Live Thread: Cavs @ Spurs
2017-03-27The #Cavs can't get healthy. Iman Shumpert (knee) is out tonight and Kyle Korver (foot) is out for the next 3 games. The injuries never end.
— Adam Schabel (@AdamSchabel13) March 27, 2017
It’s definitely a bummer about Korver’s foot. It’s probably something that we’ll have to monitor throughout the postseason. Windy warned us that Korver “wasn’t moving well” a week or so ago, and it sounds as if that was an ominous portent. And as much as we complain about Iman sometimes, the Cavs sure missed him last game.
On the other side, Parker and Danny Green are expected to play for the Spurs and LaMarcus Aldridge has returned from his irregular heartbeat scare, which means the Spurs are at full strength. It will take 48 minutes of focus, intelligence, and execution on both sides of the ball to beat one of the best teams in the West, and with the Spurs just 2.5 games behind the Dubs for the Western Conference lead, both teams have plenty to play for.
Did I mention the Spurs have MVP candidate and the best two way player in the league, Kawhi Leonard? Saddle up, pardners, cause this is going to be a wild ride.
Prediction: Lue dusts off Liggins, Kyrie goes off for 45+, and the Cavs win a squeaker to keep the Spurs from jingling and jangling.
Cavs Twitter feed trolling the Cavs…
https://twitter.com/cavs/status/846552144102739968
Stay classy, Skip.
https://twitter.com/RealSkipBayless/status/846543874474442752
I like that Barkley quote where he said that if he knew he was dying, he’d kill Skip Bayless on live TV…
Oh man I missed that. Never one to mince words:
http://www.mediaite.com/online/charles-barkley-says-if-he-were-terminally-ill-hed-want-to-kill-skip-bayless-i-just-wanna-beat-him-like-a-dog/
Hey, Chuck! Leave the dogs alone!
If this game isn’t the ultimate wake up call nothing will be
No… LeBron missing the rest of the regular season with a back injury will…
+1
Hey again let’s look at the positives. We just held a team to under 105 points and under 50% shooting, 26% shooting from 3 and we shut them down in the second half by holding them to only 39 points.
Oh, uh sarcasm.
AND, we were above 60% from the foul line.
Well… they kept it within 30…
Oh Lig… you make my brain hurt…
Kay just dribbled the clock out in style…
He’s really worked on that in Canton, I hear…
Need some gallows humor for sure !
I wonder if the National TV guys would rather have the Cavs sit their stars… or this?
Can Channing frye shoot anymore? If he can’t, he shouldn’t play.
Ok well played Channing. I will take credit for motivating you.
Kawhi 0-7 from 3, still 25 points and a game high +30…
Ha that acting job by Dwill after the ball went off his knee like a second after anyone else had touched was pretty funny. Gotta give him credit, he was committed to playing the role.
I will make 2 predictions:
1) the Cavs will fire coach Lue when they don’t make it to the finals
2) if KLove doesn’t show up in the playoffs like he should he will get traded.
https://twitter.com/MrCavalier34/status/846547517139488774
Feels like double that.
My take is the Cavs just wanted to support their coach saying he had “no confidence” the team could overcome its malaise. Mission accomplished
Keith Dambrot’s available…
https://twitter.com/twithersAP/status/846545228668583936
Better than Marc Jackson or Mike Brown.
I can’t believe he left Akron to go to freaking Duquesne. Seems like he could’ve gotten a better gig.
You’d think…
Spurs deep bench players are high energy.
Man, even the Spurs third string knows how to play defense…
Big boy hoops, haven’t really seen it from the Cavs much since December…
The team is and has been the best coached team for two decades. Actually since I consider Pop the best coach of all time, they are the best coached team of all time.
That’s what great coaching does.
I expected the Cavs to play like the Spurs are playing but coach Lue and the Cavs coaching has done a good job. Good coaches get the most out of their players no matter what.
*hasn’t done a good job….
Lig makes one… but after the buzzer…
LBJ going to the locker room…
Let’s not fool ourselves the top west teams they play with extremely high energy most of the time and they compete hard defensively at the other hand the Cavs play at a slow pace most of the time.
Fry and Smith and Deron and Love can’t knock down open threes with any consistency. Kyrie got owned, Spurs established dominance in a big way.
JR doing a nice job of finding shooters with this unit… (reaching now)
James looks good.
Don’t need your bs in this game Cols
On the bench… with a bruised spinal cord?
He’s only -13, which is better than the other starters, fair point.
Feeling the over on 40 point loss…
Cavs are awesome.
Hey let’s look at the positives. We won a quarter this game, 18-17. How bout them apples?!!
Cavs won the quarter… lost the war…
Shut him down… take the fourth seed…
Sigh. If Lebron is out because of this game, I couldn’t think of a worse end to a season.
This team sucks right now. So glad they won it last year. I’m not saying they can’t fix it. Still, if I had to bet. I say we lose in round one.
Bet me.
We just lost the rest of our games this season. Bron got tattooed in the spine
LeBron down now…
Pau is actually someone that Frye could defend a little…
So many misses at the rim…
If the Cavs can just cut it to 20…
You know what it means if we cut it to 20? It means we won a quarter!!!
Maybe Bron will still get his triple double so he can say he tried…
It is crazy to think this is a TNT game against the Spurs. This team is reeling.
Dear David Griffin… please fire this man…
http://cavaliersnation.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/longabardi140708_777x442-e1453734599660.jpg
We won a title in spite of him last season
I agree with EG but in terms that someone in the coaching staff needs to get an earful at least.
Five points this quarter…. F-I-V-E…
Variance…
As I always suspected CFrye will become useless against the top teams.
Bench got 2 points thanks to frye, not completely useless.
Sorry, /s
Over under 40 point margin for this game?
Salazar just fanned his sixth Cub in three innings… Tribe up 3-0…
But we have a lot of games this month, so its hard. Waaaa
Just let the bench handle this one. The Cavs have no chance.
And the bench needs some points anyway… /s
And green with another easy transition block. Just being there to contest helps.
Spurs making Cavs look like the Charge…
Time to clear the bench Ty…
Kyrie is useless this game…
He has really been awful.
James gassed already?
CLEAR!
http://serwer1464496.home.pl/autoinstalator/wordpress4/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/image.jpg
Are we on life support just for this game or our championship aspirations too?
Too much to extrapolate from one game… but the defense is a real problem…
Danny green and kawhi give a lesson on transition d.
I love coach Popovich if his team is not performing well he calls a time-out and get on their a***s. At the other hand coach Lue says he can’t show all of his schemes now.
Well, I’m calling it for tonight. I gave em a half. It’s more than they gave me. Night folks.
26-0 in bench points still
Really wonder if Cavs break 70…it will depend how soon garbage time arrives…
The Spurs are bigger… but not younger than the Cavs… no excuse for being outhustled by your elders…
JR looks awful on defense
If the Cavs survive the East… I sure hope they don’t play the Spurs…
Or the warriors, or the rockets, or…
In particular the Spurs though because of their length…
I wouldn’t want to play the warriors right now either.
By playoff time I wonder if the Cavs will still be the betting favorite?
In the east
If they are it will probably be by a slim margin. We’ll see how they finish out the season. Maybe this is rock bottom.
They need that therapist from Billions
It’s crazy how bad jr looks now after being such a major part last year…
A big contract and a kid will do that…
Yup
Might be the kid…he just looks like he has no energy no legs…
I wish we had a Dwayne Dedmon…
Good start, love attack Immediately off the pass and good defensive possession.
So many turnovers…
The Tribe has runners on the corners with nobody out against Tim Lester…
Still got the tribe, maybe that will be the positive from tonight.
Austin Jackson comes through for an RBI single…
Well… I hope I missed the bad half…
Ha, yeah, if that was the good half…..
The Cavs are getting psychiatric counseling at half time
I mean… probably no sense in playing the starters in the second half, right?
It’s hard to miss what you never had, but they’re missing Bogut. They’re at such a disadvantage against bigger teams. The Spurs have two starters and two other rotation guys who are bigger than TT.
Yep. Moagov sure regressed in year two, but at least his 15-18 mins kept TT fresh. TT and JR are both so far from their peaks now it’s killing us.
So glad these guys dont practice and rest all the time – look forward to watching these guys for the next 10 years. Wouldnt want to wear out their precious bodies doing their job
This is gonna be a painful playoff
Are we this bad? No, not in the grand scheme of things. Are we legitimate contenders, not sure. They don’t seem to be able to play d anymore. I don’t see how that changes. It isn’t just effort. They get beat off the dribble, lose guys, rotate to the wrong guys and just generally have no idea where to be or what to do. That likely won’t get fixed between now and the playoffs.
What a mess. On the bright side, Lue may be able to rest the starters in the 4th quarter.
More likely is Lebron will play 42 minutes in a 19 point loss…