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2 days ago | hoopswire.com | Sam Amico

CLEVELAND — Random dribbles following the Cavaliers’ season-ending 114-105 home loss to the Indiana Pacers in Game 5 on Tuesday. …1. It’s hard to be mad about this Cavs season. A 15-game winning streak to start the year. Eight months of utter fun. Multiple franchise records along the way. But again, disappointment when it meant the most. 2. Now, the negativity and rumors will begin. The Cavs need something more, everyone will say. This roster just isn’t good enough. 3.

2 days ago | hoopswire.com | Sam Amico

So much for the new year, the new seed, the new mindset. Same result. The Cavaliers, after spending all season talking about lessons learned and turning the page, are heading home in May again — ousted in the second round, again — this time by the fourth-seeded Pacers, who closed the door with a 114-105 win in Game 5. Series over. Season over. Questions just beginning. This one was billed as different. It looked like it might be early.

2 days ago | hoopswire.com | Sam Amico

CLEVELAND — It was a remarkable regular season, a year full of high hopes and franchise records. But it ended the exact same way it did last year, in the second round of the playoffs — courtesy of Tuesday’s Game 5 loss to the visiting Indiana Pacers, xxx-xx. The story of 2024-25, or most of it, was the Cavs’ versatility and shot quality, but it deserted them in this series. Boy, did it ever.

2 days ago | hoopswire.com | Sam Amico

CLEVELAND — Random dribbles from Game 5 of the Cavaliers-Pacers Eastern Conference semifinal series …1. The Cavaliers did all the right things in the first quarter, building a 19-point lead. Then Tyrese Haliburton couldn’t miss. Part of that was Haliburton just burying shots 30-feet from the hoop. Usually, you leave guys open out there. 2. The Cavs can no longer afford to do that.

2 days ago | hoopswire.com | Sam Amico

With the Timberwolves trailing at the break and the energy drained inside Chase Center, Anthony Edwards didn’t wait for a coach to light the fire. He took it upon himself. “I told them, ‘We only got two wins,’” Edwards said after Minnesota’s Game 4 victory over the Warriors, per ESPN’s Dave McMenamin. “I’ve never seen a series end 2-1. I told them we have to get two more wins and right now we’re playing like we already got four wins.”Message delivered. Message received.