Live Thread: Cavs @ Bucks
2015-03-22
The Cavs roll into the Harris Bradley Center to face the reeling Bucks for an early afternoon tilt.
The Bucks are losers of five straight and 12 of 15, which has endangered their six seed in the EC. They are just 4-12 since swapping Brandon Knight for Michael Carter-Williams, and lost a heartbreaker Friday in a 129-127 triple-overtime loss to Brooklyn.
The Cavs secured their first playoff spot since 2010 after Friday’s win over the Pacers. They’re an NBA-best 26-6 since Jan. 15, but all of those losses have come on the road. The Bucks have won eight of nine against the Cavs in Milwaukee, but they’ve all been minus LBJ.
The Cavs will look to improve their road record against this long and athletic Bucks squad. So, pry yourself away from the March Madness and check out some matinee Cavs basketball…
LeBron dribbled the air out of the ball and then left kyrie in a bad situation on that last miss. LEt’s hope the timeout cleans some of that up, since LeBron’s on the bench…
The Spurs are systematically DESTROYING the Hawks in Atlanta right now…
Wiggins would’ve made that Love miss.
Good one Arch…
Seems like Kyrie gets whacked on every drive and it’s rarely called
Kyrie is on at both ends.
How did the refs NOT call a foul on that Kyrie make? He amazingly still made the bucket even getting shoved out of bounds
Nice back-door pass by Moz, better finish by Kyrie.
Will I ever not be disappointed by Love this season?
Every time you type that… he’ll hit a three… ;)
lol : ) I’ll keep typing then!
I like to see KLove in the post, but he seems to miss more shorties than he hits…
He is just so out of rhythm. It’s actually troubling.
Sheesh. He’s eying her like the last spare rib at the Chinese buffet.
HA! Awesome comment!
Get your kevin LOVE bubblehead
I really hate this KLove bobblehead commercial…
What if it was Mozgov bobblehead commercial
It’s not the WHO… it’s the WHY make a commercial that awful?
If he leaves, this may be one of the things that drives him away.
Cavs allowing the Bucks to shoot 60% with 36 points in the paint!
LBJ is a game worst -17…
This wasn’t one of those plus/minus anomalies. He stunk.
Watching Okafor and Duke at halftime. Going to have to do some remote magic when Kansas, WSU starts.
Which side are you on for Kansas/WSU?
Shockers! My Dad’s family is from Wichita. I may be hosting family if they make the sweet 16 in Cleveland. My grandpa had tix for 20 years. A couple cousins go to every game, and a few other cousins went to Kansas. It’s a huge game.
Go Shockers! Not a big Bill Self fan…
Remotes need a button for a 3-channel rotation. Sometimes the ‘Last’ toggle just isn’t enough.
Lebron told already – get me to playoffs and I don’t care – and he doesn’t care :) And the whole team except Kyrie don’t
Moz looked like he cared…
Fred: LeBron and TT weren’t on the same page in that play.
Me: you mean he wasn’t camped in the stands?
Haha! LeBron’s Brendan Haywood moment.
That possession was baffling. HE didn’t even have time to make that pass.
If I’m Blatt I’m all over the refs for the Bucks just camping out in the middle on D without guarding anyone.
Bucks camping worse than teenagers playing Call of Duty…
Here’s the play that Joey B hates… the dribble out to the worthless end of quarter possession… Shaqtin’ a Fool moment there on the pass from LBJ…
What the hell was that?
TT almost had too much time for that foul line open J…
Thompson is playing like garbage.
You’re right. He’s pretty bad, today.
Jesus. Defensive 3 seconds… I counted to 5 on Zaza. No one within 10 feet of him.
He looked like Joshua Smith of Georgetown on that play… If the NCAA ever goes to a system where they call camping out in the lane, there are some guys that will have to quit the game…
Cavs need some stops to end the quarter
I LOVED that Kyrie move! Thought for sure he traveled… but on the replay he went off the dead leg… just awesome!
Another awful call. The Greek Freak plays out of control and gets a ridiculous foul call on LeBron.
I thought you were overreacting, but you’re right. There was no contact.
Cavs just not picking up the ball.
Pachulia is a little girl and will get a nice fine next week.
It would be great if they sent a black and white picture of the flop in the mail along with a fine… kind of like what they used to do with stoplight cameras on traffic tickets…
The thing that comes to mind is that Curb Your Enthusiam episode with Larry David and Jeffs mom.
Seems like a continuation from the mini-fracas earlier between Moz and ZaZa
These must be NCAA refs. They stink!
Perkins is not playing but teaching Mozgov how to be tough and strong monster ? :D Looks like he is the only one who is tough enough in this team
There’s a sniper in the building.
Complete flop…….. not a big fan of the officiating so far…
The tech was crap too. He walked away.
Moz did crash into ZaZa a bit… but ZaZa went down like he’d been shot…
That was a crap call. I wish refs would hand out techs for flops.
Just doesn’t seem like they are sealing guys off underneath
GREAT ball movement for the JR SWISH!
Winning hides a lot of deficiencies. Cavs defense has actually been a major concern since late February…
Can’t quite tell why Cavs are defending paint well on some possessions, but then just allowing open layups and dunks on others…
Yeah, Bucks are tough. They’re going to be among the East’s best within two years. Any other year, JKidd would be coach of the year. Kerr or Bud will get it though.
I guess Kidd knew what he was doing forcing his way out of Brooklyn… Bucks future certainly looks a lot brighter than Nets…
Kyrie against the tall trees!
Great ball movement on the last few possessions.
I’d pay to see Mozzy and Zaza throw down.
I want to see the Moz/Patchulia cage match!
I feel like cavs came into the game thinking they would win by just showing up…
Playoff clinching hangover…
Cavs trying to make home run passes every time.
MOZ-LOB-JAM!!
Downtown Milwaukee is pretty cool. Lots of fun.
What happened to LBJ there? The ball just slipped off his fingers on the break…
I think he was trying to hit the trailer.
Agree… just not something that usually happens to LBJ on a fast break
In the Chinese calendar, it’s the Year of the Loose Handle.
Henson needs to realize that you can’t go off on the refs on back to back plays without getting slapped with a T…
that looked pretty clean.
Bucks show what it takes to keep LeBron from getting a shot off on a drive: two guys clamping down on his arms and the ball at the same time with all their might.
The 2013 draft was considered the worst in years, and it looks like it might be one of the best: Giannis, MCW, Gobert, KCP, Oadipo. It was Grant’s Waterloo.
Still the only one who was in the conversation for the overall number one at the time was Oladipo…
Which shows you how dumb GMs were. Gobert’s fall out of the lottery was an exercise in group think idiocy. Giannis was the other one. Might go down as the greatest 15th pick ever.
True… seems like the scouts didn’t do their jobs, or the GMs just lazily bought into the hype that it was the “worst draft pool ever”
Have no idea why this team got rid of Brandon Knight….
Cause they think MCW can be special.
They’ve been pretty bad ever since…
Knight was their best player. And he already was special lol
Shump’s stroke looks pure today…
Thanks for getting the thread up, EG. Was flooring all afternoon. Sad to see the Cavs end of quarter blues have it.
No problem!
They held the Bucks without a bucket for almost 5 minutes before the MCW flurry. Can’t believe that LBJ drive didn’t go down at the end…
tuned in when they were down 8. Nice run.
I don’t know if this is coincidence or not, but Cavs defensive effort seemed to improve with LBJ off the court and broke down when he returned at the end of the quarter…
The end of the quarter wasn’t too bad. The 10-2 start for the Bucks was worse.
Bucks getting to the rack whenever they feel like it…
Cavs have 73 alley-oops since January… most in the NBA… and third most all season just behind Lob City and the Mavs…
Moz is not good tonight
He has trouble with the quicker/more athletic bigs…
TERRIFIC pass from Uncle Drew to Wes to tie it!
A nice semi-athletic finish by Love too.
Bucks floor kinda reminds me of a bowling alley…
JR SWISH!
The high handoff!
Kyrie with the double-clutcher!
Looks like a preseason game for both teams at the moment. More so for the Cavs — turnovers, sloppy play, loose D, bad transitino D.
The Greek Freak is conducting a one-man layup drill on the Cavs transition D…
The pace of this game is ridiculous right now…
In the last game thread, Arch pointed out the Bucks’ killer closing schedule. Cavs can help push them down to the 7 seed.
That’s an awful lot of threes the Cavs have given up already…