Game 31, Pacers vs. Cavaliers

[Jake0890]

January 5, 2014
6:00 PM EST
Quicken Loans Arena - Cleveland, OH

Lineups
Pacers
PG - George Hill/CJ Watson/Donald Sloan
SG - Lance Stephenson/Rasual Butler/Orlando Johnson
SF - Paul George/Danny Granger/Chris Copeland/Solomon Hill
PF - David West/Luis Scola
C - Roy Hibbert/Ian Mahinmi

Cavaliers
PG - Kyrie Irving/Jarrett Jack/Matthew Dellavedova
SG - CJ Miles/Dion Waiters/Sergey Karasev/Carrick Felix
SG - Earl Clark/Alonzo Gee
PF - Tristan Thomspon/Anthony Bennett
C - Anderson Varejao/Tyler Zeller/Henry Sims/Andrew Bynum

[mikepacernation]

We struggle so bad on back to backs

[EuroPacer]

Exactly what I was thinking mike, pleased to see we ground it out though, Waiters was HOT in that fourth.

I loved the play where they forced Waiters onto Hibbert with about 20 seconds to go, just goes to show that it is Roy's presence and defensive ability that gets us wins.

And just as a thought here: Is it Stephenson that really struggle to get it going offensively in back-to-backs, does that explain our trouble breaking teams open? Stephenson is a pure 100% energy guy and he always seems flat to me in games like this.

I also wonder if Vogel actually sends them out with the mission to shut the opponent down first and score second.

Anyway, we won it, against a team without their starting Point Guard, so on the one hand I am pleased with another W, on the other I really hope that we sort out this back-to-back issue.