Live Thread: Cavs @ Lakers
2020-01-13Well the good news is that LeBron is playing. The better news is that Dante Exum has rejoined the team in L. A. and is a go. The bad news is that Dylan Windler is out for the year, and that the Cavs are without him, Larry, KPJ, and Ante. Rondo’s out, AD is questionable, and Avery Bradley is playing.
Meanwhile the Lakers are coming off a non LeBron/AD win where Kyle Kuzma scored 36, and we all know what Cleveland did in Denver. Let’s keep the winning streak rolling! Here’s to ruining Bron’s January. Go Cavs!
Garland +13 right now…. getting guys the right shots, making a few too
TT has been great on LeBron so far.
taking on the challenge and matching his physicality.
Totally
LeBron making a push right now, offense struggling without Garland initiating.
Good TO. 14 down to 7. Still very encouraging.
Every time Dudley hits slop like that, a baby penguin dies…
Exum should be initiating the O w this lineup.
Or Love in the midpost. Or Cedi. Just not Sexton.
True
Sexton needed to pass that back to Love for the re-post.
THERE WE GO TRISTAN THOMPSON!!!!
Just tuning in. The ball is actually finding the right man. Cavs hunting the mismatches right now perfectly. And the defense. We’re seeing great help and recover right now. Sexton though…..
Life getting in way of my sports…looks like a fun game so far! TT handling LBJ nicely there too.
Darius Garland doing an nice job with the 2-man action at the top of the key
Cedi rebound! LOVE GETS THE FOUL!
John Henson sighting!
good God, what a pass LeBron.
OH DAMN steal, but then turnover on the baseline.
Is this real life???
Cavs defense playing elite right now… challenging everything.
What am I watching right now? This is awesome.
Garland is gonna be good…
GARLAND ONE LEG FADEAWAY!!!! RAGE TO!!!
Lakers rage TO. Cavs up 13.
HENSON WITH THE DEFENSE!!!!!
GARLAND POCKET PASS TO HENSON!
Henson time!
CEDI HUSTLE DRAWS THE FOUL!
Cedi looking good…again…
CEDI DEFENSE!!!!
CEDI WITH A MEAN 3 RIGHT THERE!
What a start!
Good defense by Cedi, tough shot, tip your cap.
Bummer of an ending, but still a good quarter.
Garland a tired stepback 3 there… didn’t have the gas to get to the rim.
BALL MOVEMENT TO CEDI FOR THREE!!!!
TT MISMATCH EASY TWO!
Oh, Tony Brothers in the house…yay…
Love Garland gets another mismatch, Love just screwed up the shot somehow, maybe fouled?
GARLAND LOVE TWO MAN!
DG from deeeep!
KLOVE great recognition and shot!!!
Love has it going early.
I would take Jordan Clarkson over Kuzma all day long…only thing Kuzma has going for him is the cheap contract (for now)…
KLOVE FROM DEEP!
Nice drop off pass Sexton to TT, and nice ball movement in general, more energy.
CEDI WITH THE CRAZY AND1!!!
Lol, Cedi….nice…
Kuzma flop!
Cedi hitting the glass!!! CEDI TO TT on the transition!!!
Cavs look sharp to start the game off…. can they sustain it?
This game has some intensity
Agreed… TT vs LBJ there in the beginning kind of set the tone.
WOW… Sexton had the blow by… TT overaggressive.
That was fun. TO bug biting again.
SEXTON ONE ON ONE DEFENSE! in the post too!
Great look Garland to Love, Javale was there for the block…
WOW… Cavs with great defense and they make a contested 3 at the end of the shot clock
Javale is such an idiot…
GIVE AND GO SEXTON AND LOVE!
Love to Sexton assist! Breakthrough redux.
TT vs LBJ!!! this is good! TT WITH THE SLAM!
Decent start…
Blacked out on this one, I’ll be following along on the thread to see what happens.
great one on one defense Cedi!!!
Garland blow by!
Nice look Sexton, nice shot Love!
Sexton to Love assist!
Houston, we have a breakthrough.
Cavs only 2 games out of 9th place in the Eastern Conference… getting Sexland playoff minutes early in their careers would be huge.
6 games out of 8th, however.
Just saying it’s really easy for them to get in the mix.
Really sucks about Windler… could really use his 3pt shooting.
Agreed. He is our best wing shooter. Though Cedi has improved. A shooter at all 3 groupings (guard, wing, big) is certainly helpful. I mean, Sexton, Cedi, Knight, Porter, Exum, even Larry, they can make shots, but are not “shooters.” If that makes any sense.
I wanted to see Garland, Windler, Love (our 3 shooters) + 2 (Sexton/Clarkson/Porter + TT/Nance/Henson). I thought that could have had the makings of an interesting young team.
The Inferno is back. We cannot lose!
So, Cedi, TT, Love, & SexLand start.
Bench: Knight, Delly, Inferno, Phonzie, Henson.
Wade/Cook may have to play a bit tonight.
Maybe Bron has one of those weird passive games where he seems to try to find out how good his teammates are if he doesn’t score.
Still, them missing Davis & Rondo helps.
Our starting five has been pretty healthy so far (knock on wood). I havebeen critical of Sexton, but he has been durable. That is worth something.
I wouldn’t call lbj playing good news. This may be a massacre.
Time for TT and KLove to show that championship mettle themselves.
Still giving up the pinkie Nate??