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Struggling Cavs fall to Pacers, drop 4th in a row

A CLEVELAND Cavaliers lineup struggling to come together and sustain effort for a full game suffered its fourth consecutive NBA loss on Wednesday, falling 107-124 to visiting Indiana.

Every Pacers starter scored in double figures, with Thaddeus Young netting 26 points, Darren Collison adding 25 and Victor Oladipo pouring in 23 as Cleveland (3-5) suffered a fifth loss in six games, the past three by a combined 58 points.

“The other games we just got our butts kicked,” Cavaliers coach Tyronn Lue said. “Tonight, I thought we did some good things. We just couldn’t sustain it. But the other games we just flat out got our butts kicked. So seeing an improvement.”

The Pacers had lost nine meetings in a row with the Cavaliers since March 2014 — four months before LeBron James returned from Miami to Cleveland.

“It’s just we have an opportunity to be very good and then you see some of the lulls that we have and it’s just very difficult on our team right now,” James said. “We’re just trying to figure it out on the fly and unfortunately we don’t have time to practice a lot and do those things.”

James led Cleveland with 33 points and 11 assists but committed a game-high eight turnovers, while Derrick Rose added 19 points.

James is the NBA’s sixth player with 400 regular-season games of at least 30 points, joining Michael Jordan, Wilt Chamberlain, Karl Malone, Kobe Bryant and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

Elsewhere, it was: Rockets 119, Knicks 97; Celtics 113, Kings 86; Suns 122, Wizards 116; Hornets 126, Bucks 121; Timberwolves 104, Pelicans 98; Magic 101, Grizzlies 99; Nuggets 129, Raptors 111; Jazz 112, Trail Blazers 103 (in overtime); Heat 97, Bulls 91; 76ers 119, Hawks 109; and Clippers 119, Mavericks 98.




 

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