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🏀 vs. Cleveland
🕖 7 p.m. CT
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Having lost embarrassingly to Minnesota, we move on to the Cavs.
Cavs are 14-22, so they have basically the same record as us, and achieve it by being 28th in Offense and 22nd in Defense. Theoretically, they shouldn't be a good enough offense to truly take advantage of our woeful D, while their bad D should be porous for our good offense. Sadly, that's on paper: in reality we all know everyone plays Nets Offense against us, so they can probably expect their ORtg to leap a few spots after tonight. As for the offense... well, it's still good, but it looked rough last game - bad shooting from almost everywhere and a lack of real playmaking led to our ORtg dropping 2 spots (From 6th to 8th) in the span of one night.
Something that really needs to improve is - and here it is again - the shooting. I know we had a hot month in February, but look at this. We are 1-5 over our last 6 games. In that span, this is how some of our guys have shot from 3:
Ingram: 7/31, good for 22.6%
Ball: 19/55, good for 34.2%
Hart: 4/23, good for 17.4%
Bledsoe: 9/30, good for 30.0%
That's just horrendously bad. Literally nobody even up to league average among our big minute guys. Redick was shooting better (he was up to 46% in February after starting the year like garbage, as we all remember) but he's out right now and he had only been about 36% over the most recent couple of games.
Not going to win games if nobody can shoot. We have enough trouble with the nonexistent defense for our offense to decide to give out now as well.
Let's see what we do.