Game Thread | Game #79 | Pacers @ Cavs | April 2, 2023

[Kepler]

donovan needs to trust his teammate more

 

[bigfoot5415]

stevens is like a 10th to 11th guy, wade an 8-9th guy

Wade isn't an 8th guy on a good team. He's a rotational player on the 2012 Cavs.

 

[Tlyons]

Yay. Some heart

 

[doctrsnoop]

can we play the Grizzlies and have Brooks punch somebody in the nuts?

 

[MirORich]

Mobley with a nice back down and score after an entry pass from LeVert.

Gap is closing as they’re scoring now after some good defensive stops

 

[Lil Z]

Keep feeding Mobley

 

[MirORich]

59 point first half is above season average for the Cavs.

Issue is defense. We’ve seen that the scheme works when they players execute and give great effort. Having Okoro back will help.

But the guys available tonight should be able to do much better than giving up 61 points.

Some of the east layups and deep position floaters are annoying me more than some made three pointers

 

[wuck]

They need a 6-8 minute stretch of defense in the 2nd half. It's not that much to ask.

 

[jjvors]

Well. That ended up not as bad as it could have been. Down 2 at the half.

They missed some shots. We picked up our defense.

Mitchell 19-4-1
Garland 8-2-4
Allen 10-5-0
Mobley 6-7-2
LeVert 7-0-1

Indiana PacersCleveland Cavaliers
PTS61 59
REB28 27
AST14 12
STL4 4
BLK4 2
TO7 7
FG%46.7 51.1
3P%42.9 33.3
FT%76.5 63.6

LINESCORES​

TEAM	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4
IND	28	33	0	0	61
CLE	28	31	0	0	59

TEAM	PITP	FB PTS	BIG LD	BPTS	TREB	TOV	TTOV	POT
IND	28	14	11	33	4	7	1	10
CLE	40	7	5	13	3	7	0	11

Cleveland Cavaliers​

PLAYER	MIN	FGM	FGA	FG%	3PM	3PA	3P%	FTM	FTA	FT%	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	PTS	+/-
Dean WadeSF	11:37	1	2	50.0	1	2	50.0	0	0	0.0	1	3	4	0	0	0	0	1	3	3
Evan MobleyPF	18:30	3	8	37.5	0	0	0.0	0	0	0.0	1	6	7	2	0	2	0	1	6	7
Jarrett AllenC	17:29	4	7	57.1	0	0	0.0	2	4	50.0	3	2	5	0	1	0	1	1	10	-6
Donovan MitchellSG	19:06	8	13	61.5	1	5	20.0	2	3	66.7	0	4	4	1	1	0	4	3	19	8
Darius GarlandPG	18:36	4	10	40.0	0	1	0.0	0	0	0.0	0	2	2	4	2	0	1	1	8	-8
Caris LeVert	15:39	2	3	66.7	1	2	50.0	2	2	100	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	7	0
Ricky Rubio	07:32	0	0	0.0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0.0	0	1	1	3	0	0	1	2	0	-5
Cedi Osman	08:45	1	3	33.3	1	2	50.0	1	2	50.0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	4	-10
Lamar Stevens	02:46	1	1	100	0	0	0.0	0	0	0.0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	1
Mamadi Diakite	0.0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Danny Green	0.0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
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
Sam Merrill	0.0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Isaiah Mobley	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		24	47	51.1	4	12	33.3	7	11	63.6	6	18	27	12	4	2	7	11	59	-

 

[LeQuit]

Even pilons will do better than our bench

 

[Melancholy Jaques]

Didn’t say the offense was playing great.

I said that of the two sides of the ball so far today, the issue is defense. That shouldn’t be in disputeI

I didn't dispute you. I added another stat to yours.

Are you always like this?

 

[dice1717]

Just tuning in, why are we down to the Haliburton-less Pacers?

Just rewatch any game this season. Nothing has changed

 

[red.]

Greg Buckner got next

 

[Tlyons]

Keep shooting that shit Evan.

It's gonna start falling.

 

[Lil Z]

We've been missing everything at the rim