Live Thread: Jazz @ Cavs
2021-12-05Good afternoon CtB!
Today the Utah Jazz trek across the country to the shores of Lake Erie to take on the Cavs in a Sunday matinee. The Jazz appear to be a championship contender again, however more than a few fans feel as though they are more of a pretender than contender. For the Cavs, this is a major opportunity to get a win against one of the West’s best and build confidence heading into some major upcoming matchups against the Chicago Bulls and Milwaukee Bucks.
The Cavs will be without Dean Wade again, with Cedi Osman and Dylan Windler questionable according to Evan Dammarell.
Cedi Osman and Dylan Windler are questionable for the Cleveland Cavaliers against the Utah Jazz.
Dean Wade is out.
— Evan Dammarell (@AmNotEvan) December 5, 2021
From a strategic standpoint, it will be interesting to see how the Cavs attack the Jazz on both ends of the court. The key to neutralizing Defensive Player of the Year Rudy Gobert has been to go smaller and force him to guard the perimeter. But the Cavs have rarely used any small ball lineups. On defense, the task for the Cavs will be to make it tough on Donovan Mitchell offensively. Mitchell appears to have taken his game to another level, and is flirting with joining the elite superstars of the NBA.
One last thing, welcome back Jordan “Captain Bandaid” Clarkson!
Tip off is scheduled for 3:30PM ET and will be broadcasted on Bally Sports Ohio/Great Lakes, GO CAVS!
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MOBLEY FINISH!
DG finish! I do not like Allen trying to test Gobert for offense.
Floatarius
Still only down 5. Hanging in.
Garland, Allen, & Mobley all real good. Stevens & Cedi OK. Okoro OK-ish. Big Finnish, Love, & Rubio need to join the party.
Utah’s defense doing a good job shutting down the Cavs’ ball movement.
The Cavs have given up 8 offensive rebounds, 4 to Rudy Gay.
They shoot so many threes that it creates a lot of o board opportunities against scrambling defenses.
yup good point.
No way that shoulda been a shooting foul.
NICE TAKE RUBIO!!!!!
WTF????? MITCHELL UNNATURAL SHOOTING MOTION?
Good challenge. High ev.
Lol. Total bailout for Ricky
bad play DG, pull up three was wide open Gobert was sagging…
ALLEN HUSTLE!
Yeah. Annoyed Rubio missed dg in right corner
yeah predetermined his pass to Lauri
https://twitter.com/oldseaminer/status/1467606721975799810?s=20
How many Gobery blocks on Allen?
Still only down 5. Jazz flurry here
NICE STEAL DG, damn, nice pass DG but Allen can’t finish over Gobert that time
Love is killing them on slow closeouts
Good call. Was a travel. Can’t leave bogey
Mr Fantastic going up strong!
Allen or mobley?
My bad I forgot that’s Mobley’s handle
Fantastic Four!
Nice move, captain bandaid
ALLEN BIG BOY BALL!!!!
NICE TAKE DG!
Allen totally refballed, clean strip
MOBLEY!!!!!!! GOING UP STRONG!
Fantastic footwork
yup, rookies usually travel in that situation!
How was that not a foul on the Allen layup?
nice hustle play and pass Ice, Allen couldn’t handle it
Ice is rockin the braids again. Hopefully his power will return.
MOBLEY POST UP!
Phenomenal passing by the Cavs on that break.
Our big dogs are getting tested today. Jazz are big and physical and can shoot.
DG to Allen to Mobley!!!!
Good look for kev from Mobley
damn Love was open just missed.
MOBLEY TO LOVE FOR THREE!!!!
nice pass Love, Mobley rushed the shot
Kevin’s d s… Subpar
MOBLEY FROM THREE!!!!!!
Bad start
And we start the 2nd with 2 TOs. Good teams will kill us on those.
CEDI CLUTCH THREE!
Both teams over 50% from deep. Jazz better from the field overall and slighty more dimes & boards.
Cavs with only 1 TO
This is a great test as to how far this team can go. The Jazz is the type of team that is tailor made to beat us. Great size on the interior, quick guards and lots of great shooters. Let’s see if we can break through.
Cavs getting outrebounded and outassisted and JB’s yelling at guys to wake up, but they’re only down 3 LMFAOOOOO
Great quarter close.
Well, down 3 after 1. DG & Mitchell both unconscious. Utah is a very good team.
The level of play so far is something I haven’t seen in a cavs game in about 4 years.
NICE TAKE CEDI!
NICE FINISH STEVENS!
like to see Cavs post up all these size mismatches, Jazz are small outside of Gobert.
Nice hands by Mobley to catch that
DG TO MOBLEY GREAT PLAY!
Cedi sighting!
Amazing start to the game, although this type of game favours the Jazz. Garland and Mitchell are unconscious.
Garland is wow
DG ON A HEATER
Hell of a pass by mitchell
DG FROM WAY DOWNTOWN!!!
my god Mitchell going shot for shot
Okoro’s useless out there, wide open didn’t attack didn’t shoot
Its a long game, chris
JA caught Gobert sleeping!
Finnish butter!
GREAT PASS DG! MARK FOR THREE!
Also Mobley has a size mismatch with ONeale
Garland unreal so far
Gobert is on Okoro, put in a sub if i were JB
Ice misses the layup, 5 point swing
DG FOR THREE!!!!
Should be no question. JA is an all-star
Holy cow. Defense already on point.
LETS GOOOOO!!!!! making mistakes but moving onto the next play!!!
nice pass Mobley
Good look. Iso whoever gobert isn’t guarding, and dish when he helps.
ICE found money!
WTF HAPPENED TO “GLASS ” WINDLER —HE ONLY PLAYED 2 MIN’S THE OTHER NIGHT —OUCH—–LET’S HAVE A REPEAT ‘FUN ‘ GAME LIKE THE OTHER NIGHT —GO CAVS —-‘ ALL GRIT –NO QUIT —-SCRAPPY NOT CRAPPY “