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Game Thread | 2021-2022 Season | Play-in Game #1 | Cavs @ Nets | April 12, 2022 | 7:00 p.m. TNT

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Remember when having a good regular season was enough to make the playoffs? Now you have to have a good play-in tournament as well. Garbage. And they wonder why the ratings are down. The league is tedious.
 
Our first play in game. Here are the individual stats.

Starters:
LeVert 12-7-7 with 3 steals in 40 minutes. Poor shooting night.
Markkanen 13-4-0 with 3 steals in 29 minutes. Poor shooting
Mobley 19-7-2 with 2 blocks in 35 minutes. I'd have played him 3 more minutes in the 4th. He needed more than 13 shots, of which he hit 9. Give him 7 more shots.
Okoro 0-1-1 in 13 minutes. Terrible game
Garland 34-1-5 with 2 steals in 39 minutes. He needed more help.

Bench: 30-20-11 in 29 minutes
Love 14-13-1 with a steal in 29 minutes
Osman 2-4-1 in 21 minutes Un productive.
Rondo 7-3-9 in 26 minutes
Stevens 7-0-0 in 6 minutes. Give him 10 of Cedi's minutes
 
Role players tend to play better at home. This rings true almost universally and more than ever in postseason basketball.

I fully believe in this teams ability to win against Atlanta or Charlotte. I believe in the players.

I don’t believe in the coach.

Maybe we even get Allen back.
 
I'm at the point where I'm ready for the team to pay Sexton a pretty decent chunk to come off the bench and score.

It's Okoro who is the odd man out going forward. Not Sexton or LeVert.

Hope I come back to regret this post after Friday, but the teams progress has, in many ways, passed him by and they can't keep starting him going into next season and playing him big minutes. The team is, basically, too good for him to be getting that type of role.
 
Jscc said:
And they were a -9 with him in those 13 minutes. Looking at the score.. seems pretty significant.
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I know you know that +- doesn’t tell the whole story but using your own logic….Stevens was -12 in his 7 minutes.
 
InBoobieWeTrust said:
Role players tend to play better at home. This rings true almost universally and more than ever in postseason basketball.

I fully believe in this teams ability to win against Atlanta or Charlotte. I believe in the players.

I don’t believe in the coach.

Maybe we even get Allen back.
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We’ll whoop Charlotte and get blasted by Atlanta.
 
1. I can't believe the refs called lane violation that late in the game
2. Has anyone else noticed LeVert taking some weird wide, slowing down steps when he had open layups? One time he got fouled by Kyrie, another time he kicked it out to Mobley
3. I really wish JBB would just trust his players and not overplay. I'd rather have Kyrie/KD hit tough fadeaways than Bruce Brown/Claxton layups. Or at least give them different looks. Sigh. If the Hawks advance, it'll be the same problem with Trae Young
4. This team desperately needs better shooters
5. I'd rather see more Stevens and less Cedi and Okoro on Friday
 
I hope Okoro took a real good look at what Brown was doing out there today. I know JBB didnt, but that is an easy path forward for him to impact games. If we asked Okoro to do the same shit Brown did, set screens, play a short role sometimes guard/sometimes big hybrid role, and camp the dunker spot? He would do that but better
 
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