Live Thread: Cavs @ Timberwolves
2023-01-14The Cavs have a chance to turn this five game swing into a winning road trip, tonight. They head to Minneapolis to face a T-Wolves team nursing a lot of injuries. Minnesota beat Phoenix last night on the front end of a home back-to-back, and in addition to KAT being out, Anthony Edwards, Kyle Anderson, and Taurean Prince are all questionable. While Mitchell is also questionable for the Cavs, I feel like this Tweet from 5:20 is telling us he’s going to play.
— Donovan Mitchell (@spidadmitchell) January 14, 2023
That’s a fairly healthy roster for the Cavs, who had a scintillating fourth quarter against the Blazers.
Let’s hope Cleveland doesn’t play down to their competition and lets Rudy and D’Angelo Russell be thorns in their side like they’ve been in the past. Minnesota also seems like a place where January road trip shitgiving goes to die.
Converselely, you gotta feel like Darius Garland and Jarrett Allen would want to put up big numbers with All-Star voting looming, and Mitchell looks to be a lock. It will also be homecoming of sorts for Ricky Rubio who started his career with Love in Minnesota, and was a T-Wolf again before being traded to Cleveland. He and Love always seem to want to play well in the NBA’s most frigid city. Should be a good one! Go Cavs!
Minny making many threes.
Cedi in. No doghouse.
I’m not enthusiastic about the Mobley three. I’m curious what Simmo’s daughter thinks.
20% from three this year
She’s not noticed him shooting 3s. She’ll pay attention now.
But she thinks he doesn’t use his legs enough when he shoots.
Good TO. Gotta keep playing.
Man, Reid has been having his way…
14 down to 6 in a hurry.
Mobley in the game. Good to see.
Mobley back.
Great move Okoro.
nIce move Okoro. Step through. Left hand.
Nice movement insde by Isaac.
Turn it on. Cavs on a run.
ICE answer’s Simmo’s daughter! Lol
Again!!! She’s well impressed.
nIce for 3!
Come on over to Okoro Island, guys, before it gets too crowded.
I’ve been expanding my garden…
Let’s have a Cavalanche, shall we…
Yes, we shall!
Ice has been really hot from three…
Gobert gone. This should be a lock now.
OMG…
Gobert out this half…right groin soreness…
Levert on tonight.
Missed first half. Sounds like a mixed bag.
Cavs have been the better team, just lots of dumb turnovers…
Whats the story on Mobley?
Bumped knees, looks okay…
Not starting the 3rd.
Ant’s knee to the inside of Mobley’s knee. Didn’t look like anything more than a painful bruise. His foot was off the ground so the contact didn’t twist his knee
Rubio changes everything. The whole feel of the game tilts toward us when he comes on the court.
Yep. Agree 100%. It is why I did not want to do any trades until we saw the team with Rubio. He changes everything. Rotations & lineups. Everything.
It should take him a while to get back up to speed, but we should get an inkling. Hopefully Wade is back in a week or so despite the ankle tweak. The shoulder was nearly there.
It’s funny, he’s such an adult out there. I think Rubio has been the adult for most of his NBA career, even when he was much younger. I love DG, but if you could combine the best of Rubio with the best of DG, you’d have an MVP.
I trust Rubio with the ball more than DG. Neto, too. Obviously neither is the scorer DG is, or the shooter. And Ricky will try some high degree of difficulty stuff from time to time.
Of course, both guys are much more experienced. Hopefully DG gets there. Better situational awareness is what I want.
5 point lead at the half, easily could be 15…mostly worried about TWolves going blowtorch from three…
Rubio with stops the bleeding. JA makes Minny bleed.
Ricky rules
JA how many blocks? Jason?
Only 2? Felt like more.
Agreed.
Box score has him with 2 (NBA.COM)
Okoro with 4 steals. Damn.
Aside from the sloppy start and the sloppy segment in the second we have been good. DG the main culprit, 4 of our 9 TOs.
Thank you Ricky.
Look, more TOs.
Sometimes we just crap the bed.
This is one of those times.
Momentum lost, Mobley hurt. Grrrrrrr.
Cavs really had a chance to build a nice lead, but they pissed it away…
Absolutely. Some dumb play from DG & Cedi.
Phantom foul call on Anthony
Dumb
Not huge on JA shooting from 15 ft
i hate the transition take foul and the flagrant 1 for being under someones feet
cedi going back in the doghouse
TO fest. Cedi 1, Garland 2.
This is when I wanna put Neto in.
god dg is sloppy af sometimes
We could/shouod be up doubles. 3 straight TOs.
The part that ticks me off about DG is he gets them in bunches. After Cedi blew that break, Minny called TO. DG should have been extra careful. Certainly after 2 straight.
This is on DG. Not Cedi (save for the first TO).
Man, DG, take care of the ball…
Hey look, Okoro makes another steal (how many is that?) and then we mess it up.
Dang it, TO. Thought we we heading towards a Cavalanche.
Not how you run the 2 on 1 break, ideally…
Disappointing.
Wow DG. Had 3-4 players on him, went baseline, shook them all off and got a layup
Rubio is a cool dude…
Oh my
Goodness
Mitchell
Cedi in. Chris should be happy.
Another Love triple!
Caris balling
Caris is in the zone.
Loving Cavs ball movement & composure so far. Good vibes.
After the sloppy start, I will take that. Down 2. Love hit a 3. Okoro hit a 3. JA is involved. Caris got aggressive.
CARIS EXPLOSION
LeVert to the hoop!!!!’
Point Caris here.
Oops, thought they took Rubio out.
Good to get the Fro involved, finally.
Try to go at Rudy at least a little. I hate surrendering without a fight.
This is an interesting lineup. If KLOVE can hit the open three they should have enough space in the lane to drive a truck through
man its like MN doesnt guard the rollman when gobert is out. could be a big night for allen
They’ll have to adjust or he will!
Ant is killing us. Reid, too.
No way can Levert handle Edwards…Okoro, maybe…
Cavs are getting fouled!
Love & Rubio. Would be a great night for Kev to break out of the funk he’s been in.
Good so far. Yeah Kevin needs it
Too 3 happy. Gobert is out.
Really happy I don’t have to watch DLo every night…
Considering we are on pace for 40 TOs, I will take down 5.
2 FGs. 5 TOs.
Finally a call
My 9 yo daughter just said “wow! Okoro hit a 3!!!”.
Hah…although his three % has been really good the last couple of weeks…
Yes. She doesn’t catch every game 😂
Haha. Get used to it kid… hopefully
ICE
Holy crap Okoro got hammered
He’s right with JA as far as respect from the refs goes…
I’m in favor of less fouls in general being called, but JA must lead the league in uncalled contact against…
WOW WHAT A GREAT PICTURE OF RICKY // KLOVE ——-HAWKS WAIVED JCULVER—SHOULD CAVS PURSUE //—-GO CAVS !!!—–GOOD TO SEE SPIDA IS PLAYING
It’s official, Mitchell is playing. I think Cavs can win this one without him, but glad he’s playing.