Live Thread: Cavs at Hawks
2016-04-01https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FirzS-AORa4#t=58s
The last time these two teams played was November 21st. Â Can you remember how you felt about the Cavs on November 21st? Â The Hawks have quietly become as the 3rd best team in the East, behind the Cavs and the Raptors. Â But they are in a 3-way tie at 31 losses with the Heat, Celtics, and Hornets. Â The Cavs will be playing with a full deck tonight. Â The Hawks may get the support of a feisty home crowd tonight, as I’m sure Matthew Dellavedova and company will conjure up some bitter emotions from the ECF sweep.
The Cavs should hold the rebounding and 3-point shooting advantage against the Hawks. Â The Hawks have a more free flowing offense and generate more assists. Â The also turn it over a fair amount. Â They are a scrappy defense and get a fair share of steals and blocks. Â The key to the game for the Cavs could be playing to the Hawks scouting report and limiting turnovers on offense.
Let’s talk about it!
I liked James shooting chart when it’s all rimshot a.
That sounded wrong…..
Combine Celtics. Toronto and Hawks and you might stretch the series to 6 games.
I”M IN LOVE
Team just plays better when Delly is off the court.
Not true bruh, you know that
Cols he’s 23rd in the entire NBA in plus minus. He’s 2nd on the Team (behind LeBron) in Plus Minus per minute. You can’t be more wrong with this take if you tried
He’ll keep trying, though.
Cols you have made enough inane comments about Delly for one game
THIS IS BEAUTIFUL
THIS IS RIDICULOUS
JR smith might be a top 5 SG this year.
James is awesome
LETS GO, THATS FREAKING RIGHT, LETS GO
KLOVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Good thing everyone rested early from yesterday’s game.
Combine the Hawks and Toronto and still Cavs win.
TEAR THEM UP< TEAR THEM UP
JR, you need to look before you throw that puppy up there.
Goodness the Hawks are awful.
Dude. No they’re not. The Cavs are playing really good ball. Where do you come up with this stuff. THe Cavs are making them LOOK awful. They’re not awful.
The real MVP of the NBA is James.
Look at Love. He’s fired up!!!! Look at that fire. COME ON BABY!!!
https://vine.co/v/ijn237ZhmHL
The JR alley-oop challenge returns, and LeBron pulls it off!
OH MY GOD
And another bad play by Delly.
And a bad foul on the other end. Delly
Needs a break.
Hubie thought it was good defense and should have been a no-call.
Delly with yet another turnover.
11 assists on 14 field goals. Goodness gracious, I’m in love
Frue has such a nice quick release.
Frue’s release the last couple of weeks has been beautiful….too bad the shot never goes in…
The Hawks just fear the Cavs……. I hope the Cavs get tested by some team in the east.
They need to face adversity.
They won’t.
I agree and I fear that will hurt them in the Finals.
Every playoff run has its adversities. That’s inevitable.
hawks literally look rattled by the Cavs’ physicality.
they got this look last year in May
https://vine.co/v/ijnxteaE0uj
Even if you combined the Hawks and Celtics you wouldn’t get a team that can hang with the Cavs.
Delly’s been in a slump. He looks outstanding right now. Especially defensively
He’s shooting like crap. And his defense one on one sucks again. Needs to get kale.
Hard wired Porter for the win.
This is the best I’ve seen the Cavs play in a long time. Both ends – they are playing at a high level.
So now everyone is back into Cols714 mode? Everyone again thinks we easily make the Finals? Where is Nate to tell us we are wrong?
Hawks uniforms are ugly.
Man this is the best defense I have seen from the Cavs all year
Delly with the tough right-handed finish on the left-side drive.
Delly just firing bricks.
Delly going left! Not pretty but it went.
Good effort by TT, but he did get away with about 6 steps while wrestling that ball away from whomever.
Man they are playing so well. THIS IS AMAZING
Really?
Hawks suck so bad.
No they don’t, they’ve won 10 of 12. The Cavs are just THAT good
Cavs look like they will pummel the crap out of the East
This has been obvious all year. Yet every time I say that everyone gets all emo.
Yea I know man, but it’s all part of the CtB family love.
Meh, you the only one who thinks that way.
I’m saying that to Cols..
They will. Well not everyone. The most I can think giving them a long series are the Raptors. Going 6.
Commentators speaking highly of Delly, yet still manage to use the word “dirty”….
And “controversial.” How many years are those plays going to follow him around? Thanks, Reggie Miller!
Unreal. What a quarter. great play
Yeah, Delly! The one-man fast-break stopper.
Great play by Delly
Igh. Just shoot. Passing leads to turning over
Irving is sweet
Ball moving, 10 assists already, over minute still to go in first quarter
Need LeBron out there
So much activity, so much focus
Holy crap, Cavs look freakin AMAZING
Hawks are overmatched
Too much passing.
Yeah, passing sucks.
Hawks suck
Cavs active on the defensive end. Intensity looks up
JR SWISH!!
I don’t know how Bazemore is playing without something broke
Yea he looked in a lot of pain. Very scary fall, but seems like it was just shock, he shook it off
I know there’s a ways to go to clinch the number one seed, but I feel like this is the last game of the season that truly matters.
Cavs look strong, just got to take care of the ball but also remember to move it around
Kyrie with a great steal and reverse lay up. Protecting the ball on the lay up
Cavs are consistently running Kyrie PnR with Lebron and Love and they are always getting open shots. This could really be good!
I’m going to jump up on my own soapbox here and say that this is one of the ways to make the Cavs offense unstoppable.
Come on CtB, where is everybody?
After several bad losses, the fans on CtB are not galvanized.
Just ran PnR with Kyrie to Love that I was so hoping to see…and Love loses his dribble.
Here we go again. Cavs turnover plague.
I want to see Kyrie push the ball every time in transition. That’s where the cavs need his ridiculous skills!
Let’s go Cavs! Looking forward tot this game!
No Cavs sitting out, but it looks like the Hawks are favored slightly in this one. I’m a little surprised by that. Well, second game of back-to-back.
Cavs tend to mail it in on B2B’s especailly in the 4th.
When did Celtics slide to 6th?