Veteran James Jones, who began the night shooting.556 on 3-pointers for the season, missed his first 10 attempts from deep and finished 1-for-12 to drop his final percentage to.470. The Cavs are just 1-2 against the spread in their last three games and 36-42-3 against the spread on the season.
That result, and the Cavs' 124-121 overtime defeat against the Miami Heat, has given them control of the conference. The Blazers must get plenty of production from guards Damian Lillard and CJ McCollum, who average 50 points between them. Don't even say JR Smith missing 40 games is the reason why this team has struggled so much.
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"Yeah, that's just being on the floor together with the same group of guys", Lowry said of the improvement he saw in his first three games back after wrist surgery. But damn, we're good when we put ourselves here. Maybe. But with their play as of late it could also be argued that Cleveland is a part of that middle class, and a LeBron team is ripe for the taking in a seven game series for the first since his last Cleveland regime.
Now residing in second place in the Eastern Conference, the Cavaliers need to win against the Raptors, while also have the Boston Celtics (ranked first in the Eastern Conference) to lose against the Milwaukee Bucks.
The Cavaliers have the Eastern Conference No. 3 Toronto Raptors for their final regular season assignment.
Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry (30) control the ball against Utah Jazz guard Dante Exum (11) during the second quarter at Oracle Arena. Cleveland needs to beat the Raptors on Wednesday and have the Celtics lose to the Bucks to get the No. 1 seed. Momentum is not exactly on their side heading into the playoffs.
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"I think we're ready", Lue said Sunday. "Once we got to that point we weren't saying 'Let's get back to.500.' But it's definitely something to look back at and see how far we've come".
"What's insane is that this season seemed like it went by faster than the one a year ago", Lue said.
Valanciunas finished with 13 points in 16 first-half minutes before he and Lowry joined DeRozan and Ibaka on the bench for the entire second half. "It's a new season and anything can happen. It wasn't necessarily going our way, but our group, those guys are so tough mentally". Paul George coming off pin-downs and trying to run LeBron around off catch-and-shoots, because you can't post Bron or it's hard to go on-on-one, so he ran Bron around a lot.
The Heat notched their 40th win in 81 outings, keeping alive its hopes of claiming the eighth spot in the East.
Isaiah Thomas again led the way for the Celtics, recording 27 points in the win against the Nets. Wearing a brace that he'll sport in the playoffs, Thompson scored 10 points in 18 minutes.
"More than a third of the league is not playing for something right now", Spoelstra said. "For now, it was really good". "We either got to put up or shut up, and I think we'll put up". Heck, let's even throw Richard Jefferson in there.
The Cavaliers waived center Larry Sanders and signed guard Dahntay Jones and center Edy Tavares earlier in the day.
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