Live Thread: Cavs at Wizards 2017-02-06 Off By John Krolik Cavs on the road against the Wizards. Wizards good at home. Cavs could stand to be better on the road. National TV game. John Wall fast basketball man. Check back here for recap. Recap: Cavs 111, Knicks 104 (Or, Leads Are For Blowing) Recap: Cavs 140, Wizards 135 (Or, HOLY CRAP)
Awesome pass from James to o Love
Everything is awesome!
Welcome
KLove tying things up!
TT helping keep Cavs in this one…
Does anyone feel like guarding Brad Beal?
Liggins does!
This is a frustrating game to watch with this officiating crew…
Is LeBron really pushing to get Melo even if it comes at the cost of Love? PLEASE tell me this isn’t legitimate. I will lose a lot of respect for LeBron if so. It’s just such a poor basketball move for the sake of playing with a friend.
I have no idea, but you can just listen to former players on NBA TV or whatever, and they all act like the Cavs should move heaven and earth to get Melo. Not saying Griffin feels that way, but I imagine most players do.
Nothing LeBron does can make me lose respect for the only dude to bring a title to Cleveland.
I’m with you if it’s true but then the media can sometimes try to make something out of nothing. If you ask me I don’t believe it.
Doubt it… Frank Isola is a known purveyor of alternative facts…
If this rumor is from Isola, it’s probably BS….he’s a huge tool…
Still don’t understand what’s wrong with Kyrie. Is like he is just playing decoy.
Quad must still be bothering him I would guess…
Maybe, but he just showed up.
Love with a poor play. Don’t jump to pass.
Shoot that KLove
Poor foul there from James. I wanted Otto the year we whiffed at #1. Took him a while.
Overall a good half from the Cavs. Let’s hope Kyrie wakes up he needs to be more aggressive.
And LeBron gets a “quiet” 10a in the first half. The rest of the team 4.
I screwed up my neck. Can’t turn my head. How do these guys play through injuries? I can’t check my blind spots without coming to tears.
We are -8 on the glass and -4 on the O glass. Again, a team with a legit C hurts us inside. On a related note, our guards need to find a man on shots. I saw a couple plays where a long shot was taken & our guards just stood in open space. The shot came off long & went to a Wiz player standing in a different spot. If you find a man & get beteween them & the hole, that doesn’t happen. Poor fundamentals & lazy play.
Westbrook about to get another triple double. Good MVP debate this year, but don’t see how being the first to average a TD since Big O doesn’t win.
Because his team will be the seven seed if they’re lucky…
Im curious to see them again. I was not impressed with Russ the first game we saw him.
Oscar didn ‘t win
They just rescinded the technical foul right before the half according to Fred…
https://twitter.com/CavsFredMcLeod/status/828775193191522304
Which tech? Were there points associated with it that get removed too?
They called a tech on Kyrie for firing the ball the length of the court after the buzzer or something… at least that’s what they said on the broadcast…
It amazes me that Felder gets minutes after last game & Liggins does not. I’m not saying Felder should have been benched. I’m saying Liggins shouldn’t have been.
Perfectly logical observation… Ty Lue has become the enemy of logic…
It’s dumb. At least Liggins has an NBA skill…Felder does not right now….maybe Felder reminds Lue of himself as a player, I don’t know…
If Felder comes in with the second unit again hopefully Larry Drew tackles him.
Porter is now 5-5… would love to see Lig on him in second half… doubtful this happens in real life…
Association officials are the worst in any sport. They gave Kyrie a tech for that? I think it was Kyrie.
Poor Pacer fans… they’ll never get to see LeBron play in person at this rate (assuming he’ll need the day off on front end of b2b with nationally televised game in OKC the next night)
LBJ double double in the half, played all but 2 and a half minutes, and the only player with a positive +/-. Leads the team in steals, blocks, and rebounds as well. TT leads scorers with 13, LBJ with 12. Other than the king, this team hasn’t shown up at all. They’re going to run him into the ground. He needs to take some games off just to make them work through it, because everyone, including Lue, is getting used to him bailing them out.
Love has 12. He showed up.
It reminds me of when Blatt would never try a different lineup – Lue has become the same way; unwilling or unable to tinker and adjust
LBJ gonna need 40+ tonight…
Points or minutes?
Both…
Makes sense….
Already with the Warriors.
LBJ is the only Cav in the positive +/-
Cause he’s the only one hitting shots… except for maybe TT on assists from LeBron…
Well, we’re grinding. Seriously tho what is wrong with Lue? Does he need an assistant to manage lineups or something?
Blatt?
Mike Brown.
Brad Beal and Otto Porter are a combined 11-15… Bet Lig could be helpful there…
I sure wish Lue would have to explain his rationale on this
He started the other night. Can’t help tonight. There is no rhyme or reason to what Lue is doing with rotations. If someone else can see it, let me know. The Wiz have three scorers at PG, SG, & SF. We can’t hid Kyrie on D vs. them.
Tony Brothers and crew in full effect tonight… jeezus…
Much needed Love three…
They’re trapping Kyrie almost every time he gets the ball… needs to start finding the open man…
Liggins would do wonders for the D on this unit…
He went from guarding Curry on Christmas to riding the pine
So now they are saying LeBron is pushing for Melo even if it comes of the expense of Love. PLEASE tell me LeBron isn’t that stupid.
I wish I could tell you that…
In no scenario is that a win for the Cavs. It nearly guarantees we won’t win another title. May as well trade LBJ to New York if that’s the direction.
Nope, that came from the NY Post… so might as well be the Weekly World News…
Might be time to wrap up the Kay Felder experiement
D league is a great place for that particular experiment…
One of these teams wants to win. The other one is the Cavaliers.
They came out with some fire, but defense is still an issue… then everyone not named LeBron started missing shots…
Jason Smith playing like he did in that opening night for the Knicks in 2014 against the Cavs… smh
Well… LeBron looks good…
Cavs losing the board battle so far…
Also who would have guessed otto porter
Not Chris Grant
Just looked up that draft. Only 3 of the first 27 players selected are no longer in the league. Two of them were drafted by Grant. #1Anthony Bennet and #16Sergey Karasev. The other is #18 Shane Larkin. Grant literally could have drafted anyone other than the guys he did in the first 17 picks and they’d be better.
That is a thoroughly shocking factoid… and the final true indictment of the Chris Grant era…
Right? Cols was right all along, I guess. Please hide this comment from him.
For all the crap that draft got, it wasn’t that bad. Just not top heavy (and Karasev was 19, not 16): 1 Anthony Bennet 2 Victor Oladipo 3 Otto Porter 4 Cody Zeller 5 Alex Len 6 Nerlens Noel 7 Ben McLemore 8 Kentavious Caldwell-Pope 9 Trey Burke 10 C. J. McCollum 11 Michael Carter-Williams 12 Steven Adams 13 Kelly Olynyk 14 Shabazz Muhammad 15 Giannis Antetokounmpo 16 Lucas Nogueira 17 Dennis Schröder PG 18 Shane Larkin PG United States 19 Sergey Karasev 20 Tony Snell 21 Gorgui Dieng 22 Mason Plumlee 23 Solomon Hill 24 Tim Hardaway Jr. 25… Read more »
Is Liggins out for season on cd-dnp??
They could use him against this team…
It is puzzling why Felder is getting all these minutes.
When Jason Smith destroys Kay Felder…
When you let Jason Smith put the ball on the floor and beat the buzzer… sheesh
Cavs gotta run more on these guys to combat the transition buckets…
LeBron is the best passer in the league
Chris Paul might disagree with you, but yes, he’s good.
As much as I hate how bad it gets, Lue is going to have to start letting LBJ rest longer and let the team suffer until they figure it out.
There you go Threezus!
Irving doesn’t look for Love enough in the post. When he does pass to him it’s too often not in the right spot. LeBron of course excels in passing to Kevin properly, which makes Irving’s inability more glaring
Wtf Im in pittsburgh on business and its blacked out here too. Watching on iphone :/
Also – just run at cavs and they cant stop you
Not that the Cavs were great defensively anyway, but LBJ and Shump go out and RJ and Korver in – its a seive.
Especially when Korver throws the ball away and neither he nor Kyrie can hit a shot…
Another start with no defense…
Wiz just jailbreaking the glass right now…
Kyrie missing everything….
Watching on local Fox channel as I am blocked on TNT too. AC going nuts already on how easy the Wizards are getting to the rim. Need to keep feeding Love in the post with that mismatch
So weird that TNT is blocked for you guys… working on the West Coast
Feels like Cavs would have success running in transition on these guys…
Left wing three for LBJ… that’s his shot
15-5 Wiz run… got to close out on shooters better…
Double dribble by Porter uncalled…
Wall looks like he’s working Tony Brothers hard…
Kyrie’s three…
https://twitter.com/NBA/status/828761532146151424
Hard to hide Kyrie on Beal…
Love needs 23 to get that average to 20 ppg again.
Two quick fouls on Morris…
The TT FT experience goes 1-2. 10-12 with Korver helping.
Bron should start practicing with Korver…
LBJ just passed the legendary Lenny Wilkens for all time assists…
TT with the steal and running the break!
Gotta pick up the D tho… Ky just gave Beal a wide open layup…
WOW LBJ!
https://twitter.com/CavsNationNet/status/828760494508879872
Cavs look ready!
But Tony Brothers officiating…
Kevin Harlan and Grant Hill… terrific announcing team
Blacked out for me, a first this season. Meh. I’m expecting an ugly game, anyway…
Blacked out on TNT?
Yep.