Live Thread: Cavs @ Hawks
2023-02-24Good evening CtB!
The Cavs have traveled south to the Georgia Piedmont to take on the Atlanta Hawks to complete their home and away back to back. The Hawks are fighting for an outside chance at the sixth seed in the Eastern Conference and have just fired their coach Nate McMillan. The Cavs are looking to end their two game losing skid and keep pace among the elite of the East. The Hawks will be without John Collins, and the Cavs should be all hands on deck.
Who are the Hawks statistically? Kind of stinky… they don’t rebound well defensively and are a bottom 10 defense in the NBA, don’t shoot well or pass the ball at all, but they do manufacture points by pushing the pace. So the Cavs would do well to control the pace on offense and crash the glass, and just play solid straight up defense and rebound the misses.
Tip off is scheduled for 7:30PM Eastern time and will be broadcasted live on Bally Sports Ohio/Great Lakes, Go Cavs!
Pretty much gotta cut it to ten with 5 left as AC always says.
How the hell are we constantly leaving open corner 3s?
It’s their defensive philosophy. It has to be.
Philosophy should adjust when other teams light them up
Must be, since their philosophy is to pack the paint . Since they celebrate defensive 3 seconds.
New personnel overhelping.
Somehow Cavs fans will blame Love
What I can’t understand is, why do they even think they “need” to pack the paint when they’ve got not one, but two of the best rim protectors in the league? Why not trust Jarrett and Evan to deal with anyone who dares to drive against them and have everyone else stay close to shooters? Seems like they’re not leveraging their biggest defensive personnel advantage over other teams.
14/14 from the field in the 2nd wow
Murray scorching.
What an absolutely dismal quarter.
Lol. Cavs just getting worked.
LIFE CHOICES –SOME ARE DIFFICULT—SOME EASY ——-WINE// HALLMARK // CUDDLING TIME WITH THE MRS NOMAD OR … HOPEFULLY MORE… OR SUFFER THRU THIS SH-T —-GOODNIGHT GUYS —-HOPE I HAVE MORE LUCK THAN THE CAVS ——DON’T LET ‘ GLASS ‘ TRIP OVER THE WATER CONTAINER
What happened to Garland over the break? He was terrible last night and is somehow even worse tonight.
Bought out his best friend on the team
Start giving hard fouls to take them out of their rythm
Cavs hit a three!
I’m just now tuning in and glad I missed the game so far.. but halves like this is what makes me extra upset about us loosing last night against a top team AT HOME.
Neto can’t cover Murray. He’s too long
Danny Green and Neto and Stevens.
Heat are down 15 to the Bucks
Bucks, bud.
This is torture on my eyes.
Atlanta hasn’t missed a shot in the second quarter. Yikes
That ain’t it, Mobley.
This is where running 8-man rotations comes to bite you on b2b.
Pretty sure the Hawks will win if they hit every shot.
9/9 in the 2nd qtr. the Hawks that is
Well that was embarrassing
Just feed Mobley and Allen
Score ooto!
Okoro needs to constantly be playing or he completely falls off a cliff offensively. The AS break brought him back to square 1
YEP LET’S SEE ” G;ASS ” WINDLER—-CAVS HAVEN’T MADE A 3 YET
G league assignment.
He’ll probably sprain an ankle walking to the scorer’s table
Back2back away against a team that hasn’t played in 9 days is not a recipe for success
JUST TUNED IN —-WILL PROBABLY JUST TUNE OFF—–MY FEAR OF DEJA VU FROM LAST YEAR—POST ALL STAR BREAK
I’m ready to see extended minutes for Cedi and/or Windler. I don’t care how bad their D is, we just have no o e besides DG and DM who the other team fears from 3
Oof, rough start. Who’s sucking the most?
Everyone?
🤮
Starters back in. JB should not have shaved.
Or came back from the Bahamas
Yikes. We are who we thought we were!
Sometimes I really wonder how we have the best defense in the league.
Ricky playing like crap
Free Neto
Same shit different day. This time it’s Bodanovich lighting us up from 3.
Yeesh this is ugly
How’s that on the floor? That should be 3 shots!
Happy it’s as close as it is considering we couldn’t throw a rock in the ocean right now.
Mitchell left his shot in Utah
Vibes stinky.
Welp. That was ugly
I can’t stand Young. He’s horrible for the league.
If you’re going to foul Trae, FOUL TRAE HARD
The freaking whistles Trae gets.
Anyone know where Cavs rank in 3pt % as a team?
Cavs shooting like shit.
Cedi got pushed in the back but that was a weak attempt.
Stinky right now. Just lazy offense against this zone.
Man Offense just looks terrible
Lol. Trae tried to take a foul and they almost didn’t call it.
Move the ball, move the zone.
Yezus. Cavs cold.
Horrible call. But it’s TY so it’s expected
Where. Is. The
Foul?
Am i crazy or has garland been shooting terribly this whole season? I know the numbers don’t seem to bear that out but I feel like he kinda has been killing us all year. Last year I felt like he would never miss. This year? Not so much.
He is on pace for a historically great shooting season actually
Translation: yes. You’re crazy
Phontom call there.
How did Mitch miss that ?!?
Trae Young getting to rest on defense cuz of Okoro, can’t wait until a coach does something about that.
We posted Ice up on first possession (which led to an Allen dunk) and then ,…… nothing
Okoro should take him down to the block and post up that little bitch
Feed your local big man!
Teams are playing Donovan for the pull-up on the p/r gotta switch it up.
should mean the roll man open
Yup.
GREAT START!
Kevin Love starting for heat, and this tidbit…
https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/1629280072879284225?s=20
WOW
Gonna be GM too.
LMFAOOOOO LETS GOOOOO
Hate the Hawks. (sport) Hate Trae. GO CAVS
SCREW THAT TRAE YOUNG A DISGRACE TO THE SPORT PERIOD!
I forgot Bey was with the Hawks now
Woohoo! Meaningful game in the back half of the season! I love it! Also, I hate it.
GO CAVS!
LMFAOOO I AGREE GO CAVS
Let’s GO CAVS !
I agree! Go Cavs!
I AGREE GO CAVS
+/- 10 FTs for Trae. I’m gonna go plus.
yup
Same, foul merchant!!!
A BETTER DEFENSE ON TRAE IS A CLEAN HARD FOUL ON HIM LET YOUR PRESENCE KNOWN HE MIGHT THINK TWICE ANOUT GOING TO THE HOOP 💪💪💪
LOVE IT
now I know why NOMAD’S guys were always whacking me!
I HAVE THE PERFECT “ ZONE BUSTER “” FOR THE CAVS – MY GRAND NIECE JUST MADE 10 / 3 PT SHOTS IN ONLY 3QTRS OF PLAY “ THE NOMAD DNA RUNS LONG AND STRONG 💪
And she’s your blood so I know she’s playing defense too!
I will reiterate my position of the best defense on Young is to leave him more or less alone. Certainly don’t guard him close on the perimeter, where the refs will give him the kingdom. Let him take his terrible ‘Steph’ shots, and limit his drives.
Also, screw him and his foul baiting bullshit.
yup, let him be a chucker, he stinks!!!!
I have a feeling the Hawks will play a lot of zone.
makes sense, will be watching for it