Live Thread: Blazers @ Cavs
2021-11-03Good evening CtB!
Off the back of a wildly successful road trip, the Cavs are back home to face the somewhat struggling Portland Trail Blazers. The Cavs will be dealing with a lot of missing pieces tonight, with reports just coming out today that Lauri Markkanen has entered the NBA’s Health and Safety Protocols, joining Kevin Love on the list.
Cleveland's Lauri Markkanen has entered Health and Safety Protocols, team says.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) November 3, 2021
The Cavs will also be most likely missing Isaac “Ice” Okoro with the hamstring injury according to Chris Fedor. One could presume that this opens the door for end of bench guys such as Lamar Stevens, Dean Wade, and Dylan Windler to receive some minutes. But Coach J.B. Bickerstaff has been coaching the beginning of this season as if he’s coaching in the playoffs, with a shortened rotation that while has produced some winning results, seems unnecessary given the slog of the NBA season.
It can’t go unmentioned that this will be a homecoming game for the beloved Larry Nance, Jr. LNJ has fit in seamlessly with his new team, leading the Blazers by far in net rating (+12.9). Welcome home, Larry! Tip off is scheduled for 7:00pm ET and will be broadcasted on Bally’s Sports Ohio. GO CAVS!
A bit much on that mobley possession.
LMFAOOO Powell is Portland’s best player this year so far
Powell is a true talent but never quite knows when to quit, I guess that is part of his charm. Along the same personality type the Portland TV team was talking about why Larry Nance, Jr. came to the Cavs in 2018, said “who wouldn’t want to play with J.R. Smith”?
Mobley and Sexton -6 each…. they’re fine offensively but not imposing their will on the defensive end (no stocks combined)
Cavs given up 8 offensive rebounds, getting outrebounded for the game.
Sexton hasn’t had a block this season.
LMFAOOOO no surprise, but should be able to get a steal or two a game with his elite athleticism!
he has gone all out on Lillard on 4+ possessions, seems reasonably effective after his epic brain freezes to start the game
good point.
This is the best the offense has looked all year, no coincidence with Wade and Windler playing!!!
Definitely. Only problem in the first quarter were the shots weren’t falling despite good play. This quarter was a different story.
Yup, Rubio and Garland’s passing seem to jump start it.
Just tuning in… first two plays I see are a Garland 3 and Sexton and 1!
DG TO SEXTON AND 1!!!!!!!!!!!!
Garland is just counter punching.
DG finally hitting from deep…
DG IS ABSOLUTELY COOKING!!!!!!!!
SEXTON NICE FINISH!
glad he did because he missed Allen on the roll LMFAO
16 FRIGGIN ASSISTS TO ONLY 2 TO’S—-GREAT STAT LINE
DEAN WADE STRONG DEFENSE!!!!
bullshit foul call!!!! hate refball
I like Wade, but that’s two in a row where he was left to box out Nurkic.
DG TO MOBLEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DG TO SEXTON FOR THREE!!!!
DG PULL UP FOR THREEEEEE!!!!!!
BALL DONT LIE
COMING IN LATE —OMG—-WE HAVE A WINDLER SIGHTING —AND YES OMG J.B. THE KID CAN PLAY HUH
yes indeed
JARRETT ALLEN POST WORK!
great pass Windler btw
Garland and Rubio bringing it with defense and passing!!!!
my fault i jinxed DG LMFAOOO
DG TO ALLEN!!!!!
RUBIO NASHING TO WINDLER FOR THREE!!!!!
WINDY!!
DEAN WADE CONFIDENT SHOT!!!
dammit DG, too aggressive… pull it back and reset.
RUBIO TO ALLEN AGAIN!!!!! EASY MONEY!!!! RUBIO MASTER OF THE BALL FAKE!
this lineup is COOKING!!! great call Nate!
RUBIO BALL FAKE!!! ALLEN EASY DUNK!
nice take Cedi, got the foul call
ALLEN BLOCK WTF THEY CALLED THAT A FOUL?????
ok, i guess got him on the hand
Windy! Feeling it!
GREAT PASS DG AND ALLEN!!!!! WINDLER FOR THREE!!!!!
Yesssssir!!!!
DG TO WINDLER FOR THREE!!!
Windy!!!!
It was all about the Blazers hitting threes and the Cavs hitting twos.
ALLEN GREAT HELP DEFENSE!!!
OK. Cood one, Cedi.
RUBIO WHAT A PASS~!! CEDi FOR THREE!!!!
Allen where’s the help defense? DG needs to force the three
oooh nice pass DG, Cedi just missed the wide open 3, unexpected.
Windy!
I like this lineup. Four shooters and mobley.
100% agree, need to tighten up the defense tho
If Lillard is hitting contested finishes inside over mobley, you live with it.
i was more referring to the perimeter defense allowing guys to get to the paint.
Yeah, didn’t love the Simons drive.
Yep.
WINDLER DRIVE AND FINISH!!!!!! WHAT A PLAY!
speed and tenacity, waiting for him to get a highlight dunk so as to gin up some new nicknames
DG TO MOBLEY!!!! GREAT PASS GREAT FINISH!
They’ve had plenty of looks, but they feel like they’ve gone most of the season without that confidence building run where they just start hitting their shots.
yup, agreed..
Sexton’s passing rhythm much better tonight than in recent memory… ball’s not sticking in the PnR.
Easier against portland’s guards. They’re not especially good defenders.
true
nice take Sexton, hesi to freeze the defender.
bad shot Rubio, terrible transition defense
GREAT PASS ALLEN!!! WADE GREAT CUT AND FINISH!
Disagree. They go under the screen, you shoot.
too early in the shot clock IMO
another gorgeous inside pass by Allen, a little too hot but nice
Allen’s timing is off.
great passing Mobley wide open just missed
NICE PASS SEXTON! ball fake Allen! could’ve gotten an easy dunk with that!
make your FTs Allen damn
Nice rip, garland.
SEXTON TO GARLAND FOR THREE!!!
nice distribution there, would love to see that more
Nice cplay collin, but they’re trading threes for twos.
In theory, someone on this team can shoot.
LMFAOOO yup
DG look ahead to Sexton Sexton great finish!
great pass DG, Allen blows the finish
Great skip pass mobley.
Be surprised if the Cavs can conjure enough offense to take this one.
don’t worry, Cleveland just needs about a half dozen buckets on Dean Wade backdoor cuts to break it open
great on ball defense Wade!!!
Mobley defense!
Getting rid of the take foul is the next thing the nba needs to do.
DG wide open just missed.
nice defense DG on Dame!
MOBLEY BULLY BALL!!! BE AGGRESSIVE!
Sexton passes up a wide open 3 again, but a nice pass to Allen!
Then Sexton jacks a dumb three when Allen had a guard on him in the post.
Allen or Mobley against Norm Powell in the post = how many times can they make it happen?
LMFAOOO apparently any time they switch the PnR!
DG great pass to Allen, Allen blows the dunk… but DG missed a wide open Allen on the initial action.
WOW, JB pissed at the guards’ defense immediate rage timeout
yikes — complete flub on defensive assignments (how hard was that one?) by Sexton, and before that Garland thinking a little too much about the break before securing the ball
nice feature/interview on the Blazers broadcast on Larry Nance, Jr. — says he got some home cooking last night, hopefully he does not feast on Dean Wade tonight!
wondering if Stevens and/or Windler will get any run tonight
https://twitter.com/ChrisFedor/status/1456018185719848961?s=20