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Game Thread | 2021-2022 Season | Game #72 | Lakers @ Cavs | March 21, 2022 | 7:00 p.m.

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How can you not hold scoring efficiency against him? When you’re over 10 percentage points below the league average and 5 percentage points below Russell freaking Westbrook, you can’t just dismiss that because he’s trying to “fit in.” He’s also been significantly below league average efficiency his whole career, so this is nothing new. His shot selection is awful and he’s been a non factor on defense. If we extend the guy, that greatly limits the roster flexibility and the potential of this team. Chalk it up as a loss and move on.

I just reject the idea that he’s been a no lmfactor on defense. I think you just are blindly blaming him for recent struggles that he has nothing to do this.

Anyone making serious evaluations on the small sample size we’ve seen is not a serious evaluator. Especially citing statistics that mean even less in such a small sample size.
 
I'm not trying to be contrarian. I really liked the way LeVert looked tonight.

Any issues one might have him with stopping the ball are apparently not watching the Cavs the rest of the time he isn't in.

Garland is stopping the ball. The offense hasn't evolved at all and now w/o the primary Lob threat, you're getting this.

That's not LeVert.
 
Mobley was disappointing tonight. Gotta have more than 5 rebounds. Should have dominated the glass.
He only played 27 minutes for some reason. He sometimes takes a while to get going.

Still, 5 rebounds in 27 minutes is poor for a center.
 
Eastern Conference standings after we and Toronto lose.

Eastern Conference​

TEAMWLWIN%GBCONFDIVHOMEROADOTLAST 10STREAK
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Miami Heat - se
4725.653--30-1411-226-921-161-36-4L 1
2
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Philadelphia 76ers
4427.6202.527-176-921-1623-113-16-4W 1
3
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Milwaukee Bucks
4427.6202.526-189-324-1220-150-28-2L 1
4
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Boston Celtics
4528.6162.530-169-624-1221-164-29-1W 4
5
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Chicago Bulls
4229.5924.527-179-426-1016-190-13-7W 1
6
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Cleveland Cavaliers
4131.569624-199-523-1318-182-05-5L 1
7
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Toronto Raptors
4032.556724-208-517-1623-162-26-4L 1
8
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Brooklyn Nets
3834.528926-189-616-1922-152-06-4W 2
9
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Charlotte Hornets
3735.5141022-226-719-1718-180-77-3W 5
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Atlanta Hawks
3536.49311.521-238-623-1412-220-16-4L 1
 
His scoring efficiency is like 45% TS. Do you know terrible that is? He’s also been stopping ball movement and hasn’t played adequate defense since his first two games here when I actually thought he might have some untapped potential on that end. But that quickly went down the drain.
I, for one, appreciate your negativity.
 
I‘m not sure we are a top 20 team in the league at this particular moment. Just holding on for dear life hoping the regular season ends. Defensively, it’s a mess on most nights. They are getting bullied for 40+ minutes and then trying to pull it out at the end. Offensively, it’s a sexy Garland box score, but a lot of standing around and watching overdribbling.

We are young, no doubt, but you don’t like seeing this kind of regression as the season goes along.

I think you could feel this coming prior to the trade deadline and they needed a couple of solid moves to give this team the pieces they needed to stay afloat in upper tier of the East. Unfortunately, they only landed Levert and he’s basically been a bust.
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Losing Rubio and Allen basically killed our season.
 
Love and Cedi played 2min 32s at the start of the 4th quarter and just let Lakers to score 10 points in that time. Seriously doubting if he was doing that on purpose for Lebron. Finished the game with -21.
Just looked it up: Love + Cedi was +11.9 through Rubio injury. They are -4.3 since, not counting tonight. I feel like the bench used to crush every night...
 

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