Live Thread: Cavs vs Timberwolves
2016-01-25G’Day! These fit as a Mallee bull Cavs fans traveled over 10,000 miles to be in Cleveland for Australia day at the Q, and ended up getting to meet their countryman, Matthew Dellavedova. You may think they’re as mad as a meat-axe, but let’s hope that kind of good karma pervades the arena tonight as the Cavaliers celebrate the holiday that started on January 26th, 1788. A couple of CtB commenters and even a staffer are in the arena bringing the #CavsGoodKarma, too. Hope the lads stone the crows for you, mates.
In other news, the Cavs are saying all the right things about their commitment to pushing the pace. As Joe Vardon reported for Cleveland.com, ‘Bron is fully committed to coach Lue’s vision of moving the Cavs out of 27th place in speed of play in the NBA. Hopefully, no one chunders.
This is what coach wants to do and this is what we’re going to do. This isn’t a LeBron thing. I’m talking out of IQ of the game, but this is what coach wants to do, so this is what we’re going to do.
So here’s to these these new look Cavs going off like a frog in a sock for the Aussies watching down under. I’m going to click “post” now so I can listen to the Wombat address the crowd. May your chooks turn into emus and kick your dunny door down, Andrew Wiggins. In other words, Go Cavs.
The defensive intensity has picked up.
Do wonder if mozgov will be the one of the odd men out playing at a faster pace. Anyone know how many minutes he has played tonight?
Too many impossible pass attempts…
If Lue doesn’t have these guys shooting 10,000 free throws next practice….
Gawd. Wiggins in his second year posting up like a witch. Took LeBron 7 years to figure that out.
Its just about trying. He could’ve done it any time he wanted to, just never decided to try.
Not “just.” Wiggins has fantastic body control.
With Lebron it sure as hell was ‘just’ though.
Can we get back the Kevin Love who gets 18 defensive rebounds?
Shump hesitated on the 3 attempt.
WE HIT THE MAGIC NUMBER “23 ” ( ASSISTS ) —SEE IF IT HOLDS TRUE FOR A CAVS WIN TONIGHT
The pace is really good for us fans but I’m not sure it will work ar the defensive end.
Let’s hope they don’t try to become the wizards 2.0
Cavs make run with Delly running the point. Not saying he is better than KI, but wish Irving could distribute better.
Irving works at the point when he is driving to the rim and drawing defenders. Delly is better running the actual sets as a traditional PG. But the offense is great when Irving is hitting his shots because he draws so much attention and leaves other guys wide open, even if its often a hockey assist.
Those Delly fans must be going bananas.
I really like the LeBron-Delly PnRs tonight. It’s even better than a TT-Delly PnR. Instead of TT, who can throw down lots of fun dunks off of alley oops but nothing else in that situation, LeBron can really kill people from where he’s getting the pass.
LBJ has always been most dangerous moving without the ball. Which is why the ISO stuff is so infuriating.
Great Delly Dime to LeBron for 3.
Dellllyyyy !!!!! DEEP IN THE Q!
Delly shooting lights out
DELLY TREY!!!!!!!!!
LeBron took a I’m gassed 3!
Mid post love please.
Nice job Bron!!!!!!!!
Cavs going back to old ways slow down pace — Austin Carr
I love dellly !!! He usually makes the best move/pass
Haha, teams just do not look for that high handoff, still.
Good ole Delly-Oop!!!
Fred: (on Kyrie) that’s a wasted possession.
Lets get back to getting the ball to love, now
In the high post
Little thing: Shump is way better now at tracking cutters/not getting beat backdoor. Ty Lue era 4LYFE — Zach Lowe
Great TO Lue, hate how they have looked on offense to start the half. Lots of standing and dribbling, sounds familiar. This type of lull is what they must avoid, why they lost in San Antonio.
Irving forgets he is a pt guard
People complaining about Kyrie shooting midrange: You need someone on the team who can do it. He can. Just not tonight. Shooters have to shoot themselves out of slumps. I say keep chucking.
Yeah, but that’s a terrible shot early in the clock.
Yeah I’m not sure what they are running right now.
Kyrie is killing us with his jumpshots so far , he needs to attack
Feel like Kyrie’s settling for that long two there.
Stop with that inefficient shot Kyrie!
Zangieff with the Russian bear hug on TT there.
There you go KLOVE!!!!
More midrange jumpers from Kyrie.
JR should’ve passed that back to Love.
Offensive movements look pretty good so far, and a big plus, Lebon hasn’t taken any deep shots yet. On the bad side Kyrie looks pretty terrible so far….again.
17 AST to 25 FG, good ratio
Yep, crazy ratio, on pace to have 34 assists which is nutso. Satisfied with how they have moved tonight. They are setting screens and moving with purpose instead of ambling and drifting around.
LeBron alone has more turnovers than the entire Twolves team. — David Pick
RJ not playing is pretty weird.
Time to fire the coach……
Time to tank a game…
Big Concern other than inconsistent effort challenging jumpers, etc. KLove only 5 shots. Only Shump & Mozzy took less. Ky/LJ/JR 13-25. — Chris Parker
According to the Aussies, Delly is HUGE in Australia. I’m sure he’s physically not that much bigger, but probably more popular.
Sounds like they’re broadcasting this game in Australia… but it’s tomorrow already…
Well Lue is trying a lot different line-ups. His goal is to have 10 players deep so ,,,,, in doing so something is going to give and it’s on the defensive side. There is something to be said when you have 3 weak defensive players on the floor at the same time. Someone above pointed that out
Everyone watching the sa gs game tonight?
Not yet. I heard Duncan was out and of course Kerr gave him crap over it. I swear he is so jealous of him for some reason. He never misses an opportunity to jab an insult at him. Duncan is always polite and humble.
Kerr is never serious about anything. Very sarcastic with a dry sense of humor, and been that way since he was a player.
Huh, weird, kerr won two rings with Duncan, wonder why he has got beef. Still think it will be competitive though. I think it will probably be a good game.
He isn’t, He’s just messing around with him.
Yeah. Gonna watch it while I recap and try my best not to make direct comparisons.
They have some Aussies playing in that game too!
Baby steps, baby steps. Got a ways to get to their level, but as long as we make forward progress and do not regress, I will be happy.
Still want love taking more shots than Kyrie tho.
LeBron getting to really great spots on the floor tonight.. 7-8 shooting and manhandling Wiggins in the post
Cavs look OK. Guys starting to feel each other out in the new sets and rotations. Still think it will take awhile.
60% from the field and 40+% from 3. Expect them to run away in the 2nd half
Is RJ in Lue’s doghouse already? He hasn’t played since Brooklyn…
Why is RJ getting less play than Mo? Is HE secretly the one who’s been causing locker room problems?
He was the one who guys were apparently upset didn’t get into the Christmas game… maybe it originated with him?
That is complete and utter nonsense!. We all know it’s Sasha Kaun behind team revolt. Smh (sarcasm)
Shumpert might be an overrated pick and roll defender. He gets stuck to the screener a lot
JR’s spirit seemed a bit uninspiring in that interview with Ally. He also looked gassed.
10 turnovers at the half….need to clean that up
We’d be up by a lot more if JR hit half of his misses.
JR SWISH!!
Pretty dumb goal tend there, TT
Finally!!! Hope that gets JR going!
We got in trouble last time when Pekovic and Mohammed in last time we played Wolves. Mozzy helped solely based on his Big Body.
I expect some defensive adjustments at half time.
Cavs need to…
INSERT “WELL WE’RE WAITING”
Slow load, oops
Well they gotta clean up their defense and turnovers, but hey their offensive sets and more importantly execution have thus far looked crisp and have generally been effective. Love that last lbj hard roll to the basket. Finally cutting and rolling with purpose instead of drifting and ambling.
Nice pass Bron!!!!!!!!
Bad JR shooting night.
He misses Blatt. Sorry Chris Haynes. LoL
Almost half and Lebron hasn’t taken a 3. Lue COTY
When did LaVine learn to shoot threes?
AC complaining on the switch defense. That’s on Lue. We can’t Blatt anymore
It would’ve been on Lue before too.
Oh I agree but ESPN didn’t see it that way.
Damn LeVine!!!!!!!!!
This has been a very productive line-up!!!
Delly!
Delly cleaning up.