Live Thread: Cavs @ Bucks
2015-03-22
The Cavs roll into the Harris Bradley Center to face the reeling Bucks for an early afternoon tilt.
The Bucks are losers of five straight and 12 of 15, which has endangered their six seed in the EC. They are just 4-12 since swapping Brandon Knight for Michael Carter-Williams, and lost a heartbreaker Friday in a 129-127 triple-overtime loss to Brooklyn.
The Cavs secured their first playoff spot since 2010 after Friday’s win over the Pacers. They’re an NBA-best 26-6 since Jan. 15, but all of those losses have come on the road. The Bucks have won eight of nine against the Cavs in Milwaukee, but they’ve all been minus LBJ.
The Cavs will look to improve their road record against this long and athletic Bucks squad. So, pry yourself away from the March Madness and check out some matinee Cavs basketball…
JR “Back to y’all, Cleveland”
Awesome
I loved it!
Hope to see more interviews with him after he goes 7/9 from deep!
Still gave up 54% shooting, but turned the Bucks over 23 times and only gave up 14 points in the paint in the second half after 36 in the first…
I don’t trust Bill Self in this one.
I don’t trust Bill Self generally…
He’s too Selfish!
Fastball down the middle… ;)
Thanks for the lob!
64 points in the second half… nice explosion!
Cavs outscore Bucks 41-17 to end the game, from the late third quarter on.
SHUMP with the Exclamation point!
LOOK AT DELLY REBOUNDING.
And then throwing the ball out of bounds… And then scoring!
that was a great rebound though
Must be the coffee!
OK guys, I’m out. It’s time for the battle of Kansas.
Eh. I guess I got five more minutes.
Go Shockers!
Who do you got Witchita or Kansas? My bracket says Kansas, but I’m felling Witchita.
Rooting for Wichita on Nate’s behalf…
Rooting for Kansas for my bracket.
How is your bracket not already screwed? My was literally done after the third game… ;)
I’m in 6th place in the league I’m in. Iowa State hurt me but I’m still in it.
Wichita! See above. Entirety of my Dad’s family from there.
You’re going down!
Prolly could take LBJ out right about now…
Fans were like…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdLqerS0A6M
Cavs outscore Bucks 41-17 to end the game, from the late third quarter on.
Oops! Wrong spot.
Yeah. Who knew how great getting away from ‘Melo would be for JR?
JR SMITH BUILDING THE KEYSTONE WITH OR WITHOUT OBAMA
JR SMITH NEW FERGUSON POLICE CHIEF!
WoW! And in traffic to boot!
Who needs Kyrie?
The Cavs! Hahaha!
I understand you tongue-n-cheek comment tho.
WOW! Even the Bucks fans did an OHHHHHH! for that LBJ hammer-dagger!
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY GAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWD!! WHAT A DUNK!
Jason Kidd is so mad he’s gonna beat LeBrons wife for that!
That was just a little over the line…
Gonna get drunk and crash his car into LeBron’s trees!
That was a bad joke! Sorry…
Gonna stab LeBron’s assistant coach in the back! Oh wait, he already did.
Jason Kidd: great player, good coach, flawed human being.
I completely agree. Great basketball mind but someone I hate as a person.
I’m not going to fall for the banana in the tailpipe, LeBron… awwww damn…
I laughed about that in your last recap.
Hard to beat early Eddie Murphy…
My brother and I could do the entirety of Eddy Murphy Raw, Delirious, and Coming to America when we were kids.
We would have gotten along really well then…
Keep it up, EG. I expect at least one b-in-the-tp per game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V93XY-KQfak
God. That’s a terrible call.
I take that back. Looked like a foul from the other angle.
Dumb foul away from the ball when you’re over the limit = Bucks are beaten.
TT is now 1-5 at stripe… Come on TT
My neighbors heard me scream when delly hit that shot.
A Delly Trey in Milwaukee – Carr
DELLY TREY AT THE BUZZER!
DELLY TREY!!!!!!
Looked like a clear path to me.
LBJ asking for the clear path check…
12 points on the last 4 possessions — pretty good efficiency.
Even more than the shots… I LOVE how JR just turned to some Bucks fans and shrugged as if to say “What did you people expect?”
And how he teased the Bucks before the last shot. He was wide open when he got the ball. He waited for the close-out defender to get close before he shot it.
Smith ON FIYAH!!!!
HE”S ON FIIIIIIIIIIRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
JR is on fire!!!
How do you leave him open?! JR!
I was just thinking that! LeBron was staring down that side of the court the entire possession! To quote Cols, “that was really dumb”
LOL
HE’S ON FIRE!!!!!
Thank god for all those Bucks turnovers earlier. Kept the Cavs in it. JR and Bron are cold blooded killers!
JR SWISH!!!!
LBJ for THREE! He’s almost single-handedly erased his -17 in like four minutes…
Larry Drew wants this. He has his game face on.
Nothing can stop a locked-in Larry Drew…
Somebody mentioned before… but TT having a bad game in general today…
He’s been off for a week or so. Was non-existent in his first start for Love.
And he was a deceiving +22 tonight, mainly because he was on the floor in the late third and fourth quarter LBJ/JR explosion…
Delly with some positive plays here. The fatigue does seem like it’s a factor for the Bucks too.
TT bad at the line today… 0-4
Cavs are ACTUALLY defending the rim this quarter!
Delly a rebounding machine!
I secretly hope that Delly pushed Bayless in the back on that failed layup…
Delly! Great rebound and feed.
LBJ looks PISSED!
Doesn’t Middleton have one of th highest RPM?
JR wanted to do something circus there but he’s MATURED
I don’t know that I’ve ever been so abjectly wrong about a player the way I was about JR…
I agree 100%!
He is more of a complete player with the Cavs than he ever was with the Nuggets or Knicks. Even when he won 6th, his defense was not a prominent part of his game.
Time to put these Bucks to sleep…
Bucks have to be like, WTF just happened?!
Yeah, their payola to the refs ran out there… Also, LBJ finally decided to start actually playing…
An 8-0 run to close that quarter and take the lead, fueled by LeBron (3 hoops, 1 assist).
Cavs ratcheted up the toughness to end that quarter. LeBron looking like 2009 LeBron – wearing people down and closing out games
I noticed that too. It’s like Lebron lets teams hang around and the crushes their spirit. Stifling D, and unstoppable O.
’09 had so many games like that I stopped caring what the score was at halftime.
Glad the refs didn’t bail Giannis out again. He was so out of control late…
Greek Freak cannot believe he didn’t get bailed out with the call on that buzzer beater…
Hah. That’s like the 4th time we’ve made the same comment tonight.
On the same page…
LeBron’s a pretty good scorer!
SHUMP for the LEAD!
TOUGH shot.
Looks like good/aggressive LBJ checked in at the last stop in play…
Refs just swallowing whistles on Cavs side of floor
Shump is in an extended shooting slump. He’s shot better than 50% only once in the past 17 games.
He looked good in the first half…
Bucks still shooting 60%
This is going to be a tough game to win without defense…
Out-of-control-deKumpo gets another call for falling down.
Timo and Zaza are battling. And Giannis is flailing and getting calls.
Moz and Zaza getting chippy.
Gonna need Kyrie and JR hitting this quarter to keep it close
I guess none of those guys mugging JR actually fouled him…
Timo has had a couple really nice passes this quarter.
They finally call a 3 second violation after a Greek Freak walk.
Cavs D picking up with LEBron out.
I find that to be true most games, but this one in particular…
Refs missing a lot of calls down low…