Live Thread: Cavs @ Raptors
2022-03-24Good evening CtB!
Tonight is a doozy, with the Cavs venturing across the border to the shores of Lake Ontario to face off against the Toronto Raptors. Fans of both teams know this is the biggest game so far this season with both squads jockeying for playoff/play-in position with only 10 games left. Neither team was expected to be in this position at the beginning of the season, but both teams are reaping the rewards of the stacked 2021 NBA Draft class in the forms of Rookie of the Year candidates Scottie Barnes and Evan Mobley. Should Evan Mobley help carry the Cavs to victory tonight, that would have to help seal his case.
Stats and notes
The Cavs have won the three prior meetings, and will be looking to complete the season sweep tonight. The Cavs won the first three contests with stifling defense, holding them 96, 99, and 101 points in each game respectively. But the Raptors’ offense seems to have improved as the season has gone along.
Toronto presents an interesting challenge for the Cavs strategically. They’re an isolation-heavy offense that’s not all that efficient at it, but make up for their poor shooting with crashing the glass for easy points. The Cavs’ one on one defense and rebounding will have to be on point to pull off the upset. Weirdly, Toronto is not a good defensive rebounding team so there will be opportunities to punish them with easy points crashing the glass.
Tip off is scheduled for 7:30PM ET and will be broadcasted live on Bally Sports Ohio/Great Lakes, Go Cavs!
It’s like nothing in front of JB helps him make any decisions. He coaches from paper. drives me bananas.
Cavs 4 straight buckets at the rim.
WHAT A PASS LOVE!
wtf is Moses not getting run??
NICE D ICE!!!!
Nice charge drawn Isaac!
YES! Starts with Mobley block. Quick reactions all the way down the floor.
MOBLEY DEFENSE! LOVE OFFENSE!
HUGE Mobley block
Supernatural
The observation that the Cavs haven’t been blown away in many games this season is true. But so is the observation that the Cavs have hovered between 10-15 points down for an AWFUL lot of those games.
Especially post Rubio…they usually jumped on teams early when he was playing…
Sigh
DG TO THE RACK
It’s so crazy the raptors aren’t even good…we just have no flow
Cavs are making it easy for them
Giving them open looks from the corner by the bushel…
Mobley coast to coast let him cook!!!!
Gotta dig deep this second half. Really need this W.
Cavs are going to need someone to go off to win this…DG, Levert, Love…someone…with OG and FVV, Raps are going to score too much to just plod along and wishcast…
Realistically I only have hopes for DG taking over
Lauri has played great, Ice and Stevens have done good, the rest stink. You know DG going to find it. Second half going to be a war.
Evidently it’s “Bad Cedi” tonight.
If you can’t handle him at his worst, you may well be sane…
Did Cedi’s shot get blocked then???? Otherwise WTF?
Think it fell into the ‘WTF??’ category. So sick of watching it.
Please, Cedi…no more threes…please…
Let’s get it under 10
Or 10
Lauri great put back
Hell of a put back, Lauri…
LAURI SAVES THE DAY!!!
Raptors look darn good. Crazy to think Defense was this teams calling card for so much of the year. Looks like the Raps can get whatever they want
Just tuning in, go Cavs!!!!
Looks like another underperforming effort so far, but you never know…
It’s very frustrating…
Honestly If you are playing hard defense and players are making tough shots.. you can live with that.. but turnovers, offensive rebounds leading to shots, wide open shots in general is what is frustrating.
We need your energy off the bench
Lol gotta be better than Cedi right? Man has seemingly fallen off a cliff
OG killing them…
Just got a hang tough until MOBLEY destroys them in the fourth, right?
So many open corner threes…
Stevens just keeps up & surprising me
DG TO STEVENS!
Siakam shoves with his offhand as much as anyone in the game. Paul George like. A okay with the refs.
Sick of how hard it is for the Cavs to get in the paint and how easy it is for opposing teams.
Thad Young and Boucher dominating the game.
Lauri should have had that rebound.
Always expect to see DDR heading up the Raps. They were the days…
Scotch called it, lengthy teams give DG and the Cavs as a whole trouble
DG’s first turnover brutal…. also his shot’s not there yet. Need him to find another gear.
Thad Young back to torture an exhausted world…
So dumb
good attack Cedi
My moans must be audible out in the street when Cedi enters the game lately…
Praying for flame thrower Cedi
ICE looking good in his corner
Okoro money from the corner 3 spot…
BIG SHOT ICE!
15-10 when I turned it on, maybe that was a bad idea.
Ugh. 2nd chance points and transition D. Toronto D throwing off Cavs rhythm on offense
we suck so bad at dealing with any kind of length. gotta pass without dribbling against that
Cavs transition D really performing…
Late to the party, looks like Cavs doing ok?
Shooting like crap, but managing to keep it to a few possession game
brickfest but hanging in defensively, but just let a run happen
Cavs looked shakey soon as they start subbing, but they seem to stabilize now
Nice look LeVert to Mobes for the foul…
#please Evan don’t dribble…
i almost never turn off a game but this one might not be worth it
Really love that we’re giving them oodles of wide open corner looks…
I don’t get how this happens so often
17 points in a quarter on 30% shooting. God they can be so ugly on offense.
JB just sat around the last few days or something? we have no idea what to do?
We can’t have the bad Cedi tonight
Oh, we’re gonna have him. I consulted my magic 8-ball…
I hope that’s “bad” like A BAD MOFO
mobley cannot be the no-show he was against LA or we’re totally screwed
effing sleep walking.
Can someone make a shot?
JB TO PLEASE!
Stevens needs to develop a shot that he can absolutely hit at some place on the floor, or he’s always going to be brutal offensively…
so we might have gotten fleeced for Levert…
We gave up a Rubio expiring contract and he wasn’t going to play. Sort of nothing
lol that was kinda my joke i guess
Besides that Indiana game when he went off in the 4th.. he really hasn’t impressed me that much because he tends to always drive into traffic and force things.. and that’s what the commentator just said..
Cavs bench is going to be offensively limited with KLOVE starting, but probably best to bring it right out of the gate
Okoro really shooting the three lately…
MOBLEY TO ICE!
Love starting? Love it!
damn Love missed open Lauri
Hell yeah DG and Mobley locked in!!!
Also, OG confirmed playing.
I’m afraid FVV may be the difference tonight. Hope I’m wrong.