Game 13: Portland Trail Blazers (8-8) @ Cleveland Cavaliers (10-2) - 7:00 PM ET

big_ticket · Post #2 » by **big_ticket** » Thu Nov 24, 2016 1:13 am

up big kevin love heating up

Post #3 » by **TheOUTLAW** » Thu Nov 24, 2016 2:32 pm

Love was shooting out of his mind, he sat way too long in the second however. There was one thing about this game, our defense was terrible. Portland ran the same play repeatedly and it never seemed we figured out how to stop it.

gflem · Post #4 » by **gflem** » Thu Nov 24, 2016 5:20 pm

TheOUTLAW wrote:Love was shooting out of his mind, he sat way too long in the second however. There was one thing about this game, our defense was terrible. Portland ran the same play repeatedly and it never seemed we figured out how to stop it.

Didn't have to last night. I think there are going to be quite a few more nights like this where the defensive effort is subpar but the offense is more than enough to make up the difference. Part of the saving effort for the playoffs?
Way too early for that but we have seen that mentality from this team last year. There are a lot of bad teams in the NBA so I expect to see more of what we saw last night.

Post #5 » by **TheOUTLAW** » Fri Nov 25, 2016 4:14 am

gflem wrote:
TheOUTLAW wrote:Love was shooting out of his mind, he sat way too long in the second however. There was one thing about this game, our defense was terrible. Portland ran the same play repeatedly and it never seemed we figured out how to stop it.

Didn't have to last night. I think there are going to be quite a few more nights like this where the defensive effort is subpar but the offense is more than enough to make up the difference. Part of the saving effort for the playoffs?
Way too early for that but we have seen that mentality from this team last year. There are a lot of bad teams in the NBA so I expect to see more of what we saw last night.

The difference is that we would have lost this game last year or would have given up the lead at some point and would have had to come back. We stayed up by at least double digits thoughout the entire game.