Forward Kevin Love added 24 with 14 rebounds for Cleveland, which shot 40.7 percent from the field and was 14-for-38 from beyond the arc. 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.
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The Cavaliers will take the wins, but LeBron James is not happy with the effort.
ABOUT THE BUCKS (4-5): Milwaukee hopes to have point guard Michael Carter-Williams back from an ankle injury that has robbed him of the last five games. Both Monroe and Antetokounmpo were great on the boards for Milwaukee-I wrote about the Bucks rebounding woes earlier this week, and these two really quieted those concerns with great rebounding performances on Saturday. I made an inadvertent whistle, which allowed the offensive team to call a timeout, and, in fact, they wanted a timeout and asked for a timeout.
Bayless canned a 13-foot floater with 45.2 seconds left in regulation to put the Bucks up by four, 88-84, but the Cavaliers (8-2) closed with a flurry.
Then, after Dellavedova hit another jump shot, the Knicks went on a 10-1 scoring run that was anchored by the jump shooting of Anthony and Afflalo. Cleveland struggled at the line, converting only 18 of 31 for 58 percent. The Knicks missed their first 10 shots from the floor in the fourth quarter, but still maintained a 76-73 lead with 6:32 left to play.
“We’re right there”, Carmelo Anthony said.
“We get into trouble when we start to try to manufacture offense individually as opposed to doing it as a unit”, he said. “It’s my job to make sure we continue to improve and to do a better job of putting guys in a better position to be successful out there”. The NY Knicks fans and sports analysts were pretty unsure how slowly or quickly rookie Kristaps Porzingis would be able to adapt to the professional basketball game and start being an effective talent to the New York Knicks.
Anthony scored 26, but just four came in the second half. 22 minutes later and 22 Carmelo Anthony points later, Cleveland is down by 7 points at the half, and down by 8 midway through the fourth. That basket ignited the Knicks, who went on to outscore the Cavaliers 17-11. The Cavs went small to open the fourth and Richard Jefferson caught fire, scoring eight points in the first two minutes to pull within 73-71. James led the Cavaliers with 10 points, including a sterling alley-oop dunk off the baseline. G Cleanthony Early was inactive for the Knicks…. But part of the focus on Friday’s 90-84 loss to the Cavaliers should lie with late-game execution – or lack thereof. They travel to Milwaukee on Saturday and to Detroit on November 17.
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Christian Wood scored 15 points and Nerlens Noel had 13 points and 11 rebounds for the 76ers, who lost their 19th in a row.
