The Wine & Gold were just short on magic – and bodies – on the second leg of their two-game set with the Celtics, running out of gas late in the affair and dropping the 98-92 decision on Monday night.
Still without their leading scorer – Collin Sexton – along with Lauri Markkanen, Kevin Love and Lamar Stevens, the Cavaliers didn’t have the services of starting center, Jarrett Allen, who was out with a non-COVID-related illness and lost Evan Mobley in the fourth quarter of Monday’s contest with a right elbow sprain.
Neither team was especially sharp on Monday, each failing to reach 40 points at intermission.