Live Thread: Cavs @ Kings
2016-03-09As bad as things may seem at times, with the Cavaliers lack of focus and myriad excuses for falling short of greatness, it’s important to remember that it’s barely been two years since the Cavaliers lost 124-80 to the Hapless Kings. What’s even stranger is that they led the game 32-30 after the first quarter. This game was one of the four low points of the #seasonofHuh. Akron-Beacon Journal Beat Writer Jason Lloyd threw some shade after the game:
They’re just too soft. Under no circumstance should the Kings beat any team in the NBA by 44 points. They’re the freaking Kings!
It was the Kings 3rd largest margin of victory in the history of their franchise, which extends all the way back to the Rochester Royals and the founding of the NBA, a full decade before moving to Cincinnati where The Big O tripled doubled all over the Queen City.
So, the Cavs were on the receiving end of something historic. Tony Allen knows all about that.
Let’s hope DeMarcus Cousins says something mean about LeBron’s fortune cookie tweets or something, anything, to light a fire under our boys’ behinds.
Let’s also hope that fine gentleman Rajon Rondo of BrokenJumperShire is forced to hoist instead of waltzing through the lane with his monoCLE.
BALL DON’T LIE ZEBRA!
that was a tough call but JR Smith has been some sort of terrible recently.
Man… refs just hate JR… I don’t think he touched him… smh
TOUGH JUICE AND-1 FOR THREE!!!!
LOLOLOL
Tough Juice… such a great nickname…
JR floater…showing signs.
Good to see JR taking the ball inside with his shot not going from the outside…
I’m liking the offensive sequences where Kevin Love slips the screen and receives the pass at the foul line extended. It’s leading to all sorts of good action off the ball. And K Love is the guy you want with the ball at that spot.
Except he’s passing like crap tonight.
nice play there Kev
Good looking three from Love!
Four assists in 1.5 quarters. And the Kings shooting crazy percentage
Surprised by the Cavs play. I thought they would come out hyped after the embarrassment Monday.
They’re playing with energy, but missing shots and playing some woeful D on the second unit…
Defense is sloppy, rotations slow, nothing about that says energy to me.
Yikes. Irving with one of the worst closeouts I’ve ever seen in the NBA on Butler ehn he drew that foul.
Cavs not playing smart basketball at the moment…
Man… JR is ice cold…
Yeah he’s in a slump it seems
That’s the kind of foul on a jump shot that the Cavs should lay on Curry! A hip check into the baseline spectators.
Take RJ out!!!!!!!!!!!!
Another one! With the other hand!
KY with the TOUGH And One!
And one times two!
Kings moving the ball like they’re the Warriors…
We tend to make a lot of teams look a lot better on the offensive end…
So the Delly foul wasn’t a shooting foul, but the Shump foul was? I don’t understand the capriciousness of NBA officials…
This is LeBron’s last game in the arena where he made his NBA debut (the Kings get new digs next season). Here’s a flashback from ESPN:
http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=espn:14939628
JR needs to get his shot going again. And our bench is off to a bad start.
Sorry for the political comment… by why is John Kasich still running ads?
Betting it all on Ohio…and hoping for a miracle.
Sorry for the political answer, but I’m assuming it’s to keep delegates away from Cruz or Rubio, to ensure that Trump nomination and with a promise that Kasich become the veep.
Trump already promised the VP slot to Chuck Norris.
Okay… this is AMAZING!
I don’t think Kyrie game-planned for Collison… /s
Uh oh… Rudy Gay heating up…
Frye doing his job with the early three!
Smart foul by Frye… although it was probably necessitated by him getting beat by Koufos…
Channing Frye with some early run…
I HATE how ESPN does the box scores now…
Yeah it’s really bad. Why change it at all?
If I had a nickel for every time a new and improved version of something takes more clicks to do what it did before…
I detest it. I have been using the Bleacher Report box score, which is still not as good as the original ESPN one.
I’ve been using nba.com… it’s not bad…
KLove limping to locker room according to Chris Haynes…
https://twitter.com/ChrisBHaynes/status/707771240866447360
On that TT Boogie jump ball it looked like he was flexing his hami…
How’d they do that? When they pass the ball well, it always catches me off guard.
Nice pass from RJ there.
Kings take a LOT of threes without making them…
And then of course Rondo hits one as I type this…
I’ll shut up now…
Delly jumped about two feet in the air to save Kev from a Shaqtin’ a Fool moment…
good thing he lost weight
True… must have switched to the low-fat donuts…
GREAT fade-away move by Love!
TT wrestled Boogie’s headband right off his head…
Starting these offensive sets by feeding Kevin Love at the foul line extending really opens up the perimeter offense.
Wow… that was a bad call… Delly clearly going up for shot on the foul…
TT with good effort and improvisation to get the follow.
TT got his lunchpail and hardhat today…
DELLY TREY!!
LBJ is heating up!
GOTTA BAIL –SORRY GUYS—-CATCHING AN EARLY FLIGHT TO UTAH ( YOUNGEST SON IS OPERATIONAL/ FIELD MGR FOR THE NATIONAL PARKS—ZION/ BRYCE )—LET’S BRING HOME A WIN !!
Safe travels NOMAD!
Beautiful spot! Enjoy. I’ve always wanted to go.
Say hi to Cols’s family for us!
As always thanks for the Vines EG!!!
Anytime!
That is not TT’s shot…
Well, glad I’m only watching the first half of this game…
So Kevin Love cannot shoot anymore. Kind of an issue.
He can still rebound tho…
Joining James and Shumpert, and JR at the moment. Love didn’t want to be left out.
K love’s shot looks off, like he is thinking about it too much. His release did not look smooth on that 3.
Proving the fortune cookie right for the moment…
Yeah, good call on that, or bad for us fans. Shot looks flatter too.
It’s like a pinball machine out there right now…
wow what a sequence.
Boogie with the near assist to Kev off the attempted TD pass from Bron… hilarious!
Kyrie got the outside shot going early…
Bron with the cool spin move…
LEBRON COULD GET THAT ANYTIME—–BOOGIE IS GOING TO BE A LOAD TONIGHT /JUST HAVE THAT FEELING
YOU HAVE FAMILY ( THAT CLAIMS YOU )
Nice backdoor cut by LeBron.
Yeah, he was wide open!
Kevin!
I have family at the game tonight.
You have family in Sacto?
Is Cols the Shawn Kemp of CtB?
LOL… well done…
Good evening CtB! Here are your numbers for tonight:
CLE is a 7 point favorite over SAC with an o/u @ 218. Sharps will overwhelmingly take SAC and the UNDER.
I’ll take CLE over SAC 111-106. Vegas is hoping for SAC’s atrocious defense to surrender just enough points for a close victory for the Cavs.
I’m not too confident about the pick given the way the betting is going… wouldn’t be surprised by an outright win by SAC.
For some reason, my gut says a 20 pt blowout win. And going really far out on a limb, KLove has a big game too.
LOL It’s only 12B Mike!!!
Tough break for Mario… sadly, he could probably still get by Kyrie even in the wheelchair…
Easy win tonight, in response to adversity. And hopefully they can show up tomorrow vs. the Lakers and make it two in a row.
Then Sunday we’ll see the latest chapter of how they handle success.
I’ll be at that game on Sunday… so I hope they handle it well…
Yeah let’s just hope they don’t think it will be easy so they end up coasting again.
This is pretty cool…
MAN IS EVERYONE SLEEPING OR WHAT——-WAKE UP ( EVIL PUSH THE PANIC BUTTON —-GET UP !!)
It’s always a little slow until the game starts… Also, it’s on the west coast, so it’s late…
Here’s a good fortune cookie for LeBron…
May I use that fortune cookie for an article?
MY FORTUNE COOKIE ” MRS NOMAD DOES NOT HAVE A HEADACHE “———HOPE THE CAVS HAVE BETTER LUCK THAN THE BROWNS DID ON 1ST DAY OF FREE AGENCY—-OUCH !!—-MACK / BENJAMIN / SCWARTZ —–NOT LOOKING GOOD FOR THE BROWNIES
Ehh…. good riddance to those guys. Benjamin likely won’t replicate last season (the first he actually stayed healthy), Schwartz was just okay and Mack was severely overrated… Browns are better off rebuilding from scratch…
I mean, they lost four starters from a 3-13 team. I agree will building from scratch.
Tonight’s fortune cookie…
ARE YOU ON BOARD TONIGHT EVIL—HOPE SO OUR CHANCES OF WINNING HAVE JUST INCREASED ( SORRY ABOUT PUTING THE PRESSURE ON YOU )——
I almost wasn’t, but now I am…
Just as long as you aren’t goofing off /s
Apparently… that’s what I’m best at… ;)
CELTS DOING TO THE GRIZ WHAT THE CAVS SHOULD HAVE DONE—UP BY 20—–HOPING THE CAVS HAVE LEARNED —COME TO PLAY ( WITH ENERGY / EMOTION / INTENSITY ) EVERY GAME
Well, the Grizz did have Matt Barnes back who’s gone 1-12 so far… so that might have helped…
KI *should* have a big game if Rondo is on him most of the time. Rondo is one of the lazier defenders in the NBA this year.