Live Thread: Cavs vs Clippers
2020-02-09Cleveland with a real shot at this one, tonight: no Kawhi and no Patrick Beverly while the Cavs are coming off four days rest after Wednesday’s loss to the Thunder. The Clips are also on the back end of a road back-to-back after a 142-115 drubbing in Minnesota Saturday night.
Cleveland will be without Ante Zizic still and obviously Dylan Windler. Alfonzo McKinnie also returns to the team on a four year contract. It’s a pretty darned team friendly one. The Cavs control his rights for the next three years, and all of those years are just above the league minimum and non-guaranteed. It will be good to see The Fonz hitting the jukebox for the next few years will be a welcome site.
It’s also the debut of Andre Drummond in a Cavs uni tonight, and he looks to start from the get go. Kudos to Kevin Love and Tristan Thompson who have been nothing but class with how they’ve handled the trade deadline and the acqusition of Drummond. I, for one, am excited to see the new look Cavs tonight.
Would be nice if we hit a few open threes
This feels like clips toying with us.
Yeeesh. Didn’t expect a lot from this game, but I did bot expect this pasting.
Clips transition O is deadly. Even able to get into the offense very quickly off of makes as well.
Oish. Why did we trade for porter.
hoooo weee Porter!
Porter will be good…only question is *how* good…
HEY! nice McKinnie!!!
Nifty finish Porter.
Run an offense. Jesus.
Thought it was funny when campy was talking about drummond needing to figure out what we’re trying to do. Maybe campy can tell me, because I haven’t figured it out this season.
Tt shoots and hits a three. Weird weird night.
Lol…TT 3…
HOLY CRAP LMFAO
I wonder if this is the rub it in our face game for lue.
LMFAO or maybe just one of the best teams in the league versus the worst?
Yeah and a motivated one after last night.
agree with you JohnB, they’re rattled mentally… not making easy plays forcing everything.
They are not prepared mentally.
I am not blaming the refs for most of this.
Clips have a lot of guys that can put up points. Morris was a good pickup for them come the playoffs.
they’re stacked…. missing two starters and they go 12 deep easy.
Yep. Deepest team in the league.
what is going on??? KPJ/McKinnie can’t catch a great pass, Garland wiiiiiiiide open and can’t hit it.
Garland clearly not ready to play tonight. Only kpj and McKinnie seem like they are
Mckinnie johnny on the spot!
We’re a bit rattled.
Garland almost with another tov. We’re brick city. Clips doing a good job closing lanes.
Is this Coach Lue’s first game back in Cleveland since being fired? Wonder if there will be any kind of standing ovation or recognition
lack of familiarity clearly an issue LOL…. glad i took the Clips at -6 LMFAO
On pace to give up 144 lol
Cavs lucky to be down 15
Yep. Figured this game wasn’t going to be pretty. Clips have more talent even without kawhi and bev. And motivated
WOOOO PORTER AGAIN!
WAS THINKING THE SAME CLF—-THE GOT ROUTED BY TIMBERWOLVES LAST NIGHT WITH KAWHI PLAYING ——OH WELL GIVE IT TIME
Kpj only one who came to play so far.
Ball don’t lie Lou!
WOOOO PORTER!!!
Wowser. Kpj with the cavs highlight dunk of the year
Usually not a fan of showboating esp if you’re losing by double digits, but that was a great dunk.
Gotta find some things to enjoy
Clips d is good at collapsing
Cavs don’t do well with extended time off.
This is the Clips coming off of a bad loss.
Good god this looks awful
This is snowballing
Cavs settling for so many many bad jumpers.
Cedi isn’t quite a guy that can shoot coming fast off screens yet.
His jumper looks extremely rough right now
He has become a pretty good standstill spot up shooter.
LOL yikes on that one LMFAO i’ve seen him hit that tho
Tovs. Bad d.
Yeesh, Cavs D not good of course, but Clips hitting everything…
Garland having one good game every four just ain’t gonna cut or. He stinks so far tonight.
Yeah. He has flashes, but is in general bad as a rookie unsurprisingly.
Paul George makes it look so easy
Great pass Drummond. Cedi just missed it.
Cavs PnR D has been horrible as per usual
I also don’t expect Drummond to get many lobs in Cleveland considering our guard situation.
Cavs gonna need time to build some rhythm.
Drummond needs to get lean like Howard. Lose at least 25
Much needed love 3!
Need to get Love more involved
Cavs just firing up junk. Clips defense is no joke.
Drummond can’t fix tissue paper perimeter d or terrible shot selection by the guards.
Or by him.
True on his 3 attempt. But there have been about 5 jacks by the perimeter guys.
great pass Cedi, Love’s gotta hit that
Ugh. No. Drummond now 1-22 on that shot this year.
Defense is problematic. Not sure even needs to be said. Sort of just a given.
Yowser drummond. Wasn’t sure he had that in him.
Uh. That’s his MO.
He has only finished something like 14 lobs this year
Really? That’s on the Pistons.
Yeah that’s what i suspected when i heard that stat.
Welcome to Cleveland ANDRE!!! Big time throwdown
WOOOOOO BABY CEDI TO DRUMMOND TWO MAN!
Clips still have pg, morris, williams, zubac, hazel. Plenty of scoring punch.
Defense still gross…. no stop of penetration or weak side awareness
Cedi bangs the Drummond! Oop with a big finish!
Drummond with great help defense and the steal!
Nice backdoor by sexton and pass by dg. Would like to see consistent effort and focus in transition d tonight
GREAT PASS GARLAND!
Cedi great finish!
Love gets the ball to Drummond for his first Cav points!
God our guards lose people off ball so much
Pg threading the needle after bad dg tov
Go cavs. Just want them to be competitive.
OH YEAH—–HAPPY DAYS WITH THE FONZ BACK IN TOWN —–AAAAAAAAAY !!
“SUMMON THE DRUMMOND “—–THE ONLY THING MORE EXCITING THAN DRUMMONDS INITIAL APPEARANCE IN A CAVS UNIFORM WOULD BE OUR BELOVED / LEGENDARY EVIL WINNING AN OSCAR TONIGHT —-GO CAVS / GO DRUMMOND / GO EVIL ; – )
What happened with Fratello? Thought he was employed by the Cavs org?
He’s not on every game.