Live Thread: Bulls at Cavs
2016-01-23
Game 1 of the LueBron era starts tonight. Â Also, Game 1 of the Saturday night NBA on ABC era.
Well, the Bulls have dropped six of eight and Joakim “Pebbles” Noah is out for the season. Â Mike Dunleavy is still recovering from surgery and Kirk Hinrich is out. Â Derrick Rose is a shell of his former self. Â The Bulls are hurting, basically.
Jimmy Butler has asserted himself as one of the best young players in the NBA and Pau Gasol remains surprisingly effective at age 35.  The Bulls have some pieces in Tony Snell, Taj Gibson, and Nikola Mirotic but they seem to be stuck in “6th-man” or “x-factor” type production/consistency.
Ty Lue has already stated that he will play a 10-man rotation. Â Good. Â I’d rather he just do it than signal that he’s going to do it but, whatever. Â I’m getting prepared for some awkward press conferences – Lue turned off a lot of Cavs fans today when he said he wasn’t going to be make the Cavs different from Blatt, just “better”. Â Sounds like he didn’t mean any slight by it, but…that’s a rough transcript to spin. Â He also said that he’s going to get the ball to Kevin Love at the elbow. Â If it’s not painfully obvious that this is happening in the near future, and the Cavs struggle, prepare for all the heat of this collective hot seat to cook Kevin Love alive.
I’m actually optimistic about tonight’s game. Â Let’s talk about it here. Â As a fun aside, let’s have a Lue pun contest. Â If you see a good one, just reply to the comment and award points or Schrute bucks. Â Here’s the conversion:
MOZILLA REBORN! Get that weak stuff outta here!
Mozgov just destroyed that bball!
Moz got hacked… no call…
Yea so when the offense was clicking beautifully last spring. That wasn’t because of Blatt, right? Yeah, any coach could of had the Cavs playing that well…….right?
Shump with a reckless pass… what are you doing???
Nice Alley-Luep!
+100000000000 Schrute Bucks
MOZ!!!
Mozgov with the flush… Nice pass LBJ!
Lue: (half time speech) alright whose dating the Kardashain? Delly? Kaun? Fes up!
Yup I guess we can say the Cavs are kind of choking on offense.
Jeff Van Gundy has a great talent for simplifying other people’s vagueries.
Mark Jackson is so conflicted about whether he hates or Lueves Lebron right now
i feel like we are forcing everything
They kind of seem a little aimless on offense, like they are not quite sure what they are doing, but first game with new coach, so to be expected.
Lue is going to take the team to play darts at half time.
If that doesn’t work they are going to the nutty farm to get their heads examined.
Lue needs to coach a more connected and collective spirit you guys.
Keep shooting those ineffective mid-range twos Kyrie!
Kyrie with an ugly two while going 1 on 3
1ST QTR KIND OF RESEMBLED LEBRON’S “HOMECOMING ” AGAINST THE KNICKS —-EVERYONE ” SUPER TIGHT ” —HOPEFULLY THEY GOT THAT OUT OF THEIR SYSTEM !!—GO CAVS !
The Godfather saga is on HBO3 and it just started. They haven’t gotten to the scene when LeBron Corleone gets rid of David Blatt yet. — Bill Simmons
LBJ looking for KLOVE in the post… KLOVE misses the righty hook
C’mon guys… if you’re gonna foul, FOUL…
Ky had an open lane right there… don’t know why he didn’t take it to the hole…
LBJ with a reckelss post-up… KLOVE with a nice post-up.
Mo comes in, opponent goes on 10-0 run. Every.Single. Game.
Wasn’t Mo’s fault… Cavs just missed shots…
Mo sucks man. He is horrible.
I don’t think his man scored…
just his overall effect on the floor. he sucks.
WOW… Griffin really putting it on the players.
Interesting defense of his decision to fire the coach.
Well… it is the coach’s job to hold players accountable. But I get what you’re saying… I guess that’s why they’re surprised KLOVE’s still around??? HAHA!
Griffin seems to be saying: “Read between my words. I’m talking in parables.” I just don’t know what to make of it.
When Irving gets right, they’re going to be world beaters again. Would’ve happened no matter who coaches.
Griff getting interviewed…
Yea that TT, JJ, Shumo, Delly, Mo line up from the first quarter has to be scratched Coach Lue.
Mo honestly sucks like hell.
Just need a little momentum…
Kinda looks the same
Kevin Loves Basketball!!!!
Nice pass by LBJ… Nice cut to the basket by KLOVE
Chicago is out-rebounding us so far. They’re getting most of Lue’s balls(!)
Great shot by Love!
Terrible contested 2 by Kyrie… KLOVE bails him out with a kiss of the glass.
Tough lay up for 2 by Kyrie… nice look by LBJ in the post.
There you go Ky!
Well I’m blaming that quarter on Blatt!
Fred Hoiberg… no longer the newest coach in the Central…
So Ty Lue’s first quarter of his “better” cavs yields 14 pts…great.
This team is in a funk. They need to figure it out. Huge game and you’re down 7 after the first quarter. Don’t we have any heart? What happened to coming out and destroying teams?
Can’t really fault the energy. If only they had some decent offensive sets to run, like if there was an authority figure they could listen to. Call this person…a coach.
This team is tight and missing shots… they’ll loosen up…
SOMEWHERE DAVID BLATT IS KICKING BACK/ RELAXED / GLASS OF WINE AND ” SOAKING IT IN ( MONEY INCLUDED )
He got the Mike Brown payment plan!
Exactly – and isn’t Mike Brown still getting paid by the Cavs until 2018? Perhaps Tyrone Lue would like to bring him in as a defensive coordinator; I’ve seen very little written about who is filling that slot.
I blame Blatt for that quarter.
During the quarter break, Mark Jackson is getting Rich Paul on the phone. “Yeah, you know, if the job comes open again in the next couple weeks…”
So that was like the worst offensive quarter of the season………
IMO one thing is for sure, now that the Cavs fired Coach Blatt the pressure to perform is on the players.
Now that Griffin removed “the problem” what will be the excuse?
Don’t care about excuses… just win baby…
My prediction: The excuse will be ‘Kevin Love’.
Good call. Scapegoat 2.0.
I agree EG and you are probably right Mike and maybe they will try to ride KLove a lot in the upcoming weeks and if he doesn’t deliver maybe they could trade for him…… Maybe.
Lue will have his work cut for him. That line up looked kind of lost.
Well that was an underwhelming second half of the quarter. They certainly brought the energy tho, seem pumped.
irvings shot about sums up quarter
Well that was a weird quarter. We ought to come back looking to get fouled more. Need some free throws to go in
Ugly when the shots don’t go down…
Missed 16 shots in a row??? Yike!!!
missed 16 last shots but we only down 7, 13-0 run by Bulls, almost 7 minutes with no field goals
Nice first quarter Cabs! 14 points! Lol! Way to represent!
Great start Cavs!!!
Kyrie misses easy lay up after nice drive.
Goodness that was ugly offense by the Cavs. Shump wandering aimlessly… TT off the dribble…
Lue: “I said Love at the elbow, Love, not TT!”
HAHAHA… I know right? What was TT thinking???
Can’t say I’m a fan of this line up.
Lots of quick threes, picking up the pace certainly, have not made shots, some still questionable shots, but at least they gave love a couple touches in the high post
Bad shot selection by Delly…
Lazy closeout on defense leads to easy 3 for Bulls.
Wow this game is hot garbage already. What a boring national telecast.
0 points in almost a half a quarter, 5+ minutes
Cavs haven’t made a basket since a few coaching changes.
delly finding guys in their spots. Just missing
Havent seen Mo in awhile
Playing Mo off the ball… I like it. KLOVE elbow touch… I like it. Mo misses easy jumper :(
Nice flop Pau…
Mo Gotti sighting…