Live Thread: Cavs vs Celtics (Round Two)
2018-01-03
Round one of this year’s Cleveland Cavaliers-Boston Celtics heavyweight bout took place on opening night more than two months ago. Since then, a lot has changed. The Celtics lost star forward Gordon Hayward to a season ending injury that very night. Though he isn’t playing during this Wednesday night match-up, Isaiah Thomas returned on the first game of this back-to-back and looked good. The Cavaliers seemed energized from his return. The first round ended with a Cavaliers victory but Boston has outperformed Cleveland despite all expectations, at least in regards to their record.
Most everyone wanted to see Isaiah return to Boston and see him match-up against Benedict Irving, unfortunately we must wait until February 11th for that match-up. Kyrie has been playing well in Hayward’s absence and looks destined for another all-star appearance. Unfortunately for Boston, LeBron has been destroying worlds all season long and though his turnovers have been a problem, the rest of his offensive game has reached unfathomable levels of efficiency. The Celtics still don’t have anyone to guard him. Cleveland tends to get up for big games and this is one of the biggest of the season. Second night of a back-to-back or no, I expect them to be pumped up. Unfortunately, Boston has a lot more motivation and I expect them to come out like the angry chihuahua trying to take down the lion. I expect them to accomplish the feat, though I don’t think it means anything. The game should be tightly contested, so a fun one to watch. Go Cavs!
MAX SMART DANNY….NOW.
Okay Ty, let’s not push this on K Love
Foul on Morris, no call…Heinsohn was proud…
Good D from Green on Kyrie there
KK ate his wheaties…
Really don’t like Osman out there with a non shooter…Osman isn’t going to shoot much because he’s a rookie…
Rozier was grasping Korver’s forearm with both hands on the possession after Kyle’s third three. Kyle was trying to run and just couldn’t go because Rozier was plying tug-o-war with his left arm. No call.
TT should be ashamed he hasn’t developed any offense except the roll/lob. And as noted he cannot pas either
He got $82 million without having to learn any of that lol
Exactly!
Absolutely agree. Heard many times how much he has been practicing FTs, when what he truly needed was better O.
He should have one go to shot in the paint, but nope…
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Well…nice fights back early in the quarter but gotta get stops too. Who the hell is mask man?
Baynes is out, Love is sick, why not Fry?
KORVER FIRE!!
LeBron with a nice little shove off illegal screen to get Korver open for a 3
Kyle Korver finally knocks the spider web out of the rim.
“the cyclone weather bomb” has hit the cavs already —-could be 1 of those nights for the cavs as the nets are ahead of timberwolves at the half
Time to max Smart, Danny…
Twins!
Triplets!
Haven’t seen many decent passes, let alone crisp. So many missed shots coming off poor passes. Off balance, under pressure, out of rhythm. Ugh.
Freaking Korver, finally…
Have we scored yet in this Q?
Holy crap we paid TT how much money??
And Shump too??
We can’t even hit the rim right now.
Just awful shooting.
Trade TT to the Celtics now!
Anyone who thinks this lineup would not be better with Frye…good lord
Wow. We can’t hit anything!!!
If TT could pass he would still be an asset. But he is god awful at it
Just awful shooting tonight.
Ty Lue is going down with the TT ship.
Jackie McMullen is thrilled with the current outcome of this game. Can’t wait for her next piece /s
t.t. needs a lot of work on most offensive post moves—-although the last couple games he has been energized at least—–if klove is that sick—rest /sit him out this game
TT needs touch on those 5-8 footers as much as anything…one would think he could be money on those if he worked on them like he should be…
Cannot hit anything…brutal…
It might be time for some Channing Frye. You could play him against Jason Tatum, and get a Channing Tatum experience. (Walks off stage after awful joke)….
YES Please put in Fry!!
I’m blaming this loss on the weather.
Rozier = scrub fuego
He was as surprised as anyone that his shot went in.
Firat truly terrible first quarter for Love this year
Cavs are likely going to get run if Love doesn’t get going…
Maybe our bench can dig us out of blahs
NOPE!!
Agree with JVG, TT needs to work on the quickness of his release, off of an offensive rebound.
Yup. It’s a good point.
Did you hear all the Celtic players yelling “Foul him Foul him” on TT?
Eat it Rozier, you uber scrub…
I wonder what his Uber rating is?
I gave him a ‘1’ when he drove me from the hotel to the train station last time I was in Boston…
Why do they do this? Smh
IT looks possessed on the bench!
Hope the Celtics give Smart a max…
PLease let’s not get embarrassed
TT with some nice FTs.
This is ugly
Refs blows whistle when it comes to TT. Making it look good
Would be nice if Love could hit a shot. Or if anyone else could show some effort. Might be what we get on the 2nd of a back to back…
Not a good matchup for Calderon
Although I dont know if good matchups for Calderon exist anymore…
Yeah this looks like a B2B game.
Cavs with zero bodies on Celtics as they gave up those two offensive rebounds in a row.
Yes my memory is revived on Boston refs. Not going to be a good night
SO Cavs stopped rebounding now?
LeBron jawing with the crowd.
Love not getting any love from refs doesn’t help either
EG/ NATE have 1 for / on me —ENJOY —but not too much !!!
Cavs ice cold to start with exception of LBJ. Committing some dumb fouls too.
EG and I kicking it at peninsula winking Lizard!
Cool!!
No “going on a diet” resolutions, eh?
NIce! No Tom?!
LeBron got hatcheted on that drive. No call.
My expectations are pretty low for this game.
Stupid foul by Crowder!
Be great if Kev didn’t suck tonight…
B2B flu game!
He usually does very well against Celtics. He is fighting some cold virus and on back to back. I would be pleasantly surprised if he could get in beast mode
Love looks gassed
KLove with a block on Tatum!
Looks like Kyrie got some new tattoos
Missed that. Something Celtic-related?
Not sure, looked like upper neck and back but couldnt make out details
Little Flat
DVRing this game, expecting an exciting dogfight.
Smart move by the management to (hopefully) keep IT on the bench tonight.
Would really like to win this one…screw these guys.
“The Celtics lost star forward Gordon Hayward to a season ending injury that very night. Though he isn’t playing during this Wednesday night match-up, he returned on the first game of this back-to-back and looked good.”
There is an IT mention embedded by telepathy in there.
Sorry guys, threw this one together in a hurry. I believe I’ve fixed it.
posted this morning —-7th game playoff mindset for the celts—-regular season game in early January (after an emotional game last night ) for the cavs —-this is by no means a “BAROMETER ” game (although media will hype it up to be )—celts win 109—101 —–NO BIG DEAL !!!!——–see you in may / june when it counts ( if you guys /celts get there )