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Well, the Guards had an exciting season / post season with few commenting. Ohio State won the National Championship with very few comments.

j/c...

What is this? 11 in a row now? *Yawn*

A mere 12 in a row!

And the Cavs officially clinched the playoffs tonight. Third year in a row of playoff basketball.

I say keep it up with the disrespect all the way up to and throughout the playoffs.

When the Cavs eliminate them from the playoffs. Until then, the defending NBA Champions will always be favored. That's no different than any other professional sport.

Cavs flexed to the ABC national game. First time on ABC this season.

Man, squeeky butt time tonight against a bad Hornets team. Cavs do pull it out, though, 118-117.

After a bunch of speculation all week about Jarrett Allen's role at the end of game from the local media, Atkinson had Allen in at the end of the 4th quarter.

Hunter made huge contested bucket to the game late on the 4th.

14 wins in a row and scoring 110+ in each win. That has to be rare.

Strus was the leading the scorer tonight. Everyone is getting a chance to shine on the team.

Not a huge deal but nice to see the Cavs were the lead story on Sports Center with SVP and SVP opened the show with Donovan Mitchell as his guest.

On a side note, Garrett took Haslam's money today and his Cavs beat Haslam's Bucks concluding the season sweep of the Bucks!

I love this team.

I really enjoy watching this brand of basketball. The Cavs can win in 15 different ways.

No Hunter
No Jerome
No Mitchell

Cavs win anyway.

15 in a row. Naturally, came back from after being down 18.

It’s really going to come down to health and fatigue I think. The season is just such a marathon and the postseason is itself a whole other season, it’s crazy endurance.

There are only 3 top tier teams, any of which can win it all. And then there’s everyone else. We can’t fall asleep of course but I don’t see this team losing focus. Every interview I read has one player or another saying how all of this is great and all but it don’t mean a thing unless they win the ring. Which is exactly what I wanna hear.

The beauty of having a gigantic lead in the home court race is that hopefully in the last couple of weeks, we can really throttle back and rest. We have a pretty low minutes per game for our starters compared to most of the other top teams. Our bench is really the key luxury allowing us to rest our starters. It’s really gonna pay dividends down the road.

The flipside of this is, in my mind, if they don’t win a ring it’s hard to see the season as a success. I’m not doubting that they agree with that. It’s probably gonna be a super hard fought, nail biter series against both the Celtics and the thunder assuming we and they get there. The only thing standing in the way of any and all three teams getting to the end of the road is, again, health and fatigue.

Well ...... one more win.

16th in a row, just for clarity .... and against a pretty good Grizzlies team.

Yep. And w/o Mitchell and a monster game from Ja.

This was the game I have been most concerned about lately, especially after Mitchell was out ...... but no problemo.

No Mobley today. Loss. Once again blew a large lead, insisted on continuing to miss three's, and it was tough to watch them lose. The mix was off. Looking at today, who should have been in longer and who should have left. Quickly now! Who missed the most threes?

At 56-11 it can't be all that many times we have done that. Win 16, lose 1. What are we expecting here?

Just saying

I am talking about today's game, not their record. I would expect some offensive adjustment. The blown leads have been part of the amazing record. I want to minimize the bad before the playoffs as much as possible. Seriously. Why not ask how it happened? The suggestion is to overlook this loss because of their record? Guess it is swell and OK then. What with the record all should be overlooked and ignored. I believe some of what we did should cause concern, and that we should avoid it in future contests if possible. FWIW

LOL....don't forget about sweeping our way through the playoffs.

In Bards defense, it is something Coach needs to identify and address. There is no room to get complacent. I get that. I'll be a little more concerned if we start to stumble in these last few games.

Not only the coach, but the team leaders need to hammer the other guys that being slack isn't an option. Play hard every minute you are on the floor.

I trust the coach will manage minutes down the stretch to be sure that players have fresh legs and he isn't pushing for a few extra wins and allowing guys with even a bruise to play.

Having home court throughout the playoffs is important, but not as import as having guys rested and injury free. Actually, it is important to get more minutes to some guys a little deeper on the bench. Somewhere in the playoffs one or two of those guys will be asked to step up.

I don't know all of the rotations used this season, but maybe that process is already happening? Turn parts of the game over to guys who don't play all that much and see if they can hold near even for periods of time.