Recap: Magic 97, Cavs 86 (Or, 13 games until the draft)
2011-03-22Overview: In a game that wasn’t as close as the final score indicates, the Cavaliers were manhandled by the Orlando Magic en route to a 86-97 loss. Dwight Howard and Brandon Bass had 50 points on 18-21 shooting from the field.
This team is small up front and bad at basketball bullets:
Well, Samardo and J.J. weren’t going to be able to guard Dwight Howard unless they got a pre-game treatment from Rita Repulsa, so I guess it’s hard to get too mad about 28/18/4/4/4. The Cavs couldn’t handle him when they had the best record in basketball. Now they have the worst. Would have been nice to see the Cavs take anything away from Bass, though.
Yes, J.J. followed up a promising shooting performance by going 6-14, but at least he took it to the paint consistently. You may think that it’s a bad sign that J.J. tried to take it to the paint against Howard rather than trying to work at his mid-range jumper, but I am of the opinion that it is always better to see J.J. trying to go to the rim. Also, J.J. belongs in the paint with Dwight Howard like Boobie belongs in the octagon with Jon Jones.
Speaking of Boobie, he shot the team back into the game! With the injury and the team being awful, this is kind of a lost year for him, and I don’t see him being moved this off-season. All we can do is hope that he has some performances like this next season. And that there is a next season.
Eyenga shot well, but everything is a jumper. I do not like that he has taken 69 threes and 19 free throws in the NBA.
The starting backcourt, not wanting to be left out, was also terrible.
It’s a problem when the Magic can blow you out without making a third of their threes. Then again, it’s also a problem when you lose 56 of your first 69 games. This team is not good.
The Cavaliers have won as many double-digit games in the NBA this season as the cast of the Spider-Man musical. They have lost 35 more double-digit NBA games this season than the cast of the Spider-Man musical. They have put on the same number of official Broadway shows as the cast of the Spider-Man musical.
Spider man, the musical? hahahha!
Rita Repulsa? LOL!!!!!!
This blog is the reason I still look forward to following the cavs. Thanks for the laughs!
P.S. I still see future all star potential in Eyenga…anyone else? anyone?
I hear you, Ben.
Boobie can certainly get hot and light it up at times. YET, I’m sick of the fact his dribbling hasn’t gotten any better since he came into the league. He’s an undersized shooting guard. He might be able to knock down 3’s…but you can’t play him next to Davis, Sessions, or potentially Irving for any real spans of time. He’s get owned by real shooting guards at the 2 and just gives up too much on the dribble at the 1.
Well, at least it was their starters that “took a whole 12 minutes off”, Keith. Honestly, I don’t care how Boobie gets his MoJo back as long as it comes. I have to give shot out to Hollins today. He actually wasn’t horrible and played Howard really well at times. Too bad that AP stopped playing basketball. Maybe it is just coincidence, but boy, has he dropped off a cliff over the last month after some really good pre-trade-deadline play. Sessions… yup. I would also enjoy it if Eyenga drove more frequently, but to be perfectly honest, for a guy… Read more »
I was at the game last night…wow…TONS OF AWFUL! If the Magic made a few more 3’s, we would have been SUPER SCHOOLED.
The only reason Boobie shot us back in the game was because the Magic took a whole 12 minutes off.
The play when Manny Harris dove on the ground, stole the ball, and flipped the ball to Joey Graham on his back was how I thought this entire season would be like at the beginning of the year.
Did the Cavs actually make a concerted effort to defend the Magic on the perimeter? Or were they just shooting really badly.