Recap: Pacers 108, Cavs 99 (Or, It would be great to get a win sometime soon)
2010-12-17
Overview: The Cavs were outscored 34-25 in the second quarter of a 99-108 loss to the Indiana Pacers. The losing streak is now at 10. Danny Granger led all scorers with 30 points on 12-22 shooting from the field.
The Cavs have not won a game since November 27th bullets:
– Danny Granger goes off again, predictably. The Cavs haven’t been able to guard good wing players, guard the three-point line, or play transition defense all season. Granger is dangerous off the dribble, a dead-eye three point shooter, and runs straight to the arc in transition. That’s a bad combination, and that allowed Granger to break out of his slump against the Cavs.
– So, Boobie followed his best game of the year with his worst one. That’s what happens when I give him a shirt in a losing effort. I blame myself.
– Better effort overall, especially defensively, but the losing streak continues.
– Jawad was a -14 in 13 minutes. Impressive failure.
– Sessions and Hickson continue to be terrible, and that’s the connundrum. The only way to actually win games is to have them get it together, but they’re the biggest reasons the team is getting killed.
– Gotta give Mo some props for having a great night both shooting and passing the ball — hopefully the team will step up when Boobie and Mo have games like the Heat and Pacers game.
– That’s all for me tonight. Please let this streak end.
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this is just silly
oh and btw, the more i watch our team this year the more i blame our management for lebron leaving. we really were just lebron and a team of scrubs. they couldn’t surround him with more talent than THIS? i understand that PER isn’t the end-all-be-all of player stats, but it’s a pretty reliable way of determining who are the most productive offensive players in the league. our two best players (mo @ 15.92 and boobie @ 15.64) are ranked 93rd and 96th. the league average PER is 15.00. so the two very best players on our team are merely… Read more »
sigh. it hurts watching good teams get better. orlando is better than cleveland 1 through 5. and no any older. we are old and bad. aka we’re not only losing but there is no hope.
it’s time to blowup this team.
Hmmm…I still prefer “fascinatingly awful” over “impressive failure.”
This one was sad, and when I watch, I can’t help but think a lot of the players (the bench, primarily) are thinking more about stats than they are about the W. With the Knicks coming to town tomorrow, I predict we’ll hang in really well in the first quarter, then our bench will come in, they’ll feel how a D’antoni paced game can lead to instant offensive opportunities, (in other words, stat hogs) and they’ll start doing their own thing, to the detriment of the team. This is why Knicks ball and Suns ball gets average to poor teams… Read more »