Live Thread: Cavaliers vs. Bulls
2021-04-17Good evening CtB! Tonight we have a meaningful late season game, with the Cleveland Cavaliers traveling to the Windy City to take on the Zach Lavine-less Bulls. The Bulls stand tied for 10th place in the Eastern Conference, with the Cavs just two games back. The Bulls appear to be slight Vegas favorites (-2.5 before tip), but the Cavs should be competitive and have a chance for a big road win in April. Go Cavs!!!
Greg Buckner on the money, offense is stagnant.
Love with zero assists. Need to start using Love in post ups.
ICE WITH 10 VERY EFFICIENT PTS—JUST SCORES WITHINN THE FLOW OF THE GAME
Ice starting to break out!!!
LAST GAME IT WAS HARD ROCK WITH NO MIN’S –TONIGHT IT IS WADE——DO NOT UNDERSTAND J.B’S THINKING OR LACK OF
good point, feels like there is not much rhyme or reason at times — not that Wade won’t do well whenever he is put in. Hartenstein getting some decent minutes in the first half
BULLS BENCH HAD 21 SHOTS TO CAVS BENCH 6 SHOTS —WTF
that’s awful LMFAOOO
We are out shooting them and out rebounding them.
Bulls winning the TO battle (3-7) and dropping more dimes.
Yup… their offensive flow keeping them in the game, and holding our team back.
Cavs with great energy tonight on defense, but their offense suffering from fits and spurts of ball movement.
Bulls bench outscoring the Cavs’ bench 24-5…. bench is keeping them in the game.
Need sone Wade!
Amen to that!!!!
Nice flurry at the end to take the lead.
Too bad DG had a TO when we could have gone 2 for 1 late.
NICE RUN TO FINISH THE HALF—-HOPE A.C. IS RIGHT / ALLEN SCORING WILL IMPROVE THE 2ND HALF
DG STOP AND POP AT THE ELBOW!!!!!!!!
clutch end of quarter shot.
OKORO DEFENSE OKORO SLAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OOOOOOOOOOO DG TO ALLEN!!!!!!! WHAT A PLAY!
nice take Sexton, really has a hang of drawing fouls this year.
Nice Ice!
If we can keep Sexton under 10 TOs, we may have a shot.
ALLEN STRUGGLING SO FAR TONIGHT —HOPE HE CAN TURN IT AROUND
ICE WITH A SOLID GAME SO FAR
GREAT PASS NANCE!!!! OKORO AND1!!!! WHAT A FINISH!!!!
nice take Sexton! also JB staggering Sexton and Love, I like that!
We still suck.
some flashes of competence, nice at least to have a proper starting lineup for this one — Bulls are really out of joint but still trying to get their mojo back against the Cavs — wonder if JB is going to start sounding more like Donovan next year
damn Vuc is so good.
damn great pass DG, Love just couldn’t hit.
GREAT DEFENSE DG!!!!!!!!
damn DG hunting those 3s LMFAOOO I like the confidence, but feed Love first should be the priority every half court set.
he deserves a heat check 3 from time to time
no doubt!!!
WOOOOOOO OFF THE DRIBBLE THREE DG!!!!!!!!!!
VINTAGE LOVE IN THE POST!!!! FEED THE MAN!!!!
holy defense Okoro
Love wide open just missed… nice find DG.
PRINCE NICE COAST TO COAST FINISH!
3 turnovers already for Sexton. Love is already 2-4 from three…. USE LOVE SEXLAND!!!!!
4 PT TURN AROUND ON THAT SEXTON T.O. —OUCH
WOW NICE FINISH DG!!!! GREAT DEFENSE!!!! WTF WAS THAT TURNOVER SEXTON????????
Ugh. That was awful from Sexton. Right as we had a chance to make a run.
The most boneheaded play at the worst time SMH
DG not a good set, get the ball to Love!!!!
DG GET THE BALL TO LOVE!!!!!! CMON DG!!!!
Sexton caught falling asleep on defense, and compounds the error with the and1.
NICE CONTEST HART x2!!!
DELLY TO LOVE FOR THREE!!!!!!!!!
Cavs aren’t moving the ball that well. Only 5 assists, 3 of them DG.
NICE HUSTLE SEXTON!
DRE WITH 27/ 8 TODAY—WILL STILL BE INTERESTING TO SEE HOW HE MESHES WITH LEBRON / A.D
very good game for Dre… think he will fit in great with them.
Drummond is what he is, but he’s a pretty good basketball player. It’s criminal that so many dumb teams let the Lakers get him for absolutely nothing.
yup…. all he needs is to play with competent perimeter players for the first time in his professional career.
I mean, I am not a maestro on the rules, but I think a claiming team would have had to pick up his salary?
No one has the space this late.
Teams had the space. They just didn’t want to pull the trigger. Some of those teams had desires for an NBA title this year. Mavs easily could have done it.
GREAT CONTEST HART!!!
MOVE THE BALL DELLY! awful possession.
Vuc > Allen so far… need Allen/Hart to step up.
ISN’T T YOUNG ONE OF NATE’S FAVORITES
I believe so!!!!
oh yes, the Delly-Young paint battle would be of great interest!
Believe Nate calls him the “New School IT”.
late contest Hard Rock, Thad can hit that.
ugly offense after Sexton couldn’t handle the good pass from Delly IIRC.
Sexton has such insane ability that somehow he was able to keep the possession somehow
yeah, at least he got a shot off!!!!
nice patience in the lane Sexton, easy midranger!
Coach kind of heard me. Hart & Prince in.
LNJ rust remover 3!
Allen off. LNJ still rusty.
Time for Wade & Hard Rock.
Yes sir!!! I like it!
nice finish DG, stops the bleeding a little bit.
great pass DG, Allen missing some bunnies tonight.
Delly in for YB. Allen still off.
yup re: Allen.
also missing this one, blacked out for “Remembering Joe Morgan” on Bally
?????? WTF NBA??????
Same. I liked Joe Morgan, but c’mon.
No kidding!!!
Missing this one. School play tonight.
hope the play is enjoyable, Nate, and that the Cavs will be able to get a W in your absence!
on cue a Delly-Thad Young collision, the spirit animals are thick in this game! fortunately Young did not break any bones
Heck yeah Nate, doing the dad guy thing!!!
Love subbed out and the Bulls immediately go on a run to take the lead.
Larry’s defense on Vuc was pretty good but apparently needs to keep his range in mind?
Yup, Vuc is deadly from anywhere on the court.
I noticed too. But Allen mussed a couple tips & a bunny.
WOW great pass Sexton, Allen just missed a bunny.
not sure about that shot DG, thought Allen was open early on the roll.
I felt like that was mistimed, they still don’t have it down intuitively. Sexton just seems more inclined to shoot and let Allen clean up the mess, fewer options
yup, well said.
nice to see Love not miss by hitting front of the rim on those long 3s
Nice deflection DG!!! WHAT A PASS DG!!!! Okoro nice cut an finish!
some nice defense by him down the court as well, bringing the energy tonight
Good recovery after poor start. Mostly from Sexton on both counts.
definitely getting the good and bad of Sexton early!!!
REMEMBER WHEN MARKKANEN 1ST CAME INTO THE LEAGUE –HE WAS THE RAVE —MAN HOW TIMES HAVE CHANGED
Sexton awful defense on Williams, late contest, gives up a wide open 3.
NICE GET BACK OKORO! RAGE TO!
Williams is pretty good. Interesting to hear Billy Donovan about Coby White after he went off for 27 against Memphis — he said something which we never hear from JB about Collin namely (I paraphrase) “yeah the points are nice and we do need those, but he made a few important mistakes on defense and we lost the game”
Yup, Coby White has been an extreme disappointment for the Bulls so far this year. DG has outplayed him this season IMO.
ICE WITH SOOOO MUCH MORE CONFIDENCE THAN A MONTH AGP—-GREAT TO SEE
Okoro awful missed rebound… but great team defense to stop them anyway!
SEXTON OFF THE DRIBBLE 3!!!!!!
nice take Sexton. Not liking his defense though against Patrick Williams the last possession, just way overmatched physically.
He should not be guarding him. That is on JB.
Another reason why Sexland does not work. Okoro defending guards = huge mismatch when DG/YB have to defend forwards.
Yup, if I were the Bulls, I’m running plays for Williams/Vuc every time down with that matchup.
NICE PASS SEXTON!!! LOVE IS IN THE AIR!!!!!
DG WITH THE FINISH! nice touch!
Sexton easy blow by, but blows the finish at the rim.
WOW, Sexton just bricked a wide open 3.
nice passing DG and Love though.
NICE PASS SEXTON!
oh nice pass DG, Love just missed the 3.
ARE WE GOING TO SEE ANY MIN’S FOR KAVENGELE OR DID A.C. PUT IN A MANDATE THAT HE DOESN’T PLAY :-)
LMFAOOOO I think he’s 3rd string center, so probably won’t see him unless we don’t see Hard Rock.
Let’s GOOOOOO
Doesn’t appear this is airing in Columbus, so enjoy, everyone. If Cavs don’t win this, seems like a lock to miss the play-in. (I’m okay with that, but I do think the Cavs may win this)
WOW Mike, that’s so unreal… I know in Raleigh, there’s two or three Bally Sports feeds on my cable due to coverage issues, not sure if cable up there has it too.
Yeah, I think this is a real 50/50 game with Lavine out, gonna be exciting to see how the team responds.
Problem here is there are two Fox sports channels, and sometimes this time of year one is airing bluejackets, one Reds. The ridiculous thing tonight is there is no Reds game, just Reds related programming. It is what it is.
??????? I’m mad for you Mike, SMH
GOT ME A NEW BEER —LEINKUGEL’S —” LEMON HAZE IPA ” I CAN SEE MANY OF THEM BEING CONSUMED THIS SUMMER !!!!!
Oh that sounds pretty good!!!
BETTER YOU “YOUNG ” FOLKS CREATING A WEB PAGE THAN THIS OLD FART —I WILL STICK TO MY LIFE PURSUIT OF ……..” MORE BEER PLEASE ‘
LMFAOOOOO you’re an inspiration NOMAD!!!
THANKS AGAIN CLF FOR THE ‘EXTRA ” WORK YOU HAVE BEEN PUTTING IN TO ALLOW CTB CONTINUE TO BE THE BEST !!!!
My pleasure NOMAD! Honestly, Nate and the rest of CtB has made it a breeze, and I’m getting some pretty valuable experience, I’ve never published a web page in my entire life until this past week!!! LMFAOOOOO
ALL IN FOR MORE ( THAN 4 ) MINUTES FOR “HARD ROCK “
That was malpractice from JB.
yup, unless Hartenstein was low-key hurt/tired… wish someone would’ve asked him about Hard Rock.