Live Thread: Cavs at Jazz
2014-11-05
The Cavs are heading to Utah to take on the Jazz. This game should be interesting because if the Wine & Gold lose there will be a lot of talk about their ineffectiveness so far this season. Everyone on the floor tonight should be playing their best game. Tristan Thompson will be trying especially hard to shut down Derrick Favors whenever he has a chance; shutting down Favors would bolster Thompson’s argument for a large contract after the season.
Interestingly, Derrick Favors’ PER of 28.8 is second among centers this season.
Utah also only has two players playing over thirty minutes a game, Gordon Hayward and Favors. I want to see how David Blatt uses the bench tonight to combat a Utah team that wants everyone on the wood fresh.
Keep an eye on Rudy Gobert who had a monster summer showing playing for France during the FIBA tournament. He may not be the not most polished NBA guy, but he’s huge and can definitely protect the rim.
Matty Dellavedova will be sitting this game because of a knee injury. Someone on the Cavs will need to step up and try to hustle on defense. I’m looking at Saint Weirdo, Mr. Dion Waiters, to do this. Prove your zero assists with three turnovers in 28 minutes last night were because you were plotting how you would shutdown Utah’s guards, please.
Just in, Shawn Marion is starting instead of Dion Waiters.
What are your predictions for the game? I’m thinking Cavs win, 101-95.
Defense picking up…a few weird gambles but overall the intensity has jumped. Dion just earned an assist, folks!
Matrix is such a clever old man defender.
He’s had a few moments in the 3rd
Lets give Kantor lots and lots and lots of those threes.
at least i have Tim Misney to make me laugh.
What insane miracle occurred that allowed this team to beat the Bulls? What an aberration that is turning out to be. And Lebron’s somewhat confused interview after the game makes sooo much more sense.
Fortunately, it’s now the end of the workday here in LA, so I get to spend an hour driving home in traffic which will be a fun alternative to watching the second half of this game. Looking forward to the recap (Oy!)
This isn’t even fun iso ball. That’s the worst part. Last year I looked forward to Dion taking over sometimes.
great (but so depressing) comment.
I just hope we squeak into the playoffs in the East.
Too early, Tom. Lots of figuring out to do. Still, I think we can publicly and privately hold LBJ accountable. Not buyin’ this ‘passive aggressive’ leadership. Dude’s gotta make the shots he’s supposed to make and D up his man.
Gordon Heyward should not be the best player on the floor.
Cavs have a grand total of 2 assists at the half. Very un-Princetonian
Henry Sims? Josh Smith? Bargnani? Hard to argue too much though. He looks particularly bad tonight.
Have to argue with you, Genius. Name me a starting big who is worse on D than Love.
TT?
wait he doesn’t start
Nate you’re right. Favors is just OWNING KLove tonight. He’s just not getting any sort of position on him.
Combine that with just lazy a#% help D.
LeBron doesn’t have any lift whatsoever.
Giving up 60 points to this Jazz team is freaking embarrassing
Just screamed at Love for letting burks score over him. That was awful.
Not a block! CLEARLY a goaltend on the replay! Hit the backboard!
Damit. It happened. Hayward stole LeBron’s powers with the chase down block.
GOALTENDING! WHERE IS THE CALL?!
This is the second sequence of D. Will it continue.
Signs of life. ..
Couple of run outs off of good D. Got to have a LOT more of that to win
Wtf is lebron doing on d there?
Cavs are two times as good this season, but our expectations are fifty times as high. Let down time.
LeBron letting Favors get that rebound is just unacceptable. And then Favors gets it right back for the dunk.
The now patented LBJ hand waving defense.
Jesus, Love put a freaking body on Favors…
And then Love gives up the easy rebound to Favors
Kevin Love just played D!
I remember watching this episode of House one time where he was betting on a boxer and then the boxer sucked it up in his match. House watched his eyes and diagnosed him with Lupus. Anyone on the blog a doctor? what’s going on with the L-Train.
LeBron couldn’t finish that.
what is the world is going on
Perhaps the issue is not health or mental, perhaps LeBron is getting old? That is a scary proposition.
There was a good KLove defensive play
I think Marion has missed more layups than he has made this year.
Until Marion at the end, there was ABSOLUTELY nobody moving on that LBJ ISO
Not to say I told you so, but…
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You can’t play 5 feet off of Hayward and expect him to miss an 18 footer
The old LBJ would have had an and-1 there. Just looks weak and tired.
It isn’t just LeBron that looks old… The lack of athletic defenders on this team is glaring.
Cavs can barely put the ball on the floor without risking turning over and the Jazz are just DESTROYING the Cavs on dribble penetration
This is getting almost worse than watching last year’s team. At least I didn’t expect much from last year’s team.
No D whatsoever. This is dreadful. And Lebron still looks like an old man.
Dion with the screen door defense. Guess the benching hasn’t sunk in yet.
Not even halfway through the second quarter and I am debating turning to the new South Park…
ugh. Andy lets heyward shoot right over him and then Kyrie takes a terrible pullup.
PASS IT DION!!!!!!!
Swiss cheese defense
I’m gonna called Ennes Nation, so I can get a tweet from all his Turkish fans.
Tomorrow’s game recap should be subtitled (All The Dribbling). Seriously, Utah passing so superior to Cavs.
Dion: great effort. Terrible situational awareness.
OFfensive board off of a foul shot. Ridiculous.
Right over the top
At what point will blatt dial back the defensive trapping. the rotations just aren’t working,
That’s an inexcusable turnover out of a timeout.
Dion didn’t pass? Shocking
Cavs look decent. I’m betting they win this one.
What game are you watching Cols? I want to turn to that channel
Seriously. They look like hot garbage. Again. The defense is so bad especially on the interior.
You are Poes’ s law in action. Jazz on pace to score 128…
Utah bigs just getting ball way too deep in the post
Good hustle fellas! Kyrie redeeming himself for horrible pass
Cavs on their feels defensively. Looks like a blowout in the making
That’s just not Andy’s shot LBJ
That’s an exaggeration Nate
hWorst starter? He’s in the discussion.
Love might be the worst defensive big in the league. Favors just owns him.
Good hustle from Andy
So it looks like Kevin Love can shoot and the Cavs should just feed/kick out to him on every possession until LeBron gets back to being LeBron.
Bigs killing the cavs early. ..
This may be because they need need a backup guard off the bench mire than a punishment.
Whoa. Marion is starting!
I can’t wait for tomorrow’s news coverage of this move though. Should be pretty funny.
Yeah I fear it’s going to affect Dion more than it should.
Although, he’s responded reasonably well to this kind of stuff in the past.
I hope it affects him like a swift kick in the rear end
Having Marion replacing Dion will make the Cavs starting lineup pretty big. They might be a little lumbering, but I like it. I called Dion moving to bench in one of our preseason pods so he can score more. I just hope he decides to play defense as a little “f you” to blatt.
Cavs 91 Jazz 88. This will be more like the Chicago game
Without delly weighing this offense down we might score more points.
Looks like Matrix will be replacing Dion as a starter… I think we can call this a message to Dion that he needs to shape up or ship out.
Huh, maybe Blatt reads the blog
Jazz 108 Cavs 85 (still not rock bottom)