Pacers dispatch LeBron-less Cavs 103-93

But for the third time in three years Wednesday, James sat out a game against the Pacers in Indianapolis.

But when multiple players are making shots in the same game, that’s when the Cavaliers are at their devastating best.

The Pacers worked their transition game against the exhausted Cavs to optimal efficiency in the first quarter and part of the second.

There isn’t any better coach at drawing up plays after time-outs than Lue… We know he’s a tough shot maker but we definitely wanted him to try to make those shots.

“Right now he said he wants to be between 36 and 38 minutes a night.so, he’s right where he wants to be”.

“We can win games without LeBron”, Lue said.

These teams met in the conference finals last season. Ten games, nine wins, and a whole lot of balance and depth.

In addition to putting the ball in the basket, DeRozan contributed averages of 4.7 and 4.3 assists as the Raptors defeated the Oklahoma City Thunder, Charlotte Hornets, and New York Knicks. DeRozan has been a house afire to start the year, drawing these appropriate comparisons to the scoring prowess of peak-Jordan 30 years ago. “I wasn’t sure if it was going to make an appearance today”.

OK, so, two more developments here.

James will not be playing with the Cavs on their game against the Indiana Pacers. But the Raptors need one more major contributor if they are going to have a serious threat at beating the Cavaliers. “Have to see how we’re playing at the time and how guys’ minutes are at the time, and just got to gauge it from there”.

One could have reasonably expected the 61-57 shootout favoring the hosts at halftime to continue the rest of the way considering both teams hit the break shooting better than 50 percent from the floor. He played his usual 38 minutes in Tuesday’s win against the Raptors, and by National Basketball Association standards, this wasn’t a particularly grueling back-to-back. “They’ve done their jobs, (played) their role in the situations they’re in”.

James fell one rebound shy of a triple-double with 28 points, 14 assists and nine rebounds.

From the 2008-09 season – when he first started to regularly shoot three-pointers – through a year ago, Frye attempted a shot from deep on 8.7 percent of possessions. “I think, just overall, we got exhausted of looking embarrassed and getting our butt whupped”.

“We needed a win, we weren’t anxious who was going to be on the floor for them”, Teague said. “Before Obama did the press conference, they brought us into this little room and he kind of came in and he talked to us and everything”.

Irving, 24, said the notion of playing time doesn’t carry the same importance to him as it once did.

DeRozan’s weekly award from the league ends LeBron James’ streak.

There will be more nights this season like Wednesday when James is in a suit instead of a jersey. The Indiana Pacers beat the Cleveland Cavaliers 103-93. Also, it needs to be mentioned that Indiana’s best three performances of the season have all come on this exact stage: at home against a team on a back-to-back.

Love and Irving combined to take exactly half of Cleveland’s 86 field goal attempts.

Guard J.R. Smith also missed the game because of a sprained right ankle.