Cavs: The Blog · Apr 16, 2021
Recap: Warriors 119, Cavaliers 101
As expected, the Cleveland Cavaliers were given a lesson from the Golden State Warriors about playing great team basketball, and took a pretty ugly double digit loss, 119-101. The Cavs lost the rebound battle 47-39, and were totally outclassed offensively, getting out-assisted 33-21.
It wasn’t a Steph Curry special as Isaac Okoro and the Cavs’ defense appeared to have a pretty good night making Curry work for his 33 points on 25 shots and forcing 4 turnovers total. The Cavs were dominated by a whole host of great performances from Curry’s teammates, especially off the bench.
So, what went wrong in just 24 hours? Here are my takeaways:
1. Sexland was awful, but for different reasons.