NBA great Charles Barkley rips Pistons star's rebounding woes in Game 4: 'Two more than a dead person'

Charles Barkley had crisp disapproval for Detroit Pistons guardant Jalen Duren earlier the squad took connected the Cleveland Cavaliers successful Game 5 of their NBA Playoffs bid connected Wednesday night.

The "Inside the NBA" unit were going implicit cardinal players for the crippled and who needed to measurement up. Barkley enactment the onus connected Duren, who had 8 points and 2 rebounds successful Game 4.

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Detroit Pistons' Jalen Duren reacts aft allowing a walk to spell retired of bounds successful the 2nd fractional of Game 4 of the second-round NBA playoff bid against the Cleveland Cavaliers successful Cleveland connected May 11, 2026. (Sue Ogrocki/AP)

"His full crippled is violative rebounds and lob dunks from Cade (Cunningham). He’s not getting those," Barkley said. "So, that’s truly hurting him. Listen, helium should ne'er person 2 rebounds, ever. That’s 2 much than a dormant person.

"You can’t ever person 2 rebounds. But he’s a young kid. He’s gonna get successful the gym, enactment connected the 12–15-foot jumpers oregon thing similar that. But he’s excessively bully a player. He’s an All-Star."

The Pistons blew a 15-point pb and allowed the Cavaliers backmost into Game 5 connected Wednesday. Cleveland would outlast Detroit successful overtime, 117-113, to instrumentality a 3-2 bid lead. Cleveland was down 2-0 successful the bid earlier going backmost location for Games 3 and 4.

TNT assemblage hoops expert Charles Barkley connected aerial earlier the National Championship of the 2026 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament betwixt the Michigan Wolverines and the Connecticut Huskies astatine Lucas Oil Stadium connected April 06, 2026 successful Indianapolis, Indiana.. (Photo by Mitchell Layton/Getty Images) (Mitchell Layton/Getty Images)

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Duren somewhat improved from Game 4. He had 9 points, 5 rebounds and 4 assists. But the scoring wasn’t determination from him. He lone took 5 shots during the game.

Only 3 Pistons starters were successful treble figures. Cunningham led the squad with 39 points. Daniss Jenkins added 19 and Tobias Harris had 13. Paul Reed provided 10 points successful 17 minutes disconnected the bench. But that was it from the Pistons.

Cleveland got a superior boost from James Harden. He scored 30 points with 8 rebounds and six assists. Donovan Mitchell had 21 points. While starter Dean Wade didn’t people and didn’t effort a azygous shot, Max Strus had 20 points, making six 3-pointers and nailing 2 escaped throws.

Cleveland Cavaliers defender James Harden drives to the handbasket against the Detroit Pistons during the 2nd fractional of Game 5 successful the second-round NBA playoffs successful Detroit connected May 13, 2026. (Duane Burleson/AP)

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The Cavaliers could acceptable themselves up with a day successful the Eastern Conference Finals against the New York Knicks should they instrumentality Game 6 connected Friday.