Quick Recap: Cleveland Cavaliers 94, New Jersey Nets 86
by Mark Ginocchio
Jan 2, 2010 2009-2010 Regular Season, Nets vs. Cavs, Quick Recap
The Nets hung with the Eastern Conference’s best team for three quarters, and were within four points with about 4:40 left in the fourth before the Cleveland Cavaliers pulled away to win 94-86 in a matinee game at the Izod Center today.
- The Nets played a nice game defensively today, holding the Cavs to 39.5 percent shooting, including 4-14 from three-point land, but after shooting 52 percent in the first quarter and, the Nets only shot 33 percent for the rest of the game.
- The rebounding woes for the Nets continued as they were outboarded 52-38, and gave up 16 offensive rebounds.
- LeBron James had 28 points, 9 rebounds, 7 assists and 2 blocks on Chris Douglas-Roberts.
- Solid game for Devin Harris, who finished with 22 points on 7-13 shooting, along with 6 assists and 5 rebounds. Brook Lopez also chipped in 20 points, getting 8 of them from the free throw line.
- Lopez had 4 assists, including a great backdoor pass to Chris Douglas Roberts, threading the needle between LeBron and Zydrunas Ilgauskas for the dunk. CDR was hanging tough with LeBron James early, but injured his ankle in the third quarter and looked to be hobbling around throughout the rest of the game. He finished with 16 points on 8-14 shooting.
- Yi Jianlian probably had his worst game since returning from injury, scoring 11 points on 2-13 shooting as the Cavs were playing him to drive most of the game and he couldn’t get his jump shot going. Yi also had 8 boards and 3 block shots.
January 2nd, 2010 at 4:56 PM
I was really hoping for a win, but I guess a win against the Cavs is a fantasy. At least we played relatively well.
Also, when is the Statistics section coming up?
January 2nd, 2010 at 5:59 PM
After an amazing third quarter by Brook where he really put the team on his back, the nets ignored him in the fourth. And we lost. I was so mad. They literally froze out their best player. ANd i know that people are like “oooh centers dont get the ball in the fourth” but most of the time they do freeze out lopez in the fourth and most of the time they lose.
January 3rd, 2010 at 3:53 AM
When is the last time we won against the Cavs? No way we’re ever going to win against the Cavs while LeBron’s there, we can’t and have never been able to handle him