Tag: Darius Garland

One of the stats that was making the rounds on social media in the last few days was this troubling one about Darius Garland (probably more troubling about the Cavaliers in general, actually): he’s leading the Cavaliers in assists at 2.9 per game. Are you troubled? You should be troubled, due to the troubling nature…

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If you just ignore all the context surrounding the game, including seemingly-pertinent details like the score, and focus ONLY on Darius Garland scoring these 17 points, you can come away with the impression that this ISN’T the most depressing “highlight” video ever made. The second you look at the final score of the game (which…

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After his disastrous (though not so disastrous that I did not make a highlight video for his scoring performance) 8-turnover game in the Cavaliers’ last game, Darius Garland was well on his way to a 0-turnover game in this one. Sadly, he coughed the ball up with 4 seconds to go (don’t worry, the Cavaliers…

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OFFICIAL DTB DISCLAIMER: Darius Garland had eight turnovers in this game to go with his single assist. That’s, to put it nicely, not a good stat. There are a bunch of players who have gotten eight turnovers in a game this season, and even a few who got nine. But none of them did it…

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Aw shucks, the Cavaliers were looking surprisingly feisty for a while there. This 40-point annihilation at the hands of Luka Doncic and the Mavericks (but mostly just Luka Doncic) is just another in an increasingly long string of bad losses. They used up all their mojo kicking the Knicks’ butt a few games ago, they…

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Fun fact: coming into this game, Darius Garland had the worst Win Shares of any NBA player, at -0.6. If you had asked me who held that dubious distinction, I would’ve probably answered either Marco Belinelli (who is NOT a spicy meatball right now) or Eric Gordon (who looks like a regular, non-spicy meatball all…

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