(Not a) Recap: Pistons 112, Cavs 110 OT (or, OT? You really want to make the regular season longer?!)
2016-04-14
The Cavs and Pistons met in a battle of the back end of the bench Wednesday night, as each team rested their key players in advance of their first round playoff matchup beginning this weekend.
The Cavs held out LeBron James, Kyrie Irving, Kevin Love and J.R. Smith. They also played without Iman Shumpert (knee), gave a token start to Tristan Thompson to keep his league-leading consecutive games played streak alive, and played Matthew Dellavedova just six minutes.
The Pistons sat Andre Drummond, Reggie Jackson, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, Marcus Morris and Tobias Harris.
With neither team willing to show the other anything resembling what they’ll look like when the playoffs finally tip off, Cavs fans were treated to the Jordan McRae show and five extra minutes of regular season basketball.
McRae, who scored 36 points on 14-29 shooting, including 3-5 from three, nailed a three-pointer to send the game into overtime. In the extra frame, he had a chance to play the hero again, as he stepped to the line to attempt three free throws with the Cavs trailing 112-109. But McRae, 4-5 from the line until that point, sank just 1-3 of the freebies ending the game… and your 2015-16 Cavaliers regular season.
Newly-acquired Cavalier Dahntay Jones had 13 points, two blocks and a steal and Timofey Mozgov, seeing the most playing time he has all season, chipped in 14 points and 12 rebounds.
The Pistons won behind a balanced attack that was led by 20 points from Jodie Meeks.
The only take-away from this game is that the playoffs are finally here.
The full version of these two teams will play Game One of their Eastern Conference first round series Sunday at 3pm at The Q.
Posted from the game-stream, but saw no one was on it, so I’ll repost it here: I have to admit, this was the first Cavs game that I watched after we traded away Varejao. I felt my heart broken and betrayed after that trade and I lost a lot of interest in the Cavs this year because of it. I know Varejao must have felt it a thousand times more than I did, but I remember being alongside the Cavs all through the Byron Scott/SKYenga/Alonzo Gee/The Herculoids era. He not only went through that era, but he was a part… Read more »
I’m an idiot. wrong location….(don’t drink and post)
Sad that this game didn’t get the full recap treatment. Yeah, it was scrubs vs scrubs, but the comeback was actually thrilling, with each mcrae bucket or assist lifting the crowd and the bench more quickly to their feet, eventually crescendoing with that game tying bomb. Cramps and all, he was stupendous. It would have been worth reliving.
Hope he sees some major minutes against playoff detroit. Meaning…i hope we’re up 20 by each 4th quarter. Go cavs!
I would have liked to seen 2 highlight shots. Kaun’s very ungraceful tip-toeing on a tight rope save. It was funny. Second was Mosgov’s uncoordinated reverse dunk. Crowd roared on that one. The bench reaction was hilarious especially from Lebron. The ball almost got away from him. He tipped it upward at at 45 degree angle. He was able to somehow grab it , contorted his body 180 degrees and reversed dunked it.
I’m an idiot. Wrong location.
Now the kinda neat & weird stuff that probably is no big deal. I had really good seats. Next to where the press sits. Boy, they do have a bird’s eye view! I went with my son. Hopefully, he appreciated it. HA! I always wanted to see how the players interact with each other. It was cool we got to see that. Kyrie was very focused on the game & the players out there. He socialized somewhat with the starters but for the most part he was paying attention to the players on the floor. Cheering them on & giving… Read more »
Sounds like a fun game!!
It was! I have never been able to see the players faces before. They always look like ants from where I usually sit. LoL
I went to the game and the game end up being pretty exciting. McRae was quite the force out there. Who wasn’t? Sasha Kaun was more horrible in person than what they TV shows. He absolutely had no clue where he was suppose to be on offense or defense. It was like his first day at practice. The players on the floor had to tell him constantly where to go. Kyrie was quite the leader. He was very enthusiastic & cheered standing up all throughout the game.
I didn’t know anyone watched this game. The Kobe show was awesome and incredible. I hate the GSW brand of basketball. I can’t watch their games without almost throwing up. pass pass pass step back three. UGLY
Pass pass pass wide open shot, layup or dunk. Ugly basketball, indeed. Doubt Leb thinks it’s ugly.
I know right, what a disgusting way to get to 73 wins.
I can’t watch them without almost throwing up either. Pass successful dribble box out timeout illegal screen layup **end 1st quarter**
That should read: I can’t watch them without almost throwing up either. Pass [fist pump] successful dribble [start dancing] box out [midair chest bump] timeout [dancing when in view of camera] illegal screen [flex and scream, preferably in face of ref] layup [bench rushes floor] **end 1st quarter** [pukes everywhere]
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