Cavaliers nipped in overtime in Atlanta

The Cleveland Cavaliers simply had to stop Atlanta from nailing a three pointer on the last possession of regulation and the Cavaliers then allowed Joe Johnson to nail just that over a barely guarding Anthony Parker to force overtime.
Cleveland then took a six point lead in overtime and promptly lost the lead before having the final possession with a chance to win the game.
Kyrie Irving's shot hit iron,but Alonzo Gee slid in through the line,grabbed the offensive rebound and tossed a putback up for the victory.
However,Gee's shot was no good and it was Atlanta that bounced out of the Phillips Arena with a 103-102 victory.
Kyrie Irving led Cleveland with 29 points.
Cleveland will be in Orlando on Friday,I am unsure on whether I'll be covering this game with the Xavier Sweet 16 game against Baylor and the Devils against the Maple Leafs at the same time.

Swashbucklings

1) Joe Johnson was kept under control under the final regulation shot and then suddenly Cleveland decided to stop defending him.
Alonzo Gee was doing an excellent job on Johnson and then suddenly Anthony Parker was guarding him and just as suddenly Johnson started drilling shots.
I would hope that this is just something that happened and was not a coaching decision...

2) Antawn Jamison started strongly with ten first period points but faded in the fourth,where he scored just one point between the fourth and overtime.
Jamison looked pretty worn out to me and might benefit from a few less minutes on the floor.

3) Another super game from Kyrie Irving with 29 points and nine assists.
Irving's game winner rolled in and out,but it was very close and you cannot hit them all,but Irving is shaping up in being the game ending assassin that Cleveland has usually lacked...

4) The best player on the floor in the first half? Atlanta's aging Jerry Stackhouse,who does not see a ton of playing time,but was all over the floor in a five minute run that showed flashes of what Stackhouse once was.
It is ironic that Stackhouse learned how to play team basketball after many of his physical skills had passed him by.
Stackhouse finished with ten points in a hair over ten minutes of play.

5) The Cavaliers released Ryan Hollins earlier in the day.
Cleveland appears to have given most of minutes that Hollins was playing and given them to Tristan Thompson as Semih Erden played just over two minutes in accumulating no stats other than a personal foul.....

6) None of the bench players played twenty minutes in the loss as only Manny Harris played close with a 19:53 playing term.
Harris finished with 11 points in his longest period of playing time since returning to the team.

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