Live Thread: Cavs @ Raptors (#WeAreBack)
2018-10-17
If you haven’t read Nate’s ode to our Aluminum Anniversary… make sure you check it out here at halftime.
Meanwhile… are you ready for the 2018-19 NBA regular season?! Because, it’s finally here! The future is now for your Cleveland Cavaliers. Time to find out if Kevin Love can become a Terminator… if Collin Sexton can be the next John Connor to save the franchise from a bleak existence… or if this year is just an introduction to an oncoming post-apocalypse.
The wine and gold trot out a starting lineup of Love, Cedi Osman, Tristan Thompson, Rodney Hood and George Hill. They’ll face a slightly different looking Raptors team than they faced in the Eastern Conference Finals last year. Toronto adds a potential T-1000 in Kawhi Leonard (replacing DeMar DeRozan), to start alongside OG Anunoby, Serge Ibaka, Danny Green and Kyle Lowry.
Not many give these new Cavs much of a chance against a Raptors team that should contend for the best record in the Eastern Conference (Cleveland was a 13 point underdog for this one). Yet, what chance really did Sarah Connor have of taking down SkyNet?
Prediction: With LeBron gone, the Raptor machine gets some revenge on the team that terminated them from the last few playoff series… but the scrappy Cavs make it interesting 112-108.
Catch all the action from Scotiabank Arena in Toronto, starting at 7:30 EST on Fox Sports Ohio. And, as always, come back and comment below…
GO CAVS!
Just when I’m trying to hate clarkson… the guy drives me nuts. If he could just pass the ball occasionally he could be something.
Love h t e offensive movement.
Raps are pretty long… gonna be tough to beat in the EC this year…
I have them going to the finals.
Clarkson getting buckets. Back tied.
HILL TO CLARKSON!!!! FOR THREE!!
CAPTAIN BANDAID!
We are rebounding really well. Would like to see some Channing and korver minutes just to let them screen for each other
Great action! Hill to JC for corner three!
Weird to hear TT get booed so hard at home…
Van Vleet is beating everyone off the dribble.
Not Cedi!
LOL…. maybe they should make that assignment permanent!
Love and Hill back in…
Big bucket there. Starting to get away. Kev needs to make a shot.
CLARKSON COAST TO COAST!!!
Nice sequence by JC… made VanVleet go left to miss layup and then pushed it down the court to score…
We dont actually have much shooting on this team if this is lue’s idea of a good lineup
TTs hands cost us 3 there
This line up is struggling.
JC gets bailed out…
C’mon TT! Grip that!
Sexton is fun but damn man you arent gonna get it by ibaka without a pump fake
Trump-hands Thompson
Oh my gosh is it nice to see a box out or what?
NICE MOVE CLARKSON!!! Little floater goes.
Young bull so aactive on d
Nice o-rebound TT!!!
We play a pretty decent defensive game with both bench and starters. If we make our free throws and limit turnovers we will be in a lot of games.
Sexton with the full court pick up!
Cedi is the shooter in the Cavs’ current lineup.
Clarkson’s new ink is uglier than his J
Clarkson can’t hit a shot… TT plays garbageman…
2nd quarter lineup: Sexton, Clarkson, Cedi, Dekker, TT. Good call having Cedi out there.
Way to block yourself IBlaka!
Excellent D on Ibaka by the rim that time!
LOL… IBlocka…
Entertaining first quarter for the new Cavs. Keep it going.
Decent D by JC that time…
Nice to see Rodney Hood generate some half-court offense from nothing
25-28 is better than I expected. Hood has been good.
This was the best team in the east regular season minus Derozan, plus Leonard and Green and we’re hanging tough. Hell ya!
Lue had a horrible last minute but the first eleven were solid. You can’t play Clarkson, TT and Dekker together Lue.
He’s playing around with lineups …he’ll figure it out
Cedi and Hood only guys who can hit shots right now… Should get Korver going…. also I’d keep feeding KLOVE and try Zizic in the post.
Not a bad quarter. Liked the defensive effort even if it wasn’t always effective.
If that Cedi finger roll goes in, it’s a one point game… not a bad start
Little sloppy at end but Cavs getting looks need to knock down shots…like the pace of this game though
Good fight from Sexton on D. Bad swipe after that missed J led to a dunk. Gotta get back.
Should maybe put in Nwaba
Terrible close to the quarter, but a solid outing.
Damn… two straight breakdowns…
GREAT DEFENSE SEXTON!!! Should’ve been Cavs’ ball!
Sexton being a bull
Great hustle by YB!
YOUNG BULL! Stay ferocious!
Great D, collin!
Sexton with some shaky ballhandling early.
Sexton has to watch his dribble. Looked like he carried it.
Dekker and Clarkson are garbage.
Clarkson thinks the LeBron turnaround baseline jumper was passed down to him when James left.
He thinks he taught it to James.
Don’t understand why they get minutes over Nwaba.
Jam Darkson…
Sexton a little out of control with his dribble…
Thanks CJ!
Clarkson with 1 shot & no passes.
Dekker not enough foot speed to guard Fred Van Vleet.
Oh Clarkson…
HOOD WITH THE PULL UP!!!
Nice pocket pass Sexton… but TT can’t finish that LOL
He doesn’t yet know TT isn’t actually a basketball player.
Didn’t take long for TT to get his first blocked shot of the season…
that was his second. Lowry blocked him about 8 minutes ago.
I missed it… but not a surprise…
Clarkson and Dekker and Thompson on the floor together bodes very badly.
Cavs only shooting 37% but already have 6 O Boards…
Uh-oh. Sam Dekker time. I got a bad feeling about this.
I worry about the 2nd quarter scoring if Cedi & Love both sit.
These guys are already fun to watch…
Love gonna play 52min a night.
Hood at the 3 here.