Live Thread: Pelicans @ Cavs
2023-01-16Good afternoon CtB!
The Cavs welcome the New Orleans Pelicans to the shores of Lake Erie for a Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day matinee performance between two of the elite teams in the NBA. The one downside to this premiere matchup is the fact that Herbert Jones, Zion Williamson, and Brandon Ingram will all be out with injury, so it will be the CJ McCollum and Larry Nance, Jr. show. In spite of those absences, the Cavs would be sorely mistaken to take these hospital Pels lightly.
What will the Pelicans try to do today? They like to push the pace, move the ball on offense, and crash the glass. That’s how they’ve ended up 6th in the NBA in offensive efficiency. The Cavs defense will have to control the pace, force turnovers, and box out in order to have any chance at a win.
Tip off is scheduled for 3:00PM Eastern time and will be broadcasted live on Bally Sports Ohio/Great Lakes, Go Cavs
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Should be a flagrant 1.
That looked like a flagrant
GRANKIDS HAVE HAD ENOUGH OUTSIDE WE GO TO TOSS THE FOOTBALL 🏈 AROUND LET SOME STEAM OFF AND SCREAM SOME “F “ BOMBS
Ohh that could’ve been bad!
Gotta go Under on Alvarado.
TURNOVERS. WTF?
Good lord. This is awful.
Why isn’t Mitchell playing?
Nevermind
Give Garland and Love a week off.
i think theyll get it over the asb – i cant see garland as an all star this year
kevin love is the highest paid cavalier of all time.
CRIPES. Get Love out of the game
This team is in a weird place.
The defense just goes to crap when Kevin’s in the game
Bench Love!
YEP NOT SURE WTF IS GOING ON WITH DG
Bench Garland!
Just a terriblle lack of focus here.
STOP TURNING THE BALL OVER!!!!
Kev getting no love. Ball don’t lie.
love killing us
Garland has been straight terrible.
BS call on Love!!!
THINK WHEN \ IF WADE COMES BACK KLOVE NEEDS A BREAK
DG TO 🤦♂️
WATCHING GAME WITH MY GRANDKIDS THEY ARE EVEN UPSET WITH MISSED FOUL SHOTS AND STUPID TO S 🤬🤬🤬
I’m sure you taught them the basics.
Love is really good at everything but defense and putting the ball in the basket.
WTF 🤬 WITH OUR FOUL SHOOTING
Free throws….
AGREE ARCH IT WAS A SHIT SHOW FROM THE STARTERS HOPING THEY LEARNED FROM WATCHING ON THE BENCH
Nice job of using the Pelicans’ aggressiveness against them.
The reserves picked up the mess the starters created.
Love with a nice screen in the key to get LeVert that floater.
CARIS MAKING IT DIFFICULT TO TRADE HIM
Seriously. LET CARIS COOK
Ricky and Caris could really become something
Let them cook!
LET THIS GROUP PLAY FOR AWHILE
Lol. Larry Nance should never bite on a Kevin Love pump fake.
Alvarado is New Orleans’ Neto. But he gets to play.
😂😂😂
CARIS SMOOTH
MOBLEY!!!
LMFAO. Guys falling down on threes: the NBA!
It looked like he caught him in the head but yeah he still flopped
This is such a shit start!
Come on Cedi don’t foul 3 point shooters
Cedi should be taking Kev’s minutes.
Kev can’t get “quite as high” as Jaxon Hayes.
kevin love pointing at the guy who is going to beat him is such a classic
Lame call, even it was a foul
KLove’s shooting slump is taking its toll. Hoping Ricky can pull him out of it
The Cavs’ slow starts are really starting to become an issue.
Lots of missed shots.
Some horrific offense here.
Nice ball movement. But Love needs to hit that!
That was an egregious travel.
Mitchell and DG with the turnovers, yikes
Turnover city.
should’ve been a foul on Allen, but just happy he wasn’t hurt.
Nice Move, Murphy.
Jonas called with a dirty play
Garland needs to make the easy pass instead of looking for the home run.
Nice movement for that Allen dunk.
Nice possession out of a to
Shit fastbreak turnover. DG needs to bring the ball back out
Five point turnover, Garland.
Come on Garland. Hit open 3s.
Gah. I love Mitchell, but he has to lead the Association in live ball turnovers that lead to layups.
Yes Virginia, ICE can hit the corner three
Ice Trey! That looked good. Nice arc.
Big2Big!
Sure CJ has some folks from Stark County in the building.
Ricky’s first home game. LETS GO!
Love the intro here, Chris. Thank you for putting it up.