Pacers beat Cavs side minus LeBron
This season, Frye and the rest of the Cavaliers organization have solved the riddle of how to best use his talents, and the result is an offensive outpouring that’s far surpassing even his greatest days with the Phoenix Suns. They are not complaining about their start, though.
The Pacers might hot have expected a Cavaliers club playing without LeBron James and J.R. Smith to push them as hard as Cleveland did on Wednesday night.
Ersan Ilyasova added 16 points to help the 76ers win for just the second time in 11 games this season. A victory against the 5-6 Pacers would give Cleveland its best start since opening the 1976-77 campaign with a 9-1.
“The shirt was really nice but his boots were so bad and I was a little disappointed in his outfit overall”.
Let us see that which team is going to win this match, Either Cavaliers maintain their leading position or Pacers makes their 4 wins of the season. We rebounded, and that was obviously the key to the game, that whole stretch. Love had a season-high 27 points and 16 rebounds, and just as important, he and Kyrie Irving (24 points, seven assists) kept the energy level up throughout the night.
“We’re playing it”, said C.J. Miles.
“We are a composed team”. We’ve had certain lapses in our first 10 games that we need to clean up.
National Basketball Association scoring leader DeMar DeRozan had 34 points, while Kyle Lowry contributed 24 of his own. Paul George appeared more explosive in his second game back from sprained left ankle injury in scoring 21 points and collecting a team-high 11 rebounds. With less than two minutes before intermission, Lowry and DeMar DeRozan picked up technical fouls for arguing with the officials. Prior to imposing their will, Curry and Zaza Pachulia had a two-on-one break in the second quarter, and Curry bounced the ball to his big man, who went up wildly for a layup. “I wasn’t trying to slam it”. Coach (Dwane Casey) caught the ball. “Whatever, keep my money”. Unfortunately, they were never able to get any closer than a few points each time before the Pacers moved the lead back up. One, personal trainers to James and Irving are helping the Cavs chart the courses for how many minutes each star plays. “They have that extra point guard on the floor in LeBron”, Casey said. He missed all but one of the six shots that he attempted, including all three from beyond the three point line. It will be the first time these division rivals have met this season.
Case in point, the Warriors restricted the Raptors to 5-for-24 shooting, outscoring them 32-15 and ending the half on a 21-4 run to seize a 66-53 lead at the break. “He’s going to find his way”. He also sat out Saturday’s game against NY as he continues to recover from right knee surgery. Cleveland beat Toronto 121-117 on Tuesday night.
“It should be fun”, Casey said. “It should be exciting for our players to go against the champion and the runner-up from previous year”.
With LeBron and Swish on the shelf, the Cavaliers went deep into their bench – with DeAndre Liggins, Jordan McRae and rookie Kay Felder logging their heaviest minutes of the young season. And though there is reason for optimism in the locker room, these players know it’s only one game against a short-handed opponent.