2023-24 Season | Game #65 | Suns @ Cavs | March 11, 2024 | 7:30 p.m.

[Beanie4Heisman]

Humorous how it's Garland's fault that Okoro was OOB

 

[guitarguy]

I know everyone wants to complain,but we had no right even competing in this game. So, though I know we need to win, this should have been a blowout but we well over performed. I'm not losing sleep on this.

 

[Bob_The_Cat]

Nope, 5

I went through and looked at the play-by-play on ESPN. It was 1.

 

[Futuredome]

Allen bobbled the game away. Most of Garlands -16 was when Niang was in and Durant going off.....brother

 

[tristan+kyrie=$]

Honestly not much to complain about tonight.. Cavs down 4 of their top 9 players and fought to the end against a team with 3 of the top 25 players in basketball on the 2nd night of a back to back

 

[tristan+kyrie=$]

P.S. if Niang is still in the rotation if we are ever fully healthy please take me out of my misery.. he is fucking awful and kills every lineup when he plays

 

[Jscc]

Our offense disintegrating when Garland got blitzed was the exact issue we had two years ago and led to the DM trade, we still haven’t solved it when Mitchell isn’t in and Garland hasn’t learned to handle it on his own

There's not really a way for a player to handle it on his own. If he gets rid of the ball before the double comes, it's going to someone like Cedi or Niang or Okoro.. and that usually doesn't end well, which is the goal of doubling in the first place.

 

[Pierre Pan]

Sure gets old listening to JBB say the same things over and over. I can’t wait until I get to hear him say that he’s enjoyed his time in Cleveland and thanking the Gilberts and the organization for giving him a chance and wishing us well…

 

[Kouki]

P.S. if Niang is still in the rotation if we are ever fully healthy please take me out of my misery.. he is fucking awful and kills every lineup when he plays

When we first acquired Niang the first thing I did was go to Sixers forums. The consensus was "you'll love him as a player and he's got some dawg in him, but he's completely unplayable in the playoffs."

JBB will not realize that until we are down 3-1 tho

 

[CavsKermit]

So a PG should get zero blame for passing the ball to a guy who is standing out of bounds? What kind of sense does that make?

His heel was on the baseline. That's on the player receiving the ball.

 

[Tlyons]

Garland was great until he was terrible.

 

[CavsKermit]

Nope, 5

Also, while Garland was 7/10 from 3, LeVert was 3/10.

 

[Tlyons]

It's a miracle we were even in this game with Niang checking Kevin fucking Durant.

Meh, knew we were gonna take a bunch of Ls with Mitchell out anyway.

 

[Dr No]

Losses are frustrating, close losses even more so. But let’s be honest - we played over our heads most of this game. We needed to be nearly perfect down the stretch to win. We weren’t. So we lost. On the second of a back to back, down 4 key guys, I’m not going to be too hard on anyone

 

[CavsKermit]

There's not really a way for a player to handle it on his own. If he gets rid of the ball before the double comes, it's going to someone like Cedi or Niang or Okoro.. and that usually doesn't end well, which is the goal of doubling in the first place.

That is a situation you can, and should, practice for in terms of a hockey assist, but the usual outlet should be our second 7 footer around the free throw line, and he's currently nursing a sore ankle on the bench. Wade could normally sub in that role, but alas...

In terms of all the replacements, only CPJ did a decent job of showing and that was behind the 3 point line which let's the defense off the hook for doubling which shouldn't be the goal.