NBA Headlines: Cavs D Still Bad; Kawhi Still Good
The round of Game 2’s began on Monday night with Indiana Pacers taking on Cleveland Cavaliers and Memphis Grizzlies getting San Antonio Spurs. To be honest, these games didn’t do much for me, and I’m sure most people didn’t have many takeaways from it. Cleveland Cavaliers might be up 2-0, but they are paper tigers at this point. Kawhi Leonard continues to be an awesome basketball player.
Cleveland Cavs still lack the championship D – I don’t want to be hater with Cleveland Cavaliers like the Skip Bayless’s of the world, but the fact remains Cleveland is goddamn bad at defense. Like really bad. It’s the reason why Nate Silver’s 538 model has Cavaliers rated so low in terms of teams most likely to win a championship. Kyrie Irving had quite the night regardless of the defensive concerns dropping 37 points, and LeBron James nearly had a triple-double again.
Kawhi is a beast, a monster a mf’in problem – Once we knew Tony Allen would be out of the series against San Antonio Spurs, the thought was Kawhi Leonard was going to eat in a major way. Leonard is not disappointing the people who thought he would put on a show. Following up 32 points in 32 minutes, Leonard goes off for 37 points and 11 rebounds in Game 2. He currently looks like the best player in the playoffs, but let’s remember who he is playing currently. This dunk though was felt in the heart of Tennessee.
Kawhi Leonard dunked all over Marc Gasol & ran down the court like he was looking forward to his next nap pic.twitter.com/thRAXJxIIv
— Michael Lee (@MrMichaelLee) April 18, 2017
Three game slate tonight and the rest of the week.
Charlie.