{"id":495966,"date":"2026-05-08T07:34:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T05:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=495966"},"modified":"2026-05-08T07:34:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T05:34:36","slug":"cleveland-cavaliers-not-worried-despite-james-hardens-playoff-struggles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/cleveland-cavaliers-not-worried-despite-james-hardens-playoff-struggles\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleveland Cavaliers not worried despite James Harden\u2019s playoff struggles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1427\" data-end=\"1704\">The <strong data-start=\"1431\" data-end=\"1454\">Cleveland Cavaliers<\/strong> are not turning <strong data-start=\"1471\" data-end=\"1489\">James Harden\u2019s<\/strong> struggles into a major concern. In the <strong data-start=\"1529\" data-end=\"1567\">107-97 loss to the Detroit Pistons<\/strong> in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference semifinals, Harden shot 3-of-13 from the field, went 0-of-4 from three and committed four turnovers.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1706\" data-end=\"2036\"><strong data-start=\"1706\" data-end=\"1726\">Donovan Mitchell<\/strong>, who scored 31 points, defended his teammate: \u201cHe\u2019s James Harden; we\u2019re not sitting here worried. He\u2019s going to figure this out.\u201d Coach <strong data-start=\"1863\" data-end=\"1881\">Kenny Atkinson<\/strong> also took responsibility for Harden\u2019s limited role after halftime: \u201cCan\u2019t have our Hall of Famer taking two shots in the second half. I\u2019ll take that one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2038\" data-end=\"2260\">The <strong data-start=\"2042\" data-end=\"2050\">Cavs<\/strong> now trail <strong data-start=\"2061\" data-end=\"2094\">2-0 in the NBA playoff series<\/strong> against Detroit, with Game 3 set for Saturday in Cleveland. Harden said he was \u201cjust missing shots\u201d and stressed the need to understand what works best for the team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cavaliers trail the Detroit Pistons 2-0, but Donovan Mitchell backed James Harden after another difficult NBA playoff night<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":372530,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-495966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Cleveland-Cavaliers.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495966"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=495966"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=495966"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=495966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}