Live Thread: Cavs vs Pacers
2019-10-26Cleveland gets a tough opponent for its home opener. The Pacers are hungry for a win after dropping their opener to the Pistons. Both teams feature starters who just signed big extensions. Cedi Osman Extended for four years and $31 million this morning while Domantas Sabonis, the Pacers starting power forward signed a four year $74.9 million dollar extension. Both deals will probably end up being relative bargains compared to the Jaelyn Brown’s of the world.
The Pacers also added Malcolm Brogdon (4 Yr. $85 mil), Jeremy Lamb (3 Yr $31 Mil.), and the Pacers added TJ Warren in a trade with the Pacers. Four new players join Myles Turner in the starting lineup for Indy tonight as they take on the Cavs’ who’ll be rolling out Cedi, the Sexland Backcourt, Kevin Love, and Tristan Thompson. John Henson is also expected to play for the first time in a Cavs Uni.
Stopping the Pacers bigs, and Malcolm Brogdon will loom large for Cleveland. Brogdon put up 22 and 11 assists in his Indy debut, while Turner and Sabonis combined for 52 and 22 rebounds. Kevin Love needs a big night pulling the Pacers bigs out of the paint, and the Cavs need to shoot a decent percentage and take care of the ball.
Cleveland also gets its regular season debut of the remodeled Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse.Let’s hope the Cavs’ new digs inspire some all-for-one play.
Correction: It appears Edmond Sumner will start for an injured Jeremy Lamb.
THAT WAS INCREDIBLE TEAM DEFENSE!!!!!!!
Fantastic d.
Cavs a little 3 happy
Cavs a bit 3 happy
wide open Nance 3, missed it.
Cavs fighting. Gotta keep defending and executing. Henson impressive on D. Shot not there yet, but that will come. If Delly could shoot, it would help.
Henson has been a gigantic bandaid covering up little holes in the defense.
WOW… they held up…. 16 point lead into the 4th!
Henson throws a block party. Pacers drain some triple to cut it to 16 after 3.
JC with a nice shot
WOW… Henson with another great defensive play.
KPJ TO CLARKSON FOR THREE!!!!!
HAHAHAHAHA NANCE WITH THE DUNK!
Great d henson.
Henson hits a free throw!
Henson makes a FT. Back up 20.
FANTASTIC HELP DEFENSE HENSON!!!!!
Second unit coming together!!
Henson stops the bleeding. Run the damned o through Nance.
GIVE AND GO DELLY TO NANCE!!!!
HENSON WITH THE DRIVE AND FINISH!!! that was scary!!
GREAT HELP DEFENSE HENSON! NICE DEFENSE KPJ!!!!!!! WiTH THE SWAT!
Henson rejection!
Jesus that call.
WHAT A TERRIBLE CALL!!!!!! THAT’S AN AND 1!!!! MCCONNELL FLOPPED!
TO fest.
KPJ missed a wide open Clarkson… gotta hit that… not a smart pass Delly.
Dangerous time here. And gd it Clarkson turns it over.
Clarkson… terrible pass… had an open lane to the basket.
UNBELIEVABLE FINISH CLARKSON!!!! WHAT A PASS DELLY! TT BLOCK!
That was a horseshit foul call
WHAT A PASS LOVE!!!!
Good. Timeout. Pacers finally woke up. It’s a game now.
NICE DEFENSE CEDI! damn… KLOVE had that open 3.
Great timeout Beilein…. short circuit the Pacers run.
Nice drive Sexton…. got the foul.
Sloppy offensive possession…. can’t have that.
TT insane with the hook.
Sexton drop off to TT, TT FINISH OVER TURNER!
Bad d on that Brogdon 3
Warren. Sucks.
GREAT HUSTLE SEXTON!
GARLAND WITH THE DRIVE AND FINISH!!!!
Is it possible the Cavs might actually have a decent defense this year??
No. Pacers missing Oladipo and weren’t exactly world burners with him. But Cavs might just be very bad defensively instead of terrible.
this offense has been HUMMING since the 2nd quarter.
RAGE TIMEOUT!!!!!
SEXTON TO LOVE TO THOMPSON!!!!!!!!
SEXTON WITH THE CUT AND SLAM!!!
TT WITH THE REJECTION!!! GARLAND WITH THE FINISH!!!
nice outlet KLOVE, Sexton draws the foul!
KLOVE with an open 3…. first miss.
Bickerstaff >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Longbardi so far
Seconded!
Thirded.
Great half. Love & TT just stellar. Nice to see Garland hit that DEEP one late.
WOW… Clarkson and Porter really got their act together in the 2nd quarter…. solid numbers from both of them.
TT gonna mess around with a 20/10 game
KLOVE with an incredible half of basketball. Great defense, waaaaaaay better offense!!!
Well that was fun
Fantastic ball movement. Don’t expect the pacers to go quietly.
SWING PASSES TO GARLAND FOR THREE!!!! WAY DEEP!
damn first turnover…. Garland had him.
NANCE KICK OUT TO SEXTON FOR THREE!!!!
WOW great transition defense.
Sexton nice pass.. KLOVE FOR THREE!!!!
WOW ZERO turnovers this quarter! Dang nice pass Love.
wow.. uncle buck not watching.. but #’s don’t lie.. looks like a w.. good stuff..uncle buck may need to eat some humble pie.. but not tonight.. statistical outliers do happen
box score indicates oldsters ate their cheerios thi morning.. youngins not so much..
KLOVE WITH THE FOUL!!!!! AGAIN!!!!
Klove doing everything tonight.
KLOVE TO TT!!!!!! WHAT A PASS!!!!!
WhAT A PASS SEXTON!!!!! TT EASY BUCKET!
Up by 20!!!!!
DELLY SKIP PASS TO LOVE!!!! FOR THREEE!!!!