The Cavs didnt play that bad of a game. I thought the effort was there. I thought the PnR defense shore up after the first quarter.
The free throw debacle from 4 good to great FT shooters was annoying. I expected TT to struggle and LBJ to struggle but JR, Kyrie, Kev, and RJ to miss that many? Not a normal occurrence.
Also not a normal occurrence, Kyrie 11-27, 1-9 from three. That might be the worst shooting game he has the rest of the way. He did have some GREAT defensive plays in crunch time which was encouraging. He maybe could have been a step closer to George on that long 3, but he did pull up way further out than I expected as well, so chalk it up to a good shot and just be a little faster next time.
George will not be 6-8 from 3 every game either. He was amazing tonight. He was at the absolute top of his game. I thought we competed against him all night too, he was just a great player being great.
I'd like to see some tweaks to our early fourth quarter offense and rotations. We shouldn't have been able to finish the game with control after we went up 12. A lot of it was just missing shots though.
Good strategy on the final possession defensively. Lue wasn't amazing tonight but he did draw up some good stuff on both ends in crunch time.