2024-25 Season | Game #69 | Cavs @ Kings | March 19, 2025 | 10:00 p.m.

ClevelandOwnz said:
Also Allen is in one of those don’t give effort modes lately. I’m not worried for playoffs but shit is annoying.
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He needs rest games. Same shit happened last year. He plays better after a rest
 
Futuredome said:
Cavs need to play defense all game. They simp!y gave up and waited for the game to end.
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Yup. No effort, lazy play for 3 1/2 quarters. I keep telling yall they are not going balls to the wall in these late season games on purpose. KA said in interviews that the goal is to stay healthy for the playoffs and test out lineups.

At the same time, we are playing teams who are battling for playoffs spots. This is the result.
 
  • Hunter got lost on screens at least 3 times, giving up 2 wide open 3s to Monk and letting Monk drive with seconds to go in the 4th
  • Donovan and Ty freaking careless with the ball giving free 6 points to Devin Carter
^ These alone cost the team 14 points right there.

No excuse losing to the Kings team without 2 of their best players even without Garland. No excuse making Devin Carter who averages 4 points a game look like a starter. No excuse giving up 8 offensive rebounds to their backup bigs like Valanciunas and Lyles. No excuse letting one of the worst 3 point shooting teams shoot 45% from the 3 without Lavine.

Without Mobley going crazy in the 3rd, they might've lost by 10. Disgusting performance
 
Can't get any stops or rebounds when it counts. The problems that lead to a playoff failure are showing their ugly heads.

Bad effort. Team is still soft.
 
We needed some adversity and playoff intensity and we're getting it. These west coast teams are playing for their playoff chances and they're bringing it. It can be hard to learn your team's weak links when you win, and now Kenny Atkinson now needs to use the lessons learned from these three losses to plug some holes, fill some gaps, figure out some rotation combinations that don't work.

Ty Jerome honestly was a liability tonight, he was relentlessly exploited when he defended and he coughed the ball up when he was pressured. Struss can't stay in front of quick guards, neither can Jerome.

Sloppy passes show a lack of focus by Mitchell, Jerome, and Allen in those moments, that should be something that can be rectified. The points off those sloppy turnovers were the difference that cost us the game, even if you concede them shooting out of their minds.
 
I’m pretty confused on the Mitchell criticism the last 2 minutes

Our last 2 minute pace was a 60 point quarter. Mobley had a hot hand, but 10 points in 2 minutes is a pretty scorching hand

The Kings scored on every single possession they had in the last 2 minutes. It’s pretty hard to make up a 4 point deficit when that happens
 
PIP said:
That team did not have their 2 best players and still won...
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Do we audit every other top team’s losses to confirm they only lost to teams at full strength?

Do we not account for no Garland?

Or playing a B2B after a croos country 3 timezone jump to the west coast. A situation we will never face in the playoffs

The team peaked and for better or worse are ready for seven game series scheduling against the same opponent with 1-2 days between each game.

Nothing short of an injury that happens since they clinched the playoffs is going to make me disregard the habits and routines of the full season to date where I doubt their near certainty to win any series against any team other than OKC or BOS

So I respect your take and what you feel you’re seeing between the lines but I think you’re way early on thinking they’re not going to reach the conference finals
 
nolookpass said:
  • Hunter got lost on screens at least 3 times, giving up 2 wide open 3s to Monk and letting Monk drive with seconds to go in the 4th
  • Donovan and Ty freaking careless with the ball giving free 6 points to Devin Carter
^ These alone cost the team 14 points right there.

No excuse losing to the Kings team without 2 of their best players even without Garland. No excuse making Devin Carter who averages 4 points a game look like a starter. No excuse giving up 8 offensive rebounds to their backup bigs like Valanciunas and Lyles. No excuse letting one of the worst 3 point shooting teams shoot 45% from the 3 without Lavine.

Without Mobley going crazy in the 3rd, they might've lost by 10. Disgusting performance
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Devin Carter is tonight’s NNHOF. No Name Hall of Famer. Cavs produce one nightly
 
Teams in a slump. Got lucky before, unlucky now. I would like to see a 4 game turn on and hit 60 wins. Then reevaluate.
 
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