Game Thread | Game #81 | Cavs @ Magic | April 6, 2023

[Comeback kid]

I can't see a single reason to play Wade ahead of Green.

Defense, rebounding and 19-5.

 

[buzzdog]

Hilarious to read all the gloom, doom, and player bashing turn around with a blowout win by the reserves.

 

[jjvors]

Individual stats. This'll be fun--a lot of players who don't usually get minutes.

Starters:
Lopez 8-2-3 with a steal and 2 blocks in 19 minutes. Decent.
Rubio 5-2-5 with a steal in 20 minutes.
Osman 19-5-4 in 22 minutes. Do that every game and you're the 6th man of the year.
Wade 7-6-2 with a steal in 22 minutes
Stevens 13-6-1 with 2 steals in 31 minutes 2-5 from 3.

Bench: 66-21-14 in 29 minutes Outscore our starters.
I Mobley 18-4-1 with 3 steals and 2 blocks in 29 minutes. Excellent game! 7-12 fg 2-3 from 3.
Neto 8-2-8 with a block in 24 minutes Productive. Most assists.
Green 21-3-2 with 3 steals and a block in 26 minutes, the most minutes since last May. 5-9 from 3, 8-14 fg. JYD baby! Led the team in points.
Diakite 13-8-1 with a steal and a block in 23 efficient minutes. 5-7 fg He led the team in rebounds
Merrill 6-4-2 with a steal in 22 minutes. I believe he ran point guard for a while.

 

[jjvors]

Cavs - Magic highlights:

 

[J_J]

JBB gives it to the brother who has worked his butt off and improved during this year with the Charge. Should have given to Green in my opinion.

 

[jjvors]

I love seeing the Cavs bench warmers on the NBA stat boards!
REBOUNDS

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1.	Bam Adebayo	8
1.	Bol Bol	8
1.	Mamadi Diakite	8
1.	Drew Eubanks	8
5.	Goga Bitadze	7

ASSISTS​

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1.	Shake Milton	10
2.	Raul Neto	8
3.	Kyle Lowry	7
3.	Skylar Mays	7
5.	Jimmy Butler	6

BLOCKS​

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1.	Drew Eubanks	4
2.	Goga Bitadze	2
2.	Joel Embiid	2
2.	Robin Lopez	2
2.	Justin Minaya	2

STEALS​

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1.	Jalen McDaniels	4
2.	Danny Green	3
2.	Isaiah Mobley	3
2.	Chuma Okeke	3
5.	John Butler Jr.	2

THREE POINTERS MADE​

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1.	Julian Champagnie	5
1.	Danny Green	5
1.	Tyler Herro	5
1.	Jalen Suggs	5
5.	Cedi Osman	4

FANTASY POINTS​

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1.	Drew Eubanks	46.1
2.	Danny Green	40.1
3.	Tyler Herro	38.3
3.	Isaiah Mobley	38.3
5.	Jimmy Butler	36.6

 

[jjvors]

Isaiah Mobley's post game interview:

 

[KilgoreTrout]

Too bad we couldn’t get one more win. Sixers on the road, for their last two.

 

[The Human Q-Tip]

Defense, rebounding and 19-5.

19-5 is correlation, not causation. It may just means that he gets yanked quickly when he sucks, and so that doesn't appear in the loss column. Or maybe that the vast majority of his minutes come only with the starters, so he's benefitting from their play rather than vice-versa. Who knows.

Regardless, he hasn't been nearly as effective after coming back from the injury as he was before, so season-long stats in his case are rather worthless. Whether his shoulder is still bothering him, it is a confidence thing, or just a statistical anomaly doesn't really matter.

 

[2 For The Brew]

I don’t think Danny will get a lot of minutes in the playoffs but when he comes in he’ll know what to do. Nice asset to have on the bench ready to put points on the board when needed.

Tonight’s game shows that the team has been practicing and buying in defensively so when these guys got their chance they were ready. Granted it was against a bunch of meatballs whose season is so over but effective teamwork is always good to see.

 

[daddywags]

Looked like Green's stroke is still good. I suspect he will struggle on defense against playoff teams but he could be useful as an off the bench sniper in small doses. Which is pretty much what he was signed to do I suppose.

 

[cliffdawg]

That was fun to watch, hopefully they do the same on Sunday……Lol at Orlando they said your not fucking with our ping bongs, here our deep reserves…

 

[daddywags]

Duplicate post.

 

[Comeback kid]

19-5 is correlation, not causation. It may just means that he gets yanked quickly when he sucks, and so that doesn't appear in the loss column. Or maybe that the vast majority of his minutes come only with the starters, so he's benefitting from their play rather than vice-versa. Who knows.

Regardless, he hasn't been nearly as effective after coming back from the injury as he was before, so season-ling stats in his case are rather worthless. Whether his shoulder is still bothering him, it is a confidence thing, or just a statistical anomaly doesn't really matter.

Was it correlation over the last 3 years as
well???? Same outcome every year.

 

[Melancholy Jaques]

Too bad we couldn’t get one more win. Sixers on the road, for their last two.

We can all recall at least three that should have been wins, right?