Live Thread: Cavs vs Thunder
2022-12-10Cleveland looks to avenge their meltdown against the Kings last night with Thunder coming to town. The Thunder won three straight before getting drubbed by the Grizzlies, Wednesday. Yep, the NBA schedule Gods pitted a team going on two days rest against a team on a back to back. Cleveland will be without Donovan Mitchell, Kevin Love, and Dean Wade from their regular rotation.
Leading the Thunder: Shai Gilgeous Alexander, who’s on an all-NBA track with 31/5/6 averages, plus three stocks to only three turnovers. Cavs draft favorite, Jalen Williams has been putting up decent rookie numbers: 13/4/2. Lue Dort and Josh Giddey round out their double digit scoring.
The Cavs should be able to feast inside. OKC’s bigs are among the worst in the league, but we’ve seen this movie before. When the Cavs are going up against an inferior team, they can tend to play down to them, and it can cost. I hope the wine and gold have some fire in their belly after last night’s frustrating meltdown, but I think this one goes down to the wire. If the Cavs can keep the ball out of SGA’s hands, then they’ll eke it out.
Great D right up until it ended up in Giddey’s hands again.
Allen bailed out Garland there.
GREAT DEFENSE ALLEN LETS GOOO
NICE OFFENSE STEVENS! THATS MORE LIKE IT!
Mobley watch your periphery !!!!
Why are you letting Timothy Chalemet shoot?
Ah my boy Giddey getting easy buckets. I’m conflicted.
I wish the Cavs could swipe Giddey somehow, he’s the next Rubio but probably a better scorer.
Nice dream….
terrible post entry pass by Mobley.
Man, this Cavs squad are hard to figure out. But I’m here for the whole journey!
Neto Cedi and Okoro got it going off the bench,
Finished that quarter like professionals. Heck of any effort from caris and cedi. The thunder are a really bad team in the half court on both ends.
Outside of Rolo’s abysmal Minutes, decent half.
STEP BACK JACK DG!!!!!!
Cedi Ballin.
HOLY SHIT WHAT A FINISH CEDI!
Second garbage fake and flail.
MOBLEY FOR THREE
SGA is the new Turd
MOBLEY RACK ATTACK NICE!
Not mobley’s best half. Lost on both ends of the court.
Probably tired from getting pounded by Sabonis yesterday
, especially with JA foul trouble last night
Mobley just got bullied by SGA. not good.
awful defense, Tower City not working right now
Need the 4th tower to give mobley some rest!
CARIS LEVERT EN FUEGO
Oy…then traveled and still got blocked. Chris didnt you discuss play calling with JB during shootaround this morning??
If Diakite gets zero mins outside garbage time we need a whole different level of intervention for Jarius Barland
Really weird game. The height is helping us immensely. Otherwise we look basically like a team of talented rookies again when allen isnt in. Love seeing Neto get some solid burn.
Rolo finally off the floor. That was painful. Raul rolling.
JB rage timeout and rightly so, can’t get into a fast paced game.
Yuck. Good TO. Cavs just getting crazy loose.
WHAT A PASS CEDI, MOBLEY USE THE BALL FAKE
NETO BLOW BY
CARIS IS ON FIRE
NETO TO CEDI WHAT A PLAY
hey bazley from my neck of the woods
Like Mobley didn’t get fouled. Boooo
Rolo pulling a Ben Simmons. Thankfully Neto saved the day. Please play Diakite instead of the dinosaur
thank god Neto bailed out Lopez goofy ass
dunk the ball man you’re 7ft tall.
WHY IS ROBIN LOPEZ OUT ON THE COURT
OK HE MADE HIS ONE SHOT PLEASE TAKE HIM OUT JB
Rolo is almost unplayable. Other than setting a hard pick he has almost nothing left.
he’s a matchup based guy, put him out there when you need him to bang on a post threat for a few minutes, other than that, shouldn’t play.
Okoro must have heard me. Looking good last few minutes
CARIS TO OKORO
Rolo killing us. Where Diakite?
WHY IS ROBIN LOPEZ OUT THERE JB
OKORO DRIVE THANK YOU GOD HE MADE IT
WHY THE HELL IS ROBIN LOPEZ OUT THERE JB
Caris sick of hearing our shit lol
HOLY SHIT CARIS!!!!!!!!!!!
Stevens is shooting 38% from 3 so far this year. Hmmm
When Wade comes back we should only see Okoro in garbage time
CARIS WHAT A FINISH!!!
nice pass Caris, JA way to be strong
ALLEN BIG BOY BALL
SGA totally smoked Okoro
I’m sick of watching OKoro screw shit up
Mobley with two already. Damn
Awful closeout mobley
yeah let him shoot that all day i’d assume
never mind he’s 39% shooter from out there.
SGA bother by the length
DG NO PROBLEM
NICE PASS DG GOOD START!
LEVERT WHAT A FINISH
How was thar not a take foul?
Jarrett Allen passed up a rim shot for nothing.
Horrible call Mobley was in his space. SGA initiated all the contact
Mobley’s so jumpy this season, trust your length!
Woof
What an awful call. Fake and flail BS.
LETS GOOOO DG TO CARIS FOR THREE!
AMEN WCC–AMEN !!!
Heat just lost at home to the lowly Spurs. Shit happens. Learn your lesson and put the Kings in the rear view mirror. Let’s go!
that comp really doesn’t work because Kings are a playoff team right now LMFAO
That’s my point. We lost to a good team. Move on
ah gotcha
NOMAD your question about Windler from yesterday – my take is that he should not be counted on or looked to at all until he clears medical. Forget about him for the time being. He has been super unlucky obviously, but at the same time the kid is lucky to be on a contract that protects him. Plenty of players don’t get that level of security.
If he ever makes it back, it will be a nice surprise, like finding 50 bucks in your jeans you forgot about.
yup, definitely…. way too much time off at this point. can’t improve if you never play.
DG 50 burger please
And 41 from Levert
oh even better, 40/40 like the celtics game great idea Simmo!!!
hell yeah Nate good looking out! don’t have a good feeling about this game, but hopefully Allen and Mobley are locked in and we win this cruising.
Cavs are 4.5 point favorite until the last 4 min of the game, then they are 15 point underdogs.
Play Diakite and Neto
Amen