Live Thread: Cavs @ Kings
2016-03-09As bad as things may seem at times, with the Cavaliers lack of focus and myriad excuses for falling short of greatness, it’s important to remember that it’s barely been two years since the Cavaliers lost 124-80 to the Hapless Kings. What’s even stranger is that they led the game 32-30 after the first quarter. This game was one of the four low points of the #seasonofHuh. Akron-Beacon Journal Beat Writer Jason Lloyd threw some shade after the game:
They’re just too soft. Under no circumstance should the Kings beat any team in the NBA by 44 points. They’re the freaking Kings!
It was the Kings 3rd largest margin of victory in the history of their franchise, which extends all the way back to the Rochester Royals and the founding of the NBA, a full decade before moving to Cincinnati where The Big O tripled doubled all over the Queen City.
So, the Cavs were on the receiving end of something historic. Tony Allen knows all about that.
Let’s hope DeMarcus Cousins says something mean about LeBron’s fortune cookie tweets or something, anything, to light a fire under our boys’ behinds.
Let’s also hope that fine gentleman Rajon Rondo of BrokenJumperShire is forced to hoist instead of waltzing through the lane with his monoCLE.
Love smacks Rondo’s weak stuff outta there! Leads to an LBJ runout.
Delly just played team defense…by himself…for 24 seconds
This game is coming down to who wants to defend less between these two teams.
Just as I say that a couple good defensive possessions by both teams.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnnndddddddddddddd one! That was quite a continuation.
Hey EG the Kyrie vine quick!!!!!
AMAZING AND ONE!
This all of a sudden turned into a track meet!
Thank you Delly……
The Kings announcers recognize Delly as the guy you want to get the ball to.
Lebron isn’t as bad as Rondo on 3. So there’s hope..
Wow… lot of passing but finally a Delly trey!
Fortunately it was Rondo taking the 3 that time with no one else in the same county.
Thank god cousins can’t finish like Lebron.
Don’t breath on Cousins.
Cavs 64 Refs 67
Boogie can’t make his free throws…
Down 2, the Cavs will go easy now and watch the Kings go on a 10 point run after this timeout
Whatever points the Lakers are getting tomorrow, take them.
Sweet feed, King.
Love the bounce pass by LBJ for the TT slam!
Cousins is the first guy I’ve seen on offense who gets hit as often as Lebron does without a call.
Eg you copied me from the past
LOL…
That call. Jeez.
These refs are atrocious.
I think Boogie has the same issues as Bron with getting hacked on every drive…
Easy read on that play
This game is awful. Soo bad.
Its so odd to watch us struggle like this. We are going to win the game but we’re just going to out score them. Delly can’t seem to get a call to go his way.
I loves when you can feel LeBron bricking a J 15 seconds before it happens.
Whereas Dion had the No No No YES! Jumper.
LeBron has the
No. No. LeBron… buddy…NOOOoOoo. HEY! Are you listening! NO! NO NO NO NO NO….
Another one!
Nice stroll Boogie…
JR Swish! Save us, JR!
JR SWISH returns!
Wtf was JR doing there?
Yep were ok. We are going to be GREAT in the playoffs……
What the hell were JR and LBJ doing on that Collison three? Nobody even tried to go cover him…
Good D to start………./s
Collison makes the most wide open 3 in the NBA so far this season.
This team is lost!!!!!
Love just got outmuscled by Rudy Gay on the block… Rudy Freaking Gay…
This now happens every single game….. What a decline
Need to put Love in touch with Stan in Detroit. He knows a guy…
Hey Corliss Williamson is now a Kings assistant coach..
He was going to be the Kings coach if they had dumped Karl…if you believe the scuttlebutt (I do), the Kings were going to can Karl around the break, but the minority owners couldn’t be sold on paying yet another coach to not coach.
Worth staying up for the second half? Tough call.
I debated the same thing. Staying up. Probably shouldn’t
I think this Longabardi guy is just bad at his job… Cavs need a new D coordinator…
Should we just promote him to head coach and bring Lue back down to def coordinator? I’m telling you what he did with our defense last year was remarkable.
Where’s BenMac btw?????
He’s out… as is Steph’s little bro…
Thoughts on the 1st half. Kevin Love’s shot looks broken. It is way flat and looks like he is almost hesitating on the release. This team has issues defensively. They couldn’t stop dribble penetration off the p and r if their lives depended on it. They have to get a million times better and figure out how to stop letting guys like Tony Allen kill them with layups. Offensively they started out with some nice sets involving cutters but there was a fair amount of dribble dribble dribble in the second. Cannot figure why they didn’t run the james irving… Read more »
Kevin Love’s lower Back looks broken. He can barely run, guts out rebounds by basically being immovable, and he can’t elevate on his shot without wincing. We currently have a broken down body that has some skills kevin love used to. Something is seriously going on that he is just playing through.
You could be right because he has looked stiff, but I wonder why nothing has come out about that to the media. He did get that rest game. Wonder if your hypothesis is why.
If the Cavs do not win a title this year I don’t see how they come back with the same team. The talent is there but this teams chemistry is all messed up. My guess is Love goes. Really the most attractive trade piece outside of Kyrie.
Title or not there needs to be an upgrade on the Center and back up SF spot
Agreed but going to be awfully hard to do both.
Cavs shooting 41%… Kings 56%
Ou defense so poor compared to the second half of last year, or the first part of this year. And this is the Kings
Boogie should be ejected. That was viscous. In football that’s called targeting. Good lord
It wasn’t as bad as this… but not too far off…
To be honest I don’t think Ron aimed at Harden’s head. But he definitely intends to release that elbow..
God, the only thing worse than the Cavs D was the officiating that half.
How that Delly shot wasn’t a shooting foul is still blowing my mind
WOW… Cousins goes from holding TT’s jersey to elbowing LBJ in the face WWF style… of course no review… jeez…
SHUMP! Needed that!
Thanks for jacking the three Boogie…
Offensive foul was the cherry on top
LeBron’s shooting form is so wonky right now. He’s all twisted up in the game.
If you look at that ESPN flashback clip or watch the highlights they’re going to show at halftime, his jumper was so much cleaner then.
Yey 10 point deficit…..
This team doesn’t resemble the one that used to be able to play defense…
We DO resemble the team that couldn’t stop any penetration by any guard on any team. You know, that team from the FIRST half of last season?
Well, you knew that Collison shot was going in.
These guys go long stretches where they seem to get no enjoyment from basketball.
Man now kev is loosing his outside touches too….
If they take the hand check away from Delly, that will be tough to overcome…
Rare miss for Ky at the line…
Cousins complains in every singe possession
This is accurate
Does Ky have some new ink on his left arm?
Does it say unfriended??
I think it’s Screamin’ A’s face…
wow couldve been a nice play
Not sure how they expect JR to play defense anymore…
Cavs fortunate that the Kings have missed about four point blank layups tonight…
At least that many. They’ve missed their share too.
True… lots of sloppiness on the finishes to go around…
how was that a efffing foul???
Ball don’t lie, there