Game 57 | Washington @ Cleveland | Sunday February 23, 2014 6:00 PM EST

[MoFlo]

Game #57

Washington (27-28, 13-14 Road) @ Cavaliers (22-34, 14-13 Home)

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Head Coaches:

Mike Brown

Randy Wittman

Starting Lineups:

The Bad Guys:

John Wall

Averaging just 15.2 points & 7.7 assists on 40.2% shooting over his last 6 games.

Bradley Beal

Shooting 39.2% in 2014.

Trevor Ariza

Averaging 19.0 points, 10.3 rebounds, 2.3 steals over his last 3 games on 50% shooting (62.5% from 3)

Nene

Averaging 0.1 more rebounds per game than backup Trevor Booker, despite playing 10 more minutes per game than him.

Marcin Gortat

Shooting 63.5% from the field over his last 10 games.

*Washington's stats may change depending on their game tomorrow*

The Good Guys:

Kyrie Irving

Shooting 37.9% over his last 4 games.

Jarrett Jack

Shooting 35.2% since 12/17

Luol Deng

Averaging 12.7 points, on 35.6% shooting over his last 7 games.

Tee Tee

Averaging 16.4 points & 12.2 rebounds on 59.3% shooting over his last 5 games.

Tyler Zeller

Had 12 blocks in his first 30 games. Has 14 in his last 15 games.

Washington's Scrubs:

Martell Webster

Andre Miller

Garrett Temple

Trevor Booker

Kevin Seraphin

Bench Brigade:

Geeeeeee

Spencer Hawes

Delly

Anthony Bennett

MoFlo's Notes::

-Over their last 6 home games vs the East (4-2), the Cavaliers are allowing just 87.5 PPG

-Nene has more games of 3 or less rebounds this season (7) than he has of 9+ rebounds (4). Furthermore, Tristan Thompson has more games of 15+ rebounds (5) than Nene has of 10+ boards (3).

-The 115-113 win over Washington on 2/5 was the first time the Cavs allowed 100+ points to the Wiz since 3/3/12, snapping a 7 game streak.

-John Wall is averaging 17.8 points & 7.9 assists on just 39.8% shooting on the road (21.9, 9.3, 44.1% at home)

-The Cavs have held opponents to under 100 points in 6 straight games. Their longest streak since 3/21-3/30/2011. If they get to 7 in a row, it'll be their longest streak since 3/1-3/14/2010

Wiz Groupies::

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[Fuggles]

Delly kills Beal again.

Their bigs eat up our bigs again.

Comes down to Irving and Deng.

 

[Simon]

Really, really hope Dion, CJ and Varejao can play Sunday.

 

[Stark]

Must win game if you want to stay in the playoff race.

It'd be great if we could get one or both of Dion and Miles back so we don't have to run Jack out there for 40 minutes. I highly doubt Varejao is going to play; I think he is going to end up being done for the season again.

With Dion back: 109-97 Cavaliers
With Both back: 114-102 Cavaliers
With Neither: 98-88 Wizards

 

[ajz20]

Must win game if you want to stay in the playoff race.

It'd be great if we could get one or both of Dion and Miles back so we don't have to run Jack out there for 40 minutes. I highly doubt Varejao is going to play; I think he is going to end up being done for the season again.

With Dion back: 109-97 Cavaliers
With Both back: 114-102 Cavaliers
With Neither: 98-88 Wizards

Could have gotten us a really nice young player had he not gotten hurt before last years deadline.

A MUST WIN. 4 games out and Atlanta is now the new moving target.

 

[PeonHaiters]

Must win game if you want to stay in the playoff race.

It'd be great if we could get one or both of Dion and Miles back so we don't have to run Jack out there for 40 minutes. I highly doubt Varejao is going to play; I think he is going to end up being done for the season again.

With Dion back: 109-97 Cavaliers
With Both back: 114-102 Cavaliers
With Neither: 98-88 Wizards

Lol this cracked me up for some reason. You say it would be great to possibly get Miles back and then predict that our offense will be 5 points better while our defense will be 5 points worse with Miles back.

Nothing wrong with your prediction at all; it just struck me funny.

 

[Stark]

Lol this cracked me up for some reason. You say it would be great to possibly get Miles back and then predict that our offense will be 5 points better while our defense will be 5 points worse with Miles back.

Nothing wrong with your prediction at all; it just struck me funny.

I honestly just pulled those numbers out of my ass. :chuckles:

If we get Dion, Miles, or hopefully both back, I think we win. If we don't, I bet we lose. We're just not a deep team in the back court with those two out.

 

[Rich]

Must win. If Varejao isn't back by this game, start looking up stories from the Brazilian press. They'll beat everyone to the punch about his season ending injury that the organization is keeping secret.

 

[#21]

Must win. Therefore, loss.

 

[ajz20]

Must win. Therefore, loss.

With the list of tough road games left, all homes games vs teams not named Indy and Miami have to be must wins.

 

[Norm]

Welp.....time to change it up.......


Cavs by 11.........heard it here first

 

[Soar]

We need this game. Badly.

Please tell me Andy can play.

 

[Rondo]

Will Dion or CJ be back? Need their ability to score more than anything.

 

[Surge]

We still haven't been beaten in America the last 6 games!

The streak continues Sunday.

 

[wuck]

From Finnan:

None of #Cavs' injured players - C Anderson Varejao (back), SG Dion Waiters (knee) or G/F CJ Miles (ankle) - practiced Sat, won't play Sun