#Cleveland Cavaliers at Brooklyn Nets
Barclays Center- Brooklyn, NY
[ESPN](https://www.espn.com/nba/game/_/gameId/401584695)
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|Time Clock|
|:–:|
|Final|
||Q1|Q2|Q3|Q4|Total|
|:–|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|
|CLE |37|26|27|24|114|
|BKN |32|31|24|26|113|
###Player Stats
**Cleveland Cavaliers**
|Player|MINS|PTS|FGM-A|3PM-A|FTM-A|ORB|DRB|REB|AST|STL|BLK|TO|PF|+/-|
|:–|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|
|M. Strus|38:58|27|9-17|7-13|2-2|0|12|12|2|1|1|0|4|13
|I. Okoro|31:38|18|6-10|2-4|4-5|3|3|6|4|2|1|2|5|5
|E. Mobley|33:37|10|5-11|0-0|0-0|1|5|6|1|0|2|0|3|3
|D. Mitchell|35:44|27|11-21|4-10|1-1|2|3|5|6|4|1|0|1|7
|D. Garland|32:19|15|6-12|1-5|2-2|1|1|2|5|2|0|6|2|6
|C. LeVert|31:22|11|4-17|3-8|0-0|0|3|3|5|1|1|0|1|-6
|T. Jerome|5:30|2|1-1|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|1|-7
|G. Niang|19:45|0|0-3|0-3|0-0|2|2|4|0|0|0|0|3|-9
|D. Jones|11:04|4|2-2|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|2|0|0|2|3|-7
**Brooklyn Nets**
|Player|MINS|PTS|FGM-A|3PM-A|FTM-A|ORB|DRB|REB|AST|STL|BLK|TO|PF|+/-|
|:–|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|
|M. Bridges|35:11|20|6-12|0-2|8-9|2|4|6|4|3|0|3|4|-3
|C. Johnson|26:07|12|5-10|1-4|1-2|2|3|5|3|2|0|2|1|-1
|N. Claxton|28:16|7|3-10|0-0|1-1|4|3|7|4|0|3|0|1|-12
|S. Dinwiddie|23:57|5|1-3|1-3|2-2|0|1|1|3|0|0|1|2|-10
|B. Simmons|22:59|4|2-6|0-0|0-0|1|9|10|9|0|1|2|2|-6
|C. Thomas|25:08|36|13-21|2-5|8-11|0|3|3|2|1|0|1|0|5
|D. Sharpe|11:54|4|2-3|0-0|0-0|1|1|2|0|0|2|3|2|2
|D. Finney-Smith|27:48|10|4-8|2-6|0-1|1|4|5|2|0|0|3|1|7
|R. O’Neale|22:48|5|2-6|1-4|0-0|0|7|7|2|0|0|1|2|8
|D. Smith Jr.|15:50|10|4-5|2-3|0-0|2|2|4|1|0|0|1|1|5
###Team Stats
|Team|FGM-A|3PM-A|FTM-A|AST|PF|STL|TO|BLK|OREB|DREB|REB|
|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|
|CLE|44-94|17-43|9-10|25|23|10|10|6|9|29|40|
|BKN|42-84|9-27|20-26|30|16|6|17|6|13|37|59|
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I’m sick
I can’t do this this year I cannot
Jacque Vaughn moves in mysterious (bad) ways.
*Sigh*… a good old No Call finish for the Nets. Man it’s good to know the season is back on.
Really tired of losing to the Cavs like this lol
Cam was forcing his way to the rim all game in a good way, not the shot you want to settle for there
JV lost the game.
Selling against Cleveland is traditional, garbage final 2 minutes
Knew we lost this with that turnover to the Donovan Mitchell dunk. The momentum changed
I hate how predictable that ending was
4th quarter choke job. Still back on our old shit.
Absolute classic Nets loss
Embarrassing finish
let’s face it, we’re going to have a lot of heartbreaks like that this season. Fuck.
Blame Vaughan for that. His refusal to play Simmons on defence and a pg on offence screwed us.
All on JV. Asking Mikal and CJ to be primary late game initiators when you have Cam T off ball and Spencer on the bench is terrible.
Rotations need work. They need to work on end game strategy. They showed potential though. Hoping for a fun season.
The most Nets game I’ve seen. I expect a lot of these type of games this year…. again
Not a JV hater by any stretch, but I don’t know how you don’t have a legitimate ball handler out there to initiate the offense with a late lead.
If Dinwiddie isn’t out there to do that, why’s he even on the team?
Ah yes, we need a defensive stop so we keep Ben on the bench.
We HAVE to get to our shit quicker. we waste like 16 seconds of the shot clock every other possession.
I hate overreacting but that final 2 minutes was just embarrassing. Nobody wanted to take control. Not even a sniff of dominance in any of our players. That final shot… jeeez.
Lot of growing pains, no chemistry yet, very raw. I wouldnt put much stock in game one. JV looks to still be figuring out the rotations and was trying to go hot hand. Cam Johnson has a lot of rust from being out of preseason.
Vaughn overthought his lineups at the end there. Too many rotations made us unable to get any rhythm on offense. Cam Thomas NEEDS to be the guy in the last few minutes with eh ball in his hands. Bridges just doesn’t have it in those moments and we saw it last season too
How do blow a 6 point lead that quickly
Loss is 1000% on JV. Fucking crumbled in the fourth. Tried to close without Cam until he finally realized how stagnant the offense was. Started winging it with smallball lineups that still somehow didn’t include a point guard (or even Cam handling the ball instead of Royce or CamJ, for that matter)
Absolutely choked the game away
JV has absolutely no idea what he’s doing. Just another snake oil salesman with a love of poetry. It’ll be the same post-game comments as last year, as well.
Surprised Ben wasn’t in the last mins of the game and I’m not a Ben Simmons fan. But felt like we needed a point there. Actually Dinwiddie wasn’t in either
Still a good game, the team still needs to learn alot
Gg homies. We’ll get em next time. Let’s talk about the positives. Cam Thomas with a historic season opener and DSJ looking like a good pickup. Hopefully JV can find the right rotations.
Game is on coaching. Why the fuck didn’t we call a time out on that last possession and reset. Why wasn’t Simmons on that defensive possession??
Sold hard. Why are our forwards initiating possessions late in the game, those turnovers were completely avoidable.
Ben should’ve been in on that last defensive possession. Mitchell clearly pushed off but CJ should’ve never been in that position, guarding the best player while coming off an injury.
Last possession CT just had to go, not wait and pick up his dribble. Refs missed JV using a TO
Rough loss. Hope they get better from it.
I just can’t take this organization seriously with Jacques Vaughn as its head coach. I just can’t. The team isn’t good enough to have a bad coach. For the life of him he has absolutely no idea how to coach on the fly and make adjustments. How much tape do we need on him to know this? Good lord LOL. Gonna be a loooong season…
This is the fault of Vaughn
Bridges only operates at his peak alongside a star. Making him the #1 option just doesn’t work
What were those final minutes by Vaughn?? Not playing Simmons when we need a ball handler and defender but instead having Royce do that and then drawing up that final play?? And if you aren’t going to play Simmons at least Dinwiddie who’s a legitimate ball handler would do.
No reason for Royce to close the game over Simmons
We needed a facilitator and defense in the final moments and had neither
dinshittie island population me
I actually thought Ben looked good when he came on in the 4th quarter. Bizarre JV took him out when he needed a ball handler and defence. Terrible coach.
I know they are worried about Ben and free throws but you can’t sit him for end of games all year. Let him play and improve through it. With him and Bridges we have two guys who can get stops. Last couple of minutes were played like they were hoping to get lucky and win…
That ending was so dumb, unacceptable closing lineup