Hoops Tonight - GAME 7 REACTIONS: Harden, Mitchell & Cavs beat Raptors + Cade & Pistons beat Paolo & Magic
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🗓️ 4 May 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Jason reacts to a pair of Game 7s from the first round of the NBA playoffs: the Cleveland Cavaliers vs. the Toronto Raptors and the Detroit Pistons vs. the Orlando Magic. He breaks down how James Harden and Donovan Mitchell fare in their matchup against Scottie Barnes and RJ Barrett as well as Cade Cunningham vs. Paolo Banchero.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
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| 0:19.9 | All right, welcome to Hips Tonight here at the volume. |
| 0:21.9 | Happy Sunday, everybody. |
| 0:22.9 | Hope all of you guys had an incredible weekend. |
| 0:24.8 | Well, we have two more game sevens finished, |
| 0:27.0 | and the first round is officially in the books. |
| 0:30.2 | We're going to be breaking down both games from the perspective of both teams. |
| 0:33.3 | Then we're going to briefly talk about a potential, |
| 0:36.5 | well, not potential anymore, |
| 0:37.4 | the future Detroit Pistons, Cleveland Cavaliers second round matchup, which I find very fascinating on several levels. Then we're going to have Jackson come up and we're going to take some questions from the chat. So if you guys have questions about anything, drop them in the chat. We'll get to them with Jackson at the tail end of the show. You guys know the joke before we get started. and subscribe to the Hoops Tonight YouTube channel, so you don't miss any more of our videos. We're on the pathway to 150,000 subs. |
| 0:56.9 | So it would mean a lot to me if you guys would take a second. You guys know the joke before we get started. Subscribe to the Hoops Tonight YouTube channel so you don't miss any more of our videos. |
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| 0:56.9 | So it mean a lot to me if you guys would take a second to scroll down and hit that subscribe button. If you're already subscribed, hit that like button and sign it for post notifications. That helps us a lot as well. All right, let's talk some basketball. So this game in the first half kind of took on a flow that I was accustomed to from the last couple games of the series. |
| 1:14.4 | We talked after game six. |
| 1:16.0 | I thought Cleveland had a real advantage in any sort of close game late just because of their depth of ball handling. |
| 1:21.9 | They just have more dudes who could put the ball on the floor and make something happen if things really slow down late. |
| 1:26.9 | But for most of game five and game six, Toronto kind of controlled the flow of the game. |
| 1:31.7 | They had big, you know, I say big as relative, but they were leading in that like five to 12 point range, |
| 1:37.2 | quite a bit in game five and in game six and in game seven in the first half, right? |
| 1:42.6 | So like the first half kind of stuck in that flow. |
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