Live Thread: Cavs vs Pistons
2016-04-13
Well, here we are, ladies and gentlmen: game No. 82. Both teams are resting a lot of starters and have nothing to play for tonight. Kyrie was rumored to play tonight, but it looks like he’s sitting out. Tristan Thompson will of course start, extending his games played streak to 370. So out for the Cavs: James, JR, Irving, Love, Shumpert, and Mo Williams. Sitting for the Pistons: Reggie Jackson, Drummond, Tobias Harris, Marcus Morris, and Kentavious Caldwell-Pope. Expect the Cavs to limit the run of their rotation guys: Delly, Channing Frye, Mozgov?, and Tristan Thompson. The Cavs signed Dahntay Jones off the street, and he, Sasha Kaun, and Jordan McRae will likely battle for the final playoff roster spot tonight (though the odds of Dahntay Jones being on the roster after this game are… low). Regardless, it’s fan appreciation night, and I’ll be watching my favorite Cavs: TT and Delly. Stay healthy everyone. Playoffs start this weekend.
Correction: I was completely wrong on the rules of playoff rosters, and was corrected by Phil Hubbard below. Playoff rosters are 15 players, with 13 available (dressed) per game. I crossed out the offending sentences above and will now flagellate myself.
Come on, Jordan, make these freebies.
McRae as decoy plz
I wonder if LeBron is wearing yachting shoes.
Who takes the final shot. Give Mozzy the corner three!!!!
Unreal luck for detroit
Atlanta with a total choke job in Washington.
Alright, who is taking this shot?
Anyone but Moz
Moz would have hit those FTs!
Aww man gotta grab that weekend
For a defensive sequence with that terrible Frye closeout to end in a steal is…unexpected.
You could build an outhouse with the shits Frye isn’t giving this game… or something.
wow. That was so close to a make.
Second straight year last game of the year goes to overtime with all bench players.
Nice Shot Moz!
This Miami Boston game is aesthetically putrid
That Celtics team is incapable of anything else. Smart is a disgrace to the game. He needs to be fined into bankruptcy.
Marcus Smart really needs to be thrown out of the league.
McCrae is Mr. Cool with the ball in his hands. No worry, no hurry, lets the play develop.
Dahntay Jones looks like they just multiplied David Wesley by 1.2
Good lord dikembe
Win or lose thats some heart coming out of the bench.
Haha yeah but I really want to win
I hear you but other than for us fans and some scrub glory, this game is completely meaningless
cod use less terrible Reffing right niw
Heat are down 8 with 2:55 to go. They have 17 points in the second half — just barely out of record-low territory.
Atlanta’s losing so HEat will still be 3rd.
Someone else needs to step up here..
McRae. talk about wanting to make it to the league.
Mc Rae with his MFQ impressions
Oh my goodness this is legendary!
Wow shocked at the score of this one.
McRae has played 88 minutes last night and tonight — and has the legs and cool to hit that tying 3.
SWEET JUDY BLUE EYES! Jordan McRae looking like a gamer.
Stone cold McRae!
McRae passes to champ off the drive for the lead here…I can feel it…
McRae, what are you doing?
McRae has old school feel…love those mid range buckets! He looks like rip hamilton
Cripes. Miami… How do you refuse to attack the rack against a team with no shotblockers?
McRae is everywhere! Somewhere, Mo Wiliams is crying.
And Gilbert sees a cheap contract for once!
Mcrae’s left hand is sick!
Nice finish, Moz!
Certainly can’t say kaun doesn’t give effort
Lat gasp for the scrub cavs here.
Jones looks useable.
Lue going twin Russian towers on the hedgehog!
Cavs with their twin towers Kaun/Mozgov lineup. Playoff preview?
I can’t decide who I hate more. I think it’s Miami right now for blowing this lead.
A couple minutes into the 4th quarter, and Miami has scored a total of 7 points in the second half.
How have they only scored 7 points this half? And us Cavs fans are supposed to be ascared o’ these other east teams?
God I hate the Celtics.
Big dustup in Boston. Like 5 techs.
Still think we need to deal w their tomfoolery?
Meh. I hate both these teams.
Random gripe: Seems pointless to have started Delly if he only played 6 minutes…
Sheesh, Frye. Didn’t want to hurt yourself bothering to try?
SASHA KAUUUN.
Go kaun!!!!
McRae looks really solid tonight. Playing better here than he did in Canton last night.
I wonder how he would fare if he had Shump’s or RJ’s spot in the bench rotation… since this year they are the two weakest links statistically (according to PER).
Every time McRae passes off the drive good things happen
Wow. Boston on a big comeback. Made up like 20 points.
Joe Johnson to the rescue, for the moment. Heat up 4.
Celtics dropping to sixth seed would be fantastic. Cavs would only have to play one of Celtics, Heat, and Raptors.
Nice iso by Sasha there.
So Was that a McIso?
He’s learned from the best.
Why are the Pistons the Warriors tonight from 3?!
Well actually, they do have some great shooters… Tolliver, Bullock, Meeks.
None of whom are in the top twenty in made threes I don’t believe
Doesn’t change the fact that their primary NBA skill is jump shooting…. and they’re all excellent at it.
Yes…tonight they are extra excellent…hence my outlier assertion
LOL @ “extra excellent”… that’s pretty funny!
McRae has made three really smart passes this half. It’s completely changed the game
Miami up 24 on Boston at the half…
Nate, on the playoff roster, I’m pretty sure it stays at 15, with 13 active per game. (The rule changed at some point a few years ago.) So everybody, including Jones, can make/has made the roster, and then Lue designates two inactives for each game.
In theory, Jones could be inactive for the first three series and then get the call when they need more defensive players in the Finals against a certain someone.
(The box score for their first playoff game last year shows 13 active players and Harris and Varejao inactive: http://www.nba.com/games/20150419/BOSCLE/gameinfo.html?ls=iref:nba:serieshubs:mid:seriesschedule#nbaGIboxscore)
You are correct. I was misinformed. I corrected above.
Thanks. But hey, no need for self-flagellation. You didn’t pull a Jordan Spieth or anything.
yikes. Really hate to be losing to detroit
Haha I thought this would be a stress free game to watch…I’m already annoyed at how Lue is letting them get away with being lazy
Fan appreciation night should be two weeks before the season ends
It is kind of ironic to have it on the night half the team sits
Timo should be able to own these guys if we get him the ball
McRae doing his best Kyrie impression. Would like to see more back picks being set to free up champ. He’s really good coming around a screen
McRae had a few inexplicable turnovers like that last night. He likes to pass without looking.
Nice move by Moz. He can use all the positivity he can get.
I love the jones pickup. Holy crap how am I just finding out about that?
Gotta root for the heat. Definitely want them in the three seed. Crazy.
I don’t have a ton of respect for the Celtics but I gotta say I don’t want a series with them. We can sneak 4 of 6 from the heat and not die. Even sweeping the Celtics is a hugely risky prospect.
Really? Think the NBA will clamp Down on that series after last year. Miami terrifies me. Wade gets hot, and they could win the series.
The NBA has no incentive to clamp down on it considering how non-competitive the series would be without the Celtics “physicality”.
As for the heat…They could, he could, maybe…but they won’t.
Oh come on. You think they want Toronto or Miami in the final? League doesn’t want to. See its ayers hurt. If
Cleveland-Miami EC finals could be a boon for the league. Great storylines.
This looks like the 2010 team.
Oh…never mind he’s headed for his first triple double
Tristan sits after four seconds. That’s a bit ridiculous.
Delly’s first 30 point night tonight?