Live Thread: Cavs vs Clippers
2021-02-03In case you hadn’t been paying attention, the Collin Sexton media blitz has begun. With articles in Forbes, Fansided, and the Players’ Tribune, Sexton’s media visibility is at an all time high. Interestingly, a Clippers’ squad that lost last night to the Knicks and is coming off six straight road games is full go tonight (minus Beverly), as Kawhi wants to give it a go. I wonder if they want to avenge last night’s loss and take Sexton down a peg. I also wonder if they want to get coach Lue his first victory in Cleveland. It could get ugly.
The Cavs are also (almost) at full strength with Drummond returning to the fold, but Nance, Love, and Delly still out. After Jarrett Allen’s big showing against Minnesota, let’s hope that Drummond’s penchant for ridiculousness and JB’s tolerance of it is low. Unfortunately, I think we’ll see some of them together. We’ll see how it goes. I have a feeling the Clips will be loaded for bear. Let’s hope Garland Continues his strong play, and that the good guys shoot some danged threes.
Allen sooooo athletic. Took the hit, adjusted, still dropped it in….
WHAT A PASS DG!!! ALLEN THANK GOD!!!!
I am 9 points added to the lead from going outtie 5000.
TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU MIKEO
No one boxes zubac
The media needs to grill JB about the threes, and if he mentions some nonsense like ‘we don’t have many guys we can put on the court who can hit it’, they need to have the numbers to challenge that.
Basically clips could care less about midrangers if the cavs don’t play suffocating d.
27 shots for Sexland, not one 3.
at least DG is scorching hot.
Not too far off the recent norm.
oh for sure, teams are baiting both of them to finish at the rim, it’s smart defensive scheming.
GOOD TO SEE PRINCE HIT THAT BUT MAN 11/ 1– 3 PT DIFFFERENTIAL
It’s pathetic…
no pass Sexton possession…. Sexton just chucking dumb shots now.
A three by Prince!
JB playing Drummond so he can get in foul trouble and doesn’t have to play him in crunch time.
LMFAOOOOO Dre posts up, dribbles out of bounds LMFAOOOOOOOOOOO pathetic
Drummond is really killing them this game…Allen better on both ends…
Not just better tonight. Different universe tonight.
Dre moves his feet on d. Finally.
Then doesn’t stay up on pg in transition
5 3s taken LMFAOOOO.
Good d okoro
god this offense is so trash… 7 points in 5 minutes, drummond 3-10.
Are Cavs going to go 0 fer in 3? In 2021?
Would be hilarious at least.
Oooh! Stink!
That’s a shame, DG had that 3 lined
Dre walking disaster tonight. Just the absolute difference in the game.
Cavs baffling the league by taking no threes…league defenses are stymied…checkmate, NBA…
Lol
Dre getting sonned by Serge
Jesus, Drumm.
Box out dre.
Fading fast.
TOOK A ‘SNACK ” BREAK —WOW IT WENT SOUTH QUICKLY !!!
what hell was that garbage on offense.
Get Drummond off the floor he’s useless.
Guys don’t wanna pass to him, he doesn’t want to set a pick.
Yeah Allen and McGee for the rest of this game. Suspect JB can’t tho. F office.
That is a recipe for losing the team
We kick KPJ to the curb, but continue to start the guy who hijacks the O, doesn’t set screens or hustle on D, and is terribly inefficient on O with a huge usage rate.
If I was on the team, I’d tell JB to pound sand.
Kolby might not care. Might only see lottery and picks.
Cavs regressing to mean on floaters.
Well not a great start
Welp. Over if we play defense like this.
Imagine if Drummond had the will to improve his game that Sexton, has, just for one example…
Would be a monster. But it hasn’t happened much at least on o.
Cover your man, Cavs
Sigh. Get back in transition.
Good skip by prince. Okoro misses makeable corner trey
Good to see Antonio Lang shout out Stevens d before start of half
CAVS WITH ONLY 4 TO’S THAT IS GREAT
bench came to play tonight…. good bounce back for them.
They started the comeback. Impressive d from them.
Stevens is kind of perfect to defend against Kawhi and George…he’s been a man tonight…
CAVS NEED TO BRING SAME EFFORT / INTENSITY FOR 2ND HALF OR THIS GAME COULD GET UGLY ——-WINDLER 4 BOARDS / 2 BLOCKS —-STEVENS WITH SOME NICE MIN’S
https://twitter.com/jlkocher2/status/1357148662867124228?s=20
Where’s Bacon??? I want to see him defend Drummond.
Can’t be any defense. Not even trying on d.
BELIEVE THE “DRE EXPERIMENT ” IS NEARING ITS END
Drummond is trash for this game. Completely unprofessional.
WAS GOING TO POST THE SAME NATE —NO CONTEST / EFFORT ON DRE’S PART / LAST SHOT
Drummond 3-9….. better not see the court the rest of the game.
If JB does not bench Dre, he has zero cred.
Start Allen. Free Javale.
Might have a Kolby mandate.
Think this is a good point.
Yeah Cavs not going to be able to trade him for anything anyways so who cares about his value
Omg. Drummond isn’t even trying. Didn’t even Co test that Batum shot.
Been real bad tonight
GET DRUMMOND OFF THE FLOOR -17 plus/minus
Lolllollolol Dre brings it up. Immediate turnover
https://twitter.com/oldseaminer/status/1357147643701526530?s=20
Yeah, I snickered at that…
Bad sequences by dre.
Clips super smart not forcing much inside against Drummond. Just using his reticence to guard the perimeter against him.
Kawhi is so damned unstoppable
Feel like Dre could become a token starter moving forward. Play like 10 mins a half and the rest got Allen
Honestly, if JB can figure out how to use Dre & Allen (not easy), cavs may not be the easy beats they are slated to be.
SORRY SIMMO GETTING YOUR HOPES UP OF DRE NOT RETURNING —MY BAD
Forgiven, Nomad
Dre not gonna learn. Still up 2!
BELIEVE IF A.C. WAS THE H.C. ALLEN WOULD BE STARTING OVER DRE –A.C.’S COMMENTS ARE MORE IN SUPPORT OF ALLEN THAN DRE
Oh he gets more pissed off at dre than any other player I’ve seen.
Can’t afford too many wild dre drives tonight
Our guards are just blitzing past their perimeter defense and getting looks. Next move has to be to kick out yo open shooters
Stop. Going one on three.
Kawhi over Sexton…predictable result…
Great feed Sexton.
Shoot. The. Open. Three.
“BLOCKED BY ALLEN” becoming a thing
Clips looked lackadaisical on offence then
FEAR THE DG FLOATER! Tie game.
Drummy been on the bench for a whiiiiiile