Live Thread: Cavs vs Rockets
2019-12-11The Rockets come into the Rocket Mortgage center tonight sporting a league best 120 points per game, with James Harden and Russell Westbrook killing teams for 60 points, 12 boards, and 15 assists per game. No word yet on whether the Cavs will have a new starting lineup, but the Rockets will be missing Gerald Green, Eric Gordon, Austin Rivers, and Wilson Chandler while the Cavs are only missing Windler.
I’d like to give the Cavs some hope in this one, because if there’s any opponent teams are looking past in the Association right now, it’s the Cavs. Unfortunately, the Rockets haven’t lost to a bad team all year, with only the Wizards absurd 158-159 loss coming close.
The Cavs’ bench may have an advantage, because Houston’s last in the league in bench scoring at 25, and the Rockets give up 115 a game. The Rockets do play their starters heavy minutes.
It would be nice for all involved parties for Kevin Love and Co. to have a get right game at least in the scoring department. We’ll see what the evening holds. Go Cavs!
Yuk, what a terrible series of possessions…
Yep.
Bad Sexton tov driving into two guys leading to 2 for the rockets
Onboarding. Hey, close game! Good to see.
Love with another risky outlet that gets deflected. Wish he would stop. He completes maybe 10% of those this year.
Love with a good help block. TT running the break turned I into a four point swing. Oof.
Cavs half court d pretty good in the last few!
Great defense from KLOVE, but somehow TT wants to run the fast break.
Nice reverse, collin
Jesus. Stop making stupid turnovers.
WTF… great defensive sequence, KLOVE throws a stupid pass.
Klove. Just gotta stop forcing that pass
Yep.
The Rockets are insufferable whiners.
Boy are transition d is awful. I wonder how many times I have said this over the last 5 years.
Klove stated at clarke instead of closing out
Yep that was bad.
Great pass in transition by kpj and Garland nails an open trey.
Great meaning “hit the wide open guy he’s been ignoring all season”
KpJ usually makes the open pass.
Porter looking great in this one…
Houston run starts now is my guess
Good drive by kpj.
Houston will allow you to score, but this is much better stuff tonight.
Helluva hesitation, euro step from KPJ!
Man, KPJ…sweet drive…
Good foul
Clarkson safety valve.
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Bad shot Porter, then paid the price on the other end.
Rpm came out today. Kpj like bottom 3 in Association.
Yeah, that makes sense… he’s a Delly-sized black hole on offense other than the occasional good pass and worse on defense against backups than Garland or Sexton.
Hmm. Think it’s more about who he’s playing with.
I don’t see him as bad as you do.
How do I see him as bad??? I was the one who was criticized for vouching for his talents at draft time.
I was onboard the whole way. Still onboard. He might end up being the best of Sexton, Garland, and himself. Of course that isn’t saying much right now.
I don’t think it’s “more” about that, but I’m sure it doesn’t help that Nance and Henson are there with him in terms of worst net rating.
Garland just barely above him
Yeah, extremely shocking that teenage rookies suck in the NBA!
Well rpm hurts you when your lineup stinks and u play with guys with decent prior.
I know that, doesn’t change my opinion.
Yet he may have a top 5 career from the 2019 draft…we’ll see…
Starting to believe KPJ will be one of the best players from last year’s draft…he’s a really good passer…
Live that he went at Russ. That last jumper was dumb though
Porter nice pass!!!
Nice shot KPJ, and nice defensive play and hustle
Porter dime!
Sloppy in transition d in first but at least we moved the ball and scored a little.
Ugh, KPJ’s jumper is uggggggly…
Then he hits the wide open 3…
Made one though!
Very flat. He probably is more reliable than Delly though.
Good takes by TT. Good ball movement by Love and KPJ. We just can’t hit open Trey’s.
Offensive rebound and post move from…Delly???
RWB looking at Delly like he’s a delicious steak…
Too fast for him.
Uh Delly guarding Westbrook needs to stop now.
That Sexton foul on harden was absurd. Had position. Anticipated hardens change in direction. Harden just bulled him over
nice finishes Sexton and Clarkson… 2 point game, hopefully the bench can hold the fort.
Garland with a nice pass to Cedi, couldn’t make the Trey though.
Captain Bandaid REALLY wanted that one.
Cavs have not made nearly enough open 3s this year.
Whatever Sexton did to his stroke makes it look better and go in less
Lol!
So agreed!
We do not have an elite shooter. Love is fantastic for a 4/5, but is not Dirk. Everyone else is in the 33%-37% range, or lower (Delly, Porter).
Cavs have to lead the league in giving up fast breaks after makes.
how the hell does that happen off of a made free throw? Sexton was the only one back.
Nice strong move from TT…
Kev with a lot better body language tonight
Terrible call.
Cavs have to lead the league in giving up fast breaks after makes.
Sexton Garland Love break was actually very well run. Then Cedi strips for a Garland corner 3.
Best 10 seconds of Cavs in weeks.
Yeah. Sexton didn’t hold it too long. Cedi made the right pass at the right time both times. Actually, check that, Garland made the pass to love. And Cedi had the pass to trailing sexton and then the skip to Garland. Pretty great minute or two.
best break of the season.
Interesting that Love, Garland, and Sexton are shooting lights out to start… hopefully they had a kumbaya moment.
They’ve all had some miscues though. Love missed a box out. Garland a jack. Sexton missed a backdoor and was saved by Garland. We’ll see.
miscues happen, sustained periods of trash offense is different.
True.
I would like a breakdown of Klove turnovers. I’ll bet most of them are bad outlet passes
Garland with a good drive and then a jack.
That Sexton shot against Tucker is such a momentum killer. Get a better shot.
Yeesh Cedi. Bit high there.
SO MUCH AWESOME!
Life!
Nice break!
Sexton does what he does best
Garland saves Sexton from a backdoor. Cedi with a good strip.
Nice flip Garland.
Oy turnovers.
I will say love gets his pocket picked a lot in the post. Was a foul on the elbow, but no hustle back in transition. I don’t think there is any way of getting him back in the fold.
He has a higher TO ratio than Garland… yet crickets about it around here.
Lol. You hate him.
LOL… ah yes, pointing out facts = hate.
Just giving you a hard time.
oh I know, right back at ya! LOL
He has been sloppy of late. I don’t want my pg turning it over more than he creates though.
Cedi embarrassed Harden!
Nice strip cedi
Love knows this is his chance to give scouts a taste.
Wow…Cedi gets Love the ball and he scores.
Garland already loses a three point shooter who has 5 seconds to shoot. Check that. Love. Boy he is checked out. Illegal screen though. But completely lost his guy.
Rockets may set a new record for threes tonight…
God, please split up Sexton and DG…how about DG, KPJ, Cedi, TT, and Love?
I give that a 5% chance of happening anytime soon. Less if love gets traded.
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At this point I’ll take a competitive single digits loss with effort from everyone.