Live Thread: Cavs @ Suns
2024-04-03It’s hump day, Cavs fans. The Cavs have a late one tonight, taking in the valley of the Sun. The Suns are in must-win logjam, currently in eighth place two games out of fifth and just 1.5 games ahead of the Lakers. They’ll be without Grayson Allen and Damion Lee. Cleveland is still hanging on to the third spot by the skin of their teeth. They’ll be without without Okoro, Wade, Craig Porter Junior, and Ty Jerome – who my phone now autopredicts to end these injury summaries. It should be a good battle. Let’s hope Donovan Mitchell stays on the road to recovery and the Cavs bigs continue their dominance of last game. Go Cavs.
surge to fall back. surge to fall back.
all year, from quarter to quarter and game to game.
WHY IN THE HELL DOES SAM ONLY HAVE 3 MINUTES——HE WAS 6/12 LAST NIGHT—-SO HE IS REWARDED WITH NO MINUTE s WTF JB
JB is to coaching what Georges Niang is to sprinting…
They either cant or wont.
I wish Mitchell wouldn’t have settled for that three.
We could tie the game this quarter…i still think we lose by 30
LMAO ARCH—-TOUCHE
ARCH —- IT IS GOING TO BE A “ THREE SOME 🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪
At least someone is hitting 3s!
AMEN STEVE——- HAD TICKETS FOR HORNETS GAME/21st —— THEY MIGHT BE GOING UP FOR SALE
MR STEAL I WILL WAGER YOU A BEER——( WHAT I HAVE BEEN POSTING SINCE ALL STAR BREAK) —- WE DONT GET PAST THE 1st ROUND————WOULD LOVE TO HAVE TO PAY YOU———NOT ENOUGH TIME TO “ SUPER GLUE “ THE HOLES
we’ll see. no one in the east is super impressive, and as i said, there was never gonna be a “get right” moment on a five games in eight days road trip with 4 playoff teams.
i would almost rather fall to five and have to steal a road game 1 or something, but I think if Mitchell improves (and he looked better today so far than at Denver, but that’s faint praise), you get Ice and Wade back, then I don’t really sweat any other team — cracks are showing everywhere in the East.
I can’t show up for a team that won’t show up for its own game.
AGREE WITH RYAN——SAM ALSO—- 3 PT SHOOTING PRACTICE——- REALLY SUCKS TRYING TO SUPPORT THESE CAVS SINCE ALL STAR BREAK ——WE ARE LOOKING AT 2 MORE LOSSES BEFORE WE COME HOME——LAKERS/ ClIPPERS —— THOSE GAMES WONT BE CLOSE EITHER
ugly again. get to LA and rest up.
no back to backs in the playoffs. we’re playing a team we can beat in the first round no matter what.
looking at Bucks, Knicks, Magic, Pacer, and Heat blogs…they’re all in shambles, everyone getting exposed.
I would just give Mobley all the shots in the 2nd half.
Yep Mobley and Merrill
YEP I AM JOINING NATE ( NOT LITERALLY 🤪)
Don’t tell Mrs. Nomad!
1st ROUND EXIT——- DOESN T MATTER WHO THE OPPONENT IS ——- THEY CAN T TURN THIS “ TRAIN WRECK “ AROUND———-JANUARY WIN STREAK SEEMS SOOOOOO LONG AGO
we haven’t won consecutive games in two months. it’s just all catching up with us at once. would have probably rested the whole team.
sucks. everybody starts 0-0 in the playoffs, no back to backs, and we’d be playing a team with significant weaknesses no matter what.
steal one or two in LA and see where it goes.
When I tune in and see Niang on Durant I know it could be a long night.
OK. Goodnight guys.
If your need help falling asleep count Suns’ three point makes by the end of the game.
wow 12-18… smh and Cavs 4-15… cant win games like that. and you have Oneale 4-4 and Bol Bol 2-3.. having more than us as a team.. smh just wow ..
So tired of the Cavs over collapsing.
SUNS OWNER “ FLIPPING UNCLE DAN OFF “ —— LHAO
Suns owner is major douche!
Cavs have gotten spanked a lot lately… Heat, Nuggets, and now Suns.
Is our defense even top 10 any longer?
At the beginning of the broadcast Doris Burke I think said we were once one of the top defenses but since the All Star Break were were 22nd or 26th.
Pre all Star:
2nd: Def RTG 110.3 and record 36-17
Post all Star:
23rd: Def RTG 115.2 and 10-13 record, by tonight 10-14.
Since the All Star Break:
Orlando is #1 at 106.3, Miami 3rd 107.9, Knicks 4th 109.3
Thanks for sharing. Heading in the wrong direction as they get closer to the playoffs.
SIT THE STARTER s
So late to the weak side.
JFC Mitchell just gave that away.
If we were in the Western conference where would we be? 7? 8? 10?
We would be playing these teams more frequently, so I dont even want to think about it. Right now we would be 5th at 46-30 and Dallas at 45-30.
Yeah thats what i mean— by playing these teams more frequently thus getting exposed
SIT / REST SPIDA ——SO GLAD WE BEAT THE “ MIGHTY “ JAZZ LAST NIGHT——THE GOOD THING I DONT HAVE TO STAY UP AND WATCH——REST THE REGULAR s z——LET SAM “ BOMB” AWAY FROM 3’s
They came out with “energy” against the Jazz per JB. Lol maybe the Jazz are just horrendous. Now against a good team we have no energy? Maybe we are just absolute MID
The weird thing about this game is the Cavs could get it it to like a manageable deficit by halftime.
Is this manageable?
These GD clear path reviews need to die
How have we not trained an ai to figure this out in 20 seconds?
At this rate, we just need to keep rooting against all other East teams besides Boston to loose cause we cant depend on the Cavs to win at this point and move up to 2nd or keep 3rd spot on their own.
That should be a clear path.
Suns are shoooting 58% from the field, 8-13 for 62% from 3, have 6 steals from our 9 TO’s. Cavs didnt show up today
I don’t understand how anyone thinks these guys can win a playoff series.
Yeah no shit 😂
They’re paper tigers.
What paper?
What tiger?
Touché
Still inconsistent: ah well.
At least we are consistent haha. At this rate we have a chance to win a home playoff series by just winning the odd numbered games and taking a nap the others
eh, no back to backs in the playoffs
Lol I was kidding. We dont have a chance.
We scored a layup and they called a rage timeout lol
This team is cooked
Everything going wrong so far. I’m done for now.
Sad thing is, we are pretty healthy with DM, Evan and Strus back.. smh..
Feels about like bedtime.
Bring in the C squad.
just turned off the game and will check the score in the 3rd or 4th.. Just looked at the schedule, we have Lakers, Clippers next and then end at home VS Memphis, Indiana and Charlotte. At this rate, I’ll be happy with the 3 wins at home.. dont expect anything else against top competition at this point. All of our losses since the All Star Break from newest to oldest: @Denver: 29 @Charlotte: 7 @Miami: 37 @T Wolves: 13 VS Miami: 3 @ Houston: 14 VS Suns: 6 VS Nets: 19 @ ATL: 11 VS NY: 9 @ Chicago: 9… Read more »
Since Cavs were up 12-7 at the 8:50 mark, Cavs have been outscored 37-16 for about 12 minutes
Cavs:
7/21 FG: 33%
3/12 3PT: 25%
4 for 7 in the paint
Suns:
13/16 FG: 50%
5/10 3PT: 50$
and 7/14 in the paint
How do you coach defensive rebounding?
No one boxing out
Why, Mobley.
This feels like another 30 point loss. Strus made durant mad and we have no Dean Wade to help.
Well it’s up to 20 so not out of the question. 😂
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Caris is a disaster tonight.
Anyone gonna guard BOL on the weak side?
Vert awful
All you have to do is play the Cavs tight man defense. None of our guys can beat their defender
Lol you mean up your intensity to standard playoff level effort and do the bare minimum scouting?
Yeah.
Booker is such a grifter. Caris should’ve fallen on him.
Yeah he’s a turd!
What is LeVert doing there?
Didn’t expect booker to act like he’d been shot
Mitchell not doing much facilitating so far.
JB benched Merrill dumb
Mitchell struggling
Niang would be such an excellent asset with about 25 fewer lbs. He is slower than freakin Tractor Trailor on defense
I’d play Jones of Niang tonight. Niang is cheeks.
Getting punked by Bol Bol
This one is ugly.
Gotta pass better. Suns defense just looking much better than ours.
Really sloppy
This one will get ugly fast if we dont put the passes in guys’ chests. Long arms are our kryptonite apparently. Ridiculous.
Booker flop!
I miss Dean Wade :(
Woof. Georges.
This line up has shat the bed
Ugh stop with the turnovers
Nice drive Garland.
Garland last night was play making and open threes. Looks like it’s the same tonight.
Yeah he had I think 8 assists, with 2 turnovers.
Welcome sign from. Mitchell
Any talk of trading Mobley is idiocy
Wow. Mobley
Too bad the Pacers lost. We are now facing Miami in the first round.
The way 4th-7th fluctuates, we wont know until the last day of the season. But agree, don’t want to face Miami in the 1st round.
True but I’d rather keep Miami out of the top 6.
If the Cavs win enough of their other games, they could throw the one to the Pacers.
This made me chuckle:
“and Ty Jerome – who my phone now autopredicts to end these injury summaries.”
Lets go Cavs, rooting for Mephis to beat Bucks tonight (up 6 now in 4th) and for a Cavs win to decrease the gap between Cavs/Bucks.
Let me be the first to say…
GO CAVS!