It was Tristan Thompson’s “Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?’’ moment.
The veteran big man was doing his best to try and motivate his teammates going into this weekend’s Round 1 playoff showdown with the Milwaukee Bucks, and was again preaching his own championship history.
“In 2015 we played the Atlanta Hawks, who had won 60-some games, and they beat up on us all year earlier in the season … beat our ass every game, and they weren’t close games either,’’ Thompson said, with an excited pitch in his voice.
Actually, Thompson’s Cavaliers team beat that Hawks squad by 33 points in the first game of that 2014-15 season, but forget it, Thompson was rolling.