They play Toronto so we could be looking at a team that has won 16 of their last 17. Dallas, I think, on Tuesday and I think they have won 15 out of 16 going into tonight. He was our ace of spades today so it was a good win for us, four straight, and now we are going home to play three games in a row.
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I brought him in cold and he hit a big three late and then stepped to the line and made two key free throws.
He struggled in the first quarter and came in and hit some big baskets for us. Jodie Meeks was terrific in the third quarter for us today. Byron Scott’s teams are never going to give up, they are going to fight to the finish. We were up 82-70 and missed two free throws that would have made (the lead) 14 and then we were in a dog fight the rest of the way. I thought the start of the fourth quarter hurt us we fouled three straight times so we got them into the penalty early and it takes your aggressiveness away. We held them to 3-of-14 from three and 91 points. They have been averaging eight made three-pointers a game and 42% over the last five games. This team (Cavaliers) has been averaging 113 points a game and shooting the ball so well here at home. We had scored 10 points and they came in and got it to a one-point game within the first quarter and then we had a good second quarter, but I thought our bench really gave us a chance to win today. We got off to a very slow start and I thought that our bench came in and gave us a really big lift. (Opening statement): “It was not easy by any stretch of the imagination. To have him as a part of our team, playing with us, we are lucky to have him and we are looking forward to him being out there with us.” He is somebody that I think a lot of guys in the NBA have seen do great things for a long time. (On playing with Baron Davis): “I’m very excited. He tried to go in and get a quick two but Thaddeus Young made a good defensive play. I wanted to hit J.J and then come back off of him to get a cleaner look or maybe even a quick two instead of a bad three. With 12 seconds left, I didn’t want to hoist up a bad shot with a lot of time left. I don’t know whose men they were but they both came to me. This time I got a little separation and I came off the screen. All night they were really trying to not allow me to catch the ball on the perimeter. The play was drawn up for them to set a ball screen on the other side and while that was going on, we would come off of two screens on the back side. (On the last play of the game): “It actually worked out pretty good. J.J tried to make a move and Thaddeus did a good job of taking the ball from him.” What he really was thinking about doing was coming back for a handoff. Boobie just felt that he couldn’t get the shot off, so he threw it to J.J. turned the ball over): “Sess had the ball in his hands and we wanted him to have two looks: AP on the weak side and Boobie coming off the double on the strong side. (On what happened on the play at the end where J.J. So obviously, San Antonio means we’re going to play a lot better.”
It might be something when you’re playing against great teams like that (that we raise our play). We’re still trying to learn what it takes to be successful every single night.
As we’ve talked about a while back, the biggest trick right now is to play that way on a consistent basis. (On the Cavaliers having better effort against the top teams): “When you have a young bunch of guys, there could be. I guess we’ll have a little bit more of an understanding on what’s going to happen in the next day or so.” I know it’s a fracture on his left pinkie finger. (On Jamison’s injury): “We don’t really know yet. As young a team as we are, we can’t afford to do that.” We played in spurts as far as our energy was concerned. We played the way we should have played the first three quarters. In the fourth quarter, I thought we played really hard. I’ve tried two different ways to approach it and if we have another one sometime this season, I’ll try the third way. It just seems that our energy isn’t as good for whatever reason. (On the game tonight): “I don’t know what it is about these five and six o’clock games, but I don’t like them.
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