The Cavs botched both of them.
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The Cavaliers enter this game with two straight losses, against teams you would have expected them to beat. We had chances to make some plays. They’ve held two since Lue took over and they won’t have another one until Tuesday.
“We pay so much attention to the game itself, but there’s so many things that surround it that means even more and I was able to get my mind off it”, James said. “I wish we would have come out with the win”. That doesn’t mean in the gym, but in conditioning and getting his body right to play the pace Lue wants.
G J.R. Smith was not invited to the 3-point shooting event at All-Star weekend. 255 for the year from 3. His first make, in the third quarter, snapped an 0-for-18 spell that spanned seven games.
Just recently, Wade again flirted on playing with LeBron James as a he answered a fan tweet on when can they see him playing with James again…. “We can’t come out and start the game the way we started or we’ll dig ourselves in a hole”. Only reigning MVP Steph Curry (93) has more. James scored 27 points and made two 3s – his first treys after 18 consecutive misses. (Btw, congratulations Norris!) The Pelicans rode his hot-shooting to finish the frame down just 4 points to the Cavaliers, 74-70.
That’s why his face lit up when he heard Lue’s statement above, in which he said he’d search for minutes for the big man.
“They say it wasn’t a foul, but there’s nothing we can do about it now”, Lue said. I appreciate them honoring me like that and appreciating the work that I’ve been able to put in. It’s going to be a process. Expect them to fire up and get the job done over the Pelicans. That’s on me, that’s my fault, but we don’t have a lot of practice time to try to figure it out, so it’s been tough.
Timofey Mozgov will start at center while Tristan Thompson will move to power forward against the Pelicans. So Varejao was in before the game was five minutes old. “We have to find a way to keep him off the boards because that’s what he does”. The only reason he played Saturday was because Love was resting his bruised thigh. But he’s still an National Basketball Association player, and if only for one night he showed what got him into the league in the first place. “It was a great day”, Cole said. Matthew Dellavedova, who has averaged 8.2 points per game this season, missed the game against the Celtics, and could return tonight from a hamstring injury.
The reigning champions were led by Stephen Curry’s 26 points as they equalled the Philadelphia 76ers 1966-67 achievement for the best record after 50 games.
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Stay tuned for Owen’s full recap a little while later, or once you’re done celebrating Mardi Gras for the evening! George Karl may or may not be at the Q Monday, but I’ll be there either way.
