What set King James off during Saturday’s contest was a bad pass into the post from Jared Cunningham that went out of bounds, according to McMenamin.
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If the Cavs can continue weathering the early adversity brought on by numerous injuries, James can probably rest a little easier-especially once Cleveland is at full strength in 2015-16.
Atlanta coach Mike Budenholzer and James, meanwhile, exited the game in unique ways, with Budenholzer getting tossed when he bumped into official Ben Taylor with 6:27 left in the second period.
“He was frustrated, knew we weren’t playing right and thought we were playing hockey”.
Thursday was one of those games where they actually put everything together in a 115-100 win over the Milwaukee Bucks and it came, quite appropriately, on the same night Tristan Thompson played in his 300 consecutive game.
Incidentally, James was two assists shy of a triple-double with 19 points (8-of-15 FG), 11 rebounds, and two blocks in the Cavs’ comfortable 109-97 win. I understand his frustration but obviously he shouldn’t do that. James scored six points and Love had a three-point play in that stretch. “At the beginning of the season, I said I wanted to take baby steps, stay healthy and help the team”. “If there was contact, it was 100percent unintentional”.
Already without guards Kyrie Irving (knee) and Iman Shumpert (wrist), the Cavs played the second half minus center Timofey Mozgov, who suffered a strained right shoulder and will likely undergo an MRI or X-ray today. They’ve outrebounded their opponent just once this season on the offensive glass and once in total rebounds.
Antetokounmpo was dubbed “The Greek Freak” from the moment he entered the league, but his physical abilities have only gotten more absurd since then. He was a very good player for us previous year before he got injured. Small forward Thabo Sefolosha made his first start of the season after coming off the bench for 11 games. Tiago Splitter was limited to nine minutes, all in the first half, with right hip soreness.
As usually is the case when the Atlanta Hawks oppose the Cavaliers, the officiating did not play into the visitors favor, and featured a few questionable calls and no calls.
J.R. Smith added 18 points for Cleveland. He was not arrested nor questioned by police.
“I just want us to play consistent basketball all throughout the 48 minutes”.
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He dealt with a lot of criticism over the summer for his contract holdout, and rightly so, but it’s evident why Cleveland gave in to his wishes after watching his performance on Saturday night. “That’s how you become great and kind of really test yourself as a player”.
