Live Thread: Cavs @ Hawks
2018-02-09
I can love the Cavs once again. They won’t hurt me anymore. Koby Altman and Dan Gilbert sent away the trouble makers and guys who refused to try from the Wine & Gold , and even though they didn’t necessarily get a magic carpet in return that’s gonna take them wherever they want to go, it truly is a whole new world for the Cavs and their fans.
The Cavs reset the frustration meter for themselves and everyone watching them. If there’s a lack of chemistry, it’s excusable. If they don’t run an offense, it’s excusable. I mean, after all, the team hasn’t played a single game together yet, and will play less than 30 games together before the playoffs start.
Unfortunately, none of the new acquisitions, George Hill, Larry Nance Jr., Jordan Clarkson, and Rodney Hood, will play tonight. The mostly washed up corpses of Isaiah Thomas, Dwyane Wade, Derrick Rose, Iman Shumpert, Jae Crowder, and Channing Frye aren’t here though either. That leaves the Cavs pretty thin.
They had to call up their D-Leaguers, John Holland and London Perantes. Jose Calderon, Cedi Osman, LeBron James, Tristan Thompson, and J.R. Smith will start tonight.
The Hawks are coming off a game last night against Orlando. They lost. The Cavs should be pretty pumped, so the effort will be enough to propel them over the league bottom Hawks. And, if it isn’t, help is on it’s way. I’m picking Cleveland 121-101.
These refs feel bad for hawks
What passing!
Terrible call!
Wow, nice pass, Lebron
Good D!
IT is still registering a negative plus minus right now.
And the pass…
So much energy on both ends which is nice to see
I keep confusing John Holland with John Collins. Which one is ours again?
Holland we have… Collins we want…
I mean… I know it’s the Hawks, but that was a good looking first quarter… only gave up 27 points!
Wow. It’s been bad, hasn’t it?
http://cdn2us.denofgeek.com/sites/denofgeekus/files/styles/main_wide/public/kenny-powers.png?itok=hUSWuz7h
Pew pew!
The best thing about tonight is Nate cannot type “we are going to lose” when IT would re-enter in the 4th
Nice steal Jose!
I don’t need Green shots off the dribble in my life…
Trying to do his LBJ impression… yeah, let’s nip that in the bud
He learned it from watching IT!
At least Belinelli can’t torch us tonight…
Bron actually going hard for rebounds
TT looking good tonight. Help d is there.
JR getting toasted off the dribble.
I feel sad that we seemed to be headed to a reckoning with J.R. He is beloved here. His and TT’s contracts are going to be real albatrosses.
So is Jose… but it’s just one game…
I wonder if Reba McIntyre ever dreamed of shilling for KFC as “The Colonel”
Beneath her to do that gig
Probably not beneath the house she bought with the money though
Yeah. I’d shill for Isaiah Thomas and Bill Simmons if the money was right.
So this is what it looks like when the team plays actual defense! So happy to see them playing D.
I soooooooooooooooo want Brandan Wright on this team.
Same here…make it happen…
Which contenders have more than the minimum to offer?
I don’t know…would need some hoops writer to lay that out…
We might have an opening…
We can only offer the minimum, right? we don’t have an exceptions left over.
Cavs showing solid hustle and helping on D.
Yes, finally.
AC: “a lot of the tension is gone”. What that tension was will be forever a mystery…
IT pooped in the urinal
LOL
Green machine!
Another block from Thompson!
Actual getting back on D… so cool to see
Yeah. The question now is, who are we going to bag on. I kind of need that in my life. I think I already miss Shump.
That’s what TT gets paid for…
Two great options, thanks guys. Was getting a little down there for a minute.
You can still bag on Ty…
Like the defense tonight. TT came to play so far.
Green got bailed out there, thankfully…
Tristan is the only guy not happy about all the trades. He wanted to go to the Lakers with Khloe.
I believe he would rather play for another ring
I’m so excited to get back to at least Kyrie Irving level point guard defense.
TT shoots like he doesn’t have elbows.
Schroeder going to score 100 tonight.
If he keeps driving to the hoop like that, he needs some hard fouls…
JEDI!
Schroder abusing poor Jose…
ALLEY OOP!
TT with a swat!
WOW that LBJ drive!
Lebron with the Kyrie move…
TT Block!
Need to get JR going.
Gotta get a lead before Collins checks in…
I think it was Mike Zavagno who mentioned that the Cavs don’t really do anything with Osman on the offensive end, they just have him stand in the corner…I think that’s accurate, and I’d like to see at least some cutting…he’s a rookie, but he has played pro ball…
Yeah, never understand the standing in the corner crap. Set picks, run around, cut, make the defense work. Nobody puts Cedi in a corner.
I think the Hawks FO is negotiating buyouts during time outs.
SWISH!!
Man these Atlanta unis are hideous
Ha… I thought the opposite…
They’re very early 90’s French Canadian!
Schroder’s shoes are blinding tho…
https://twitter.com/mcten/status/962124384180883460
Meanwhile, IT still trying to touch the net.
IT might be the only guy in the NBA who can’t dunk…
He can dunk easily.
Schroeder got the call cuz he threw his hands up
I hope the Cavs can find a way to win this game tonight. Don’t know how the new guys would react if the Cavs get blowned out tonight by the pigeons.
These Hawks unis are pretty cool…
They embody neon.
There’s gonna be a lot of missed shots in this game I think…
Schroeder is going to light up Calderon…
Damn that pass by Green was so sweet! He learned how to throw a curve by from Cedi!
The Anderson’s even want tickets to the Q again now. Will this commercial run as long as Jim Bean/Mika Kunis
Those commercials will face the caveman from Geico in a steel cage match!
Billy is obsessed! He pinned this tweet.
https://twitter.com/BillSimmons/status/961979367415980032?s=20
I wouldn’t give this bozo any more run on CtB. Who really cares?
Yes. Good point. But I love watching Billy squirm.
So wish some team would hire Bill as a GM. He’d make Billy King look like a genius. He’d pick James Young in the lottery all day long long because he saw him dunk twice in the tournament.
Cedi’s first career start!
YESSSSSSSS!!!!! THE JEDI!!!
John Barry might have given his best wisdom regarding officials. They are all new and don’t have a relationship with the players.
I feel Hood, Hill and Nance would help the Cavs a lot. Clarkson can be really good too but apparently he can be a tool too.
Let’s hope he just plays his role and doesn’t try to do too much.
Tool are accepted. Midgets are not welcome, unless they are a part of moondogs skits!
Little scuffle between Blake and Bradley. Double techs!
Lol you guys really hated IT when I check the pole results ???
Poll*
Hated the player not the person.
Good point.
I wasn’t even all that crazy about IT the person towards the end…
It was great entertainment at the expense of Cavs fans.
I think Lebron voted 10 times…
Hated the player and disliked the person a whole lot. IT will be lucky to get a mid level exception offer
Austin Carr is pumped for Nance!! He just called him a sweatheart!
How hilarious would Bill Simmons’ reaction be if the Celtic lose to the Cavs in the playoffs, Lebron stays, and the Nets pick is like a top two pick? God, I want to live to see his childish rage tweeting, and his 12,000 word article on that.
That would be epic!
https://twitter.com/ChrisBHaynes/status/962117445308661760
I’d be cool getting Wright for sure…have always liked him…
Is he the lefty that used to play for the mavericks?
Yes…I think he is a lefty, and he played for the Mavs, along with a lot of other teams. He’s been battling injuries, and I believe he just came back from injury. Heck of a shot blocker in his prime…
I forgot Bullock also played for the Clips, and is now with Detroit.
so it will be the hawks vs the CHAVS ( CHARGE / CAVS ) tonight —-GO ” CHAVS ” !!!!—–LET THE “POST I.T. ERA BEGIN “—COULDN’T COME SOON ENOUGH !!!
Blake’s 3 point shot has very little arc!
So excited for this new chapter!
Avery Bradley to face his new old team on the road!
Blake Griffin about to face his old team at home.