Live Thread: Cavs vs Pacers
2019-10-26Cleveland gets a tough opponent for its home opener. The Pacers are hungry for a win after dropping their opener to the Pistons. Both teams feature starters who just signed big extensions. Cedi Osman Extended for four years and $31 million this morning while Domantas Sabonis, the Pacers starting power forward signed a four year $74.9 million dollar extension. Both deals will probably end up being relative bargains compared to the Jaelyn Brown’s of the world.
The Pacers also added Malcolm Brogdon (4 Yr. $85 mil), Jeremy Lamb (3 Yr $31 Mil.), and the Pacers added TJ Warren in a trade with the Pacers. Four new players join Myles Turner in the starting lineup for Indy tonight as they take on the Cavs’ who’ll be rolling out Cedi, the Sexland Backcourt, Kevin Love, and Tristan Thompson. John Henson is also expected to play for the first time in a Cavs Uni.
Stopping the Pacers bigs, and Malcolm Brogdon will loom large for Cleveland. Brogdon put up 22 and 11 assists in his Indy debut, while Turner and Sabonis combined for 52 and 22 rebounds. Kevin Love needs a big night pulling the Pacers bigs out of the paint, and the Cavs need to shoot a decent percentage and take care of the ball.
Cleveland also gets its regular season debut of the remodeled Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse.Let’s hope the Cavs’ new digs inspire some all-for-one play.
Correction: It appears Edmond Sumner will start for an injured Jeremy Lamb.
Cavs are absolutely dominating the boards, and limiting turnovers… not even shooting that great from the field.
Cavs up 15!
B-lein is a genius! I told y’all! (not).
Still really nice too see.
I step out for a while and Cavs put the foot on the throat! Go boys!!!
Beilein staggering Garland and Sexton with Delly. It’s paying off this quarter.
Sexton on a damn good run!
Sexton 5 straight!
WHAT A DRIVE SEXTON… WITH THE HESI!!!!
He just smoked Myles Turner!!!
Cavs with some swagger
SEXTON FOR THREEE!!!!!! SWING SWING!
NICE DEFENSE SEXTON!!! CUT OFF THE DRIVE!!! LOVE TO TT!!!! TEN POINT LEAD!
KLOVE WITH THE KISS!!!!
CLARKSON AND 1 AGAIN!!!!
damn Sabonis got moves.
Yep. Much better tonight. Too bad Henson cannot make a FT. Good to see him out there.
Garland’s assist total is VERY encouraging.
Sabonis had to work hard to get that basket earlier on Nance… tip your cap to him.
CLARKSON AND 1!!!!!!! FROM THREE!!!!
Cavs defense solid so far.
Yeah. Clarkson got hammered on the drive before the Garland one.
GARLAND GOT HAMMERED WHERE’S THE FOUL?
WHAT A BLOCK PORTER!!! Larry Nance FOR THREE!!!!!!!!
WHAT A PLAY GARLAND TO PORTER!!!!
coby white (#7 pick) averaging 21 ppg with per of 29.. time for #5 to “show” me something.. i am waiting..
Seriously? It’s a long season. Give it a rest.
Dude two games mean nada in an NBA career.
Also, Henson, work on your FTs.
decent first quarter, same problem as last game, Delly, Clarkson, and KPJ just isn’t a good 2nd unit.
Gah. Porter almost gave them a 3 he never should have. He needs to go to Canton for a while.
Once Windler gets healthy, he probably will. But for now, unless you want tons of JC at the 3…….
damn great touch pass Garland, KPJ had an open 3.
JUST TUNING IN—STILL HAVE A “BUCKEYE HANGOVER ” —–MIGHT HAVE TO GO GRAB ANOTHER BEER AFTER READING T.T. HIT A “3 ” ——IS “TONIGHT ” THE ” NIGHT ” THAT “KNIGHT ” GETS A LITTLE RUN
Sweet finish Clarkson!
bad drive KPJ, nice recover on defense tho
I’m not very impressed with Porter
He has a long way to go on fundamentals and just knowing how to play winning team ball.
He is RAW.
nice pass Garland, KPJ had a wide open 3.
yikes on that Henson FT stroke lol
https://twitter.com/oldseaminer/status/1188254275908096000?s=20
Porter has not good defensive stance.
Nice floater in the paint Porter!!!
I like Brad Dougherty’s analysis…. got that bball IQ.
What a great FIRST Nba three for Thompson
Yes that was unexpected
Delly giveth Delly taketh away…. Clarkson hustle!!!
Delly charge!
GREAT PLAY DELLY! Took the charge!
TT! From the heavens!
Somehow theses jerseys look great… that Clarkson looked awful…. TT FOR THREE!!!????
TT 3!!!!!!!
They are working KLOVE in the post…. I like it, except for that travel.
Wow. Cavs beating a path to the line and the pacers can’t stop fouling
GREAT PASSING! One dribble, travelled all the way down the court… Cedi gets the foul!
Nice pocket pass Goosebumps over Fred.
great pocket pass Sexton, TT got hammered.
K love being aggressive and it is paying off. Needs to demand the ball because good things happen. Garland also showing some understanding of pace and angles on offense. Nashed it on that TT oop. Still going to be a sieve on d. But already has a better knowledge of spacing, angles, and pace than Sexton.
damn good tribute for Fred.
Beautiful
That was nice by Dan
Another KLOVE post touch, another foul drawn!!!
Sexton hi-jacked that possession… let Garland run the offense!
That happens more often than not.
WHAT A PLAY GARLAND!!!!!!!!! HE’S SO GOOD!
That was a phantom foul on Garland.
Agreed… weak call.
Sexton missed an open love on that p/r
damn… Pacers defense fantastic there.
Nice. Pass on the break Sexton maybe needed to hold it a half second longer.
Kevin Love doing work in the post!!!
SEXTON GREAT HUSTLE!
WHAT A DRIVE GARLAND!!!!!
C’mon Cedi… two terrible post entry passes in a row. BALL FAKE!
He should be feeling “money”!
WHAT A BLOCK TT!
Nice block, TT.
TT getting it on Turner!
Kevin pump fake draws foul!!!
That was a lazy turnover. Already seeing more elbow and high post action though
Kevin high post touch, Kevin pop out 3!
Pacers with tremendous ball pressure. forced a terrible Cedi post entry pass.
I honestly can’t believe that that was the first time I heard the backcourt combo referred to as “Sexland”! Ha! At least one thing meshes perfectly for the Cavs.
All Indiana has is like 300 guys named “TJ”.
Good luck Cavs!