Live Thread: Cavs vs. Nets
2017-10-25
Tonight is the second night of a back to back. History shows us that the Cavs turn into zombies on the court in these situations. Halloween isn’t quite here yet, but the team seems to be a bit too old for bodies to rebound quickly enough to handle the strain. Unfortunately, this game counts for double as Cleveland looks to help increase the value of their most recent trade/draft asset in the unprotected 2018 Brooklyn Nets first round pick.
So far, the Nets have comported themselves quite well with a 2-2 record. Every win they notch correlates to a decrease in value of that pick. The Cavaliers need to come out of the gate strong tonight to ensure their success on both fronts. Luckily, the Nets will be without starting guard D’Angelo Russell. It’s a good thing too because the Cavs are already thin at the guard position. Rose is out still and their de facto back up, Dwayne Wade, is out with a knee bruise.
The second night of a back to back will likely make this game a lot closer than it should be. Regardless, the Cavs should still have no issues dispatching this less than established Nets team. Hopefully they can avoid turning this into Night of the Living Dead. Go Cavs!
THAT IS MY GAME PLAN ALSO JRL——MIGHT NOT EVEN WATCH THE RECAP —-TIME TO WATCH SOME COMPETITIVE BASEBALL– GO STROS’
How the **** did the Andersons get tickets to the game?
What is that? Is that a meme?
Good defense.
Cavs may have a problem defending the three.
Seems like it based off the games so far.
Same old…looks like the Cavs are going to make the Nets pick worse…
I gotta stop watching this game. I’ll catch the recap. This is ridiculous.
AGREED —HE ALWAYS SAYS BEFORE THE SEASON WE ARE GOING TO WATCH THE MINUTES —DEVELOP THE BENCH——IT NEVER HAPPENS ………THEN WHEN IT COMES LATE MARCH / APRIL IOT IS TOO LATE
If they could hit a 3, we’d be down 20.
Story of the game so far. Nets taken a whopping 16 more shots Fred just said.
why doesnt lue put in fresh legs…like Cedi or Zizic……i loathe lue as a coach
They aren’t old vets, hence useless…
AC saying Nets have Cavs frazzled. Three time finalist against 20 win team?
Tired 3 min into 2nd half?
boohoo. we suck at b2b’s…… since like January.
Cavs playing good defense. Just can’t ahoot right now. JR way off.
Not really. Nets have gotten a ton of open threes. They can’t really hit them so far though.
Your myopia is cute.
Agree about ahoot, the defense not so much…
Lazy LeBron did not even try to get back there. Cost us two.
Geez…
Cavs look out of shape.
Or old and run into the ground. I think playing so deep into the playoffs for three years straight has sapped the energy of some of the guys on this team during every regular season.
Fat, especially Shump…
Nice steal JR!
A MATCH MADE IN HEAVEN
PHANTOM CAM
https://twitter.com/NBA/status/923351401153130496
I don’t understand why Lue can’t use the whole roster in an October game?
Because Lue.
Because he is a lousy coach. JVG for Cavs.
All I want for X-Mas is for Shump to play for the Suns!
SO WE ARE LOSING IN A SOMEWHAT MEANINGFUL GAME (DRAFT PICK ) –WITHOUT THEIR BEST PLAYER ( RUSSELL)——DON’T FIGURE ——–SEEMS LIKE YOU SHOULD PLAY CEDI / ANTE IN THESE GAMES ” CLUELESS ” WON’T ……..THEY HAVE THEIR BUTTS GLUED TO THE PINE ——WAY TO SHOW CONFIDENCE / ALLOW YOUR PLAYERS TO GAIN EXPERIENCE / GROW TY ——THEY MIGHT AS WELL BE IN CANTON WHERE AT LEAST THEY WILL PLAY
I am still not convinced Russel is their best player. If you take into account defensive competency and efficiency, Carroll might be.
We could use Dante Graham, but Ty would probably have Shump take his minutes.
Does Corby attend road games?
Too busy trying to trade Nets pick…
Seems like you could play Osman and Zizic against these guys… no?
You’d think!
One would hope but Lue.
They will hardly ever play if they don’t play tonight
Glad DLo isn’t playing tonight…
Infuriating half from my perspective. Terrible officiating, sloppy cavs turnovers, little to no effort on d, and some crazy stupid luck by the nets.
JR holding the team back so far. He will get it going though.
Why are Frye, Zizic or Cedi not playing?
How are young players going to develop if you don’t ever play them(not Frye)???
AND WHY NO DEEP FRYE TONIGHT —–DO NOT UNDERSTAND —–OH I GUESS THE 8 MINUTES HE PLAYED LAST NIGHT WAS TOO MUCH TO PLAY BACK TO BACK
https://twitter.com/JacobLRosen/status/923331775341977600
Awesome
Ridiculous call on Korver o foul. Will be interested to see how many more shots the nets have just based off offensive fouls, cavs sloppy turnovers, and loose balls that bounced the wrong way.
GET THE DEFIB READY FOR A.C.
An unlucky 13 turnovers in the half for the Cavs.
Hey Lauren… I’m no longer a fan…
She has really been not so great, kind of awful tonight with some calls.
It’s like the Nets did to Shump what the character of Michael Keaton did in the movie Multiplicity.
Not much of a moving screen if you ask me.
Warriors say, “Ha! We’ll show you moving screens!”
Dinwiddie
Officiating has been suspect tonight.
AC is losing his mind…
James has been out of it on d in the halfcourt tonight.
Back to back blues…
https://twitter.com/cavs/status/923346959376646144
Canadian Dynamite!
Predator: Civil War
Remember when Lauren Holtkamp liked the Cavs?
I thought Judge was Aaron Gordon.
Monster jam by the King. Ugly game though
The Goodyear logo is so nice compared to some of these other ones.
The Chubby Choker in attendance!
Our bench outscoring starters 23-20
Whelp, the cavs are more or less keeping the nets in this.
LeBron has a shot at a quadruple double: points, rebounds, assists and turnovers.
JR is hurting the team now. Man I hope his funk ends soon
THE KING!
RIGHT. DOWN. EUCLID.
JR is frigid!
Cavs playing like they collectively hung over from a 5 day bender.
Predator vs predator tonight.
Alien vs. Predator…
http://www.tshirtbordello.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/600x/040ec09b1e35df139433887a97daa66f/a/l/alien-vs-predator-t-shirt-lg5.gif
Ugh-Ly
The Nets run fewer plays than the Cavs if that’s possible…
They aren’t going to be good. They have been stupidly lucky this game. Nothing they have done tonight could be classified as good.
Yet they have the lead…
Really. Has anything they have run or done against the cavs d tonight impressed you? Also they don’t look great defensively either. Cavs have gotten to their spots, and had about 5 turnovers alone on missed dribbles, bad offensive foul calls, and missed communications.
Sigh. Bad foul there by JR. God this nets team only runs ISO. They must have at least 7-8 more shots than us just based off turnovers, bad calls, or bad bounces.
Such a bad call…
Frustrating this game is so close. Cavs have been sloppy on d and turn it over a too much. Otherwise they would be in complete control.
“CHOKIN JOE ” REVENGE GAME —-WE HAVE A HABIT OF MAKING GARBAGE PLAYERS LOOK LIKE ALL STARS —–THIS GAME SHOULD HAVE BEEN DECIDED 10 MINUTES AGO —-FRUSTRATING ——THE SEARLY SCHEDULE ( IF CAVS COME READY TO PLAY ) HAVE THEM LOOKING AT A 7-0 START OF THE SEASON ——REMINDER THIS IS THE ” DRAFT BOWL GAME ” NOT ” TOILET BOWL “
Have another beer on me NOMAD…
No Whammies!
Phantom Cam is BACK!!
https://twitter.com/NBA/status/923343760276295680
Green has sure looked a lot better as the season progresses. Nice !
Green with the reverse!
Korverlier!
Joke Harris