Preseason Live Thread: Pacers @ Cavs
2021-10-08Good evening CtB!
Tonight the Indiana Pacers coming to the shores of Lake Erie to take on the Cavs. The Cavs will be looking to make it two wins in a row, while the Pacers are looking to bounce back from their decisive loss against the New York Knicks Tuesday night.
Stats to Consider, Part One
Cavs’ preseason offensive rating while Jarrett Allen’s on the court: 79.8
Cavs’ preseason offensive rating while Evan Mobley’s on the court: 90.2
Cavs’ preseason defensive rating while Lauri Markkanen’s on the court: 129.5
Cavs’ preseason defensive rating while Kevin Love’s on the court: 121.4
What to watch: Does J.B. Bickerstaff experiment with different combinations of the quartet of bigs?
Stats to Consider, Part Two
Darius Garland’s preseason usage rate: 15.3%
Cavs’ preseason offensive rating while DG’s on the court: 76.6
What to watch: Will Darius Garland start asserting himself as a scorer after an unacceptable start?
Stats to Consider, Part Three
Collin Sexton’s preseason usage rate: 32.6%
Collin Sexton’s preseason true shooting percentage: 51.3%
Collin Sexton’s preseason assist ratio: 6.3
2020-21 NBA season average assist ratio: 18.0
What to watch: Will the Cavs’ offense feature anything more than Young Bull hijacking the offense with below average, volume shooting?
Tune in to find out, 7:00PM ET on Bally’s Sports Ohio… GO CAVS!!!
It might be fun if Brogdan ever missed a freaking shot…
He’s having too much fun torching Sexton LMFAOOO
WHAT THE HELL SEXTON CATCH THE BALL
awful defense Jarrett Allen
DG OFF TEH DRIBBLE!!!
Love engages when he’s got guys who can play around him.More Windler…….Go away “young bull”……..
yup, 100% agree with Love
Mobley only starter with a positive plus/minus
Allen and Sexton are stinking it up.
DG and Okoro played well with Windler and Wade.
Rubio, Love, and Markkanen should be starting with Mobley.
It’s interesting that the “young core” kinda looks worse all around (Sexton Okoro JA and even Garland is shooting poorly)
Somewhat offset by Mobley being good, Rubio being our best player and Love actually giving a crap
yeah, none of them know what it takes to win in the NBA
Rubio and Love do, Mobley led his team last year in the NCAAs as a freshman, so he’s familiar with leading a winning team.
Part of me thinks this is what a team without true talent is though. One night it’s guys XYZ next night it’s guys ABC. Go Mobley! Also a fun half to watch, which I *think* is the point of all of this haha
oh yeah, there’s finally offense to watch mainly because of JB’s adjustments, question is will he stick with them???
yeah of course we don’t have talent, but that’s why you play the players that impact winning so guys can learn good habits.
WTF WAS THAT Sexland??????
Markkanen totally asleep on the weakside defense.
Sexton blows the layup
WTF Sexton you’re not getting that call anymore
WHAT A PASS DG TO SEXTON!!! FINALLY WAKING UP
Nice pass Sexton, too bad your defense is garbage
Nice read DG on the mismatch, but it’s too slow still
Sexland SUCKS!!!! GET IT OFF THE COURT!!!
Sexland and Love and Markkanen on the court, disaster pending
nice idea DG, but way too sloppy of a pass c’mon man.
RUBIO TO MOBLEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! TOO EASY
RUBIO FOR THREE!!!!!!!!!!
without Sexton ball hogging, offense has suddenly taken off… coincidence???
Bad read Rubio, get the ball to Mobley
Damn, Mobley fell for the pump fake… rookie mistake.
Looks like Windler isn’t done after all…
Windler and Wade >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Please be right! Stroke looks great
WINDLER IS ON FIRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dylan Flamethrower
WADE WITH THE DRIVE AND FOUL!!!!!!!!
WOW WHAT A SHOT RUBIO!!!!
WINDLER TO WADE!!!!
WINDLER LOOKS AMAZING!!!!
DG needs to lock in, blown layup and missed an open 3.
but at least he’s managing the game better.
Okoro’s defense needs to improve drastically
WINDLER IS TWO FOR TWO GREAT PASS OKORO!
my goodness DG you’re the best FT shooter on the team
Allen has not cleanly caught a pass this preseason.
He’s a backup, clearly shouldn’t be starting, shouldn’t have paid him starter money.
Okoro coming alive at the 2 guard.
TRADE SEXTON!!!!!!!!!!!
THERE WE GO!!!!!! WINDLER THREE GReAT BALL MOVEMENT!!!!!!!!
It’s time to dissolve Sexland. Yeesh.
Good defense poor rebounding, but good fight there to prevent the score.
wow, DG and Sexton taking turns blowing layups
Those DG floaters – if (big if) he can make those at a high rate. He’s a poor man curry
Is Rubio the best player since Lebron?
Sexton arghgsh
Sexton with a terrible turnover because he refuses to pass the ball.
Sexton. Wtf.
That was some garbage defense by Sexton, gave up a wide open 3
RUBIO RIGHT DOWN EUCLID!!!
Lazy pass Love c’mon man… oh i guess he was winded
LOVE IS IN THE AIR!!!!!
A lot of Markkanen at the 3, I like it.
what a dumb play, Sexton space the floor let Love back the mismatch down!!!
THERE WE GO SWING SWING MARK FOR THREE!!!
Need to start a new website. http://www.heyjbpleasestartrickyrubio.com.
Keep Sexton, Okoro, and Allen on the bench…. they were atrocious, this lineup can actaully score.
HOLY SHIT that was great defense and Holiday makes a prayer
WOW WHAT A PLAY DG BALL FAKE BABYY!!!!!
DG TO MOBLEY!!!!!!!! AND ONE!!!!!
WTF????? BAD CALL REF!!!
GREAT PASS MARKKANEN!!! LOVE FLASH POST!!!
DG LOVE GIVE AND GO WHAT A PASS LOVE!!!!!!!
Nice pass Love!
HOLY CRAP BIG TO BIG OOP!!!!!
DG’s head still isn’t in the game.
great playcall, bad pass Mobley, but good vision.
Man, Rubio has impressed. Hot take: Mobley will be one of the top 3 most feared shot blockers this season.
Future DPOY isn’t even a doubt in my mind
RUBIO SHOULD BE STARTING!!!!!!!!!!
RICKY RUBIO STRAIGHT DOWN THE LANE!!! THANK GOD A COMPETENT BASKETBALL PLAYER!!!
Allen blows point blank layup,
DG questionable choice, had Mobley for the lob, took the floater and missed.
Sexton barely drawing rim on a midrange pull up LMFAO
great pass DG, Allen blows the hook shot
DG rhythm pass to Sexton for three…. best play they’ve made together this preseason by default
MOBLEY WHAT A FINISH!!! GET HIM THE DAMN BALL
DG awful turnover, had the advantage with Mobley in the two man and got caught between shooting and passing.
LMFAOOOOOo LITERALLY THE FIRST PLAY!!!! Sexton tries to be a PG, and turns it over LMFAOOOOO
John Michael just said Mobley and Allen’s offense together has been “encouraging” LMFAOOOOOOO wonder how much Koby had to slip him to say that!!!
More good news, a look at Windler and Wade, presumably at the 3/4
https://twitter.com/ChrisFedor/status/1446598517565296644?s=20
J.B. I guess woke up from his sleepwalk LMFAOOOOO
https://twitter.com/ChrisFedor/status/1446599208530759694?s=20