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Game Thread 2019-20 Season Game #59 | Cleveland Cavaliers vs New Orleans Pelicans | Feb 28th, 2020

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Get Love out of town. I'm tired of watching his bitch ass show zero effort on defense. It's embarrassing.
 
Garland just did something. Did you guys see it?
 
We out scored them 79-73 in the final 3Q

Those 1st Quarter blowouts hurt
 
inliner311 said:
What did he do?
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Hard drive to the basket while getting bodied by his defender. Fought through it very well and finished with a skilled layup. Didn’t shy away from contact. Didn’t settle for a weird floater
 
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Defense is one thing, our offense is putrid. It's TT iso or Love iso most of the time. Cavs dont know how to run, cant create three point shots off a set play and is adamant on scoring inside with post ups. Looking more like 90's basketball.
 
The Cavs came out flat and were outscored by 18 points in the first quarter, but they outscored the Pelicans by 6 points the rest of the way. Giving up 43 in the first quarter was too much to overcome as the Pelis got layup after layup. But the defense improved and held the Pelicans to 73 points in the last three quarters which is very good considering the Pelis are 4th in the NBA in scoring and that's with Zion missing most of the games so far.

With Zion playing starter's minutes the Pelis came in averaging 124 ppg, so holding them to 116 is not bad, especially since we gave up 125 last time we played them. Too bad we weren't ready to compete in the first quarter.

Kevin Love seemed out of it from the start and only played 27 minutes. He never got going offensively and Zion abused him defensively.

The Cavs could have made a game of it with better 3-point shooting. Sexton and Delly were great, combining to go 8-for-13 from deep, but the rest of the team was only 3-for-18. Porter, Love, and Osman combined to go 2-for-13.

The Pelicans just had too much talent as Ingram, Zion, and Holiday scored 29, 24, and 22 points and combined to go 32-for-51 from the field. There was no stopping them. Ingram was a man among boys with a line of 29/6/7 and a +25 in 33 minutes.

Porter and Love had off nights, combining to shoot 11-for-30. We needed better shooting from them. You can't ask the Cavs to hold the Pelis to less than 116, so they needed everybody to shoot well and it just didn't happen tonight. We need to score more than 104 points against the team ranked 28th in scoring defense that was giving up 117 per game.
 
MrX said:
You did post this earlier but Delly ended up 7 pts 6 ast in 19 mins and team high +4
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Yeah, I posted it extremely early when he had like 3 turnovers in a row and allowed guys to just walk past him. People are allowed to have in-game opinions. Haha. I know you're not really calling me out but I'm sure you could have posted something positive about Delly without quoting my post, even if you did acknowledge when it was posted.
 
kookoo said:
Yeah, I posted it extremely early when he had like 3 turnovers in a row and allowed guys to just walk past him. People are allowed to have in-game opinions. Haha. I know you're not really calling me out but I'm sure you could have posted something positive about Delly without quoting my post, even if you did acknowledge when it was posted.
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My apologies. I hit you with a funny emoji then realize the time it was posted my wrong-doing and removed it. My post was just letting you know why.
 
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