Live Thread: Cavs @ Knicks (#Gardening)
2021-01-29Greetings from the future Cavs fans! Well, not really… even though technically it’s early Saturday morning for me. But, what better way to kick off the weekend than with a little light Gardening?
Time to tune in to check out the Cavs’ first visit to Madison Square Garden as they themselves kick off a quick weekend roadie that will include a stop in Minnesota as well. The wine & gold got back to their roots of winning on Wednesday after a couple of disappointing losses (a blowout in Boston and a missed opportunity against the defending champs), by weeding out the Pistons 122-107. Now, they look to plant the seeds of a streak with the first of three winnable games before facing their month-long February gauntlet of challenging contests.
It sounds like they’ll be at near full-strength to handle Julius Randle and the Knicks tonight, as Larry Nance, Jr. is expected back… meaning the Cavs are only down Kevin Love and Matthew Dellavedova. Let’s hope his presence along with some stellar defense and dynamic offense from Young Bull helps these entertaining Cavs continue to grow and flourish.
Check out all the action (wherever you are in the world) starting at 7:30 EST… Li-li-li-li-Live from the Garden! (or if you can’t Call Ticketron…) catch it on Fox Sports Ohio. And, as always, chime in below!
GO CAVS!
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We’re so bad and predictable in halfcourt. If we didn’t generate steals and transition points, shudders….
kind of what happens when you’re starting guards are barely legal drinking age!!! LMFAOOO
We could do more to help them out
NICE PASS DRE!!!!! RAGE TIMEOUT!!!
Another great stop on D and TD pass from Andre! Just like that… Cavs back in this one
LNJ just misses a three… gets block on other end
passing is immediately better…. ball is popping.
Can’t let old pal Burks get going…
SEXTON BLOW BY!!!!
DG deeeeep transition trey. Everything in transition though.
Sexton looking more aggressive already…
bad 3 DG, shot fake drive kick out.
Great start!!!!
DG FROM WAY DOWNTOWN!!!!!!!!
DEEP three from DG!
THERE WE GO DEFENSE TO OFFENSE!!!
Good start with an Iceman steal and transition bucket for Sexton…
Cavs need to space in the second half. Knicks collapsing on d. Need to get windler and Prince in at the same time, though I am hesitant to go without allen or dre as I think we struggle to board and defend the lob. Need to work to actually get shooters coming off screens, not just wait for the random kickout that gets closed out by the knicks.
I guess the good news is that the Cavs couldn’t shoot much worse than they did that half…
regression to the mean let’s go!!!!!!!!!!!
Now there’s a goal! Go out there and be avergae fellas. We’ll be happy.
LMFAOOOOOOOOO that’s right!!
Go small JB, Prince/Nance at the 4 and 5…. make their size defense in space.
If Randle gets going in third quarter, this could get really ugly… need some Sexton magic
Cedi now -21 in 11 minutes… that is rough
Give Windler a heavy dose in the 2nd half IMO
Times like this I’d like to see Sexton be more aggressive. Cavs need some buckets.
We don’t really free people up much. Depends heavily on screens and guards making something happen. Since Sexton is about the only guy that can get his own and do it efficiently, I agree.
The Knicks are on pace to score 94… and the Cavs are on pace to only score 66 LOL
Really sucks that Nance is so rusty… and that DG can’t shoot… and that Andre can’t just dunk the freaking ball…
Dunking is hard when you’re only 6’11″…
Windler only guy who can make a shot tonight.
33 at the half is ridiculous…I mocked the Bulls for doing that, and that was against the freaking Lakers…
Knicks are good defensively. They were suffocating and scrambling. Even corner treys that we missed they had people closing hard.
They are good defensively, but 33 is still a joke. They are going too much through Drummond, when they have a good defensive center with size…they aren’t going to get much from Drummond with Robinson in there…
They are collapsing hard on drives. We need some new perimeter oriented wrinkles on o. We don’t have much after an initial screen or offball action.
Taj in … if only we had Delly to send in to rile him up some.
So true… nice callback Simmo!
Cavs just getting outworked… which is unusual this year
c’mon guys, Dre set a damn pick, DG quit dribbling!
Cavs look horrendous
Rim lidded for the big guy…
OMFG……. wide open cedi misses, Drummond can’t finish
Damn dre. Have to finish one of those. Rock hands
Yeeezus Andre…
Too thirsty
Drummond misses two point blank, including a dunk…caveman ball…
Sexton with a d miscue for a,layup
Backdoor cuts will beat the zone…
Barely recognize Payton without the hair…
Has it affected his abilities?
Depends if you believed he had them to begin with lol
Hah
thank God, DG finally finishes around the basket.
Better decision by Garland that time…
Rock fight at the Garden… neither team cracking 40% shooting…
LMFAOOO like watching college teams LMFAO
Or mid 2000s
Our offense is trash tonight… Sexland getting clamped by Knicks’ size, Drummond sucks, Nance rusty.
All our actions oriented towards interior. Need some off ball perimeter stuff as a distraction so they can’t collapse so easy
probably a personnel issue… should go small.
Dre trying to force that. Then a mistake on d.
Dre post ups against a great defender… what could go wrong????
That sucked. Pretty positive he traveled, too.
Yeah he took like 4 steps
yeah he definitely did LMFAOOO got a star call though!!!
I absolutely HATE Drummond as Point Center… Almost always fails
Man say what you want about thibs but he has them playing suffocating d.
Cavs are playing at the Knicks pace right now, lot of possessions going down to the end of the shot clock
We play slow in general. If we aren’t generating tovs, we’re in trouble in the halfcourt against this type of d.
Seems like a lot of turnovers…ESPN showing only four though…can that be right?
turnovers not a problem, shooting 30% from the field.
a lot of loose balls.
had Windler open, Okoro gotta be stronger with the ball.
DRE YOU ARENT A POINT GUARD!!!
Cavs lucky Knicks missing open threes…
Ooof, Windler got swooned by Rivers there
Bad plan that time…
GIVE AND GO DG AND DRUMMOND! GREAT PASS DRUMMOND!
Nice two man game with Dre and DG
great pass DG, Windler was open, just missed.
Good pass by DG… Windler gotta hit those…
Sexland 3-15…. but bright side, both positive plus/minus
Not sure how much we’ll see of Cedi tonight given how his first 7 minutes went… -10 with zeroes across the board…
that’s rough, would’ve tried him at point there with the backups.
Knicks scrambling. Good old fashion grind out game.
Thibs starting to impact their identity on D…
Based on their rating he definitely has imprinted on them since the beginning of the season. Impressed me.
Garland keeps taking the wrong shots. His decision making is lacking.
1-7, only 1 3pt shot.
I really think we need to stuff to actually free up shooters. Most of our threes are pullup, obaords, or off broke actions.
Cavs getting screwed on these balls out of bounds… that’s twice now
BAD CALL REF!!! HE WAS REJECTED!
Oh man… that looked like a good block by Allen…
Great read by allen on the oop. Ice with the hammer!
BALL FAKE AND SLAM!!!!!
WOW! That fake was smooth as ICE!
Rivers looks like he prays everytime he releases a three…
Cavs are forcing it on O. Just need to take the easy play
I guess this lineup hasn’t played together yet, but still
Knicks over playing the 3 on Windler…. cuts to the hoop only thing open.
Windler with a rare mistake trying to force the pass.
bad pass Windler, but Sexton, take the shot!!! wide open layup.
Prince would have got continuation back in the day