2023-24 Playoffs | Game #1 | Magic @ Cavs | April 20, 2024

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[Wham with the Right Hand]

A great win but a long way to go. We can't count on Orlando going 8-for-37 on 3's every game. The Cavs need to do better than 97 points on offense. They have to reduce the turnovers from 17 to around 12 and increase the 3-point percentage from 27% to at least 35%.

In the regular season they scored 126, 121, 109, and 94 on this team. They won't score 120 in the playoffs but they need to get up around 110 unless they can continue to hold the Magic to under 90, which I don't think is realistic.

The Cavs held the Magic to 26 points under their road scoring average. Against top six defenses the Magic averaged 104 ppg and the Cavs held them to 21 points under that. Just amazing defense.

 

[jjvors]

Individual stats:

Starters:
Strus 7-9-1 with a steal in 33 minutes
Mobley 16-11-2 with 3 blocks in 36 minutes 6-12 fg, 2-4 3 points. I'll take 50% from him. The of the league can't take that.
Allen 16-18-2 with 2 steals in 35 minutes
Mitchell 30-2-3 with 3 steals in 36 minutes. 11-21 fg, 3-8 from 3
Garland 14-3-8 with a steal in 32 minutes. 6-11 fg, 2-6 from 3.

Bench:
LeVert 5-4-2 in 20 minutes
Niang 5-3-2 with a steal in 25 minutes
Okoro 4-2-0 with a steal and a block in 19 minutes
Merrill 0-2-1 in 4 minutes

We can shoot a lot better from 3 and we won by 14.

 

[Fursdon]

Magic guards : 4-33 for 17 points, 1-16 3P, 5 Assists, 3 TO, 10 PF. Yowch.

 

[Patdatass]

Think this was my favorite play of the day.

 

[jjvors]

Cavs vs Magic highlights:

 

[MattyIce8]

Haven’t seen a playoff chain (yet). Cavs in a sweep. They’ve truly grown up

 

[MirORich]

A great win but a long way to go. We can't count on Orlando going 8-for-37 on 3's every game. The Cavs need to do better than 97 points on offense. They have to reduce the turnovers from 17 to around 12 and increase the 3-point percentage from 27% to at least 35%.

In the regular season they scored 126, 121, 109, and 94 on this team. They won't score 120 in the playoffs but they need to get up around 110 unless they can continue to hold the Magic to under 90, which I don't think is realistic.

The Cavs held the Magic to 26 points under their road scoring average. Against top six defenses the Magic averaged 104 ppg and the Cavs held them to 21 points under that. Just amazing defense.

But we can look at the season long stats where the Cavs were 8th in 3PA and made 36.7% of them while the Magic were bottom five in 3PA and made 35% of them.

While we can’t count on ORL being that bad from 3, we also shouldn’t count on the Cavs shooting well below their season averages for attempts and percentage made. Barring a major change from regular season Norris, the Cavs should outscore the Magic from behind the arc moving forward after being 24-24 with them today

So while Orlando can play better than today, the Cavs definitely can as well.

 

[Otsego Mar]

Haven’t seen a playoff chain (yet). Cavs in a sweep. They’ve truly grown up

I'd bet against a sweep almost 10 times out of 10. We play too sloppy and rely on the 3pt shot too much for that to happen. Orlando basically hung in all game and they didn't shoot very well.

Just get the W.

 

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[Tlyons]

Ev hitting 3s in the playoffs is a beautiful thing to see.

Also, DPOY level defense is back on the menu.

 

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I have posted this several times but again I totally agree this was awesome...

 

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