Author: Nate Smith

2017-10-18 Off

Recap: Cleveland 102, Boston 99 (or, a win, prayers, and other strangeness)

By Nate Smith

This game had everything: spectacular plays, gruesome injuries, amazing comebacks, awful officiating, baffling coaching decisions, and the best basketball player in the universe prevailing late. It promises to be a long, enigmatic, frustrating, and jaw dropping season for Cleveland.

The game started out with Kyrie canning a floater after being booed during the opening introductions and the game going back and forth before the unthinkable happened.

2017-10-05 Off

Preseason Podcap: Atlanta 109, Cleveland 93 (or, the Waiting is the Hardest Part)

By Nate Smith

With a wistful nod to the recently departed Tom Petty, we embark with the newly constructed Cavaliers on the (seemingly never-ending, but at least a bit shorter) pre-season campaign. In their first of five warm up games that don’t count, the guys in wine & gold red and yellow trimmed tighty-whites (which actually didn’t look half bad), took on the erstwhile Atlanta Hawks and their lone remaining peroxide patched, hookah bar brawler of a point guard, Denis SchrÖeder. The initial results were promising…