Preseason Live Thread: Cavs vs Pacers 2018-10-08 Off By Nate Smith Cavs take on the Pacers tonight sans Love, Nwaba, Hood, and Clarkson. The Pacers are missing Evans, Thad Young, Cory Joseph, and Edmund Sumner. Preseason Recap: Cleveland 113, Boston 102 (or, Smith Memes and Smart Steams) Preseason Recap: Indiana 111, Cleveland 102 (or, We Wanna Be Just Like You, Dad)
They need to find a different nickname for Taylor. Every time I hear “IT” I get douche chills.
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Beware the sports industrial complex.
No idea why Sabonis is still playing…
Sabonis destroyed zz
Ike to Holland… nice!
Nice save by Ike
Holland missed a wide open Korver in the corner… sheesh
Holland got HAMMERED
Colson
Colon is a young TT with skills.
Good stuff from Bonzie. Also from Holland. Battle for the last two way.
I think Colson > Dekker pretty soon.
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Dekker isn’t on a non-guaranteed though right? Probably won’t get cut if that is the case.
AGENT COLSON!
Nice.
COLSON!
Oh man. I. Love Colson already.
Lol. Holland just got deked out of his shoes by Evans.
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Colson great block.
Taylor, wow.
IKE! Cuts it to 14!
Nice push Taylor.
Cavs have cut into the lead at least…
Indy could win the East.
Replace could with will in my book…
Could. Think it depends on Boston’s ceiling. If Hayward and Irving are 80-100% what they were, I don’t see in the east anyone beating that team by the time the playoffs roll around. I think they will be an entirely different team chemistry wise by that point.
Korver’s shot in regular season form.
He might have traveled, but that TT dribble drive was nifty…
I’d much rather see Dekker drive and kick to Korver for the three instead of the reverse of that….
Dekker is awful.
Love, Clarkson, Hood, and Zizic are 4/5ths of our best individual scorers.
Why hasn’t Zizic played? Anyone know?
My guess is that this is a egular season tuneup game.
He’s playing all 40 on Wednesday…
Hehehe. That is twice in one game that Dekker has been absolutely embarrassed on a dunk attempt by Turner.
We cannot finish inside vs Turner.
Put Zizic in.
Dekker Double Stuffed…
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Sexton needs to put that ball up…
Nice drive and kick by sexton
Hill finally hits a three… maybe he heard me…
Never thought I’d long for a Jordan Clarkson ISO bucket…
I am truly amazed that Indy’s starters are still in. Sure prepare for the regular season, but this game isn’t preparing them much more. Save it for teams that will push you in preseason.
Agree…
Think it’s for. Conditioning more than anything since they probably won’t play last preseason at all.
Sexton not shooting well… he’s a rookie. What’s Hill’s excuse?
Needs to be open/have a ton of time to shoot?
This is the most shots Dekker will ever get (hopefully)…
Bad sequence by Nance. Great showboat dunk by dipo.
I don’t love this “everyone can dribble it” offense. Larry just stole the ball from his own guard then turned it over.
Pace for paces sake. But will it actually eqaute to a more efficient offense that doesn’t cough up oodles of turnovers? Remains to be seen.
Sounds like something a guy who is not confident in his ability to design efficient half court sets would push for.
Love that Nance can bring the ball up…
Spoke too soon I guess…
Indy’s closeouts are so good.
Real good ball movement that play….
Sexton running pr nicely.
Nice delivery sexton. He needs to be more assertive.
Great two man action with Sexton and Dekker that time…
Boy we really like 18 footers tonight.
Indy smartly crowding the lane forcing the Cavs to try and make outside shots…
This lineup looks rough…
God. That hitch in dekker’s shot is awful.
Does he have side spin on his ball? Almost looks like he flicks his wrist side ways on release.
Why is Dipo still playing? What is there left to prove?
Unlike the Cavs, they’re actually getting ready for the regular season.
Up by 20 against bench guys? Stupid. Asking for injury…
In the Cavs defense, the Cavs are missing their probable top four scorers.
YOU BEAT ME TO IT EVIL—-AGREE PACERS COULD BE –“THE BEAST OF THE EAST “—-I WOULD SURE ROOT FOR THEM OVER THE CELTS
Jeez… Dipo only missed one shot… 6-7 for 19 points… 3-3 from deep
Just gonna leave this right here.
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I really think the Pacers are the actual team to beat in the East…
dumpster dekker
Dipo is sick.
His ballhandling is wildly better than it was when he came inti the league. Obviously his shot too.
If he leads the Pacers to the best record in the East, MVP candidate…
Iso Larry Nance possessions are not ideal offense.
They’re not isos. They’re high post dribble hand-offs. But yeah they don’t seem very purposeful.
I counted at least one non dh iso.
More as a product of a blown up set where he ended up with the ball with like 10 seconds left on the clock.
Argh. JR. Just shoot the damn three
Taylor, nance, Hill, dekker, JR is the antishooting lineup.
The Jeff Green for three queasiness might soon be replaced with Sam Dekker for three queasiness…
Except Green was there times the player Dekker is.
Which is really saying something…
Yep. I initially liked taking a flyer on him. Then I looked up his three point shooting stats and saw him in preseason.
Man. The Cavs terrified of attacking the rack.
Indy really ramped up the defensive intensity. Wow they really fly around. Tough tough team to score on when they’re locked in
Indy really gets back quickly on D, which neutralizes a lot of the Cavs running for easy buckets…
Ty doesn’t seem to have a backup plan so far.
Why they need to have highly effective half court sets since they don’t have a Kyrie or LBJ anymore. If there isn’t a semblance of one by the end of the year lue needs to go.
To be fair, the Cavs are missing their probable top three scorers and the Pacers aren’t.
True.
Like collin’s D so far.
I don’t understand why Turner isn’t better than he is…