Game Thread | Game #43 | Cavs @ Trail Blazers | Jan. 12, 2023

[jjvors]

Wow. What a game. It was as close and intense as I thought it would be. With Dame playing, it's never easy. He got a 50 spot tonight.
Cleveland CavaliersPortland Trail Blazers

We outrebounded them, out assisted them, had fewer turnovers, and almost equaled their shooting. We beat them from the free-throw line.
24-31 versus 22 for them.

PTS119 113
REB51 46
AST28 17
STL6 6
BLK1 4
TO11 16
FG%49.4 51.3
3P%31.8 33.3
FT%77.4 75.9

LINESCORES​

TEAM	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	FINAL
CLE	27	24	36	32	119
POR	32	26	33	22	113

TEAM	PITP	FB PTS	BIG LD	BPTS	TREB	TOV	TTOV	POT
CLE	68	19	8	21	7	11	0	17
POR	52	9	14	9	10	16	1	12

Cleveland Cavaliers​

PLAYER	MIN	FGM	FGA	FG%	3PM	3PA	3P%	FTM	FTA	FT%	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	PTS	+/-
Isaac OkoroSF	29:26	4	4	100	1	1	100	2	3	66.7	1	4	5	0	2	0	1	3	11	4
Evan MobleyPF	24:57	6	12	50.0	0	1	0.0	5	6	83.3	5	4	9	3	1	1	0	4	17	6
Jarrett AllenC	38:45	11	17	64.7	0	1	0.0	2	2	100	2	8	10	6	1	0	0	3	24	7
Donovan MitchellSG	35:38	11	23	47.8	2	8	25.0	2	4	50.0	1	4	5	5	2	0	3	2	26	10
Darius GarlandPG	33:11	5	12	41.7	2	3	66.7	8	10	80.0	0	2	2	10	0	0	4	4	20	7
Kevin Love	15:02	0	4	0.0	0	2	0.0	0	0	0.0	1	5	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	-4
Caris LeVert	30:31	2	7	28.6	0	2	0.0	0	0	0.0	2	1	3	3	0	0	2	1	4	0
Lamar Stevens	13:34	1	3	33.3	0	0	0.0	4	4	100	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	6	-9
Ricky Rubio	10:27	3	5	60.0	2	4	50.0	1	2	50.0	0	3	3	1	0	0	0	0	9	6
Cedi Osman	08:29	1	2	50.0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0.0	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	2	3
Robin Lopez	0.0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Raul Neto	0.0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
TOTALS		44	89	49.4	7	22	31.8	24	31	77.4	12	32	51	28	6	1	11	19	119	-

 

[Lee]

Defense showed up in the 4th like usual. As much as we bitch and moan about our defense....we are still the second best defensive team in the league. It showed in the 4th.

Its hard to play that intense of defense 82 games 48 minutes, sometimes more. But it shows up in the 4th (when the refs dont fuck us) and will show up in the playoffs

 

[MirORich]

Donovan saving JBB again there - that was some insane offense

Explain that in a way that actually makes sense and is not just a empty cheap shot.

 

[Pierre Pan]

It was nice to have Rubio back, but JYD has to be Mobley, 17/8/3 and huge defense down the stretch.

Bet you dessert at the Sugar Bowl

 

[Cassity14]

Okoro quietly had a really good game. Dude impacts winning more and more lately.

Love seeing him start to use his athleticism on the glass and to draw some fouls. He’s also a very nifty passer, but his lack of ball handling has hid the passing skill for a while. When he catches the ball on the move he makes some really good reads.

 

[Lee]

Bet you dessert at the Sugar Bowl

Do you live in Phoenix? Fuck the Sugar Bowl, I will bet you a beer at the brewery of your choice. You are over 21 right? lol

 

[J_J]

Explain that in a way that actually makes sense and is not just an empty cheap shot.

I just would like to see more parts of the offense to utilize Donovan off the ball, back door cuts, back picks for Donovan (saw this a lot in Utah). We get stagnant a lot and then becomes too much 1v1 in many parts of the games. These guys are definitely great 1v1 players but there is a lot to basketball to utilize them on the offensive end.

I always give credit to JBB on the defensive side. Very picky when it comes to offense.

 

[Lee]

Explain that in a way that actually makes sense and is not just a empty cheap shot.

You see JBB cant coach eventhough the team outscored the home team by 10 in the 4th on the back of their defese, its always the players doing right and if anything goes wrong, well its JBB fault...but in this case we won, so JBB deserves no credit.

 

[MirORich]

They all played their butts off in the last quarter. Should be no complaints against anybody.

On the road, which has been a sore spot for us so far, held the Blazers below their home scoring average and show a TON of grit and will to TAKE this game away from the Blazers.

Bummed about Dean. Hope it’s not too bad of a setback

 

[Pierre Pan]

Great balanced scoring

 

[Lee]

I just would like to see more parts of the offense to utilize Donovan off the ball, back door cuts, back picks for Donovan (saw this a lot in Utah). We get stagnant a lot and then becomes too much 1v1 in many parts of the games. These guys are definitely great 1v1 players but there is a lot to basketball to utilize them on the offensive end.

Except Donovan is scoring more on much more efficient shooting and you wannt JBB to do what they did in Utah instead of this MVP canidate version of Donovan?

 

[ZooCrewDude]

Blazers fans around us tonight wanted nooothing to do with Mobley after that one. I’ll write up the autograph experience and some away game notes in the season thread tomorrow! Really fun game!

 

[MirORich]

I just would like to see more parts of the offense to utilize Donovan off the ball, back door cuts, back picks for Donovan (saw this a lot in Utah). We get stagnant a lot and then becomes too much 1v1 in many parts of the games. These guys are definitely great 1v1 players but there is a lot to basketball to utilize them on the offensive end.

Like the motion and passing that led to the Okoro 3?

And when you have players as talented with the ball as Mitchell and Garland, allowing them to surgically breakdown their guy and pull a help defender away from his main guy, and then exploiting that numbers advantage IS smart offense for this roster with this personnel

 

[KilgoreTrout]

Good and important comeback. Garland stayed in his lane, and Spida came up big in crunch-time. Good efforts by all starters, including Okoro. Good to have Ricky back and contributing already!

 

[jjvors]

Individual stats. We had a lot of contributors.

Starters:
Mobley 17-8-3 with a steal and a block in 25 minutes. Imagine if he played 35. Foul trouble in the first half and the 3rd quarter. JYD?
Garland 20-2-10 in 33 minutes
Allen 24-10-6 with a steal in 38 minutes Tied his season high.
Mitchell 26-5-5 with 2 steals in 36 minutes. He ended up leading us in scoring, despite an off-shooting night.
Okoro 11-5-0 with 2 steals in 29 minutes Good game.

Bench: 21-14-5 in 30 minutes. Not great, but 12 points better than Portland.
LeVert 4-4-3 in 30 minutes Off shooting but some good defense.
Rubio 9-3-1 in 10 minutes. Much better than I expected for his first game in a year. If he can play 20-25 minutes, look out NBA! JYD?
Love 0-6-0 in 15 minutes. His shooting slump continues.
Osman 2-1 in 8 minutes.
Stevens 6-0-0 in 13 minutes