Murray Singes Cavaliers for 50

   The Cleveland Cavaliers needed to step their defensive game up after being blown out by the Denver Nuggets in their meeting last week.

Instead, they allowed Denver's Jamal Murray to do something that had never been accomplished in NBA history, which I'm sure wasn't what J.B. Bickerstaff had in mind for his team in a 120-103 loss to the visiting Nuggets.

Collin Sexton's 23 points led the Cavaliers with Jarrett Allen scoring 20 with ten rebounds.

Cleveland lost their ninth game in a row and fell to 10-20 on the season.

The Cavaliers will host the Oklahoma City Thunder Sunday night in Cleveland.

Swashbucklings

1) Jamal Murray did something against the Cleveland defenders that had never previously accomplished in NBA history.

2)  Murray's achievement? Never before had a player scored fifty or more points in a game and did it without one trip to the foul line.

3) Cleveland tried every defender against Murray except Moondog and C.C the Cavalier against Murray and the shots kept falling for Murray, who hit 21 of 25 shots and eight of ten from the beyond the three-point line.

4) The more I see Michael Porter play, the more that I wish that the Cavaliers had taken the risk in the
2018 draft and selected him.

I spent that day tweeting for the Cavaliers to take him and the injury gamble that came with Porter, who had missed almost all of his only year at Missouri.

I'm far from disappointed in Collin Sexton, but Porter may be very special.

5) Issac Okoro scored a career-high 14 points with a career-high three three-pointers.

6) Denver wore their conventional road uniforms rather than their "City" uniforms that the Nuggets wore when the teams first played in Denver.

Those uniforms are a sunset orange version of their 80s "Skyline" uniforms and although they are a little loud, I liked them a lot!