“It’s a team who beat us really good, and we remember that, so we look forward to trying to get them on their home floor like they got us”.
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The man who has won 29 East player of the month awards still has that one fresh in his mind as Cleveland (23-9) starts its longest road trip of the season.
The Wizards answered with their own surge, knotting the score at 95-95 with 10:53 to play. The final margin was Cleveland’s biggest lead. All eight of J.R. Smith’s field goals were from behind the arc. “That was the hump I needed to get over, and now I think I’m starting to get over it going from game to game going against great matchups, great players every single night, great teams”.
Ray Felton scored 22 points in a game in which Dallas rested four starters, and the Mavericks still defeated host New Orleans.
Brandon Jennings had 17 points and six assists in his fourth game back from his Achilles tendon injury, and the Detroit Pistons rolled to their most lopsided victory of the season, a 115-89 win over the Orlando Magic on Monday night.
Garrett Temple led the Wizards with 21 points, and John Wall had 20. Kyrie Irving is dishing 4.2 assists and Tristan Thompson is grabbing 10 rebounds. He scored 10 straight points while the Wizards were held off the board to make it 105-95 Cleveland. He sank eight of 11 shot attempts in the quarter.
“Too much Kyrie”, the Washington guard said.
Of course, Smith has always been a tough shot maker and he still posses that innate ability to bail the Cavs out on any possession.
“He’s special”, James said of Irving earlier this week, per Dave McMenamin of ESPN.com. “We know what they did to us”. The All-Star guard was eventually named Eastern Conference Player of the Month. Things changed dramatically, in large part to Irving, who continues to work his way back from offseason knee surgery. She battled neuroblastoma for more than a year. “Ended up not being able to go because I had to fly to Houston but as you can see Leah wasn’t about to let that stop her from seeing [LeBron James] tonight”.
Forward Otto Porter, center Marcin Gortat and forward Jared Dudley all had 12 points for Washington. It’s taken a handful of games for the Cavs guard to get his legs back under him, but the Washington Wizards found out that he’s getting there quite quickly.
“We stopped moving the ball”, coach Randy Wittman said after the Wizards fell to 5-14 when they fail to total 25 assists.
The Raptors allowed 17 threes on Monday, just one off the Cavaliers’ season high of 18. They’re unbelievable. I know my mom and my wife might be a little jealous, but they’ve got to take a backseat to those two.
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However, he was not with any National Football League team this season after being waived by the Bengals on September 5, so Wednesday’s signing with the Texans was welcome news. Wittman served as Cavaliers head coach from 1999 to 2001…. Cleveland (24-9) will play in Minnesota against the Timberwolves on the same night to try and build upon their first-place record.
