Cavaliers vs. Hawks – 11/21/15 National Basketball Association Pick, Odds, and Prediction

While LeBron had been initially optimistic about the return of Irving, it looks like the uncertainty of the injured player’s future is taking a toll on King James.

“As a player, you want to play”, Varejao said.

But on the national stage, it appears to matter little that the Cavs have the best record in the Eastern Conference and the second-best record overall.

Dwyane Wade scored 27 points, Justise Winslow came up with a huge tip-in with 27 seconds remaining and the Heat held Philadelphia without a field goal for a seven-minute stretch in the fourth quarter to survive a huge scare and beat the still-winless 76ers 96-91. Their next game is tomorrow (Saturday) night at Indiana.

Join us as we try to decipher what’s going on with this Bucks team, which is often just as hard to understand as head coach Jason Kidd’s press conferences! “We got to play tougher and meaner, and that’s on the bigs, first and foremost”.

The Cavs maintained a 63-48 lead at the half before almost giving it all back.

Thompson started at center in place of Timofey Mozgov, who could miss two weeks with a strained right shoulder. Visibly frustrated, he threw his hand up as if to say “I’m done with this for now”.

LeBron James was spectacularly great, firing up 37 points to lead all scorers, but the Bucks countered LeBron’s firepower adequately as Jerryd Bayless and Michael Carter-Williams accounted for 17 points apiece.

“One thing you can’t control is injuries but one thing you can control is how you play with the guys who are out there”, James said.

“It was kind of disjointed in terms of how well we played at a few moments and then how helter-skelter and off-keel we played at other moments”, Blatt said. This wasn’t good enough as far as James was concerned, and he blasted the team after both losses for not being focused enough. “We’ve got to focus more on our defense”.

But what James pulled in the third quarter of the Cavaliers’ impressive win over the Hawks Saturday was, um, different. “We know better than that, let’s put it that way”.

“I blew a gasket”, James said. “I think J-Kidd does a great job of putting him in lineups where he can have mismatches”.

Despite a well rounded scoring attack, the Bucks were never really in this game. The game was televised nationally by TNT, marking Milwaukee’s first regular-season appearance on the network in 13 years.

Cavaliers: Thompson, usually one of the first players off the bench, started at center with Mozgov out.

Greg Monroe and Khris Middleton each added eight points in the third quarter and helped the Bucks cut the Cavs’ lead to five with under a minute to go in the quarter.