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2025 NBA PLAYOFFS East First Round: #1 Cleveland Cavaliers vs. #8 Miami Heat (CLE leads 2-0)
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mcfly1204 wrote:oikosnomos wrote:Jerome went from his ceiling to his floor.
While leading his team in +/-.
A benefit to being on the floor that second quarter.
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Miami has to be one of the most overperforming teams in the league vs their roster talent level. They still hanging in there, Riley needs to get Spo some freaking players.
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Don with the answer let's go!
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How many travels have Miami gotten away with in this game?
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Dollar general jokic with the nice drive
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Cavs need to tighten up. Miami ain't going away. Allowing too many second chances and not executing down the stretch. Gonna mess around and drop one if they don't get it together here.
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oikosnomos wrote:Cavs need to tighten up. Miami ain't going away. Allowing too many second chances and not executing down the stretch. Gonna mess around and drop one if they don't get it together here.
Feels like they aren't taking them serious at times. Dangerous game to play
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Davion making some clutch buckets.
"Kill 'em with Grindness."
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KGDirkTD_Fan wrote:oikosnomos wrote:Cavs need to tighten up. Miami ain't going away. Allowing too many second chances and not executing down the stretch. Gonna mess around and drop one if they don't get it together here.
Feels like they aren't taking them serious at times. Dangerous game to play
After game one, I didn't think they would do this, but only up 6. They did this at the end of the season too. Just took their foot off the gas every game. Hopefully Miami will play like hell and the Cavs will get it out of their system.
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I'm just going to call Spo the scrub whisperer from now on. This is the best Mitchell's looked his entire career I think. He takes scrubs like Mitchell and UDFAs and make them believe that they are star players. These guys play like it for him then bomb somewhere else.

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Miami could actually steal this one…
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Lead down to 4. Cavs messing up.
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2 point lead. Cavs looking to drop one at home.
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Mitchell looks so calm when he took those last 3s. It's the same motion but he took it with calmness. The most calm I've seen him taking his shots.

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Lmao 10th seeded Heat in a 2 point game late against the #1 seed Cavs
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Only 8 points in 8 minutes for the Cavs.
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If Cleveland loses this game, this would only be the second time all season that they lost a game after leading going into the fourth.
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