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Round 1 Game 5 | Cavs vs. Pacers | April 25, 2018 | 7:00 EST

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Nah, it's over in 6.

I've been bitching and super negative about the Cavs all season long. I even mention this in the Pacers and Cavs series thread.

You can come back and thank me at least, when I say it will be over in 6.

Going forward though. I don't know.

I'm really worried about a lot though. A good win, we'll take it. But going forward, I'm really not feeling confident about our chances..

Because of one, how much we're asserting out of LB just in the first round alone. He's getting tired, he's incredible, but as the playoffs continue. He's going to get even more worn down. We've never needed this much out of him since being back in the first round.

Two, how much WE NEED LB just to have a chance to beat a team like this, much less when we play the better teams.

WTF Love. Is there any balls in this guy? Or does he just not really have it anymore?

What a disappointment he's been. The guy better show up later on at least.

Only thing is, I think when you consider match-ups and such....Pacers MIGHT be the toughest team in the East for us. Philly is nice...but they're soooo young and I reallllly think you can out-scheme them with Simmons' limitations. I don't even consider Toronto a threat...if VanVleet is hurt it's a 5 game formality. If they even make it.
 
Gotta give props to JR defensively and effort. He had a bad offensive game though.

I hope game 6 everyone clicks and we can move on!

Need Clarkson and Hood to start get going as they need to contribute more for us to win it all, obviously.
 
I really hope this is just a bad matchup and our players show up for the rest of the playoffs.

The thing is. It's actually a good match up. The Pacers aren't a high scoring offensive team. And yes, our defense has been better, but not great. The Pacers just don't have the offensive fire power.

And we're still struggling to beat them. I worry when we play teams like the Raptors, that can fill the basketball up, a lot...

Guys like Korver, Hill, Hood, Clarkson are all inconsistent.

The only thing needs to change is Love start playing like a suppose all-star, and not a declining bum.

I can't think he'll continue playing this bad. But here's the thing about Love. I do expect him to have a 30 point game at some point. But how consistently can you rely on him?

Where he can have a big scoring game one game, then go back to passive Love? I just don't think you can count on him consistently to be that number 2 guy.

This series, he's been a flat out disaster though. And its why we're struggling so badly. Otherwise, this series should have been over if it was just typical Love. Having big games here and there, then having disappearing games there, too.

But he's just been disappearing.
 
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What’s so great too is that no one can say shit about the possible goal tend too which I know some haters are gonna complain about.. but they can’t say shit after that game winning 3 cuz even with the goaltending we would still win by 1.. lol love it!!
 
The only thing needs to change is Love start playing like a suppose all-star, and not a declining bum.

I can't think he'll continue playing this bad. But here's the thing about Love. I do expect him to have a 30 point game at some point. But how consistently can you rely on him?

Where he can have a big scoring game one game, then go back to passive Love? I just don't think you can count on him consistently to be that number 2 guy.

This series, he's been a flat out disaster though. And its why we're struggling so badly. Otherwise, this series should have been over if it was just typical Love. Having big games here and there, then having disappearing games there, too.

But he's just been disappearing.

Can't see it against the Pacers. Not strong enough inside and the Pacers are so good at closing out to him on the 3 point line, he is not getting those open looks he is used to from deep.

Only in the first half of game 3 when he was moving off screen and rolling to the basket has he been effective.
 
The thing is. It's actually a good match up. The Pacers aren't a high scoring offensive team. And yes, our defense has been better, but not great. The Pacers just don't have the offensive fire power.

And we're still struggling to beat them. I worry when we play teams like the Raptors, that can fill the basketball up, a lot...

Guys like Korver, Hill, Hood, Clarkson are all inconsistent.

The only thing needs to change is Love start playing like a suppose all-star, and not a declining bum.

I can't think he'll continue playing this bad. But here's the thing about Love. I do expect him to have a 30 point game at some point. But how consistently can you rely on him?

Where he can have a big scoring game one game, then go back to passive Love? I just don't think if you can count on him consistently to be that number 2 guy.

This series, he's been a flat out disaster though. And its why we're struggling so badly. Otherwise, this series should have been over if it was just typical Love. Having big games here and there, then having disappearing games there, too.

But he's just been disappearing.

If we had literally anyone besides Lebron show up consistently on offense this series would be over. No one besides Lebron has managed 20+ points in a game for us this series. Besides Lebron, I think only JR, Love, Korver, and Clarkson have even managed double digits in any game
 
the review shouldve been on thad young knocking the ball out of lebrons hands, and it went out of bounds on first bounce. Or the time when hood went straight up for the shot, and got called for an offensive foul, but you know.. 'gol tend' durp
 

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