Playoff Live Thread (Game 3: Cavs @ Magic)
2024-04-27Good afternoon, Cavs fans. The Cavs face their old nemesis today: the weekend afternoon game. After the Cavs put up the worst playoff performance in team history, not even 48 hours ago, it will be interesting to see how they come out. If it were me if be breaking into people’s hotel rooms and throwing buckets of ice water on them and running up and down the hall banging on pots and pans this morning just to work everyone up into a frothy ire. The Cavs should be pissed off. If they’re not, well then this series might be over. This isn’t a must win game for them, but they can’t play like they’re under a magic sleeping spell.
The wine and gold will be missing Craig Porter Jr., Dean Wade, and newly injured Ty Jerome while the Magic are at full strength. All I want is for the Cavs to stop talking and start playing. Go Cavs.
Need Donovan to be assertive on offense. Smart w the minutes JA sits
Yeah. You gotta challenge this. Suggs ran into him and fell down.
Could be a four point swing.
These announcers are unbearable… worse that Reggie Miller.
Fortunately have the Bally feed.
League pass streaming should really let me steer clear of TNT.
Lucky you
Yeah these guys are like Magic homers
17-2 run in the last 4:12 minutes.
JB allows a 17-2 run with no lineup change. Just baffling.
Oh, thank you Max.
Right?
Get Mobley off the floor jfc. He’s useless on o.
Who do you put in instead though ?
Oh gosh, Niang 🤦🏽♀️
Just took a nice dive for the team.
Got hit with his chin on the top lip. Dont know why everyone acted like that was a flop. There was blood lol
Really ,why Niang??
Magic is shooting almost 57%, you can’t have give that up in general and when a team is home..which gets the crowd involved.
Mobley just utter shit to start the third. Get your head in the game.
He’s having a tough day.
The speed in which they got that 10 point lead is the same speed they are now down 1.. instead of putting their foot on the gas once they reached double figures.. it’s the opposite.
:rd quarter malaise yet again. Stop me if youve heard this before. Yeesh
JB special to start this quarter. Just abysmal.
Sick of Orlando fan boy announcers on TNT.
It really is like a home broadcast,. Find it so strange for a playoff game.
Yeah, for example a guy like Mike Breen doesn’t seem to be rooting for any team when he is calling a game on national tv.
Mobley on offense is killing them.
Mobley third terrible possession. Garland missed a wide open Strus on the weak side.
Big shot Garland.
Two stupid Mobley plays to start the third then the Cavs stop being cute for an Allen slam.
Niang and Garland in a battle of who can do less
Cavs not taking a lot of three point shots. Cavs not making a lot of three point shots (2-7)
Magic shooting 54% and have 21 points off the bench.. limit the bench and shooting and we can extend this.
Cavs gotta let the Starters rest at halftime. They earned it.
Got away with leaving no one boxing out on the last possession, should have been two easy ORL points on a put back.
Good close.
LeVert fell asleep on D there.
Great D! Then Allen’s rebounding gets him to the line.
Get Garland off the floor. Magic hunting him.
Garland makes us so much worse
Max with the strong drive and slam
Need a big finish.
Nice play max and then Garland doesn’t ge t back to Harris then gets cooked by Franz.
Well ball don’t lie.
Allen playing huge this entire series.
JA!
Good hustle Mobley. Then Jarrett Allen just incredible.
Jarrett Allen just phenomenal this game.
I don’t know that we can win this one unless mitchell has 30+.
Allen disagrees.
He cant play 40 mins but it certainly helps that he is getting fouled a bit
Mitchell and JA carrying us at the moment.
Rebounds.
Niang off the floor. Thank God.
Gotta foul harder if you’re gonna commit that foul on banchero
That should’ve been a foul on that dunk.
Why is Niang all the way in the paint helping for no reason ? SMH
Mitchell being Mitchell would be a welcome development.
Where is Sam Merrill when u need him.
OK, Darius.
DG allows markelle for the easy put back and then horrible turnover. Im done
Hand down, man down on LeVert’s d on Fultz earlier too.
I don’t think this is a good challenge.
Set a GD screen. What is this offense. Stop slipping every single screen.
Garlugh.
Nice high finish Mobley
Can definitely tell when JA is not on floor
As important as the Mitchell extension is, the Cavs should be pitching JA on a max extension too.
LeVert got fouled in that three.
Great physical defense by Levert a minute ago on a put-back attempt
Good call.
Just once can Marcus Morris get these Niang minutes?
Feel Niang is a joke sometimes
Niang comes in and the Cavs grind to a halt.
Not matching Wagner’s energy or using his aggression against him.
At least they are playing with fire so far , like to see it.
In more ways than one.
Niang. High off the glass!
TNT shout out to the great Joe Tait. Outstanding!
Loved it! Except I remember “Wham” (not “Jam”) “with the right hand.” Still a great tribute to the legend.
Yes it was wham!
Cavs taking it to ‘em so far. Keep it up!
LFG, JA!
JA and Evan really taking over the last few minutes at both ends of the floor.
F’ing Allen with the JAM!
Great pass there. Gotta. Win the bench minutes no Niang n the first shift.
NVM. There he is.
Mobley! What a sequence!
OK so far. Gotta improve their off ball screen game still. The Niang minutes will be the tell on if they have a shot.
I just spotted two Cavs Superfans in the crowd. Middle aged couple who seem to be at every Cavs home game. They always sit under the basket, including today.The woman has orange dyed hair. Man has long curly hair. They both wear glasses. I saw the guy in person at Game 2 of the 2015 Finals in Oakland (the Delly game, which the Cavs won, which was awesome.)
Nice
Nice secondary break by Mitchell there.
Go Cavs!
Biggest Cavs post LBJ game. Time to put up or shut up.
Garland do something challenge paying off early.
Agree! Thankfully I didn’t watch much of Thursday’s game but how they respond in this game will really show us how they handle adversity, tactical adjustments, energy and just plain out effort and pride in the game.
I really want a strong start to build some confidence in this team again.
I’m sitting this one out. They didn’t show up on Thursday, so I’m not showing up today.
Strong stance, totally understand!
C’mon back Arch. You’re selling low.