{"id":722836,"date":"2026-05-01T11:18:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T11:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/722836\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T11:18:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T11:18:25","slug":"evan-mobleys-offense-shows-up-big-for-cavs-in-tough-first-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/722836\/","title":{"rendered":"Evan Mobley’s offense shows up big for Cavs in tough first round"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a pivotal Game 5 for the Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a>, former USC Trojan Evan Mobley<\/a> was at his best. He and the rest of the Cavs may have given up more points than they should have, as the Toronto Raptors<\/a> had 103 points going into the fourth quarter. Nonetheless, Mobley’s scoring propelled the Cavs to a win. Cleveland is up 3-2 on the Raptors in a neck-and-neck series.<\/p>\n

Evan Mobley had 23 points, shot 8-13 from the field, had 9 rebounds, and had 3 blocks on the defensive end. Evan Mobley was a perfect 3-3 from beyond the arc, and he hit two clutch, pivotal 3s in the fourth quarter. One of his 3 pointers he made put the Cavs up 3 and put the score 106-103. Not to mention his last 3 further extended the score to 113-108.<\/p>\n

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Mobley really has been at a different level at home for the Cavs, and in this game, he kept the streak going. He and Jarrett Allen<\/a> need to have that same intensity on defense, as this game was way closer than it should have been due to many lapses and a brutal end to the first half.<\/p>\n

As I continue to reiterate, the Cavs need a dominant Evan Mobley to have any shot at a deep playoff run. James Harden<\/a> stepped up as well with 23 points, and Dennis Schr\u00f6der<\/a> very well has an argument for MVP of the game, but getting 23 from Mobley, along with his clutch shots and his rebounds, made a huge difference in this ball game.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Trojans Wire: Evan Mobley propels Cavs within one win of first-round series victory<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a pivotal Game 5 for the Cleveland Cavaliers, former USC Trojan Evan Mobley was at his best.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":722837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3772],"tags":[7,306,305,193,3846,1024,576,560,1178,6,476],"class_list":["post-722836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-basketball","tag-cavaliers","tag-cleveland","tag-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-clevelandcavaliers","tag-dennis-schroder","tag-evan-mobley","tag-james-harden","tag-jarrett-allen","tag-nba","tag-toronto-raptors"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116499048309096317","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=722836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/722837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}