Live Thread: Cavs @ Rockets
2016-01-15
The Cavs are playing their third installment of their tour of the Texas triangle with a matchup with the middling Houston Rockets. The Rockets went from being in the conference finals last season to trading for a drunk, firing their coach, and currently stand seventh in a surprisingly shallow Western conference. The Rockets (21-19), have won six of their last ten, and have slowly picked up steam from their slow start.
The game will mark the last of the Cavs six game road trip, their longest of the season. They’ve been road warriors thus far winning four of five after coming up short against the Spurs in the fourth quarter when they were obviously running on fumes from the OT thriller two nights before in Dallas. Coming into their contest with the Rockets, the Cavs have racketed up the frequent flyer miles with 4,590 miles on the trip. Hopefully, the team will have a little left in the tank.
Let’s Dish!
JVG: Let’s be kind this has been a horrible game thus far!
LeBron to Love — cringe-worthy attempt to connect.
What the heck are these commentators talking about?
Yeah… bad free throw shooters would be a great watch JVG… ratings bonanza!
According to JVG it would force them to get better. Not sure about the entertainment value!
JVG: How about we have a horrible FT contest btw Drummond and DeAndre.
I think Delly might think that Moz is taller than he is?
Delly with the nice hands
That Delly-Oop was a little too high.
Good foul Mozzy!
Ot Oh Delly being a dirty player. It’ll all over in NBA
Delly on the floor. Watch out Korver!
Delly getting on the floor! TWICE!
Winner of the first CBS one-on-one contest (what JVG and Tirico referred to) was the Cavs’ Barry Clemens.
Not gonna play you in Cleveland sports trivia for money anytime soon…….
Well, I was wrong. I looked it up and Clemens made it to the finals but lost to Geoff Petrie.
Coulda sworn…
I’d rather see midget wrestling.
-Mike Tirico
/s
I’d rather see an eight team two on two contest…
Great rebound by LBJ there….
Love has been terrible. Again. He has not shot the ball since late November.
Tirico has an idea… watch out! /s
I remember how KLove was taking charges at the beginning of the season but now he is going back to the “Harden like defensive effort”
Nice energy so far. At least we didnt forfeit the game.
Meet the Hoopers is on… quick Gregg… cover you eyes!
Love really shouldn’t have agreed to play the undersized, weak member of the Hoopers family.
Hits too close to home doesn’t it? HAHAHA!!!
They need to let KLOVE post up Capela… that should be a big mismatch and I haven’t seen KLOVE post him up once.
They did try this once in Q1 and Love got blocked.
Dirty Grandpa looks like an all time bad movie.
Just another DeNiro ‘keep cashing dem checks’ movie….
TT saving possessions and Kyrie knocking it down…
What is wrong with Kevin Love? Id rather have Andy in there right now.
Looks tired. I think AC said he got hit on his side.
Love would really do himself a service by just putting the ball on the floor when guys close out on him on perimeter…
Love just seems tentative at all times. He needs another Lebron speech.
Or maybe a Harden kick in the jewels…
Love needs some speed training. Or maybe just some speed?
Excellent movement by everyone
Shump with the best hands in the league.
Kyrie heating up!
Stop copy and pasting my posts please.
LOL… maybe we share a brain somehow…
Kyrie heating up!
Hope Kyrie and LeBron can hold down the fort while Delly and Andy are resting.
Mr. Second Quarter!!!!
Are the Rockets even guarding anyone?
That’s right! Give it back to Kyrie!
What the hell Love shoot that 3. OMG
I love when opposing teams fans ouuu and ahhh at Kyrie’s handle.
Shump checking the Beard. Nice job on that drive.
JVG praises Andy’s “teamness.”
Iman taking care of Harden. Great D
Howard is going to lose his cool if Andy stays in much longer.
That looked like a charge on Howard.
Whistle came waaaaay after the shot missed.
Andy with his hands up and feet moving beat D12 to his position. Sure looked like one to me.
A few of them actually
I always remember the Andy and Tristan stories when TT was a rookie. Andy would yell at him nicely, ‘Tristan we are on the same team. Plenty of rebounds for both of us” The story was they made a deal that TT would go after more O rebs and Andy would more on the other end”
It all changed after his injuries though & TT took over
Playing well so far. Kyrie takes it home!
With Andy and TT out there… Cavs will get ALL the rebounds…
Houston have 2 already against them, though…
I’m not sure, that’s one area he’s struggled tonight so far, got beat on the O boards a couple times already.
A lot of talk about Blatt comments? I must have just missed it. Whatd he say?
I caught something about how the starters were playing like garbage.
He got on his soapbox about how players should play, back to back or not.
He said that Kevin Love just needs to “fit in” /s
Hahaha now wouldnt that be something.
Love all of this with Lebron and Love sitting.
JVG loves the way Blatt answers questions honestly.
JVG taking the ‘minutes police to task’….
Andy is instant energy!
That was some great defense on Howard!
The Big Energy Three: Delly, Tristan, Andy. Those motors don’t stop. All three are always focused and giving full effort, which can’t be said about every player on this team.
Omg! Andy Verajao! I just turned the game on to see him in the game! What a great site as he bails out Kyrie and then draws the offensive foul on Howard!
Edit: sight*******
I thought AV sucked?
According to Cols!!!!
Only Cols thinks that…
Love that Andy is playing.
Some good energy from Andy….
I think he is really excited to be playing. I’m happy to see him out there
Andy!! Yes he does bring energy. They seem more at ease. It’s different
Ya beat me on that one, lol.
Andy gettin under D12’s skin!
Andy can be pretty crafty offensively.
ANDY from the ELBOW!
Rockets are not good at shooting….
SHUMP!!
Wow! Thought TT should’ve shot that floater in the paint… Shump bailed him out!
LOL at David Blatt’s SUPER HOTTT TAKE!!!!
That was pretty great!
One huge positive so far for the Cavs IMO, Coach Blatt going deep into his bench.
He needs to continue to do that if you ask me. The Cavs need their bech to get better and get ready for the playoffs.
Keep it going Kyrie!!
Delly! Someone’s finally figuring out how to end a quarter on a positive note.
I feel with the way we played that quarter with all the turnovers, I’m thrilled with a 2 point lead after 1.
Yeah… nine points off those turnovers! ;)
I surrender, unconditionally, lol.
I love this blog and comment once every few years but…
Kevin Love needs Anderson Varejao. They are the ultimate complement to each other.
With comments like that… you should comment a lot more!
He just swooped the turnover dotted the i
Nice way to steal a quarter cavs
Really like how the other players want Andy to get a basket. Cool. I can’t believe Delly’s garbage shot went in,
That’s not garbage… that’s patented! ;)
He’s right you know! ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
There was some yelling in my house!