Cleveland will host Milwaukee on Friday night and then travel to New York for the Knicks on Saturday evening...
Swashbucklings
1) 75 points and a 34 percent shooting percentage shows you just how poorly that the Cavaliers shot and as a result how they played.
Just terrible shooting as only Samardo Samuels (2 of 3 ) shot over fifty percent and only Kyrie Irving shot better than forty percent.
2) Antawn Jamison continues to fire it up until it drops with another 20 plus shot evening and only dropped in seven of them.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer recently tried to make an argument to re-sign Jamison and I just do not believe keeping Jamison around after this season is the best step for the future of the franchise.
Shooting the ball this much on a team that could have four new players that could earn significant playing time,will do nothing to enhance those players talent...
3) Detroit generally controlled the game,but the Cavalier did make a late third/early fourth period run that saw Omri Casspi hit a miracle off balance prayer while being fouled that cut the lead to five.
Casspi then clanked the free throw that could have cut the lead to four and Detroit then used two quick hoops from high scorer Tayshaun Prince and the game was essentially over...
4) Prince may have been the high scorer,but the player that I was most impressed with was Jason Maxiell with 12 points,nine boards and three blocks.
Maxiell only averages six points a game,but on this night,Maxiell looked like the type of role player that could really help a better team....
5) The loss dropped the Cavaliers into last place in the division and from eighth overall to seventh :)
This gives the Cavaliers extra ping pong balls in the hopper for the lottery and with some more losses,I would not be surprised to see the team finish in the fourth or fifth slot!
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