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Game Thread | 2021-2022 Season | Game #76 | Mavericks @ Cavaliers | March 30, 2022 | 7:00 p.m.

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Rich said:
Moses Brown.

5-5, 9 rebounds, 21 minutes........................................................
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Yep, just about where he should be. He’s a liability on defense and doesn’t have an offensive game outside of three feet.
 
The silver lining is we get to keep our first rounder and the opportunity to add another young (hopefully a shooter) piece to this roster. Who are some of top SGs in this year’s draft?
 
DCTribefan said:
No one could have foreseen the rash of major injuries let alone overcome them.
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Yes. Would have been a rough stretch with such a young team even if healthy, but we are like the MASH unit at this point. Not a good combo.
 
They passed up a ton of open shots and it ruined the flow. From Markk, to Goodwin, to Okoro, passing up the open looks Dallas was giving them and played right into the defensive strategy they wanted.

Markk remains expendable to me going into the offseason. I don't ever see that guy coming up big when it matters. And I was so positive on him getting open looks and cashing in. Ship's sailed.
 
Rich said:
Cavs will end up the 10th seed. Hornets are ognna be 1 game behind after tonight. If we lose tomorrow night, Hawks will be 1 game behind. And they'll own the tiebreaker.
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The Cavs are going to be 2.5 games ahead of both the Hornets and the Hawks after tonight, with 3 games in the loss column on each, and 6 games left to play.

Hawks play Toronto, Brooklyn and Miami

Cha plays Miami, Chicago and Philly

They each have to steal a game from at least 1 far superior team and hope the Cavs lose out other than Orlando. If the Cavs beat Orlando but both of those teams lose each of those 3 games…the Cavs still hold onto at least 8.
 
Rich said:
Moses Brown.

5-5, 9 rebounds, 21 minutes........................................................
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I'm not sure what this is presented as/for?

His 5-5 were all dunks on easy feeds.
The one non dunk shot attempt was a horrible touch bunny miss that the ref bailed him out on a foul call.

He was -1 but tbh, I thin that was more a byproduct of all his minutes being linked to Garland. He's a big body but I don't think he was a big defensive plus today. He should have played of course, with Mobley and Allen both out, he had to. But I'm nut sure playing him for another 4,8,12 minutes tonight was going to have a positive net result,

Once again, the most common thread is: Garland +10, Goodwin -17 Without an experienced backup point guard, we are getting demolished in the scant few minutes Garland does sit.
 
InBoobieWeTrust said:
The Cavs are going to be 2.5 games ahead of both the Hornets and the Hawks after tonight, with 3 games in the loss column on each, and 6 games left to play.
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They'll be 1 and a half ahead of the Hawks after tomorrow night.

Unless Allen comes back soon, I think we're looking at 1 win the rest of the way.
 
InBoobieWeTrust said:
I mean, I think Bickerstaff is a useless idiot and not only can he not Coach offense, He clearly can’t coach a traditional defense without his 3 7 footers and 2 elite bigs gimmick.

That being said, today we just got carved up by Doncic and had no answer for him. The strategy of leaving Finney Smith open was an interesting level of stupidity from JBB but alas…Luka went off in the third and they took control of the game. The Cavs are just missing way too much talent at this point.


Seeing LeVert and Garland go off together was super encouraging though. Back to moral victories being the takeaway from individual games. At least we locked up a winning season no matter what and will have two shots in the play-in. The race for the 6 seed is basically over now though.
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His defense isn’t as good without his two defensive anchors. Great insight as always
 
RchfldCavRaised said:
Kevin Love entered the game for him at 6:25 in the 3rd with the score tied at 82.

Moses didn't see the court again until garbage time with the game over
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According to the board that's exactly how many he should have played, rchfld!!


I mean, you obviously can't risk playing your 10 day contract big man more minutes than he's capable? That might result in a loss! Gotta save him for the next one.
 
Ohioplayer00 said:
The silver lining is we get to keep our first rounder and the opportunity to add another young (hopefully a shooter) piece to this roster. Who are some of top SGs in this year’s draft?
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Where do we need to finish to keep our pick?
 
Real Deal said:
They passed up a ton of open shots and it ruined the flow. From Markk, to Goodwin, to Okoro, passing up the open looks Dallas was giving them and played right into the defensive strategy they wanted.

Markk remains expendable to me going into the offseason. I don't ever see that guy coming up big when it matters. And I was so positive on him getting open looks and cashing in. Ship's sailed.
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Actually I like for him to play the Love role even as early as next year……He has a places on this team, he still bother by his ankle sprain see him grimacing a lot during the game, …….
 
On a side note, why did coach pull everybody when we came within 8 with like 1:30 left? I thought there was still a punchers chance. Yea im sure we'd still lose but still...
 
While Levert had 32 points he was -18 in 38 minutes
Garland was +10 in 37 minutes (only starter with a + tonight)
Love -13 in 26 minutes
Goodwin -17 in 13 minutes
Moses Brown was only a -1 in 20 minutes
Stevens +9
Windler +6
Lauri -10
Okoro -8
 
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