Game 31: Cleveland Cavaliers (17-13) vs. Dallas Mavericks (18-12)

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Stat of this game -

Mavs "3-D" wing shooters (THJ, Exum, DJJ, Green, GWill) were a combined 2-18. Abysmal shooting on the shots their offense is designed to create. If they only went 4-18 (22%) they win.

Not sure why that happened, but that's underwater. Playing at home, it's odd or bad or not ready or something.

This same group (minus Green) wasn't really much better on Christmas either, 7-23.  9-51 shooting around Luka isn't going to get it done (9-53 if you include Lawson on Christmas).  

I was assuming we were going to win despite all the bad shooting and come in here and mention it's either a good thing that we've found ways to win despite the bad shooting or it's a bad thing because a lot of these guys may be regressing to the mean (and then we lose anyways so I didn't even get to take that angle).  DJJ and Exum never found homes in the league for this very reason so I'm really hoping what we saw early on this season keeps up and these are just some bad shooting nights otherwise this new starting 5 that everyone is excited about is going to end up hitting some harsh realities in the playoffs.