Hard to imagine many raising their hands. But the Cavs weren’t prepared for the offensive onslaught of the short-handed Blazers, who destroyed the Cavs from the opening tip until the deep benches cleared.
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Portland led 34-12 after one quarter and was never threatened, as the Cavs managed a season-low for points and Cleveland star LeBron James was held to 12 points, matching his season low.
“There’s something to be said for that, but we still have to come out and play a basketball game”, Love said. Irving said he expects that to be the final time he misses the second of games on consecutive nights. He was 0-for-3 from the field. “We’ve got to do a better job just correcting some things but I think the overall effort was better than it has been”. They didn’t get blown out by a free-falling, lottery-bound team playing without its best player. They had one field goal in the last 8 minutes of the third.
Stotts saw a different team than the one he coached during the winless trip. We had a lot of energy. “Whatever it is, we’ll be behind him and we’ll support him through it”. “We can look to increase a little bit”.
He scored 22 points in 24 minutes and beat the shot-clock buzzer with his team’s 17th three-pointer of the night with 21 seconds remaining as the Cavaliers beat the fading Phoenix Suns 101-97 on Monday.
“Offensively, we are in a funk right now”, said James, who also had four rebounds and five assists. The Blazers, 27th in the National Basketball Association in points in the paint per game, are lacking an interior presence after LaMarcus Aldridge bolted this summer.
PHOENIX (AP) – Ish Smith was just traded from New Orleans to Philadelphia, so he knows each win is special. “For me a win is a win and we have to keep coming closer together, through wins, through losses”.
“We didn’t take particularly good shots in the first half”.
Guard CJ McCollum had 16 points and six assists for Portland (12-20), which ended a five-game losing streak. He was acquired in a trade with the Pelicans on Christmas Eve. Cleveland went 11 of 31 from 3-point range, with Love hitting a team-high four.
Celtics 99, Pistons 93: AUBURN HILLS, Mich. – Avery Bradley scored 18 points and Isaiah Thomas had 17 points and nine assists to lead Boston.
The Portland Trail Blazers were coming off an 0-5 road trip and were without All-Star point guard Damian Lillard.
Since I first brought his struggles up in a recent article, he’s only had a few solid games while the rest have been sub-par.
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At the beginning of the season and even now, the biggest problem was the Cavaliers starting out slow in the first half-and then turning it on in the second half. With Irving and Iman Shumpert back in the fold after long hiatuses, coach David Blatt is working on the fly to put together a rotation he can stick with.
