All right, welcome to Good Take.

Wes Goldberg here, joined by Mike Shear, the author of Basketball Poetry.

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subscribed on the Real GM Radio YouTube channel so that you don't miss it next week. We've got some good takes cooking up. But before we get to that, let's start with last night's game, Mike. The Cavs beat the Pistons in overtime. And before the game, this quote really stuck out to me. Cavs coach, Kenny Atkinson, boldly claiming, again, before the game started, that his team had momentum already in the series,

and then they go ahead and win this game in overtime. Do you think he's right?

Yeah, I mean, it's hard to argue when you won three in a row, right? Like, I think he's

definitely right. They got their, they got fixed. And I think, you know, if you're asking me,

the Cavs success has been entirely tied to James Hardin's success, right? They lost the two games where he played terribly. And then game three right at the end, he hit a flurry of clutch shots. People are like, whoa, what is this James Hardin performance happening? Carried through with a very good game four game. And then was peak like 2019 James Hardin last night.

Anything that you look for in Harden, Good or Bad was there.

He scored 30 points.

He had some beautiful passes, dominated the boards from his position, flopped everywhere.

It was like just unbelievable throwback performance from James Hardin.

Didn't think he still had both sides of that in him.

It was a really good third quarter from James Hardin, and it was a really good fourth quarter and overtime from James Hardin. I thought it was a little rough for him in the first half where he was playing really slowly. He had as many turnovers as he had assists in this game, which turnovers had been down in the games prior to this one after they were up so much to begin the series.

I thought it was a little bit of a Harden mixed bag. But the thing with James Harden is you need him to step up when it matters most. And that's always been the thing around Hardin is he hasn't done that. And the Cavaliers just hang in this game. I thought the Pistons outplayed them for most of it. I thought their defense looked impenetrable for some of this game.

Cade Cunningham just had, I think, his best playoff

performance of his career, the best performance of his career, you could argue, given the stage

and the stakes here with the series tied to too, and yet it didn't matter. And to me, the takeaway from this game is not only was

it James Harden delivering in the clutch, down nine in the final minute of this game. Evan

Mobley was also really big. We can talk about him here in a second, but it was also the Cavaliers

as a whole, kind of getting over the hump, right? This was a Cavaliers team that

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