Zach Lowe

He wrapped up Jared Allen and threw him to the floor, got called for a flag or a one.

I don't think it's embarrassing.

Toronto is a pain in the ass to play against.

And, you know, Cleveland could have won game six easily.

They could have won game four easily.

They ran away with it tonight.

In a way, by the way, look, I don't want to, like, damn them with faint praise.

But it was nice to see Cleveland come up against a team that basically looked them in the eye and said, you guys have wilted under physicality in the playoffs before.

We don't really have a lot of other ways to beat you given our talent deficit other than beating the hell out of you and seeing how you responded.

And like Jared Allen in particular came for the fight today and took the fight to Toronto.

And like good sign for the Cavs, I think.

He got going in a way that

I look, we're predisposed to be nervous about James Harden and big playoff games.

He was three of nine from the floor.

He controlled his turnovers.

He only had two turnovers, which is big.

He's had some high turnover games, but he got like, you know, Jacoby Walker, Jacoby Walter stuck his arm in the cookie jar, got a three shot foul.

There was that one drive that I think it was the third foul on Scotty Barnes, where they were kind of running parallel on a Harden drive into lane and Harden kind of veered sideways into him.

And Scotty Barnes also kind of, I was, it was,

But it just seemed like Harden had reached the stage where he was saying to himself, I just got to junk my way to 10 free throws.