“We've got a good thing going and I'm having a lot of fun,” Love said. Love grabbed nine boards and Tacko Fall had three points and seven rebounds in 11 minutes off the bench. Boucher, Watanabe, Svi Mykhailiuk and Dalano Banton were the only holdovers from their pre-outbreak squad.ĭenzel Valentine had 17 points and nine rebounds, Dean Wade scored 17 points, and Ricky Rubio had 16 points and six assists for Cleveland. The Raptors' previous two games were postponed when they could not suit up the required eight players. “Because we weren't permitted to do anything together the last few days, I spent a lot of time in the gym by myself putting up shots. “We met those guys on the bus on the way to the arena,” Watanabe said. Wilson had 15 points and eight rebounds in his team debut.
Toronto's eight-man active roster - featuring four hardship signees - had never been together until holding a brief practice on the main court at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse before the game. “It was a good game for Yuta, and that's about it.” “We had to take a pretty good loss tonight, but we'll bounce back,” Raptors coach Nick Nurse said. The Raptors have 10 players in the NBA's health and safety protocols, including top scorer Fred VanVleet, rookie Scottie Barnes and Pascal Siakam. Yuta Watanabe posted career highs of 26 points and 13 rebounds for Toronto, and Chris Boucher scored 21 points. Once we brought the energy we needed, the floodgates just kind of opened up after that.” “We play hard and we play unselfish basketball. “We're lucky to be in this position where we've got such a good thing going on,” Markkanen said. The Cavaliers had 39 assists, two shy of the most in the NBA this season. It was Cleveland's largest victory margin of the season and the first time Toronto has lost by more than 17 points in 2021-22.
The Cavaliers won their fifth in a row at home and made 22 3-pointers in a team-record 52 attempts. Lauri Markkanen added 20 points and Garland had eight assists for Cleveland, which led by 47 points twice late in the fourth.
CLEVELAND (AP) - Kevin Love and Darius Garland scored 22 points apiece, and the Cleveland Cavaliers tied their franchise record with 46 points in the third quarter of a 144-99 rout over the COVID-19 depleted Toronto Raptors on Sunday night.
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