It doesn’t take James Naismith to figure out where the Wine and Gold went wrong in their Wednesday night loss to the Magic – one look at the turnover numbers say it all.
The Cavaliers committed 15 first-half miscues and finished with 25, leading to 25 Magic points and paving the way for the 116-104 loss on Thanksgiving Eve at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse.
Cleveland outrebounded the shorthanded Magic – missing starting big men, Nikola Vucevic and Aaron Gordon – but Orlando got a game and season-high 30 points from Evan Fournier and took full advantage of a sloppy Cavaliers squad, opening a 17-point lead in the third quarter and holding them off down the stretch.