If you looked at this game at the beginning of the year and wrote “scheduling loss” on your calendar, you had it mostly right. A night after besting the Warriors in a Finals re-match, the Cavs traveled to Detroit and opted to rest LeBron James. Cleveland limited the minutes for most of their players with Shumpert being the only Cav over the half hour mark with 33. They did not, however, limit the turnovers as they gave away the rock 21 times while shooting 38% from the floor.
Cleveland gave up the first eight points and were down by as many as 14 with three minutes left in the first half.