This is getting old fast. Let’s take a quick look at some things that went wrong in game 1. The offence was hit and miss, but the defence was bad all game.
The final numbers are skewed heavily by a 4th quarter where the Cavaliers didn’t care to play very hard, plus some garbage time at the end. But any way you slice it, a 112.9 defensive rating is not going to cut it. All the rest of the numbers in this piece will be for the first three quarters only, when the game was still in reach.