Playoff Live Thread (Game 6): Cavs @ Magic
2024-05-03Good evening CtB!
The Cavs have traversed to Disney World to take on the Orlando Magic in the first elimination game of the series. The Cavs have the opportunity to close out the pesky Magic and advance to the second round of the Eastern Conference playoffs for the first time in the post-LeBron era. Jarrett Allen is out, so another career defining game will be necessary from Evan Mobley. Thankfully, Coach JB Bickerstaff has inserted Marcus Morris, Sr. into the starting lineup instead of the young and struggling Isaac Okoro. Hopefully there will be more than a five minute sighting of Sam Merrill. Go Cavs!
Tip off is scheduled at 7:00PM Eastern time and will be nationally broadcasted on ESPN.
DG!
Finally got an offensive foul on the Magic
I don’t know what Darius aye for breakfast but I want it tmrw.
Cavs are fucked without Allen and Mobley defensively
And Wade. Missing our best 3 bigs
yup good point
If the Magic did the same thing it would be a no call
Refs keeping a lid on it and not upgrading.
Need a dg Mitchel 40 burgers shoot every shot cmon go cavs
Cant beat the refs shooting 7% from 3
1/13 fom 3
Cavs getting Zilch from anyone not named Donovan or Darius
Yup
More elbows please. I like it.
https://twitter.com/MZavagno11/status/1786544020858261716?t=FPMpMvhXAQpmzc63JiAP7w&s=19
It’s so ridiculous. I can’t wait for JB to get canned!
Horrible call.
Give me a break. That’s a defensive foul if anything.
I seriously thought that’s what they were about to call, a foul on Suggs (foolish me). At lest they didn’t upgrade to flagrant which would have been absurd.
This officiating is
Someone breathed on Wagner while he was shooting
Strus gotta stop overpassing. Shoot the effing ball.
Jonathan Isaac might win this game for us the way he’s playing on offense. Garbage
Strus has got to stop being afraid to shoot.
Nice d, Evan. Cavs grinding.
Mobley holding his ground there!
We can beat this team if we just stop shooting and take everything to the basket. Everything. Just drive everytime.
Okoro finally does something.
The Magic are like a team full of Bond henchmen…not terribly good at what they do, but pretty tough.
Odd jobbers
Mitchel/DG = 11/17 FG /0-3 on 3’s
Rest of the team: 4/15 / 1-7 3PT
pls ffs get a merrill mitchell pnr game going
100%
But for knucklehead goaltend, reasonable play from TT so far
Donovan and Darius getting absolutely whatever they want. Any of our role players? Not so much
Amazing that in just two games Garland’s finishing touch has ascended from “what happened to Darius?!” to borderline Kyrie-esque.
this game has been ridiculous
Go Cavs! Down 2 not shooting well, we got this!!
Cavs hanging in there without any outside shooting.
Can cannot buy a call. Good God.
I don’t care what the theory is for Merrill’s unplayabillty, he cannot possibly be worse than “both” of Okoro and Niang they way they look tonight (and all series in Niang’s case).
OMG. LeVert.
1-10 from 3 so far
Get Okoro off the floor jfc.
How did I know Niang would miss that layup?
JFC lbox out.
Niamg bricks another wide open 3. Get him tf outta there!
mitch and garland carrying now. garland looks good, mitch looks a bit rougher but still getting it done
I usually like following along on this blog, but jeez you guys are negative. Can I get a little Cavs love?!
I love the Cavs. Except Georges Niang. Someone fire a love handle seeking missile at him.
smd niang . and TT too
Niang with the JR Smith-like “let me wait for someone to contest, THEN I’ll shoot” hesitation. But not a JR Smith result.
JFC get Niang off the floor.
TT come tf on.
Okoro damn near blew another bunny
Okor sucking ass. Then the Cavs can’t buy a call
magic gettin them calls again
Bizarre how this series has been called. Okoro mugged, no call. 3 seconds later Wagner grazed, foul.
Wagner with a superstar whistle, then someone literally throws Levert to the court while trying to take the ball from him – clean steal, sure!
Okoro fuck up leads to 5 point swing.
Good God Okoro
ffffffff niang is in again arggggg
JB just can’t help himself
Bench not looking good
Woof Mitchell not looking good.
Magic hot start from 3
Loving hyper aggressive Garland.
Need it rest of playoffs
Gonna moss most of the game – I hope that’s a bad thing. Go Cavs!!
Solid start. Hanging with them and both teams hitting tough shots. Will come down to the benches I think.
Gonna be hard for us to keep up this scoring pace
Happier to have RJ on ESPN call than last crew.
agree, Halleluyah
Go Cavs!!! Magic hitting some prayer 3s, cavs been good on D
WHAT A FINISH DG
STRUS!
can’t let Franz go right… bad defense.
CHUCK IT DG THATS YOUR SHOT
Orlando going HUGE to start. Gotta find a way to get rebounds.
Mosley doubling down on defense,
Garland should be able to take advantage of missing Harris.
That said, if Franz gets hot from outside it will be tough to keep pace.
If JB is worried about Merrill getting smoked on defense – then play zone defense when he’s in.
Yup, and it’s just a completely pointless concern. The Cavs’ defensive rating with Merrill on the court is better than what they averaged for the season. The question is whether he’s properly juicing the offense.
Thanks for getting LT, homie! I don’t have a ton of confidence, but I like that the Cavs had a travel day and that they started Morris.
Yes sir!!! I agree go Cavs