Live Thread: Cavs @ Magic
2018-11-05
The Cavs need a bounce bag win after the drubbing Charlotte handed them and news that the vets think Collin Sexton doesn’t know how to play and that the front office backed out of a handshake deal to trade Kyle Korver if LeBron James left over the summer. Thankfully, the Magic are on a back to back, although they did get the win against the Spurs on Sunday, and are only 3-6 this season.c
The Magic are led by big man Nikola Vucevic who is putting up 18.3 points, grabbing 10.6 boards, and dishing out four assists a night. Their small forward, Aaron Gordan, is getting 15.3 per night from the Power Forward spot and shooting guard Evan Fournier is putting up 15.3. Orlando isn’t stacked but their attack comes from multiple positions with capable individual scorers.
The Cavs are without Kevin Love still, while the Magic will be without Jonathan Isaac, and Timofey Mozgov will be out for the Magic.
Three Things to Watch
1. With the Magic having such a varied attack, the Cavs need to defend at a moderate level from all spots on the floor the entire night. Cutting off one man on this team won’t work. Someone else will just step up. They aren’t amazing offensively, they’re last in the league, but the Cavs have a habit of making awful teams look like All-Stars.
2. Aaron Gordan is an above average defender. However, the rest of the Magic are below average. The Cavs will need Sam Dekker to space the floor to keep Gordan from being able to help the rest of the Magic stop the Cavs attack.
3. If the Cavs vets are going to call out Sexton, they need to show up and lead by example. They cannot be passive. J.R. Smith is shooting just 33.3% this year and getting 4.8 a night. He wants to be traded, so he needs to perform. The Cavs are looking for value if they get rid of him. George Hill needs to put together four solid quarters. He can’t be the most aggressive player and the most passive in a five minute span. And, Larry Drew needs to lean on the vets if this game gets out of hand.
Sexton 3!!!!! Great pass Clarkson!!!
Sexton 3!!!
How the hell is that a foul on sexton? Simmons rsn him over!
Great defense!!! Nice ball movement cedi needs to hit that.
Cedi shot way way off tonight
Bad shot, bad first offensive possession. Sexton also looked like he almost he tripped over his in feet.
God. Sextons handle is garbage.
Real loose.
Probably the number one thing he should work on all year this year…
Clapping that D all the way to the bench!
JR with the block to end the quarter…JR has been mostly good this game…
JR with the block!!!!!
Nice block jr
JR with a block to cap the best quarter of the season!
Smart play Sexton.
Clarkson miracle possible 4 pt play. He makes stupidly tough shots sometimes. I will give him that. Too bad most of them are mid-range just.
That was a foul on the magic…. Clarkson with the and 1!!!!!
JC with a four point play to close the quarter!
Boy Orlando can’t score.
C’mon Nance!!!!! Terrible TO
the Ton and Son losing factory…
Sexton and Clarkson back together again. Gruesome twosome reenters. Let’s see if they cause their usual trouble.
Up 5 when they reentered with about 2 minutes to go in the third.
About plus 9 in that last two minutes.
JR draws the foul!
Nice feed. TT taking advantage of orl trapping ballhandler
Sexton great pass to tt and the finish!!!!
Cedi either got his embarrassed or fouled. TT definitely got fouled. Glad to see the team is still playing
Love the energy and the D! Its almost as if when you play your best players, you play better!
Is Hill the leader of this team now? I’m good with it if so.
Nice cut cedi… Can’t finish… Might’ve been fouled again.
3 point lead off a Hill three…
Hill for three!!!!!
Hey hill 3!!!
Mid-range for the win….??
Hill with the pull up!
Hill gives the Cavs the lead!
Nice d. Tt setting mammoth screens.
hill great look to cedi under the rim…probably fouled, no call…
Cedi was fouled… Nice pass hill
Gotta finish that cedi
So….many…. turnovers
Too many careless turnovers.
Nice weak side defense hood!
Jr fade away!
JR giving this team so much energy.
bonehead play from JR, go figure…wasn’t looking for the ball…
Hood soft touch again!
It’s as if the guys had not played all year last year together.
Rodney wirh another roller
back to tie game…
They called that a shooting foul?
Cedi nice cut and three!!!
god, Hood is a bricklayer…how can he be this bad…
Shot that uncontested, fully elevated from mid-range. Barely hit the rim.
He’s 4-6.
at least one was basically a dunk…he sucks at the mid range jumpers, which is almost all he takes…
Cedi! Ties it up!
if this is indeed the “zion tankathon” we shall certainly have losing bona fides that no one will question.. are guys aren’t tanking, they are actually trying to win..
Cedi’s best game is running hard on fast breaks. Unfortunately he requires a team that provides fast breaks.
Thompson boarding like a fiend tonight
Dekker out at least two weeks is my guess. That was ugly.
someone in the G league is going to get their big chance…
Yeah. Hope he didn’t tear anything.
Wasn’t putting any weight on it at all. Looks like a bad sprain at least.
Sam dekker with a nasty ankle roll. Hope he’s ok.
If Dekker is out, who plays the 4?
Hope they come out with some fire. They can take this team .
Nice steal hill!!! Cedi finish!
Nice defense hood, tt flat footed on that rebound attempt
Hood soft touch!
Stream started working, first thing I see is Longo talking about how tough 3rd quarters are SMH
https://twitter.com/oldseaminer/status/1059614536410546178?s=19
Drew’s first shoot around today after getting the official job. Player B says, “Hey Coach Drew, we going to change anything going forward.” Drew looks stoic and in thought for a moment, and then looks back at player b and says, “Naw I just got paid. I’m good.” Player B looks towards Longibardi, and asks, “So about the D…..?” At that Longibardi stops picking his nose and a look of utter terror descends upon his face. He turns and runs away out the door and out the practice facility.
Osman needs to step up he’s being given the chance to prove his worth
NEW “COACH ” SAME LINE UPS –SAME RESULTS –YAWN ——-I AM WITH AMICO HOOPS—BLOW IT UP—–SHOW SOME JUSTICE TO KORVER / LOVE –TRADE THEM TO CONTENDRS—–WHOEVER BITES 1ST ON HILL / SWISH / T.T. –GRAB HOLD
They can’t blow it up right now. They currently have 1 tradeable player.
TOTALLY AGREE!!!!!!!
Team epidemic of turnovers, bad defense, cedi with team worst-13 +/-…. I’d really think about trying Nwaba or Korver in his place. Also cedi, Sexton, and Zizic played really well with each other this summer.
I’ll catch the recap guys.
Good night!
listened in for a few in the auto.. closed to within 4.. down 11 at the half.. no surprise.. teams are going to bring it to the cav-nots.. each will be highly motivated.. no one is going to want to lose to our boys..
” THE ZION TANKATHON COMMENCES “
Kyle hardly played in that lineup all season. More turnovers. Honestly not that excited about the drew signing bevause he’s running the same loser lineups.
Yeah. Early returns are not promising. Lineups are still an issue.
He’ll be gone at years end. This is now a tank year.
It was a tank year to begin with. An accidental tank year when this team changed basically nothing about its game strategy from last year to this year, other than to encourage guys to take what the defense gives you and to play faster. Defense? Player A in training camp asks, “Hey coach, how you want us to cover this action?” Lue and Longibardi stare at each other blank faced. Then Lue says to player A, “Just make it up as you guys go along. Decide between you guys who switches, when you want to switch, and who you will… Read more »
Thank you John B, that was phenomenal
This is much more entertaining than this game.
We’ll like Rick Pitino a lot better…
Didn’t he bomb with the Celtics?
Yes he did. He was also basically GM, so double failure. But I won’t be surprised if Gilbert hires him. He has been vocal about wanting to get back in the game.