Don’t look now, but the young Cavaliers are already making a name for themselves this season – running their win streak to three games over three Playoff teams, including the first two foes on what was supposed to be a grueling West Coast trip.
J.B. Bickerstaff’s stingy squad clamped down on the Clippers on Wednesday – holding L.A. to 36 percent shooting and taking the 92-79 wire-to-wire win at STAPLES Center two nights after stifling the league’s reigning MVP to start the roadie. The win also snapped a seven-game skid to the Clips.
If Lauri Markkanen’s jam in Nikola Jokic’s grill served notice on Monday night in Denver, it was Collin Sexton’s mammoth left-handed jam that symbolized the Cavaliers nasty intentions on Wednesday – taking a Markkanen feed at halfcourt and crushing home the fastbreak dunk over Nicolas Batum, putting Cleveland up two touchdowns in the second quarter.