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Just judging from you and gut, neither of you are particularly enthusiastic about the team. You’ve done the love Dame but can’t improve thing now for like six years straight. You can kind of guess the season trajectory before it starts. I pick up that on nba boards among Blazer fans. Usually among the most rabid, but kind of tired of the whole win 45-52 games and second round exit thing. Lot of do something, anything, different feel. I’d guess it’s just bleeding over t the fans. Plus I was watching that game as the Cavs were also playing and I was flipping back and forth. Both games were very weird where Dame and Cj weren’t shooting particularly well, probably like high 30% combined, but you were winning through the rare defensive effort and Nurkic and others playing decent. Plus Ja was incredibly sloppy with the ball and many probably showed to see him like you. He was meh. None of the usual crowd pleasers were really doing anything.

Cavs shot 3/20 from 3 and couldn’t hit a shot and won by double digits. I thought this was going to be a horrible defensive team and somehow it’s now the strength with all the size. The Lakers blew a 26 point lead against OKC which I watched the last few quarters of. Strangest comeback ever we OKC didn’t even want to win and couldn’t give it away. At the end of the night I thought what a weird ass basketball night.

I noticed on Cavs board it was a little subdued for a big win. Like is this sustainable? It was like there was a full moon last night for all those late games.
Hopefully for one more game it is. I am snap betting them against Lakers when my book releases line if it is anything more than +4.
I hope so. I’m baffled at what I’m seeing. Markkinen shutting down Paul George all night. Teams afraid to drive inside and dribbling in and kicking back out with their 3 seven footers. One thing is Mobely hasn’t been in foul trouble necessarily, but has had 3 by half. Last night when I was watching the Lakers, they had Deandre at C and AD still at the 4. That’s a handful for the kid in game 6. Having Allen and Mobely both in there is huge. When one is off, it’s instantly noticeable. That said, the Lakers are playing bad and I expected the Cavs to start 0-7, so I’m always kind of pessimistic about my own team.