He shot 1-for-9 after halftime, and was 1-for-6 in the fourth quarter as James clamped down on him defensively.
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Tyson Chandler added 11 points and eight rebounds and Mirza Teletovic scored 11 points for the Suns. When he returns he will play alongside Jabari Parker – who returned from ACL surgery the game after Carter-Williams was hurt – for the first time. The league ruled Sunday the screen was indeed legal.
Rajon Rondo had his third triple-double in four games, with 23 points, 14 assists and 10 rebounds.
Raymond Felton scored 23 points and Charlie Villanueva added 19 as they made sure the Dallas Mavericks did not miss absent starters Dirk Nowitzki, Wesley Matthews and Chandler Parsons in a 110-98 win over the Houston Rockets. LeBron played great defense in the 4th to hold Carmelo to 1-6 shooting in the quarter. We gave up 15 offensive rebounds, and actually, eight of those offensive rebounds came before the first timeout in the game, so we’ve got to do a better job on the road, for sure, taking care of the ball, including myself. It has worked thus far, but it’s not a sustainable model of success. After a hot first half, Anthony fell into a cold spell in the second half, missing his first nine shots.Cleveland forward Tristan Thompson made two free throws to tie the game at 66-66 with 4:00 left in the third, but the Knicks ended the quarter on a 6-0 spurt to take a 72-66 cushion.Langston Galloway scored on a layup and a floater in the sequence. “It’s hard to stop one another”, James said. “We have to play 1/8with3/8 a lot more sustainable effort throughout the 48 minutes”. And we don’t do that. I think we expect we’re a great team, and we’re not. “We’re right there. We believe in ourselves”.
The Cavs were playing on the second night of a back-to-back, rarely subbed during the overtime sessions and seemed to run out of gas at the end. Bryant, who has been sitting out with a bad back, finished with 19 points for the Lakers who have one win in their first nine games. It was also, perhaps, indicative of the issues James was alluding to that need cleaned up.
But James, as shared to reporters and relayed by ESPN’s Dave McMenamin, has taken notice of such not only at that time but in other games too. They instead wanted to push for a game-winning shot at the buzzer. Mo Williams, who entered averaging 16.9 points, didn’t make his first basket until overtime.
Cleveland trailed by six points with 5:24 to go, before James and Williams seized the moment. None of those people did. “We’re just continuing to develop a will to win, no matter how it looks, whether the score is 70-70 or 100-100, we just need to find ways to win”. “But that’s a bad mistake”. They travel to Milwaukee on Saturday and to Detroit on Tuesday. Smith called the loss to the Bucks a wake-up call.
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“We expected they would probably relax a little but, so we had chose to push it, and we didn’t get that chance, unfortunately”, Cleveland coach David Blatt said.
