Live Thread: Cavs versus Bulls
2015-01-19
The Cavs finished off their West Coast road trip in style with a Hollyweird sweep. In their first game back to The Q, the boys in wine and gold square off with the division leading Chicago Bulls in their second matchup of the season. Cleveland took the first round in Chicago with an overtime victory thriller on Halloween night. Joakim Noah (ankle) is out, and Kevin Love makes his return to the lineup. Should be a slobberknocker. Go Cavs!
Really nice movement on that fast-ish break. JR the right guy to get the ball into LBJ on the run…
I heard the movie Lucy was one of the top ten worst films of 2014.
It had it’s moments (especially if you like ScarJo). But it was very lucrative. 22nd biggest movie box office last year and was made on the cheap (relatively speaking)
LeBron gets the best star calls. Even when his own teammates foul him he goes to the line.
JK it looks like Butler pushed him.
MOZ!! Changing Rose’s shot AGAIN!
TT has 9 rebounds already (6 offensive).
He’s playing a little like DeAndre Jordan the other night
THERE YOU GO TT! FINISH STRONG!
I think LBJ forgot just how tough Jimmy Butler plays him…
I’m loving Mosgov!
THERE YOU GO MOZ!
8 turnovers for the Cavs, but Bulls have scored Zero points off of them so far. Mixed blessings…
Grant Hill making sense. If LeBron would just come out and verbally support Blatt it would end the speculation. Maybe Blatt should sign with Klutch?
Love Moz’s energy, but there’s like 4 balls I wish he would have just crushed into the basket tonight…
LeBron with some nice chucking tonight.
LBJ missed EVERYTHING with that last shot…
LeBron with 2 air balls tonight.
I absolutely love the Dollar Shave Club ads. I mean they TAZE AN OLD GUY…
JR! They should REALLY be looking for him more on the wing three
3 blocks for Mosgov.
Mozgov really affecting Rose tonight.
Mozilla really making a difference.
Playing Gasol very tough on D
Nice pass by LeBron to Love at the elbow. Love misses and Mozilla almost cleans it up.
Hate that it got called offensive interference, but like the energy from Love
Like the play there.
What are you doing Love?
Stealing points from Mozilla!
MOZGOV! Get that weak stuff outta here! And then Brooks with the miracle three…
Mozilla block, but Brooks gets a 3 instead.
I like Grant Hill. Good guy, good announcer. Decent career for a guy who had the kind of injury problems he had
It’s amazing he came back to play. If he and Z had an injury contest, I think Hill would win.
I think you might be right. But Greg Oden would beat them both (figuratively and literally…)
I guess I haven’t being paying enough attention to the Bulls issues lately. Didn’t realize they’d lost 5 of last 7
Love actually playing some really good D on Gibson that time down
Gibson against Love, eschews the head butt this time.
Love has to hit those 3s.
But got to love the recognition by LBJ to hit him with that pass. That will fall more often than not if he gives him those kind of feeds…
In Love’s last 8 games, including tonight, he’s 7 of 33 on 3’s, for 21%.
Then he’s due to hit some…
I think he’s still injured. Kind of was hoping they’d sit him for a week to get well.
Mirotic with 7 fouls in 18 minutes now. That’s kinda funny
Forget whether it was a 2 or 3–let’s see a replay of what happened to the kid.
Love looking like he’s got a different level of energy this game…
Good to see the offense moving through Love.
Nice execution by Matrix and Love that possession
With Love on the floor and Irving and James sitting. Love should be the focal point of offense. Get him the ball on the elbow.
Sorry James is on the floor.
James is still in at the 2
Thibideau just seems like a miserable human being…
On the bright side, this is the first time in a long time that I remember the Cavs holding a team not just under 30 for the first quarter, but under 20. Obviously, Bulls helping the narrative by missing a ton of shots, but Cavs at least contesting them and rebounding well.
The Bulls did miss a lot of open shots tho.
Decent offense too, with limited iso ball. But that’s usually been the case in first quarters. They have to extend it deeper into games. It’s a work in progress.
If TT is not going to DUNK the ball when he goes back up after a board, he needs to learn to kick it out better…
You mean instead of jumping into ten grabbing arms/hands?
Ugly final possession by Irving. Can’t take the hero ball out of some of these guys apparently.
Stanky leg LeBron chuck which goes out of bounds, then grabbed by Love as he jumps out of bounds and dishes for Marion for a floater. Just like Blatt drew it up.
WOW! That was pretty move by Kyrie
I’m not going to comment on LeBron’s iso air ball.
KLove and Matrix SAVING LBJ on that ISO possession
Nice pass by Irving to TT. They’ve really developed some good chemistry this year.
That whole thing was pretty: the curl and pass to Kyrie (I missed who made the initial pass), the quick roll by TT, instant find by Kyrie and explosive finish by TT.
TNT showing the “Blatt good job guys” montage
TT is unbeeleebable with his hustle and energy. Haters gonna hate so what if he misses 10 layups in the game. He still gonna get paid cuz I says so. Rich Paul the man!!
Teams combining to shoot a blistering 12-39 from the floor. Ugly.
TT is not going to get many layups past Gasol…
Bulls shooting themselves in the foot during this first quarter.
And they’re only down by 3.
Rose with the early T. Get in his head Cavs!
By the way, I’m going for a turnover record tonight. Who’s with me?
Love is still laboring when he runs–the back is clearly not 100%.
Oops, that wasn’t meant as a reply. But Hinrich may try to match LBJ on turnovers.
Yeah, he literally just rolled that ball out of bounds
Good hustle… Would nice if our damn guards could pass the ball a little more to Love while LBJ is on the bench.
Love the high handoff from Ky to TT
Passing is Lebron’s bailiwick.
Good one! At least he’s ubiquitous on offense though…
Lebronny on the spot?
Klove needed to do a better acting job if he wanted to be noticed. I guess I need to give him better lessons in milking it when you fake a head injury.
Nice pass into Moz from Bron. Unfortunately Moz pulls a KLove gator arm…
Do love the way that Moz changed Rose’s shot earlier though…And like the activity from the big man
Nice move by LBJ right there!
Need to take advantage now since the Bulls are missing a lot of shots early
The Bulls might be worse than the Cavs on the fast break right now…
LeBron has like 3 turnovers already.
Is there a dentist in the house?
Sad that the Cavs didn’t recognize that Love wasn’t down at that end of the floor…
Wow, Love got NAILED in the face
Look at Mozgov with the wheels! Nice find by LeBron.
Probably not the best promotion to hand out white towels to the fans. Bad mixed metaphor… “Wave the white towel before you throw it in…”
Marv the Mouth. My favorite. At least Grant Hill is there to balance out the annoyance…
First Nate uses “panacea”, now Cory with “slobberknocker.” C:tBloggers raising the linguistic bar! I like it!
Quite of bit of my vocabulary comes from my on again, off again love affair with professional wrestling.
@twithersAP: Meyer just spent few seconds with Kyrie Irving, headed into #Cavs locker room with owner Dan Gilbert.