Live Thread: Cavs @ Timberwolves
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Kevin Love returns to the Twin Cities tonight, along with the rest of the Cavaliers. Greeting him will be a possible promotional video that features the return of one year T-Wolve Mike Miller instead of Love. Or huh? Flip Saunders was not pleased…
@JasonLloydABJ He is culpable. In the previous matchup vs Cle he went out of his way to take shots at KLove.
— JayBee (@RogersParkJon) January 31, 2015
@mcten Would the Spurs take the last slice of pizza? Would the Spurs switch lanes without a turn signal? Would the Spurs dislike The Wire?
— Wait For Dusk (@waitfordusk) January 31, 2015
In other news…
#TSRInjuryReport: Ricky Rubio (ankle), Shabazz Muhammad (oblique) and Robbie Hummel (hand) are out.
— MN Timberwolves (@MNTimberwolves) January 30, 2015
So the Cavs have Kevin’s pride, and the absence of Rubio’s reingineered jumper going for them, which is nice… GO CAVS!
Blatt waited one possession too long to call TO. Saw the energy level shifting and physical play uptick before taking the TO
wiggins makes me cry… He’s 19…
Wiggins calling for the ball at all times. He’s up for this game. I’m not seeing the “passive” player the draft pundits were talking about.
Cavs playing sloppy all around
TT should NOT be guarding Wig on the perimeter fwiw
wiggins winning this battle so far
Wiggins and pekovic are apparently allowed to get away with murder. Ridiculous how huge that dude is
Meanwhile, they call a ticky tack foul on TT.
Wig just nailed Shump with a forearm to the chin
They’re trying to play bully ball…. that will fire the guys up.
wow. Pekovic is a thug.
Time for kyrie to drop 3 quick 3’s and bury this half
His shot has been off tonight for whatever reason…
Kyrie is becoming quite the ball thief
Really think we are playing sloppy. That lorenzo brown missd dunk is a prime example. A play later james cheated off and tried to get the steal and didn’t even attempt to recover. Wolves got called for an offensive foul but I’ll be pissed if they don’t wake up soon.
still hard to believe gumdrops was a number one pick
And for that reason, Chris Grant will live on in infamy as a Trivial Pursuit question…
Kevin Love already has 11 rebounds. Might go for 20 and 20 tonight
Love his activity tonight… need to get the offense flowing more.
Maybe I should have said which will happen first, 20 points from Wiggins or 20 boards from Love…
Looks like Moz got absolutely MUGGED on the replay of that last time under the hoop…
Great look there by JR, Mozgov gotta get it and slam it!
Gum drop bear sighting! They have him just standing in the corner on every set, motionless. What a waste of a decent PnR talent.
GumDropBear is going to be a big star… in the Italian League…
How’s the view Grover?
If he was put at an elbow or block he might go to the free throw line frequently. Don’t really know if a team as bad as the wolves can’t let him play who could?
Sloppy play will also keep this game closer than it should be…
Cavs up by 7 and Kyrie hasn’t scored yet. Not concerned. Only thing keeping Wolves in this are Cavs turnovers…
And missed free throws…smh
GREAT drive by SHUMP!
Saw that he had Budinger on him, then proceeded accordingly.
Ok james no more one on one duel with a rookie, just run the offense and bury them, coldly, clinically.
Amen. Remember to actually win the war buddy
He heard you and Evil and passed off that time. Shump with the nice drive.
The Wolves are really packing the middle when LeBron isolates. Will present opportunities for the shooters.
I have no problem with the play, he should beat him in the post… probably should’ve taken it strong to the hoop than the fade away.
Yeah wiggins should have 4 fouls if he stays on the court til halftime
Great call Scotch, that should be the plan.
LBJ falling into the trap of turning this into a one on one game with Wig right now…
TT with the MONSTER BLOCK!
No words to explain that baseline fade. Plays like that remind me how awesome it is to have LeBron on our side.
Meanwhile, outrebounding Minnesota 23-8 right now
Cavs doing a good job of keeping possessions alive
I mean can we agree this is legitimately the worst team in the league? Worse than philly by a bit, than ny by a long shot. We better kill them
They did just lose to Philly, so yes I think we can make that assertion…
LBJ showing why he didn’t include Wig in his Essay this summer with that possession…
HAHAHAHAHA… word!
DELLY!!! finally some aggression!
Nice teardrop from Delly!
Cavs by 9 at the end of the quarter. Wiggins has 12 points, 2 steals. Love has 6 points, 9 rebounds.
Good defense, but kind of letting Wiggins and Martin get some easy shots… Good offense with some overpassing at the beginning. Haven’t played their best, yet they’re up nicely… I’ll take it.
Happened less as Shump and Delly came in though…
Love how they’re some fighters on defense.
Lebron could get 80 this game on layups if he wanted to
Agreed Scotch… he’s being merciless in driving to the paint. Beasting on Wiggins.
30-21 sounds pretty familiar these days for a Cavs first quarter…
LBJ with the 40 foot hail mary as the clock expires…
We need to stiffen up the defense. Too many open looks and paint penetrations. They are penetrating away from Kyrie, which I’ve never seen a team consistently try. His reputation is starting to precede him
They also have their top three PG options sitting out tonight, so they have nobody who can dribble past Kyrie
SHUMP from DEEP in the Target Center…
Just got to be physical with Wig. He weighs like 140 pounds…
Shumpert has been staying after practice to work on his passing with Haywood.
Sloppy play from the Matrix
KLOVE with the TAKE THAT THREE!
MOZ is KILLING them inside!
Want them to bury this team early, and there really is no reason why they shouldn’t, but in my eyes they have looked pretty lackadaisical and a bit sloppy. Need to stop messing around. Doubt the twolves could win this game but this is a trap game if i ever saw one.
Think they’re just trying hard to get Love off to a good start, but he’s been overpassing a little, probably so he doesn’t miss a few and get the crowd more in his head…
Talking more aboout their d, eg the wiggins backdoor against jr where mozgov had to foul. Effort like that annoys me in games like this.
Hard to be a “trap game” if you’ve got nobody to look past them for… I mean the Sixers?
True. Guess i meant trap as in we are on a 9 game win streak against the worst team in the league, so we don’t take the game seriously.
They should have a different terminology for that then… like pothole or streakbuster…
Yeah, not sure if i used the term correctly tho. But you get what i mean.
Yes, I got it. I was just having fun with the terminology… point taken
MOZ with the accidental oop…
And here comes the tribute video… this was around the time that LBJ went south in the Miami game…
Some overpassing by the Cavs early… like the spirit, but they need to just take the open shot. Kyrie had an open one, and he passed to JR and he missed. JR passed to KLove but luckily he passed back and JR nailed it.
Lebron backing down Wigggins at every opportunity. Smart.
Wig can’t stop LBJ on the drive… just no contest
They are really looking to feed KLove…
Oh, man. Wiggins makes Love look bad with the steal and score.
JR SWISHHHHHHH!!!
MOZGOD!!!!! IRON CURTAIN CRUSHING!!
Good Moz activity and involvement on offense so far. They haven’t looked for him enough in recent games.
Awesome bounce pass from JR… MOZFLUSH!
Maybe Flip’s tech was for complaining about the Mike Miller video…
I don’t think the Wolves have ANY healthy PGs. Rubio, Mo and Levine are all out…
Too many options to pass to on that break…
Lebron is going to get into wiggins head real quick.
Damn read my mind Chemist, missed your post, said something similar.
Moz vs. Pekovic is like a Cold War
Tonight away with travel and 3 seconds there. Flip was pissed.
Flip with the Tech!
GET THAT WEAK WIG OUTTA HERE!!
GET THAT WEAK WIG OUTTA HERE!
I think LBJ has a grudge against Wiggins…. I think LBJ is looking to make a statement.
Man against boy right there
Did he go to the tanning booth prior to the game? Somewhere there could be some zoolander quotes might be posted.
KLove! Strong rebound and put back
Mostly boos for Love; a few claps here & there. Wasn’t nearlyvthe scale of Lebrons first visit with Miami. Sold out crowd.
How about Flip? Did he get boos or cheers? ;)
Does flip know where Dave stern has any bodies buried?
^^^^^^^^^^ Read my mind Chemist
Sigh. This is the second night in a row League Pass has the Cavs only in standard def, at least on my system. It’s uncivilized!
WTH??? It’s freakin 2015…. that’s a joke!
I know, right? League Pass has four hi-def slots on Fios here in central Jersey, and tonight they’re all taken by games that started earlier.
Dude, get DirecTV… Only way to fly…
My condolences Phil.
Hahaha that Spurs tweet. Can’t stand the narrative surrounding that team like a protective bubble.
The video was actually kinda funny anyway. Don’t get why he’d be that upset by it…
I’ve never liked Flip… how does he keep getting jobs???
Yeah, I think it’s actually a clever way to deal with the situation. Funny, a bit of a tweak, but not nasty.
I’m expecting this night to have about 0.1% of the animosity of LeBron’s first trip back to Cleveland with the Heat.
Yeah, cause they actually got something for Love from the Cavs when he left…
The wiggins asset was worth it considering they had talent around love anyway. Of the talent is injury prone but pekovic and Rubio when healthy are quite gifted players. Cavs got picks that really had to be packaged for maximum utility. They didn’t use the exemption I think because nobody wanted to swing the cap savings to help the cavs.
Flip denying knowledge of the video and saying he’s upset by it is like guys who delete offensive tweets and then say that their Twitter account was hacked…
He might have said that for Adam silvers’ benefit.
Who gets to 20 first tonight… KLove or Wig?
Wait, no Anthony Bennett ? Wiggins I bet
Love. Wiggins will be affected by Mozgov. Unless his jumper is on, Wiggins could struggle.
Think we might get to see LBJ defend wiggins ?
Maybe but I bet it’s mostly Shump or JR
Where’s the darn delete button on my post?!?
HAHAHA Happens to all of us Phil! Doesn’t matter if he scores 50…. they still lost!
I thought Rubio was coming back this week?
I wish he would have been back. He is a wizard but not really much of a shooter. I hope that mozgov and pekovic square off and talk smack at other in their own languages so David blatt can translate.
Don’t thik Bennett will do much. Dieng might have a shot at a nice game though. Mo Williams? Well he might shoot 30 times this game.
Mo’s hip has been bugging him though. He missed a game (plus the one before that for personal reasons) and has had a rough time shooting the last couple of games before that…
If Love brings the intensity tonight that he had last night, Cavs should win this in a laugher…