Playoff Live Thread (Game 5): Cavs @ Celtics
2024-05-15Whelp it looks like Sam Merrill will have to save the season, Cav’s fans. With LeVert, Mitchell, Craig Porter Junior, and Ty Jerome not expected to play, and Jarret Allen still out as well, they Cavs will be very short handed with just Max Strus and Darius Garland as their only ball-handling guards. Meanwhile, I expect Georges Niang to get some disastrous run as a point forward.
The interwebs are ablaze with the possibility that this is the last time we’ll see Donovan Mitchell on the Cavs bench, with multiple teams prepared to give the Cavs their offers for the best player on the roster. I personally think it’s all much ado about nothing and that Spida will sign an extension with the Cavs in the offseason, but if Game 3 was the last time we’ll see DM in a Cavs uni, then it’s been a pleasure.
Personally, I think the Cavs can steal this one by playing with three point fire and flip the script but we shall see. Go Cavs.
Get a 2nd tech on Tatum.
giving up 2 offensive rebounds to start the 4th.. cant do that…
just checked to see the box score.. nice effort.. mobley doin the “man-up” thing.. good to see.. he should be on the 3rd year ramp.. garland 3-13 w 9 pts.. what’s his excuse this time ??
Family, jaw, fans on him too much, Mitchell, too young yet, just a bad game, Lane too crowded, he plays bad on Thursdays….etc
Mobley and Morris combine for 40 of 78 points after the 3rd.
Still in it thanks to Morris.
Probably a travel on Mobes there.
A hot/cold quarter here from someone and ee have a shot. Did not think we’d be here. But here we are.
Yeah, that looked like a travel.
Mercury Morris keeping them in the game.
DG gotta find a gear.
How is this happening? Morris with 20???
I don’t know what it says about our team that Marcus Morris Sr is our leading scorer in an elimination game
Down 6.. 12 min to extend their season or go home.. lets see what they do…
Great quarter close. No matter what they’ve shown a lot of growth this series and a hell of a lot of fight.
Well, hell, we should just try to win this.
Luckily Morris hits it.. but DG just dribbles and passes it at the last second vs Tatum driving and finishing at the rim with 4 seconds left.
DG and Mobes went the entire 3rd. Unfortunately cannot afford to sit them
Morris!
Still hanging in.
DG misses that. Damn.
We should have went back to Mobes. He was rolling.
DG just never hits a big momentum changing shot
He’s not clutch and never will be. He should have just kept finding Mobley.
3-13, 0-4 from deep.
Shrinkage.
honestly rather he takes that shot with someone in the paint to try grab the o rebound..
Mobes!
Mobleys hands are like giant cinder blocks
Lol Strus gave brown another tummy tap and didn’t get called for it
They gotta get Merrill back on the floor.
The LT is quiet tonight
Prepping for Cancun
Bowling.
Cavs playing careless
The 3rd quarter is huge to tie up/stay close.. cant leave this 6 pt lead extend to 12-15… and then the 4th this 12-15 leads to 20..
Since the 5:16 mark with the Cavs up 5… we had:
Missed Morris baseline jump shot
Missed DG layup – blocked
Morris TO step out of bounds
Wade TO – walking
Missed DG layup – blocked
DG TO – bad pass
DG missed floater
Merrill made 3 (finally) 0:41 Seconds left
Strus missed 3 – blocked
DG free throw
Merrill made 3 (finally) 0:41 Seconds left
DG free throw
2 scores in 10 straight possessions and not one timeout called.. SMH
Celtics are the most fraudulent team. Maybe with the Zinger its different, but in their current incarnation they look extremely beatable
DG needs to cook Horford. Not get blocked by him
DG has been blocked twice already for the half.
Just have to keep doing that they’re doing. Mobley needs to assert himself.
Honestly played really well and then they let Tatum grift them for a foul.
Jason Tatum is a colossal bitch.
Not a great close to the half
Was just going to say that.. from being up 5… 48-43 at the 5:16 mark, Boston went on a 15-5 run to be up 5.. it could have been worse but we should have extended that lead… can’t only score 4 points (1 technical in the last second)…
World class bitch
My god look at Tatum bitching.
Man they call Merrill for every little bump
Was that a deflection into Sam’s hands??
DG with a terrible inbounds there.
Coming unraveled a bit.
Was bound to happen. Hoping they can get to the half tied up and see if they can get any traction in the second half.
Cavs getting the good whistles.
Weirdly have gotten better whistles on the road.
Garland does mot have a good sense/ability to get the shot off on drives.
It isn’t Sexton level bad, but for a PG, it os poor recognition. Early in the clock, just Nash it & reset.
Bad pass and a favorable call for us.
Good subs.
Just tuning in now… no Free throw attempts so far for Boston .. this is huge comparing to the last game
How many wide open Niang clank 3s must we watch?!?
All of them
I honestly rather see Merill miss cause its a clean shot versus seeing Niang shoot the ball.. that outlier game he had when he barely missed.. need half of that type of night tonight..or just pass the ball and don’t turn it over.
I wish Niang would make one. Yeesh.
The problem with Niang is that rate he shoots.. he’s 0-3 in only 8 min versus when Okoro misses.. he misses a few for the entire game… hurts us less.
Jesus Georges
He should have passed it to Merril..
That’s just a situation where it goes down 9 times out of ten. Unless it’s Niang of course.
Niang is so bad
ROFL Pritchard you punk.
At the guards game…am I missing a miracle in the works?
Time will tell…
Lol try it again Brown.
M3rrill!
Attaway Sam
M3rrill!!!
Strus! On the loose!
Ice & Max back to back threes.
Tied again.
Ic3!! Str3s!!!
Tatum is a world class bitch.
Well the 3 ball is dropping. Fun to watch.
Niang on Tatum. Yikes.
If we make a trade this summer i hope to god this bum is used as salary filler
Love the way they’re playing not having Caris isn’t hurting…
Niang still sucks. Hauser shot a 3 and he ball watched instead of getting in between him and the hoop. I say just ran an 8 man rotation
Fun first. Hope Cavs can keep it up.
A good start.
C’s probably thought it eould be a cakewalk. They are gonna recalibrate now.
Really impressed with the effort so far. Strange how other than Game 1, a lot of the Cavs have looked better in Boston than at home.
Beautiful ball movement!!
Attaway Dean
I think this is it for the season, but not for Mitchell. We’d be crazy to let him go. He is a top 10 scorer, easy.
Hanging with em so far. If they don’t win this, I hope they knock Tatum on his cocyx.
Pretty sure Strus will put Brown down at some point. Not a lotta love there.
Let’s go Cavs!
Hey! I got that album! Saw the tour too.
Go Cavs!
Role players to the rescue!!!