Trends problematic people have uttered again in a frustrating loss of kings

The Cleveland Cavaliers May another slide, dropping your third straight game In frustrating loss 123-119 on Sacramento Kings. Like any other game in this three game that lost the stripe, it was another night in which the cages looked in control until everything went down.

The introductory district followed a familiar script. The jokes went out of the gate, choking the work of Sacramento and held them at only 15 points in the first 12 minutes, their lowest quarter in the whole season. It looked like the kings were on their way to becoming the last victim Cleveland’s early Igar Domination.

Except, they weren’t.

Sacramento has run back, reducing the deficit once in 13 points to only two wounds in the second quarter. Coffee managed to stabilize before half, moving in the breakup to nine, but warning signs were there. The kings did not disappear and Cleveland’s preference to fall apart in the second half He emphasized ominous to what was supposed to be a winning game.

That the feeling became painful reality. After Cleveland briefly pushed the leadership on double digits early in the third, Sacramento liberated the unrelent offensive stick. Fluri with the gunshots sent a golden 1 center in Frenza and until 4:35 a.m. brand of the third quarter, the kings seized their second advantage of the night. Less than two minutes later, it leads a balloon at 11.

In spite of the loss, the cave did not fold under pressure

CAWS, on their credit, not immediately folded. Evan Moblei He came to life in the way Cleveland has never seen, lighting 12-0 leaders with 10 points. By the end of the third quarter and beginning of the fourth, Moblei scored 18 years of the team of the last 20 points, seemingly willing caves back from the edge.

But the kings had the response time again.

At 6:20 a mark of fourth, Cleveland held the advantage of a five-pointed. She was a victory in the range, a chance to stop this loss of stripes and regain their support until the plea was drew nearby. Instead, Sacramento reacted with 7-0 driver, returning control and never look back.

The fans are revived, Cowbells Clanging, was a crushing time, such a moment where the song managed all the seasons.

Not this time.

The kings were great in the final minute, while the CAR defense, which once defined their success, was sprayed when it was most important. Sacramentov Demar DeRozan and Malik Monk buried clutch footage against all helpless Cleveland defenses. Despite the heroics of the late Games from Moblei and Donovan Mitchell, which was combined 20 points in the fourth quarter – the kings in the last 4:44 in the last 4:44 in the last 4:44.

Cleveland conquered the first half convincingly. They lost the second half 76-63.

That statistics tell about the whole story.

“I thought we were awesome in the first half in terms of missing them and make them take bad shots,” Cars coach coach Kenny Atkinson said. “Then The Second Half, The Shoot 68% And That Kind Of Tells It All. The Headline has found stops. We couldn’t get stops in the Second Half and We Couldn’t. We Did Not Execute Defensive and Paid For It. Our Defense Was Just Not Good Enough in Crunch Time. “

Cleveland has to find his clutch time identity again

Sacramento, playing without the Highter Center of the Domantas Sabonis (Hamstring) and Zach Lavina (Personally), did not look like a man who lacks key pieces. Instead, they played with energy, resistance and feeling that Cleveland couldn’t match when it was most important.

Mitchell, who fought from returning from injury to the groin, ended with 26 points, but shot only 8-17 from the field. More about the decline in recording was his decision – carefree transformed and forced shots that put the poem into insecure positions throughout the night.

“It’s a challenge that it’s about 48 minutes,” Mitchell said from Moblei. “It’s a challenge for all of us. But that’s who he is, this is the level in which it can be played, and that’s the worst thing it will be. He continued to take that step. He replied to every call.

Moblei was great, publishing a game-high 31 point and 10 rebounds as he hit more three pointers – a rarity in his young career. But even his performance is not enough to cover up more CARS issues.

Cleveland’s half of the collap is not new. Even during their franchise-record power 16-games, the cracks were visible. The routine prevailed slowly begins, messy games and defensive omissions. But now it’s ending and it is an illusion that these problems are not real.

You can make excuses. It is a long journey to the west coast. The team dealt with injuries. Opponents set fire to the worst possible time.

But there is no excuse for blowing two-digit guides in the game on the back. There is no excuse to throw a ball for a light opponent of baskets repeatedly. And there is certainly no excuse for permission of the opponent to shoot 68% in the second half.

Cavs will make the playoffs. They can even provide superior seeds on the eastern ban of unforeseen collapse. But if they do not solve their second half of the trouble, the post-season about postsesons will be short-lived.