The two Heats teams have been weak teams and Indiana last yeat kinda was too if you looked at their regular season.
The Celtics and Bucks absolutely not. This Knicks team is in the same category as them.
Pacers just had a shitty start last year. For like 2⁄3 of the regular season they were playing like a 1 seed. And it carried into the playoffs. That was not a weak team at all.
A lot of people think we just had a fluke run, ignoring the fact that we went back to back ECF (and despite getting swept by the Celtics in 24, it was a very competetive series, just ask any celtics fan). If they think we weren’t a strong team, it really just exposes the fact they weren’t paying attention.
Well Celtics 1 wasn’t really there yet, but the championship Celtics yes
I know you explicitly said the regular season, but the version of the Pacers that made the finals was not a “weak” team. They peaked at the right time.
When has this happened? The heat are the only truly weak east finals team.
That’s cause you guys out there playing prison ball.
Let’s hope Silver makes a call to the refs to tighten that shit up while also not rewarding the flopping (if OKC gets in).
With some luck they’ll be cold like at the start of game 1 and whoever comes out doesn’t blow a 30 point lead in 5 minutes like the Cavs did, that would be a good first step (yes I’m willing to root for you just to feel all high and mighty on how the West is superior)
Who have only played 8 games in the last two series … with zero injuries.
Well tbf Knicks rested a little too much before G1 this series
Spurs or Thunder limping is still more than good enough to win the title.
According to rule 4, you’re not allowed to leave early.
seeing fans take their shirts off actually made me sad
Bro, if I’m a Cavs fan, i’m pissed as fuck. Their effort was so pathetic tonight
Not mad. Just… wow…
I can’t believe there is a possibility of the Knicks winning a championship in my lifetime.
soft ass team don’t care about winning
I genuinely dont like to call nba teams soft and i think it gets overused like constantly for any team that isnt like the orlando magic or the pistons but this cavs team is the epitome of soft. I feared them less than the hawks and the sixers coming into each series
Like how do you have a double big lineup where both bigs don’t fight for rebounds and allow easy switches
Jarrett allen is a great rim protector and finisher. ill give him that. Evan mobley is completely overrated beyond belief tho. Ppl talk ab him like hes this 2 way unicorn and i have yet to see it in year like 5 now
Stop playing defense? When did we start?
Struhs seemed to care. Not sure about everyone else tho….
This is a textbook example of what a mentally team weak looks like
I mean they won two difficult series before this. One in which they were down 3-2. That requires mental toughness.
That was disgusting. What a waste of an ECF
What an embarrassing performance. I feel bad for the home fans who had to sit through that
embarrassing
Just Harden being lazy on the first play, but the second is really concerning. Harden and Mitchell are on their guys, not exactly helping but doing their jobs. Strus gets beat by a faster Brunson, predictable, why can’t the three supposedly better defenders on the floor figure out what to do about it? Mobley helps off of OG, Strus can see that. Allen is redirecting Brunson and therefore not dropping to the rim, Mobley can see that. There’s no comms, no directing, no taking space away, no covering. I’d expect to see hints of any of those things from ‘good’ defenders, even if they weren’t going to try very hard to do it.
Kat with the Wade arms
Peak harden defensive “effort”, just hanging on to bridges jersey without moving his feet
Game 1 really killed the soul of this team
The “oh they’ll just turn it on once playoffs start” was always bs to me but this squad has turned me into a believer. I don’t wanna hear shid about them draft picks ever again lmao not like BK is gonna do anything with them anyway
What?! They expertly drafted 4 guards & a Danny Wolf in the 1st rd last draft lol. I’m sure that’ll become a superteam
This is franchise-destroying defeat
lol, this don’t even crack the top 20 of bad losses for the Cavs…they eat disappointment for breakfast.
Bruh… Fight the Pistons for 7 games just for this??
Lmfaooo
Fuck each and every one of those picks
They should have a contest and pick 5 fans to play tomorrow night instead
Tough for me to name a more pathetic showing in the Conference Finals. There have only been 5 or 6 sweeps in the history of the ECF. This has to be the worst performance in its history, no?
The last one was the Celtics sweeping the Pacers, and all of those games were tight, and Haliburton didn’t play in the last 2 games.
Before that, it’s Trae’s Hawks, and Carroll and Korver missed the last 2 games.
Tough to think of a worse one.
https://streamable.com/gp9v0z
If you want an easy win, bet on bridges for unders game 1 v okc, he’s about to have an awful time against Wallace/Caruso compared to what he’s facing against harden