J.E. Skeets

What up with that?

I know I'm doing some body language reading there, but that was just disappointing.

Wouldn't be surprising to see James Harden not play all that well in the postseason.

I know this is just one game, but this is, I don't know, it wasn't all that fun.

While on the other side, the Lakers without Marcus Smart, those guys, the glue guys, whether it's LaRavia or Aiton or Rui or whoever, they were doing their thing in this game.

Luka's a bad matchup for everybody, but especially for the Cavs.

They just don't have anybody who has a chance against them.

Max Strews got the main defensive assignment, and he's just not good enough to stick with Luka.

I think, like, literally the best guy they could have thrown out last night was Naquan Tomlin, and that guy...

is just new to the NBA, so I thought that's bad to start off with.

Luka's putting up 33 a game, so he scores on everybody, but also a pretty bad scheme, I thought, by the Cavs.

They're in deep drop the entire time, and that just gives Luka so many options.

How many walk-in threes did he have?

You would see, especially when Thomas Bryant was in, the dude was in the lane on a screen and roll, so Luka just gets the guy off, and it's a wide-open jumper, but if it wasn't,

Bryant, you know, sometimes Allen would be a little bit higher, but Luka's so good at it, he can drive for the floater, he can drive to the rim, he can get into an iso and just shoot it over the top of a guy, he can get an alley-oop, which he got a ton of, he can kick to the corner, like 42 points, 12 assists.

He was a little sweaty, but...

Not that sweaty.

And on the other end, I thought Jared Allen, he did have a good game, but I thought that was completely by design from the Lakers.

LaRavia was right next to Donovan Mitchell the entire night.

Wouldn't let him really get involved in any plays.