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Cavs' Donovan Mitchell (ankle) starts in must-win Game 5

🏀Tuesday Playoff hoops🏀

 

Dort darts🎯🎯🎯

Lu Dort has 12 factors on this recreation, and 9 of them have come within the final two minutes, as he’s made three triples to chop Denver’s lead from 90-81 to 92-90.

Simply over six minutes are remaining on this pivotal Sport 5 and it’s wanting prefer it’s going to come back all the way down to the wire. The winner takes a 3-2 benefit within the sequence.

Catch the end on TNT, truTV, or stream it on Max!

 

1️⃣Quarter left

Denver has an eight-point lead, 86-78 heading into the ultimate body.

Jokić is now as much as 31 factors, 12 boards, and 5 dimes, who together with Murray scored 83% of Denver’s factors within the third quarter.

The Thunder have gotten 21 factors from Gilgeous-Alexander, and 12 from Chet Holmgren, who added one other spotlight reel dunk,

The Thunder might want to hunker down and go on one other run right here within the fourth to keep away from falling to a 3-2 deficit within the sequence.

 

Nuggets rolling🛼

Denver has outscored OKC 24-14 so far within the third quarter and has an 80-68 lead with just below 5 minutes remaining within the third body.

Jokić and Murray are on fireplace, scoring 27 and 24 factors respectively whereas combining to shoot 20-for-33.

 

Denver up on the break

Every group has made a number of runs, with the Thunder ending the half on a 9-0 spurt, however on the finish of two, it’s the Nuggets up two, 56-54.

Jamal Murray has made a number of easy performs so far, and he will get two of his 11 factors on this fancy end,

Jokić has his contact from past the arc, making two of his three triple tries, and ending the half with 19 factors and 9 boards.

The Thunder have gotten 11 apiece from Gilgeous-Alexander and Jalen Williams. They’ve additionally gotten 9 from Chet Holmgren, together with this sturdy one-handed slam,

 

I acquired this💪

For those who can’t discover another person to cross it to, you might as nicely cross it to your self.

Jokić picks up his dribble however finds himself at an ungainly angle and shoots it off the backboard to himself and will get the putback.

Jokić is as much as 11 factors with seven boards, and Denver has a 40-38 lead on the midpoint of the second quarter.

 

Sport of runs🏃🏻‍♂️‍➡️

Oklahoma Metropolis opened up the motion with a 12-2 run, however Denver answered with their very own 14-2 run, and have a 28-27 lead after 1 / 4 of play.

Nikola Jokić has a team-high 9 for the Nuggets, however it was a pair of triples from Christian Braun that put the Nuggets in entrance for the primary time,

Jalen Williams’ 9 factors lead the Thunder.

 

Pacers advance➡️

Indiana overcame a 19-point deficit to knock out the Cavaliers, 114-105. They’ll now make their second consecutive journey to the Jap Convention Finals, in both a rematch from final 12 months with the Celtics, or a showdown with the Knicks, who lead their sequence 3-1.

The Pacers acquired a number of key performs down the stretch, whether or not it was the protection of Haliburton, resulting in an and-1 alternative,

Or the Nembhard bucket and a foul,

Then there was the Myles Turner triple, that basically sealed the deal,

In all, Haliburton was large within the victory, scoring 31 factors on 10-for-15 taking pictures, together with 6 of 10 from deep, to go together with six boards and eight assists.

Siakam added 21 and eight boards, whereas Nembhard (18), Nesmith (13), and Turner (10), additionally scored in double digits.

The Cavaliers acquired 35 factors from Mitchell within the loss, and 24 from Mobley, however finally the group shot 38.9% from the ground, together with 25.7% from three-point land, in comparison with Indiana who made 42.9% of their threes, which was a major completely different within the recreation.

 

Lead lengthens📏

The Pacers outscored the Cavs 33-20 within the third quarter, and now lead 85-76 going into the ultimate body.

The quarter featured a 19-2 Pacers run, and a stretch of seven minutes the place Cleveland was unable to make a area objective.

Ty Jerome, who didn’t enter the sport till late within the third quarter, is making an attempt to get Cleveland going and has scored eight factors in simply minutes on the ground.

 

Pacers take the lead🎯🎯🎯

One other barrage of triples has linked, two from Siakam and one from Haliburton and the Pacers now lead, 65-64, nearing the midpoint of the third body.

The Pacers at the moment are taking pictures 11-for-25 from distance, whereas Cleveland is 2-for-15.

 

Lead vanishing😶‍🌫️

Cleveland at one level was up 19 on the Pacers, however getting into halftime at the moment are main simply 56-52.

Haliburton was central to Indiana’s surge, flattening three straight triples,

The star guard now has a game-high 17 factors on 5-for-6 taking pictures, all threes.

Mitchell has 16 factors to guide the Cavs, however he’s taking pictures simply 3-for-11 from the sector, whereas Garland is 2-for-10.

Every will doubtless have to shoot at a greater clip within the second half to maintain Cleveland in entrance.

 

Protection➡️Offense

Indiana entered the second quarter trying to find offense, and so they acquired it going right here due to a swat from Turner.

After the block, Haliburton brings it up the ground and spots Nesmith, who buries the triple.

The Pacers now path by simply seven factors, 48-41 with simply over 4 minutes remaining within the first half.

 

Cleveland rising📈

The Cavaliers have responded nicely from their Sport 4 loss, taking a 31-19 lead into the second quarter.

Mitchell stays a drive, ending the quarter with 13 factors, two boards, an help, a block, and a steal.

He continues to assault the bucket, and right here he reveals off the Euro step with the end,

He additionally created one other and-one alternative off a swipe, creating offense from protection.

 

Ankle seems to be good👍

Mitchell is getting it achieved, scoring 7 factors so far, and attacking the rim.

Right here he will get the swat off Turner, runs the ground,  will get the end, and the and-1 alternative. He additionally compelled Haliburton to the bench, as he picked up his second foul on Mitchell’s bucket try.

He’s additionally serving up dimes, sending a bounce cross to Allen for the slam dunk end,

Cleveland is up 21-12 on the Pacers with three minutes left within the first.

 

Punching it in👊

We’re underway in Cleveland, and the Cavaliers’ first bucket comes through a Jarrett Allen slam.

The scoring is sluggish early, with every group taking pictures simply 2-for-10 from the ground and the rating twisted up at 6 rather less than 5 minutes in.

 

Mitchell is in🕷️

Donovan Mitchell was thought-about a game-time resolution as a result of ankle damage he suffered Sunday night, however he’ll give it a go tonight.

Mitchell will be a part of Darius Garland, Max Strus, Evan Mobley, and Jarrett Allen within the Cavaliers’ beginning 5.

If it ain’t broke, don’t repair it.

The Pacers will put Tyrese Haliburton, Andrew Nembhard, Aaron Nesmith, Pascal Siakam, and Myles Turner on the ground first.

 

📋Sport notes📋

 

🎸Cleveland vs. 🏎️💨Indiana

Issues couldn’t go a lot worse for Cleveland than they did in Sport 4. Not solely had been buckets robust to come back by, they couldn’t cease Indiana from making them. To make issues worse, Donovan Mitchell aggravated an ankle damage throughout second-half warmups and is taken into account questionable for tonight. 

If Cleveland loses, their historic 64-win marketing campaign will abruptly finish, dropping in 5 video games in the course of the Convention Semi-Finals for a second straight season. If they’ll pull off the victory, they’ll head again to Indianapolis for a Sport 6 on Thursday. Though successful a sequence after being down 3-1 is feasible, the chances are towards it. Of the 292 occasions in league Playoff historical past {that a} group has trailed 3-1 in a sequence, solely 13 groups (4.5%) had been in a position to come again and win it. 

⛏️Denver vs. 🌩️Oklahoma Metropolis

The Nuggets and Thunder will battle tonight in a pivotal Sport 5. If Oklahoma Metropolis wins, Denver can be compelled to win two straight to advance, one thing neither of those groups has achieved on this sequence. If Denver wins, they’ll have an opportunity to shut out the sequence on their dwelling ground in Sport 6.

Except for a convincing OKC win in Sport 2, every of those video games has gone all the way down to the wire, together with an OT showdown in Sport 3. The important thing to victory tonight could also be Jamal Murray, who has performed 11 Sport 5s in his profession and owns marks of 26.1 ppg, 50.2 FG%, and 46.8 3P% in these outings. Denver is 10-1 in that span. For OKC, it’s going to be persevering with to use defensive strain. The Nuggets are 0-6 on the season when being held beneath 100 factors, a feat that the Thunder had been in a position to pull off in Sport 4.

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