1. There are tough nights and bad losses and then there are nights like this. This wasn’t just a bad night. This felt worse than a bad night. This is the kind of loss that makes a franchise go back and re-evaluate what happened that led to this point, because no team with the league’s highest payroll and championship aspirations should ever lose by 29 to a sub-.500 team that had lost five straight and 8 of 10.
2. “Throw it in the trash,” LeBron James said, but only if it was that simple. The Cavs could fill a dumpster with everything they did wrong tonight.