Offense Struggles as Pistons Take 2-0 Series Lead

The Chase Down: A Cleveland Cavaliers Pod

Cleveland Cavaliers

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4.7 • 588 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2026

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Justin and Carter discussing the Cavs difficulties sustaining offense in the postseason, as the team came up short in Game 2 against the Detroit Pistons. Highlighting the inconsistency in approach, as well as the difference in how the team has performed at home vs. on the road as the series shifts to Cleveland.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Chase Down podcast, part of the Cavs Media family. I'm your host, Justin Roan.
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0:31.6	slash Kaz. The Cleveland Cavalier's offense was not able to find enough consistency to take a one-one tie in the series.
0:40.4	The pistons are up to nothing.
0:42.3	The series goes back home to Cleveland, where the Cavs will now have to win four of the last five games of this series.
0:48.6	Joining me today is my co-host Carter Rodriguez.
0:50.6	Carter, how you doing, buddy?
0:52.1	My dumb ass got up at 5 a.m. this morning to do some work, so I am exhausted,
0:57.4	uh, uh, you know, maybe a little, little hazy. So, uh, if I just kind of trail off at any point,
1:04.9	uh, in, in the podcast, uh, uh, that's why I'm not that worked up about Cavs basketball,
1:10.4	even though I'm pretty disappointed in this game. Well, if you do trail off, it would be something that we did see at times tonight from the Cleveland Cavaliers as well. I wasn't sure. I was thinking about making that joke, but I didn't know if it was too mean. Well, you got there first. I think it's fair, right? I think what we have seen from the Cavs through two games in Detroit is that this is a team that can push at times that can play with the required intensity, that can play with the sense of purpose that's required on the offense event.
1:40.8	But they also do go through wolves where they don't look prepared, where they don't look
1:46.8	like, you know, that they're going to execute with the level of an intensity that's required.
1:52.3	And I think it is frustrating to have two games where they started out pretty flat, right?
1:58.0	I thought they look laxical to start the game.
2:02.6	Just Detroit is going to cause turnovers, right?
2:05.6	Like, I don't want this to come across as, you know, the Caz are, or have all these
2:11.3	self-inflicted wounds and stuff like that.
2:13.0	Like, some of this is Detroit.
2:15.0	But we were coming off a game where I felt, you know, the guards in game
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