{"id":231257,"date":"2009-10-31T03:47:08","date_gmt":"2009-10-31T03:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vip.local\/2009\/10\/31\/wolves-87-cavaliers-104\/"},"modified":"2009-10-31T03:47:08","modified_gmt":"2009-10-31T03:47:08","slug":"wolves-87-cavaliers-104","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/wolves-87-cavaliers-104\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolves 87, Cavaliers 104"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Wolves record: 1-1<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nba.com\/games\/20091030\/CLEMIN\/boxscore.html\">Box Score<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/sports\/wolves\/67766397.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aULPQL7PQLanchO7DiUsX\">Jerry Zgoda\/Star Tribune <\/a>recap<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a target=\"_parent\" href=\"http:\/\/wcco.com\/sports\/timberwolves.cavaliers.basketball.2.1282966.html\">Associated Press<\/a> recap<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>From <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/sports\/ci_13681494\">Ray Richardson\/Pioneer Press:<\/a><\/div>\n<div><em>The Cavaliers, trying to overcome an 0-2 start, had a rather routine night at Target Center in their 104-87 victory over the Wolves.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>O&#8217;Neal, making his first appearance in Minnesota with Cleveland, had only six points and seven rebounds, but James filled in with a game-high 24 points, nine rebounds and six assists. The Cavaliers might have been the NBA&#8217;s best 0-2 team. There might have been few league observers who expected the Cavaliers, definitive Eastern Contenders, to open up 0-3.<\/em><br \/><em><br \/>The Wolves, who fell to 1-1, got 17 points from rookie point guard Jonny Flynn and 12 from Al Jefferson. <br \/><\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>From <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nba.com\/games\/20091030\/CLEMIN\/recap.html\">Phil Miller\/NBA.com:<\/a><\/div>\n<div><em>That&#8217;s something the Timberwolves don&#8217;t have, not with only five holdover players on their roster, and it showed against Cleveland. Minnesota hit only 41.9 percent of its shots, and committed 17 turnovers in allowing Cleveland to stretch its lead to 21 points, 93-72, with eight minutes remaining.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Minnesota&#8217;s only real threat to the Cavaliers&#8217; dominance came in &#8212; as usual &#8212; the second quarter. Cleveland had been outscored 60-34 in the period in its first two games, and Brown emphasized to his team the importance of maintaining their composure and intensity when James sat down to rest. <\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Wolves record: 1-1 Box Score Jerry Zgoda\/Star Tribune recap Associated Press recap From Ray Richardson\/Pioneer Press: The Cavaliers, trying&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[605037453],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.2 (Yoast SEO v23.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Wolves 87, Cavaliers 104 - The Sports Daily<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/wolves-87-cavaliers-104\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Wolves 87, Cavaliers 104\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/wolves-87-cavaliers-104\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Sports Daily\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2009-10-31T03:47:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Alan Draper\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@sportsdailytsd\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@sportsdailytsd\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Alan Draper\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/wolves-87-cavaliers-104\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/wolves-87-cavaliers-104\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Alan Draper\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#\/schema\/person\/2c8aadde2571800d0de74323730df7b5\"},\"headline\":\"Wolves 87, Cavaliers 104\",\"datePublished\":\"2009-10-31T03:47:08+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2009-10-31T03:47:08+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/wolves-87-cavaliers-104\/\"},\"wordCount\":222,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"TWolves Blog\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"copyrightYear\":\"2009\",\"copyrightHolder\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#organization\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/wolves-87-cavaliers-104\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/wolves-87-cavaliers-104\/\",\"name\":\"Wolves 87, Cavaliers 104 - 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