Live Thread: Heat @ Cavs
2023-01-31Good evening CtB!
The Cavs welcome the Miami Heat to the icy shores of Lake Erie for a massive Eastern Conference battle between two seeded playoff teams. The Cavs will be looking to put distance between them and the sixth seed Heat while the Heat are making their second half charge up the standings to prep for the playoffs. A hobbled Jimmy Butler and Gabe Vincent are giving it a go, which should tell everyone how much this game means to both teams. It’s the time of the year when playoff teams get serious about winning, and as everyone knows last year, this was the time of year that the Cavs faltered down the stretch. Hopefully they can start a new trend this season.
What do the Heat want to do tonight? They’re a top five defense with a bottom five offense. They want to make the game ugly and slow. The Cavs should look to push the pace on offense and try to disrupt their passing on defense. The Cavs will also need to clean the boards as the Heat aren’t a great shooting team.
Tip off is scheduled for 7:00PM Eastern time and will be broadcasted live on Bally Sports Ohio/Great Lakes, GO CAVS!
This is a grit game. We might need a Llama.
TO out of TO at 38-39. I love those.
Challenge it JB
Spida taking to Bam
Allen gotta take a charge there.
Poor 3PT shooting (particularly from DG & Spida) and thexresultant rebounding deficit.
Everything else is pretty good.
Love would be handy vs the zone.
Bonus early!
Cavs struggling against the zone
I got a bad feeling about this game.
Threes killing them.
Why do we suck so bad defending the three?
Such a focus on packing the paint pendulum needs to swing the other way
Sweet outlet Mobley
I despise the Heat!
Good lord adebayo takes forever at the free throw line
Someone smarter than me tell me why we can’t defend the 3 point line.
Caris!
OH WHAT A FINISH CARIS! AND ONE
Mobley. Pass the ball.
Caris!!
Let Caris Cook!!!!!!!!!
Adebullshit
Ricky classic pullup
Mobeugly
I like this lineup. Shooters, Mobley and Rubio
Mobley needs to pass that out
Here’s Cedi!
If I don’t see Cedi to start the second, I will be annoyed.
L3<3rt!
I like that close
Caris!!!
Let Caris Cook!!!
Offense not looking great here early
These out of rhythm threes gotta go
Wade too late on that closeout
LEVERT TO MOBLEY EASY MONEY
Mobley at the dunker,
James Dean Wade
Wad3!!!
Someone guard butler.
Butler on fire
James Dean!
Stop forcing the three
We’ve had good energy but still only scored 16 points so far and still only up 5..
Heat on a 8-0 run
Make that 10-0
don’t like this lineup, rather see Cedi in there than Rubio/DG
Jimmy buckets bullshit shooting form
Lmfao. That was no foul!
I would’ve challenged that
Too early, but yeah. One of the higher ev challenges.
BUTLER KICKED HIS LEG OUT!!!!!!
Ball don’t lie
That looked like Butler kicked his leg – is challenge that
Lol. Dipo’s been shot!
Garland playing some solid defense
JB talked about how he sets the tone for the team that way.
Hustlin for boards, just can’t get the bounce.
Spida ain’t effing around
Ooh. Love the oob play! Garland trailing to the corner!
There was one!
DM to DG3!
Think the kids are finally getting serious. The are “immaculate vibes” are focused
What a start!!! D putting the clamps on
Allen. Dominate.
Nice start. Heady defense.
Garland on a tear
He’s been trending for the last month or so… quantum leap in winning impact.
Mobley too to a lesser degree.
Darius just clobbered again.
Spida trey!
Hoping to have a civil game thread with no name calling!
100%
LMFAOOO MOST FERAL FANBASE IN THE NBA LETS GOOOOOOO
Was there name calling last game?
Just a friendly disagreement over which advanced stat to better use to talk about Caris’ game you know!!
Great D
Nice d so far
Let’s go Cavs!!!
I’m glad we get Brad and AC tonight
https://twitter.com/ChrisFedor/status/1620568479165288448?s=20&t=kGfLWRYsltqi_RtedkV8uA
Thanks for the thread Chris.
Two items from Fedor:
1) Love (back) supposed to be active tonight. Though this was true last game as well & was scratched before tipoff.
2) Windler (still out) but ON COURT doing work pregame. A sighting!
https://twitter.com/Mike_Hogue/status/1620567715911196672?s=20&t=kGfLWRYsltqi_RtedkV8uA