Live Thread: Cavs @ Bucks
2015-11-14
Cleveland travels to Milwaukee tonight to take on the Bucks, who, thankfully, have their starting point guard back. Why do I say “thankfully?” Well, because Michael Carter-Williams, while posting a decent PER of 16, has been a pretty lousy shooter so far this year for the 4-5 Bucks. Meanwhile, with a significant minutes upgrade due to MCW’s absence, journeyman Jerryd Bayless has been shooting the lights out so far this year. Bayless is hitting a scorching 47% of his threes this year to go with a 58 TS%, while MCW is 27% from three with a (laughably) career high, 51.5 TS%. Personally, I’m thrilled the Bucks traded Cavs’ killer, Brandon Knight last year, and set their organization back with one of the worst trades in recent history. But, the projected regular season starting five is back together for Milwaukee.
Greg Monroe, Khris Middleton, Giannis Antetokounmpo, Jabari Parker, and Michael Carter-Williams will presumably start for the Bucks, who face a Cavs team coming off difficult win in New York, just last night. Let’s hope some the the post-ups the Cavs were running in New York for Kevin Love come earlier and more often, as he looks to take advantage of the less than stellar defenders Monroe and Parker. The Bucks will be tough to handle on the defensive end as they now sport a pair of 18 PPG scorers in Antetokounmpo and Monroe, who get in the paint often and shoot over 55% from the field. The Cavs will also have to contend with bench stalwarts, John Henson and the aforementioned Bayless. Henson leads the team in blocks at 1.2 a game, despite only playing 13 minutes a night and posts a PER over 20. O.J. Mayo continues to recover from a hamstring injury, and probably won’t see any action in this one.
This might be the toughest game of the year so far from a scheduling standpoint for the Cavs: their first road back-to-back against a group of young players who haven’t played since Wednesday night. Let’s hope they don’t need the King to carry them tonight, and can use their depth to beat a relatively shallow Bucks team.
GETS TOO BIG A LEAD COULD BE A SASHA / MDN SIGHTING —–HELL GO FLY IN SMOKIN JOE FROM CANTON —HOW ARE THE “FOSTERS ” TREATING YOU COLS ?
This is rough again tonight. Cavs need Kyrie’s easy offense and Shump’s defensive energy.
16-6 run for the Bucks since KLOVE 3 to put us up 55-54 at the 9 min mark. We’ve gotta get some shots in in this 4th, step our D up
This is south pole JR playing tonight. 1/8
TT’s first rebound of the night comes with 1:19 left in the third quarter.
Delly with 0 points. What is wrong this game??
We’ve gotta get this lead down to 5 or so , cant leave it balloon to double digits
its been an ugly game to watch no lie
team shooting 30% without KLOVE’s 8-14 sooting, not good
We should rest Lebron now last 2 mins
ARE TEAMS LEARNING TO DEFEND US DIFFERENTLY OR HAVE WE REGRESSED IN OUR OFFENSIVE ATTACK THE LAST 2 GAMES / ONLY 12 ASSISTS SO FAR ONLY 12 LAST NIGHT /WE WERE AVG 25 / GAME —-GIVE JR A RED / WHIE CAP / SWEATER / SCARF —INSTEAD OF WHERE’S WALDO—-WHERE’S JR ? —–WILL GIVE HIM A BREAK FOR AFEW MORE GAMES / WEEKS UNTIL I REALLY START TO GET CONCERNED
Cavs have one basket in the past 6 minutes
Delly has to lead NBA guards in defensive efficiency against bigs in the paint,
LeBron and Love playing 2 on 5 out there. Guys must have left their will to play on the plane.
Delly does a decent job defending Giannis in the post, shot rattles off. He has to lead
Bron’s awake… Hopefully
JR is complete ICE AGE from beyond the arc. Arctic freeze out there.
JUST KEEP IT CLOSE FOR SOME 4TH QTR MAGIC FROM LEBRON ——NO HELP TONIGHT FROM “NO ” MOTI
10-0 run by the Bucks. Cavs having trouble getting scoring from anyone other than LOve.
Man, Grevais Vasquez is a huge Douche huh?
KLOVEEE Hitting his shots tonight after a poor outing
Love triple, Cavs up by 1.
Love a pick-and-pop J, now with 20.
Kevin Love is seriously keeping us in this game
Love with 15 at the half, adds an early 3 in the third quarter.
Butler scored 144 points today against the Citadel.
Just watching my Dukies beat Bryant… Brandon Ingram looks like a stud!!!
What the heck is wrong with the Rockets this year? Maybe Lawson has infected the team?
I was thinking the same thing, I mean damn Mavs are resting starters on the road and your down 20+ at home, something is wrong
If anyone could do it, that idiot could. But I haven’t followed them enough to say, other than Harden has been inconsistent.
Or it could be because Harden is/was dating a Kardashian? Never a good career move.
It will put the hex on anyone, for sure.
He’s dating Lamar’s ex-wife. Then the girl kinda reconciled with Lamar blah blah blah. That might’ve affected him. That’s what I heard. Sorry I’m no tmz.
The energy level is at aseason low tonight. Let’s hope we turn it up in the second half.
But they’re right there — only down 6.
Yeah but it seems more. And it will be, if we don’t play harder. No big deal though. Just a November game.
When was the last time TT went an entire half without a rebound? He’s having trouble dealing with the size of the Bucks’ front line.
and that putback dunk at the buzzer just shows what the first half was about, not boxing the hell out and allowing second chance points
WOW on that block from Timothy
I trust Mozgov more at the line than Lebron
Did i hear correct, 20 points on 9 turnovers from Cavs ?
Cavs have 9 turnovers leading to 12 Bucks points.
Points in the paint, Milwaukee 26-18.
Love solid on D against Giannis
LeBron in turnover mode right now with some bad passes.
Bucks are giving way more energy throughout this game than the Cavs which is resulting in second chance points and turnovers for us , we have 6 to their 3
OHHHH nice save from JR and TIM on that dunk from Gianis
I’m not sure how JR ended up in the jump ball against Giannis. Moz had the block/tie-up at the top of his jump.
Time for a 30 point game for Love.
Kevin Love is saving us right now. We need to box the hell out , too much second chance points, maybe 10 by now to the home team.
Man, this young East teams are getting physical and talented. The West’s days are numbered as the overwhelming stronger conference. Maybe 2-3 years?
Kevin Love!!!!!
JR gets a jumper out of nothing with the shot clock running down to end a 9-0 Bucks run.
TT gets a pass at the free throw line and has no idea what to do with it.
So Bayless is basically a younger Mo, right?
Anyone know why William Shatner does ads for a personal-injury lawyer in Milwaukee? Maybe it’s his son-in-law or something.
Lebron is barely engaged and the Cavs are up. Both Indiana and Detroit are better than Milwaukee, and Milwaukee will be fighting for a playoff spot. This division is so good.
Lebron heating up, anytime Lebron does anything acrobatic my brother does just shake his head like what to do with this man ?
What are these fans yelling the entire game?
Leb schools Parker. “Watch out, young blood!”
Delly dropping dimes left and right. To Andy, TT and LeBron the past three trips.
nice 2 assists from Delly in those last possessions
Delly nice bounce to Andy for a little runner. Andy is looking a little better tonight.
Solid first quarter given it is a back to back.
Got to clean up the defensive glass though.
oh man I wanted the shot from Delly to go in
LET LOVE KEEP US CLOSE THE 1ST QTR AND LEBRON CLEAN UP IN THE 4TH
The offense running almost exclusively through Love! I like it!
I want to buy a Bucks uniform just because of how they look.
One of the best looks this year
Delly cross-court to JR to Love for a 3.
tooo much offensive rebounds by the bucks, 8 second chance points already for bucks
Milwaukee is very long, quick, and active defensively. As AC said, we need to get up the floor quickly and into our offense before the defense has time to set up.
RJ looks spry on the bad ankle, making his first 3 to put the Cavs in front.
The Cavs and the live thread are both kind of sleepwalking through the first quarter.
Cavs are shooting lots of free throws early, but Evil isn’t around to enjoy it.
COLS GO GET SOME “FOSTERS ” IN HONOR OF YOUR BUDDY DELLY
Nice one, NOMAD! HAHAHAHA!
Sucks. I’m out of good beer. Gotta slum it up with some Natty. Which I still enjoy very much. Cheap beer. Good beer. I’m good either way.
HAHAHA… sounds like subtle cry for help! I hate having to travel so far for good beer. The best selection of beer is a good 20 minute drive away.
I really don’t mind. I prefer good beer but my roots are natty and crap like that.
HAHA! My friends and I were Keystone Light 30pk folks… we liked the extra 6 beers.
Now, I won’t drink unless it’s the good stuff, no matter what alcohol.
This Cavs team so far looks like the best in the NBA. Deep and super talented. They took the Warriors to 6 without Irving and Love. Could be a sweep this year. Would’ve won it all last year if they traded for Mo.
The Warriors so far clearly ‘look’ like the hest team in the NBA, but I wouldn’t expect you to say anything else. LOL…
Mo is going to need a bit of rest probably tonight. He’s been killing it all year. Hopefully someone can pick him up a bit tonight.
I’d like to see JR get going, but I know he’s injured.
Hubie Brown said he’s not shooting enough… I think I agree. I’d like to see JR shoot no less than 10 fgs per game, especially when Kyrie and Shump are out.
He averaged like 7 3 point attempts with the Cavs last year. I think he’s just working on other stuff right now.
Exactly… he’s averaging less than 3 3ptFGA per game this year… and only 7 FGA/game this year overall.
I agree, but DG pays him to splash buckets like a boss… I think he’ll break out eventually/hopefully.
There’s no doubt he’ll break out. I think he needs to get healthy first to get into a rhtym
Word, just sucks with all these injuries. I love it when he’s aggressive with his shot, it gets the team hyped because he makes so many difficult shots look easy.
I’m also not at all worried about early season minutes. LeBron knows how and when to coast.
GOING TO BE A TOUGH ONE FOR CAVS TONIGHT ( PROBABLY TOUGHEST OF THE YEAR ) HOPE I AM WRONG BUT I SAY THE SCORE FROM CLF IS CORRECT BUT BUCKS ON THE WIN SIDE —SORRY GUYS TOUGH GAME LAST NIGHT VS A YOUNG / ATHLETIC TEAM / AWAY / AND A DAMN GOOD COACH IN KIDD
I was tempted to go with the Bucks too, Nomad. But Vegas is giving too many points to CLE for me to pick MIL straight up, but I do think MIL will cover, just not win outright.
Even though CLE is coming off a back-to-back, I’m hoping MIL will be out of synch because of the “long” layoff.
Your numbers for tonight:
CLE is a 5pt favorite against MIL, with an o/u @ 194.5. Smart money is on MIL and the under.
I’ll take CLE in a close one, 99-95 over MIL.
Go Cavs!