LaVert is what he is! An inconsistent mid range shooter! He makes hustle plays, gets in the paint and creates havoc but at times can hurt you. Somebody said it best earlier…..he’s a JR Smith remake. Those two fouls are Clarkston were bad! But unfortunately when you don’t stay attached to the shooter you put yourself in a bad recovery position and you’re apt to make those kind of fouls. But that was a by product of poor PnR defense. You cannot let a shooter (especially one on a roll like Clarkston was) come free off a pick. When that pick is set the big man MUST show hard on top of the pick and force Clarkston back the way he came! Also in that final minute JBB did NOTHING to help LaVert with Clarkston (ie denying the ball or sending two players at him to force somebody else to beat us)
All that being said if we had made HALF of our three point shots the other night we would have won that game by 10+ points!
To end this rant I will say this: The Cavs have to get “tougher” guarding the paint! We cannot continue to have teams do layup drills on us. I’m not saying hurt somebody but hit ‘em……let ‘em know there are no easy buckets here! Stop all of this soft ticky tack reaching fouls and jumping in the air bumping chests with people! If you are going to foul somebody then DAMN IT MAKE THE FOUL COUNT! AND MAKE SURE THEY CANT GET THEIR ARM UP TO FINISH THE SHOT MOTION