The Cavaliers Are In Huge Trouble

The Cavaliers Are In Huge Trouble

uh wow Okay so they were down what 41 points at halftime What a bloodbath I actually missed the first like seven minutes of the game and by then they were already down 12 points I was walking in as the Hunter Mathin thing was getting settled The Cavs they just unraveled so quickly man Ty Jerome traveled from trying to do too much Mobly had to travel somewhere in there Ty Jerome tried to do some screen thing with Max Streus but just threw a bad pass and Strus couldn’t get to it They somehow lost the ball on an inbound Miles Turner switching locked up Garland for a play or at least kind of shaded him towards the help defense and then I don’t know DeAndre Hunter missed a shot or whatever On the other end the Pacers were very ready for the zone They were screening Mobly a bunch At the top of the key Shepard got a corner three Obie got open in the middle of the floor Couple really nice passes from like Seakum or Nemhard to get it over the top when there’s a size mismatch down low or after a switch or whatever And then before you know it they’re down 40 points So okay if there is any attempt to say anything positive about Cleveland in this game it’s that Garland did look better in the second half He was looking good like attacking Hallebert on a switch or beating Nesmith on a screen action or creating something for like Max Streus or Ty Jerome off the drive That is about it And obviously he’s got to do this from the beginning of the next game Maybe you just got to put Hallebert in as many screen actions as possible I don’t know Also Donovan Mitchell My god like please tell me this dude doesn’t have an ankle injury and I’m sure that there are specific things you can get into with the calves between you know different lineups and do you lean more on I don’t know both bigs versus one big or whatever do you find some specific sets to get Tai Jerome looking comfortable at all as you now try to climb out of this 3-1 deficit but the first thing is you you just got to remember who the hell you are man there is a confidence something that they clearly did not have as the Pacers just I mean it was an avalanche man and I I think they’re really shaken when it comes to just figuring out what to do on offense Like you got plays where like Garland does have the ball and the rest of the Cavs are just kind of looking at him like is something going to happen We don’t know Again it was a bit better in the second half Giving up a whole bunch of cross matches to make it easy for the Pacers to kill them on stuff or like whatever size mismatches like around the basket They also ran into the buzz saw known as Obi-Wan Whether that’s communication whether that’s just being out of it mentally whatever like when you look as bad as they did for that second quarter in this game you really got to start to think somewhat beyond the X’s and O’s I mean that that stuff always matters but it becomes more like are you here or are you not here And so whether that’s got to be I don’t know team meetings or hard conversations or whatever as you go back to Cleveland for a game five now they better find it real quick And so at the risk of just repeating myself beyond strategy stuff beyond sets you can run beyond I don’t know more aggressive defense or whatever type of aggressive level of defense you want to do however you want to mess with the matchups They just got a fight in the next game And I know there was almost an actual fight in this one or whatever I was walking in as the Matherine Hunter thing was being settled but I guess math hit him and then a push whatever Anyway you just got to be ready for it all in the next game man Like you got to pressure the hell out of the ball You got to run as fast as you possibly can in transition defense to not give the Pacers some of these easy cross matches that they’re getting with like I don’t know Turner underneath the basket and DeAndre Hunter’s the only guy on him You got to close out like a madman on these shooters And if you’re going to go down at least do it with your gas tank on E because or if anything maybe Mitchell just drops 50 points or something I don’t know They’ll be in Cleveland The crowd’s going to go crazy They have to win game five and then we can go from there But we’ll see if they can do that The last thing for this game five I want to see Evan Mobley be mean as hell because this whole regular season I’ve saw Evan Mobley just being a bully when he had smaller guys on him getting switches and all that bringing the ball up court being like I don’t care who’s in front of me If it’s a big who can’t stay with me I can hit him with moves If it’s a smaller guy I can just barrel into him I don’t know what I’m talking about anymore There’s not a whole lot to say on this one It’s going to be a little shorter than normal

the pacers blow out the cavs to go up 3-1
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