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OKLAHOMA CITY -- Coach Byron Scott and the Cleveland Cavaliers have found a new way to maximize rookie Kyrie Irvings closing skills when it matters the most. Antawn Jamison scored 21 points, Irving orchestrated a decisive run in the final 3 minutes and the Cleveland Cavaliers snapped Oklahoma Citys 14-game home winning streak by beating the Thunder 96-90 on Friday night. For the second straight game, Scott closed the game with a three-guard lineup featuring the 6-foot-9 Jamison as the only player taller than 6-6. It paid off with the teams first back-to-back road wins of the season. "It allows the lane to open up that much more .... Im able to attack. The basket just seems that much more open than when we have our bigs in. "No offence to our bigs," Irving said with a smile, "but we didnt need them tonight." The Cavaliers kept it close by turning the normally fast-breaking Thunder into a half-court team. Oklahoma City converted only three transition baskets until trying to make a dramatic comeback in the final minute. "We just made it a point of emphasis before the game just to stop the transition points. They do a heck of a job of getting alley-oop, dunks and highlight plays, so we just wanted to limit that tonight," said Irving, the No. 1 pick in last years draft. Neither team led by more than five until the final minute, when the Cavaliers were putting the finishing touches on a 12-0 run spearheaded by Irving. Irving drove for a pair of layups to put Cleveland ahead and then found Jamison wide open under the basket for a layup to make it 90-85. "That lineup is probably our best lineup right now, especially closing out games," Scott said. "I think it gives teams problems as far as matching up with us." Kevin Durant tried to lead Oklahoma City back, but missed on a pair of 3-point attempts. He finished with 23 points and Russell Westbrook scored 19 for the Thunder. "We just couldnt get stops when we needed to," said top reserve James Harden, who scored 15. "We didnt rebound the ball and they made some big shots." The Cavaliers finished with a 51-40 edge on the boards, including 21 offensive rebounds. "We were a step slow," Oklahoma City coach Scott Brooks said. "We turned it over (17 times) and gave up too many offensive rebounds. I think thats the game right there." Cleveland had lost six in a row before Irving hit the game-winner in a 100-99 victory at Denver, the NBAs highest-scoring team. The Cavs followed it with an even more impressive defensive performance against the Thunder, third in the league with 102.3 points per game. Oklahoma City was limited to its lowest-scoring total at home all season, falling to 17-2 at the Chesapeake Energy Arena. "We were able to come in and do this to one of the most explosive offensive teams in the league and a team that doesnt lose at home," Jamison said. "For us to come in and stay focused and get that type of victory, this is by far the biggest win of the season." The Cavs, who allow the leagues second-fewest fastbreak points per game, kept it close by allowing only two transition baskets by the Thunder in the first half to trail 51-49. Then, they were able to duplicate that effort while allowing only 38 points after halftime. "That was our No. 1 goal was to make them a half-court team and take away transition baskets," Scott said. "The only way we could do that, No. 1 youve got to run your offence and get good shots and No. 2 you cant turn it over a bunch of times." The Thunder had a season-high 31 points on the fast break in their previous game against Phoenix but managed only 15 -- two below their average -- in this one. Five of those came in the final 44.4 seconds, after Anthony Parkers free throw gave Cleveland its largest lead at 94-85. "We just made it a point to make sure we always had two guys back for sure. Sometimes we were yelling at guys that were in the corner to make sure they start getting back, so at times it was even three guys. A real concerted effort to make sure we did get back." Parker had 14 points, Alonzo Gee scored 12 and Irving finished with nine points and 12 assists for Cleveland. Scott said his players finally decided to say, Enough is enough, after the six-game losing streak and got their act together on the road. "Obviously thats a pretty good win, any time you can beat a team this good in their building," Scott said. "It says a lot about the way our guys came and competed, the way we played." Notes: Oklahoma City coach Scott Brooks said starting guard Thabo Sefolosha had "another good workout" Friday in his rehab from a tendon injury in his right foot but there still is no timetable for his return. Sefolosha has not played since Jan. 27, missing the past 21 games. "I dont know the exact date but I know that he is getting better, hes feeling better and well see," Brooks said. ... The Thunder lead the NBA in free throw shooting (80 per cent) but opponents also shoot better against them (78.5 per cent) than any other team. ... Durant has 24 turnovers in his past five games. Pink Randall Cobb Elite Jersey . Forte was injured on a run deep in Chicago territory midway through the first quarter, when Kansas Citys Derrick Johnson hit him in the knee. Nick Perry Jersey . -- If the Bears make changes this off-season, it will not be at quarterback. http://www.shopjerseyspackers.com/authentic-brett-favre-pink -jersey/ . The teams official Twitter account quoted coach John Tortorella on Friday saying that Kesler "has a sprained knee and is out at least a couple of weeks". Green Jamari Lattimore Elite Womens Jersey . The 25-year-old Spaniard, who joined United from Chelsea in January, scored twice, including directly from a free kick, to take his tally to three goals in his last two games. "I think he has made us better," United manager David Moyes said. John Kuhn Jersey . As the lowest-ranked of nine unseeded European qualifiers, France was expected to go in the Africa-dominated draw pot — meaning it could not be placed in the same group as a top-seeded European team. PRETORIA, South Africa -- Oscar Pistorius fired guns in public in the months before he killed his girlfriend -- once out of a car sunroof on a road and once in a crowded restaurant, a onetime friend said at the athletes murder trial Tuesday, drawing an aggressive effort from the chief defence lawyer to pick holes in his testimony. The account by Darren Fresco portrayed Pistorius as a reckless hothead infatuated with firearms and seemingly drifting down a precarious path before he fatally shot Reeva Steenkamp through a closed toilet door at his home before dawn on Feb. 14, 2013. Frescos description of how Pistorius once berated a police officer fit the prosecutions attempts to cast the double-amputee athlete as prone to flashes of anger and blinded by an inflated sense of entitlement at a time when his public image was that of a clean-cut poster boy for overcoming adversity. "I said to him, are you (expletive) mad?" Fresco testified after, he said, Pistorius fired his gun out of the sunroof of the car later on the same day that he had the dispute with the police officer. "He just laughed." At the same time, the testimony was coming from a man whose own actions were under scrutiny. Judge Thokozile Masipa cautioned Fresco, who was also a friend of Steenkamp, that some questions could incriminate him for offences including discharge of a firearm in a built-up area, negligent damage to property and reckless endangerment. She said he would not be prosecuted if he answered the questions truthfully. Pistorius, 27, denies shooting the gun in the car, although now two witnesses say that he did. The athlete is on trial for murder in the killing of Steenkamp, and also faces two firearm charges for shooting in public and a third firearm charge for illegal possession of ammunition. Pistorius says he shot Steenkamp by mistake, thinking she was a dangerous intruder. The prosecution says he killed her after an argument. The athletes demeanour in court Tuesday was drastically different from the previous day, when he needed a vomit bucket as he heard a pathologist give graphic details of the injuries he inflicted on his girlfriend when he shot her multiple times. This time, Pistorius mostly sat with his hands in his lap and often made notes. Fresco testified that Pistorius altercation with a police officer happened in late 2012, when their car was pulled over by traffic police for the second time that day. He said Pistorius was furious with an officer for handling his gun, which he had left on the passenger seat. "You cant just touch another mans gun," Pistorius said to the officer, according to Fresco. "He started tellingg the officer: Now your fingerprints are all over my gun, so if something happens, you are then going to be liable for anything that had happened.dddddddddddd He was furious about that. Someone else had touched his gun." Fresco and a former Pistorius girlfriend have both testified that the Olympian shot his gun out of the car sunroof later that day. But their stories do not match in parts, a fact highlighted by defence lawyer Barry Roux. Fresco, who said he was driving the car, testified that Pistorius fired without warning sometime after visiting an unidentified persons house. Samantha Taylor, who was dating the athlete at the time and was in the car, has testified that it happened soon after the altercation with police and after Pistorius and Fresco discussed finding a traffic light to shoot at. Roux also questioned Fresco about an incident at a packed Johannesburg restaurant in the posh Melrose Arch district in early 2013 -- about a month before Steenkamps death -- when he said he handed his gun under the table to Pistorius and it fired. According to Fresco, Pistorius said there was too much "media hype" around him and asked Fresco to take the blame for the shooting, which he did. Fresco said he had warned Pistorius that the gun was "one-up," meaning it had a bullet in the chamber. "I knew that he had a big love for weapons," Fresco testified. "My assumption was that he had competency." Roux asked Fresco when exactly he had warned Pistorius that there was a magazine in the gun and a bullet in the chamber, and when Pistorius had asked him to take the rap. The friend couldnt pinpoint the precise times. "Will you agree, Mr. Fresco, you have uncertainty ... about what specifically happened and what was said?" Roux asked. Roux sought to undermine Frescos character, questioning why he crumpled up a speeding ticket and threw it on the floor of the car after he and Pistorius were stopped by the police. Fresco also said hed been following some previous testimony in the case on Twitter, which witnesses should not do. If convicted on the murder charge, Pistorius could be sent to prison for at least 25 years before the chance of parole, the minimum time someone must serve if given a life sentence in South Africa. The judge will ultimately deliver the verdict and decide on any sentence. South Africa has no trial by jury. Pistorius was born without fibula bones because of a congenital defect, and his legs were amputated when he was 11 months old. He ran on carbon-fiber blades and is a multiple Paralympic medallist . He also competed at the London Olympics but didnt win a medal. ' ' '
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