Cleveland Cavaliers Inching Closer to LeBron James’ Expectations

November 19th, 2015 by Josh Martin Leave a reply »

In the wake of back-to-back losses to divisional opponents, the Cleveland Cavaliers made it clear that they'd come correct against the Milwaukee Bucks on Thursday night.

"I'm not sitting up here saying it's Armageddon or anything like that," James said prior to his team's latest appearance on TNT (via ESPN's Dave McMenamin). "But we need to play better ball. Until we own that, we won't get better."

What would that kind of ball look like? Beyond bringing more attitude and toughness to the court, what specifically could the Cavs do to up their game and, in the process, please their overlord?

James didn't leave the answer up to anyone else's imagination. Via ESPN:

I think it's trying to play as consistent a 48 minutes as possible, play our game. That's defending at a high level and that's not turning the ball over. When we don't turn the ball over, we share the ball offensively, we got the ball popping, and we defend at a high level, we're a pretty good team. When we're not, we're not good at all.

Cleveland didn't quite match James' expectations tit-for-tat in its 115-100 win over Milwaukee, but the ...

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