Live Thread: Cavs vs Wizards
2017-03-25Cavs! Wizards! LeBron? Questionable. Channing Frye? Who knows? Probably? John Wall? Nursing a migraine.
The Wizards are no easy out but have lost four of the last seven (though two straight). Wall, Beal, Markieff, Porter, and Gortat form a potent starting lineup that can score and rebound with the best of them. Bojan Bogdonovich has shored up their bench scoring (15 ppg). The backcourt gives them 45 a night, and Porter is among the league’s best shooting 44% from three. It’s going to be a tall order, but let’s hope the Cavs’ get in their heads a little bit. Should be a high scoring affair, just like last time, when LeBron hit one of the great regular season shots of all time to send the game to overtime. I’m predicting this one 128-125, Cavs.
I would. Tell. Wall. To get the eff off. Me.
I’ve watched the last two minutes only – thought it was a replay of the Nuggets. …
Too deep a hole now…
Kyrie’s offense not offsetting his D right now…
Once again… a team just wants it more than the Cavs…
Maybe the Cavs should practice more.
Ya think?
Kyrie has been terrible from three tonight… Cavs have also given up double digit offensive rebounds again…
No one on this team is willing to make sacrifices anymore.
LeBron with a prayer shot followed by allowing oubre rebound and put it bacjn
Hope the Father/Daughter dance was good at least…
My girls had a good time.
That’s good!
Should have done a few more dances
Bad transition d and no boxing out. And dying by the three right now.
The cavs want this one. We are just bad on d. Way too many mistakes/breakdowns.
LeBron just let oubre shoot that.
Korver is useless on defense.
Cavs dying by the three right now…
That’s the third or fourth time they haven’t boxed out Oubre…
Our transition defense is a disgrace.
ARE YOU KIDDING ME??? He fell down!
Kyrie finds Korver
Korver!
http://i.imgur.com/KFhzWOT.jpg
Jesse, not even lbj can stop beal from getting to the bucket.
Didn’t seem to make much of an effort
Seemed like he got juked by the crossover to me.
Don’t feel like they communicate that well on D… why is RJ reaching in there… gotta step in front
Who’d they call the tech on?
Cavs can still win this if Kyrie can go MFQ and the Cavs can turn up the defensive intensity…
At some point we will have to get over the hump. Got to get stops after we cut it down to 5 or 6.
There you go RJ! Dunk that stuff!
This game is starting to really annoy me…
Give me your main annoyance EG
Tie between Cavs allowing transition points and Tony Brothers crew officiating…
Yeah, its the refs fault the defense sucks so bad.
RJ should just dunk these maybe…
Knee to the jewels…
23-4 in fast break pts advantage for the Wiz
Wiz still shooting 61%
Getting crushed in transition. We need the Delly stop the break foul
Don’t ask korver to stop anyone from getting to the bucket one on one
He actually did though… terrible foul call…
He got to the bucket, just missed a layup.
He missed because Korver forced him to the other side of the bucket…
It’s a make-able shot for most decent wings in the NBA.
Oubre is not a decent wing…
How was that NOT a foul? Dude ran straight into LBJ…
There’s at least a five second delay on these whistles… SMH
Timely from RJ…
Should have been an and one for LBJ…
Beal shooting almost as good as Wall this game…
5 point swing, missed rj layup leading to open transition beal 3. Brutal
Cavs have missed a few bunnies tonight. RJ miss followed by Beal 3.
Damn… RJ gotta finish…
Kyrie with the steal and assist
https://twitter.com/cavs/status/845808031996698624
Alright! Got it to five… got LBJ a rest… gotta flip the switch now and blow past this team to start the fourth…
Pretty decent end to that quarter minute the breakdowns on the beal drives and the poor shot selection on that ky three. They can’t letup on d now tho.
Gotta finish strong…
Kyrie with some nice poke aways the last few games. If he can be consistently handy, he can make up for not always keeping his man in front.
Gotta box out Oubre there…
Kyrie with the pickpocket
Good box out and board by korver on that ombré three leading to the Kyrie transition and 1.
YES!! Great sequence!
LBJ getting a break… would be great if Cavs can close gap without him out there…
Great d by wall on that lbj post, forced him into a really tough fade because of those two poke always.
He shoulda passed out of it, but ego…
Three defenders back and they can’t stop Wall…
JESUS! You can’t let Wall drive by AND foul him… WTF?!
Man… you gotta hit that RJ….
Better D… LBJ has played whole quarter though…
Another big three by KLove!
The wizards have impressed me. They have responded to every run. Beat taking a huge step forward in his development is massive for them.
Demoralizing sequence… Cavs take like 10 shots on one possession… can’t score… easy Wall bucket in transition… back to 10 point deficit…
Tony Bothers typically doesn’t get selected to ref big games in the playoffs and it’s obvious why
Tony Brothers is the worst official in the NBA currently…
Absolutely…and that’s really saying something.
Wow… they finally called an elbow on Wiz…
Porter took about 4 steps first, but I’ll take the foul.
Kyrie with a great block on Wall!
https://twitter.com/FOXSportsOH/status/845804641774288896
Needed that Love three…
https://twitter.com/cavs/status/845804385372299264
Lue looks discouraged. Low energy. Sad!
He’s been really sick… and apparently is struggling with vertigo… so that might have something to do with it…
You’re right, I forgot about the vertigo. I take it back.
And that almost reads like a Trump Tweet, Phil… ;)
BALL DON’T LIE
These refs are garbage… nothing new from Tony Brothers and crew…
WTF with all these reviews?
I don’t understand this defensive execution. Every time down the floor the Wizards attack and beat their man. And the Cavs foul without disrupting the shot. If you know you’re beat and know you’re gonna foul, make it count!
Like how the Cavs are attacking to start this half…
Kyrie with some serious hang time to finish there.
Great play by TT!