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The Cleveland Cavaliers bounced back from their loss to the Spurs with a 14-point win over the Houston Rockets, finishing their six-game roadtrip with a 5-1 record.
A consistent performance across all four quarters saw the Cavaliers better the Rockets who struggled to keep pace in the second and third.
Kyrie Irving had 23 points for the Cavaliers while LeBron James has 19 points, seven rebounds and seven assists.
Final score
Cleveland Cavaliers 91
Houston Rockets 77
The Cleveland Cavaliers will be looking to bounce back from a loss on the road to the San Antonio Spurs when they come up against the Houston Rockets today. Join The Roar for live scores from the match starting at 1:30pm AEDT.
The Cavaliers went down to the Spurs 95-99 yesterday which meant the end of what had been an eight-game winning streak, and allowed the Spurs to continue their perfect season at home so far putting them up to 23-0 there.
Cleveland now hold a 23-10 record but almost all of their losses have come on the road where they are 12-9 for the season. This match against Houston is the last game of a six-game road trip, their longest for the season, which they had won the first four matches of before their loss to the Spurs.
The Rockets are not so significant a challenge as the Spurs were however. They sit in the midtable region in the Western Conference on 21-19, though they do come into this match on a five-game winning streak.
In that time they’ve beaten Utah Jazz twice (93-91 and 103-94), the Indiana Pacers (107-91), the Memphis Grizzlies (107-91), and the Minnesota Timberwolves (107-104) – not all of them easybeats, though none on the level of the Cavaliers. Coincidentally, their last loss also came against the Spurs (103-121).
The chance to take a home court advantage against the Cavaliers and add a seriously impressive win to that streak is not one they’ll want to miss, though a 13-9 record at home so far this season is not the NBA’s most impressive.
The length of Cleveland’s roadtrip could become a factor in the match especially as it wears on. In their sixth consecutive road match, will they have the legs to see it out?
Prediction: Tipping Cleveland to win it, but could be very close. Cavaliers by 3.
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