The Cleveland Cavaliers are a team to watch this National Basketball Association (NBA) season and they showed just why on Nov 20. Ty Jerome scored 29 points as the Eastern Conference leaders bounced back from their first defeat of the campaign with a 128-100 rout of the New Orleans Pelicans to improve to 16-1. The Cavs, who saw their 15-game unbeaten streak brought to an abrupt end by the Boston Celtics on Nov 19, shrugged off that setback to dominate New Orleans with a wire-to-wire victory before their home crowd. They were always in control against a struggling Pelicans side who slumped to their ninth loss in 10 games. The visitors fell to 4-12 and remain one place off the bottom of the Western Conference. After cruising into a 69-55 half-time lead, Cleveland dropped the hammer in the third quarter, outscoring New Orleans 36-18 to open up a 32-point advantage heading into the final period before cruising to win. Jerome drained seven of 12 attempts from three-point distance, rattling in six of them during a remarkable second-quarter display that saw him bag 20 points. Georges Niang also caught fire, shooting six threes to finish with 20 points. Cleveland coach Kenny Atkinson saluted Jerome’s electic second-quarter barrage that had the home crowd on its feet. “It was great – those moments don’t happen a lot in the NBA,” he said. “It was like a superstar performance quite honestly – that’s so rare. It was great for the crowd, great for the group and great for Ty.”
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