After winning a narrow game and ending the road trip, the Cavaliers, who had recovered somewhat, returned home and faced the Challenge of the Pacers during their two-game losing streak.
In terms of the Cavaliers, Allen + Love is in hot form, and the Cavaliers have home advantage in this campaign, whether they can win 2 consecutive wins, Mobley obviously needs to play.
On the other hand, on the Side of the Pacers, Sam + Sykes ushered in a comeback, whether the Pacers can withstand the pressure and end the losing streak on the road will undoubtedly face a huge challenge!
However, after four quarters of fighting, with a wave of 23-5 scoring climax, the anti-guest-dominated Pacers, although in the first three quarters, once overpowered the Cavaliers, achieved a huge advantage of as many as 20 points.
But helplessly in the final final moment, Love + Osman + Rondo ushered in an outbreak, leading the Cavaliers to play a wave of 19-0 counterattack frenzy, instantly reversing the situation on the field, and a wave of flow took away the game.
In the end, the Cavaliers, who were fully up, also reversed the Pacers at home 98-85, staged a 20-point reversal, and won two consecutive wins at the same time, but also gave the opponent Pacers three consecutive losses!
In this game at home, although the Cavaliers once fell into the disadvantage of falling behind by as many as 20 points, fortunately, the team did not mess up, but played a team performance of 5 people scoring in double figures and completed the turnover.
In the case of Aaron + Mobley + Dean Wade and other main players, each performing their duties, the play of the three major substitutes Osman + Lefour + Rondo is particularly critical!
In this game, Osman drove low and high, and in the case of only 4 points in the first three quarters, Osman ushered in an outbreak in the final quarter, scoring 18 points in a single quarter, bombing a game-high 22 points, plus 4 rebounds, 5 assists and 1 steal.
Rationally speaking, his miraculous performance in the last quarter not only helped the Cavaliers to fight back, but also became a difficult existence for the Pacers to solve!
More importantly, throughout the game, Osman has not made a mistake personally, which can be said to have made a great contribution to the Cavaliers to complete the reversal!
In addition, as the "former boss" of the team, the play of LeFort in this game also played a crucial role.
In this campaign, Love was in full swing, the bench debuted for 30 minutes, shot 4 three-pointers, and delivered 19 points, 7 rebounds , 5 assists + 2 steals, providing the Cavaliers with strong outside firepower!
Of course, the Cavaliers were able to reverse the victory in this game, and the performance of veteran Rondo on the bench was also indispensable.
In this game, Rondo was appointed to play 29 minutes off the bench, contributing a double-double performance of 15 points, 5 rebounds + 12 assists and 1 steal on 5-of-10 shooting.
Not only did he gain something on the offensive end, but he also successfully revitalized the attack of the whole team and successfully affected the trend of the game, and it has to be said that Rondo's ability to control the field in this campaign is more or less a taste of dreaming back to the peak!
What's more crucial is that after helping the team complete a 20-point turnover in this game, the three major substitutes Rondo + Love + Osman, who scored 15+ points and 5+ assists, became the first team in the league to achieve this result in the past 30 years, setting a great record!
On the other hand, on the Pacers side, the team failed to withstand the pressure in the final quarter of this game, and finally was reversed, and the performance of the game that swallowed 13 points of defeat + 3 consecutive losses obviously needs to be examined.
And under the excellent performance of Duarte + Duane Washington, who delivered 22+5+2+1+1 and 17+2+2 respectively, the slump of 6 of 23 in This campaign is indeed hard to blame!
As for the Pacers, which have entered the early stages of reconstruction after the completion of the transaction, what kind of operations and adjustments will be made next, we seem to have to wait and see.