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The boos that the Cavaliers heard as they left the court after Sunday’s loss to Charlotte weren’t directed at the players, writes Joe Vardon of The Athletic. There was an organizational decision to rest several rotation members rather than prioritize a win that would have earned the team the No. 2 seed and avoided a potential second-round matchup with the league-leading Celtics. The result was embarrassing, as Cleveland was outscored 18-2 to end the game and will face Orlando in the first round after falling to fourth place.

Vardon notes that the loss of Craig Porter Jr. to a sprained ankle in the first quarter left the Cavs short on ball-handlers. With Donovan Mitchell, Darius Garland and Caris LeVert all sitting out, there was no one to run the offense as the lead slipped away.

but we had our plan in place with what we were gonna do with our guys,” coach J.B. Bickerstaff said. “(Our starters) were gonna play those three quarters, and then Craig not being out there made it a little difficult to organize and score in the fourth quarter, but we wanted to stick to our plan, and no matter what was going to happen, we were going to give our guys an opportunity to play

Max Strus is one of the few Cleveland Cavaliers who has made a deep postseason run, and he is warning his teammates about what is to come in the 2024 NBA Playoffs.

Last season, Strus was a key player for the Miami Heat as he helped them advance out of the play-in round all the way to the 2023 NBA Finals, which they lost to the Denver Nuggets. The 28-year-old wound up with the Cavs last offseason as part of a sign-and-trade transaction

Cleveland has not made it out of the first round of the playoffs since 2018, and last season was eliminated in the first round by the New York Knicks in just five games. It was a disappointing result the Cavs are striving to avoid this time around.

They enter the 2024 playoffs as the No. 4 seed in the Eastern Conference, setting up a first-round matchup with the No. 5 seed Orlando Magic. Cleveland was in contention for the No. 2 seed for much of the season but lost four of its last six games, including its regular season finale to the Charlotte Hornets on Sunday. The Cavs wound up two games behind the second-seeded Knicks.