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Game Thread | Game #56 | Cavs @ Wizards | Feb. 6, 2023

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With Ricky out we gotta hope Beal is out, too.

OTOH, they just lost to Portland at home with Beal and Kuzma playing and the Trailblazers are 12-16 on the road.

If both Ricky and LeVert are out we'll need either Neto or Stevens to give us quality minutes tonight.

Since being out for eight days with the groin injury Donovan Mitchell is 14-for-44 on 3's in his last five games (31.8%). Up until that point he was hitting 39.5%. He needs to start taking better shots; it looks like he is forcing some 3's in an effort to find the range.

The Wizards have had problems defending guards in the last couple of games. Against Brooklyn they allowed a backup guard averaging 9 points (Cam Thomas) to score 44. Another Nets' guard, Edmond Sumner, averaging 7 points per game, scored 29. That's a combined 73 points by two backups averaging 16 and the Wizards lost 125-123. Pretty shocking.

In the game before that against Portland they allowed three guards (Simons, Lillard, and Hart) to score 33, 29, and 21 points on 56% from the field.

Garland and Mitchell could have big nights.
 
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Wham with the Right Hand said:
With Ricky out we gotta hope Beal is out, too.

OTOH, they just lost to Portland at home with Beal and Kuzma playing and the Trailblazers are 12-16 on the road.

If both Ricky and LeVert are out we'll need either Neto or Stevens to give us quality minutes tonight.

Since being out for eight days with the groin injury Donovan Mitchell is 14-for-44 on 3's in his last five games (31.8%). Up until that point he was hitting 39.5%. He needs to start taking better shots; it looks like he is forcing some 3's in an effort to find the range.
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I think he has lost explosiveness because he didn’t let the injury heal. Glad he’s sitting out honestly, even though I wanted to see him
 
DMs form on the 3s has definitely changed since the groin issue. On that
drive last night when he got rejected at the rim, you could really see how compromised
he is by the groin. Very tough to resolve playing NBA minutes.
 
I think this is a toss up. We are better, but back to backs are tough. Back to backs on the road are even tougher. We are not good on the road even with rest. Rubio is rally helping our second unit click and he's out. LeVert is likely out. DM is still not right. But no Kuzma helps and if Beal is a no-go, that probably puts us over the top.
 
Going to be at the game as well! Hopefully goes better than last year when I came up.
 
Nice little stretch here going into the all-star break.
  • Wizards .462, and missing Kuzma
  • Pistons .259
  • Pelicans .509, now without Zion, losing 10 of their last 12.
  • Bulls .481
  • Spurs .264

Then we play the 76ers who are looking really good as the last game before the break. If we can go 4-1 over the next 5, there's a chance we will be in the four spot. If we can beat the 76ers, who also have a pretty easy stretch outside of the Celtics we could be only a game back from the three seed.
 
Wham with the Right Hand said:
With Ricky out we gotta hope Beal is out, too.

OTOH, they just lost to Portland at home with Beal and Kuzma playing and the Trailblazers are 12-16 on the road.

If both Ricky and LeVert are out we'll need either Neto or Stevens to give us quality minutes tonight.

Since being out for eight days with the groin injury Donovan Mitchell is 14-for-44 on 3's in his last five games (31.8%). Up until that point he was hitting 39.5%. He needs to start taking better shots; it looks like he is forcing some 3's in an effort to find the range.

The Wizards have had problems defending guards in the last couple of games. Against Brooklyn they allowed a backup guard averaging 9 points (Cam Thomas) to score 44. Another Nets' guard, Edmond Sumner, averaging 7 points per game, scored 29. That's a combined 73 points by two backups averaging 16 and the Wizards lost 125-123. Pretty shocking.

In the game before that against Portland they allowed three guards (Simons, Lillard, and Hart) to score 33, 29, and 21 points on 56% from the field.

Garland and Mitchell could have big nights.
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Neto has shown that he can contribute. Don’t know why he isn’t given more of a shot. As long as Mitchell’s groin hurts, he’s going to struggle to get to the cup and take more shots that we might consider “good”.
 
foucault87 said:
Was hoping to rep the Cavs at this game but too much work going on for me right now. Glad to see theres a large RCF contingent anyways!
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Lots of NE Ohioans in Metro DC/Baltimore. I forgot which RCFers are here, but now I know that it’s at least you and Pip and Jordan and cavsfever and FFRva!
 
KilgoreTrout said:
I’ll be god-damned. Wasn’t he SUPPOSED to be able to shoot?
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His indicators were all over the place as I remember. He had okay volume and accuracy from 3 but was like 55% from the line. The early guess would've been unlikely he develops a consistent shot and well...
 
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