Live Thread: Cavs vs Nuggets
2020-03-07It’s another Saturday Night, Cavs fans! The Nuggets are in town, and they’ve won six of the last ten. Before they squeaked by Charlotte on Thursday, and lost a surprising game to the Dubs on Tuesday. Cleveland sports a cast of wounded tonight. Kevin Porter Jr., Darlius Garland, Andre Drummond, and Dante Exum are all out, while Dean Wade is questionable. Tristan Thompson and Alfonzo McKinnie return to the lineup, tough!
For Denver only Bol Bol is listed as out, which saves us from some needed comedy. Denver should have the depth to run Cleveland, tonight, and I expect the Cavs’ limited bench to give way late to a 116-108 Nuggets victory. But it should be entertaining. Go Cavs!
Lov3!!
absolute crap defense in the 1st half, night and day difference in the 2nd half. Helps having Delly and McKinnie back playing big minutes. Shoutout to TT
Hellofadova!
Jokic really struggling with TT under the hoop
TT showing some bounce on a few of his blocks tonight
Yeah. Just need everyone else to stay home and put themselves between their man and the bucket.
Delly with an MVP performance tonight!!!
Nate, were you confident that was going in?
https://twitter.com/oldseaminer/status/1236481378344189952?s=20
Delly three! Can’t believe he hit that on the break.
Delly!!
Sexton playing smart – nice to see this progression
Good decision to back it out.
Not sure how the Cavs are in this
Love Thompson two man!
Cavs lucky. Love tov on a pass that wasn’t there. Denver misses layup.
butgreat play by Love to get the 3!!
Cedi is such an awful rebounder.
https://twitter.com/oldseaminer/status/1236480161366913025?s=20
Wtf kind of defense was that TT?
This is a bad challenge.
Futile challenge…refs are almost never going to say ‘my bad’…
Yup, not going to be overturned. That was a Harden-esque foul getting TT’s arm hooked
No idea what his arm was doing there on a backdown in the first place.
Sexton should’ve gone. Up against porter and drawn the foul on that tie up.
Lol. Porter.
That was bad.
Killer shot by Porter. Denver picked up their d.
I hav close to zero confidence in Nance as a finisher…
Unless it’s a dunk yeah.
Think he’s improved a great deal, actually.
That may be, still a terrible finisher…
Cavs cannot buy a bucket in the 4th
Oh sexton. That was bad.
Sexton missed a wide open Nance for an oop.
At some point the team getting layups and easier shots every time down will pull away.
NBA needs a ‘no Plumlee’ rule…
Sloppy game—Cavs playing decent defense but having dumb turnovers and missing point blank shots…no one missed open threes like Cedi
Huh? He is like 5/6 tonight
Unreal hustle by Nance tonight
So many dunks and layups for denver.
Yeah. A lot of that is how much they’re scrambling and the pace both teams are playing at. If you get by the Cavs first wave the backside rotation is one deep (as fratello noted)
Nice dunk plumlee.
Nice to see a few oppo TOs
Let’s see if the Cavs can get enough stops down the stretch to pull out a W
Great d osman! When a guy pivots away, close the space!
Refs decided to insert themselves.
Nance putback!
Wow. That screen call was thin.
Weak call on Cedi. Murray just lost his balance. Three bad calls in a row. Ball went off Plumlee. nance called for nada.
https://twitter.com/oldseaminer/status/1236475918207631360?s=20
Insane %s for this game. The fact we’re up 2 while shooting 60% and 9/23 from 3 is a bit insane.
This team is just playing harder for Bickerstaff.. hope that lasts
Dead coach bounce…
This.
Delly dimes all over the floor!
Oh cedi you gotta finish that bunny.
Superior Crowd.
Delly!
Killing it – pinpoint power passing
Turnovers preventing Cavs from building a lead
Yep.
Good Hard foul cedi.
Can’t argue that charge. Should have been a foul on the steal anyway. We’re getting a bit sloppy on o.
Delly feeling himself a bit.
Have a “sook” Craig.
D so much better since the start.
Classic jokic flop…
That was gross. I do hate flopping. I blame Ginobli for introducing it.
Kev evened it out.
Clearly Denver has not gotten the memo to force delly to shoot.
Even the nugs commentators have been pushing this. How does the team not know.
I was literally typing how we need some Delly/TT p/r when that oop went down.
Not impressed with Denver’s d. They seem to give up almost as many off ball created buckets as they create.
I was going to say something similar. So many of Delly’s dimes have been on completely uncontested/wide open finishes
They are soft. I like watching the Nuggets, but they got to figure out their D before the playoffs
https://twitter.com/oldseaminer/status/1236473568193589248?s=20
Plantar fasciitis clearly not affecting McKinnie anymore, he’s getting serious airtime!
Delly to Thompson! Commonwealth connection! Then to McKinnie!
Delly tt oop. Stabilizing bucket. X2 with Mckinnie.
Delly passing the hell out of it!!!
Delly dropping dimes!
Don’t give up baseline collin. He has to stop opening up so much.
Cavs are getting under their skin.
TT block!
Wow. Collin got tackled no call.
Nvm. Was actually just lost the ball.
Bit of a flop. He initiated contact. Murray had his arms vertical.
My goodness, Sexton’s offensive game really is becoming quite something
Sextn s ems to hardly miss a shot…
Getting chippy
Cedi’s most efficient game ever
Was that Milsap that shoved Sexton after the play? Refs clearly didn’t see it.
Nuggets commentators incredulous at Cavs lead.
Tt isn’t effective in the post against jokic. Defense collapsing. Way too many backcuts and off ball miscues leading to easy layups.
Yeah. Prefer him on short roll.