Playoff Live Thread (Game 4): Cavs vs Celtics
2024-05-13Whelp. We’ve officially enterest the surreal phase of this playoff series. Donovan Mitchell and Jarrett Allen are out tonight and LeBron James is in (the building). It feels a lot like LeBron attending Z’s jersey retirement ceremony in 2014 with the king in the Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse, and I’ve been contending for a while that there’s a combo forward sized hole in the Cavs’ roster for a reason.
The whole LeCircus definitely puts a strange spin on this game, and without CPJ or TY Jerome to fill in for DM, it will be up to Caris and Sam Merrill to absorb the minutes. Meanwhile, I hope Evan Mobley has spent the last 48 hours studying how to read double teams and pass out of the post when he gets collapsed in, which was a major reason Boston shut him down in game 3. I also hope the Cavs have been practicing open threes cause they sure missed a bunch, Saturday. With the Cavs auditioning for the king, I expect a weird vibe to lead to Boston playing with their food and the Cavs catching them in a Cavalanche (hopefully). Go Cavs.
DG heating up.
And hustling on d.
Darius! Keep cooking Horford!
Challenge that.
Awful friendly whistles for Boston so far.
Awful is the operative word.
Soft call. Star treatment.
Of course. Tatum shoves off with literally, literally, every dribble, and they call a foul on a defender standing his ground.
Ridiculous call
Mobley should be sonning Tatum.
LeVert has got to go to the bucket.
Darius wide open swish.
They have White on Wade.
Boston’s TOs keeping us in it, along with our hot shooting from deep.
But they just have more well-rounded guys (shoot, drive, score, pass). Mismatches get punished.
We don’t have many guys who can do all four. Mitchell. Caris on a good night. That’s it.
Well you can’t say they aren’t fighting. Hope it stays a four quarter game
They’re gonna need Jones minutes to counter Kornet.
Garland run the offense. You ain’t got logo range
Great Nash, Darius!
Nice DG.
Come on Evan.
Christ Mobley throw it down over him
Brown was going for the jaw!!!
Seems like the last 2 games everytime the Cavs can close the gap, we start jacking up dumb shots
Yes. They panic.
Of all nights, tonight would be the one to play dg 48, if needed. I don’t trust anyone else to bring it up let alone run a set
Good stretch Merrill. Now do something, Okoro.
Garland hitting a floater a nice sign
Yep. Hopefully he gets going.
Strus is having an out of body experience.
Only down five.
Get the fucking rebound.
Another d-glass failure.
This game is drunk.
Lol. That was some bs
I like that call.
It didn’t look excessive. Cavs need to get contact for a makeup call.
How the fcuk is that not unnecessary?
What a joke.
That has to be a tech or a flagrant on Brown.
Great pass Merrill.
Okoro Niang experiment kver
Put Morris in.
Come on guys
Oof caris
Stop with the pull ups from deep.
15-5 rebounding.
Clean the glass FFS.
Strus, LeVert, Niang, Merrill, & TT playing well.
3PT shooting keeping us in it.
DG & Mobes have to be better offensively. Boards have to be way better.
I am dangerously close to trade Garland territory. Jrue is tough, but he wasn’t slowing Mitchell down.
Big play LeVert. Cook Horford.
Didn’t expect 30 points. Let’s go!!!
Good shot LeVert.
2nd chance pts the difference.
TT sonned Horford!
TT takes Al’s lunch.
Close the quarter strong.
Niang not being shit helps.
Evan Mobley is getting owned
Great pass Mobley.
Sam I Am!
Merrill!!!’
JFC the refs are trash.
9-4 on the glass. Not good.
LeVert makes up for staring at that rebound.
Gotta keep shooting let it fly.
Wade back. Thank God.
Garland settling for a 3 when he has the drive lane.
6 minutes in, Garland and Mobley on zero points.
Mobley come on
You can’t take that foul.
Tha Cavs offense seems so dumb.
Dumb offense is always a PG indictment.
JFC what a stupid stretch.
JFC Okoro.
Garland getting owwwwned.
Gah Okoro 🤦♂️
Okoro sucks so bad
They’re hiding Horford there.
Well that was terrible d,
Pick and Roll Al To death tonight
Or iso. Either one.
Let’s Fucking go.
Keep cooking Al.
Mobley has got to be better. He can’t just throw up slop. You can get a better shot against Horford.
If we can somehow merge this team with the 2016 team, we should be set up nicely.