Live Thread: Cavs vs Pelicans
2021-04-11The Cavs’ bid towards a run at playoff relevancy took a big hit with a disastrous start against the similarly ranked Raptors, Saturday. The Raptors dropped 87 in the first half, and though Isaiah Hartenstein and the Cavs cut it all the way back to 12 after trialing by over 30, Cleveland couls bot overcome Malachai Flynn’s timely buckets and assists (20/2/11)as whell as Gary Trent Junior’s nuclear shooting (44 on 17-19, from the field!).
Despite Sexton’s 29/0/5 and Garland’s 19/2/8, their defense was putrid. Only Isaiah Hartenstein (12/8/6 three steals, four blocks) shined for Cleveland with defense, rebounding, a heady floor game and relentless hustle. Hart will be rewarded with a start tonight against the Zion led Pels.
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— Cleveland Cavaliers (@cavs) April 11, 2021
Missing? Sexland. Collin is sitting with a groin injury and Garland tweaked his ankle. To be honest, I’m surprised Kev is playing on a B2B too. Of course Nance, Allen, and Windler are also sitting.
New Orleans is missing Lonzo Ball, Josh Hart, and Nickeil Alexander-Walker. I expect Zion to feast, especially after Hartenstein gets in foul trouble, but I’m excited to see Ice at the two with Delly feeding him. Should be an interesting one at the very least. Lets hope they bring the D.
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Just tuning in… wow the Cavs are winning!
OH NO LOVE TURNOVER BUT THEY GOT IT BACK!!!!!
damn Prince wide open just missed.
wow Zion what a finish.
damn huge rebound Love, but goes to waste on the turnover from Prince.
PRINCE GOT IT BACK!!!! WHAT A PLAY PRINCE!
Sticking with it!!!
thats how you win!!!!
Love trey.
Found out what’s wrong with Cedi.
Zion got away with an obvious charge.
no kidding, Prince was just standing there, JB let the ref have it LMFAOOOO
Finally a moment to watch … glad to see Cavs still in it!!!
KLOVE FOR THREEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!
How’s his energy, otherwise
He’s been solid.
yup taking the right shots, need a little more on the boards from him.
Did Cedi turn it over two more times at the end?
1 Cedi, 1 Delly
Oof. Eelly with another tov. Only 3rd to 8 assists but got a wee bit sloppy on that second stint like everyone else did. Bit rushed. At least they didn’t score off it to end the qtr.
I. Swear to god Cedi had five in the last 5 minutes
Yeah. They didn’t all lead to scores but it was hectic.
2nd to 9 assists but was still sloppy to close.
Great pass on backdoor by delly.
dammit, Cedi and Delly sloppy ending there, but 6 point lead into the 4th!!!!! Bring back Hart and Love to close it out!!!!
KABENGELE GREAT REBOUND!!!!!! BIG TIME PLAY!
Prince just forcing things to happen.
CEDI WHAT A FINISH!!!!!!!!! DELLY WHAT A PASS!
https://twitter.com/oldseaminer/status/1381408520386572288?s=20
And another tov. Delly now. Bit too aggressive
PRINCE IS TAKING CONTROL!!!!!!!! GREAT PLAY!
That was not an effective zone look lol. Way too easy. Cavs staying up from pure hustle.
STEVENS GREAT ONBALL DEFENSE!!!!!
HOOOOOOOWEEEEE PRINCE HUSTLE!!!!!
Getting sloppy. Lots of forced or unforced tovs last few possessions
nice take Prince!!
ladies and gentlemen, we’re getting Okoro at the point!
LMFAOOOO it’s already over Delly back in LMFAOOOO
Probably because we’ve looked like chickens with our heads cut off and turned it over 4 straight times.
A couple of sloppy offensive possessions, get it together guys!
Jesus. Get cedi out. Bring in dotson.
Believe Dotson is out for this game…
CEDI TURNOVER BUT CEDI CHASEDOWN BLOCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LMFAOOOOOO good no call ref!!!!
https://twitter.com/oldseaminer/status/1381407171590688770?s=20
Cavs generating offense off defense hustle and second chance plays right now. Primce heave leads to Wade board and assist to okoro. Pels not boxing out like at all.
Wade to Ice!
Nice okoro take. Lots of side to side passing around the perimeter without much p and r. Should be interesting to see if cavs generate open easy shots that way
WADE HUSTLE!!!!!!!!!! GREAT PASS TO OKORO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT A CUT AND FINISH OKORO!!!!!!
Really like what we’re seeing out of Okoro in recent games…a portent of what we’ll likely see next season…
WADE IS LEARNING TO PUT THE BALL ON THE FLOOR AND GET A PULL UP JUMPER
I love it!!! all he needs is confidence on the offensive end!
Ice plus 1! Great pass Prince.
MAYBE WE SEE ICE GET HIS 1ST NBA 20 PT GAME —GO CAVS !!!
PRINCE TO OKORO AND1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nice play ice.
OKORO ATTACK MOUSE IN THE HOUSE!!!!!!!!!
Man Ingram s. Long
WADE JUMPER IS PURE!!!!!!!!! FEED THE MAN!@!!!
Nice play on the closeout.
Ice trey
Delly finding people. Pels commentators make good point about sort of ignoring any scoring threat from him.
ICE WITH A NICE GAME SO FAR
https://twitter.com/oldseaminer/status/1381404706422022144?s=20
Delly with that shot. Lol. Finds people. Love made a mistake. Delly Isn’t going to do much on an island even against a big.
WOW THAT’S A BULLSH*** CALL REF HART WENT STRAIGHT UP!!!!!!
Ic3!!! Nice game
OKORO FROM WAY DOWNTOWN!!!!!!
HART BLOCK!!!!!!!
OKORO HUSTLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! KEEP REBOUNDING KID!
Classic Kev.
LOVE WITH THE BIRD!!!!!!!
That Pels possession bore some resemblance to basketball, but not much…
LMFAOOOOOOOOO AC and John Michael(?) having a good laugh at that.
damn Hart was there with the open push shot.
Nice play ice to just get it up there.
damn Delly wide open just couldn’t hit
No one closing out for some reason
LMFAOOOOOOOO
LOVE HUSTLE!
THE MORE I WATCH HIM (HART ) PLAY THE MORE I ENJOY HIS GAME // POTENTIAL——IT WAS POSTED WHEN WE 1ST GOT HIM THAT HE WAS NOTHING BUT “A BIG STIFF ” I TOTALLY DISAGREE !!!!
So I know what EPM says to me about Delly. But pretty clear to me that that is due to what I stated in the previous thread about last year’s priors and Delly not having played enough games to have those priors essentially chucked. Pretty sure this is part of the reason why RPM (also uses priors to begin every season) doesn’t get posted on espn until about 25 games into the season. Point being I think he actually has probably had a statistical net positive impact due to his playmaking that hasn’t shown up in your Plus minus stats… Read more »
WEST COAST YOU MADE ME DO A “CLF “
https://twitter.com/oldseaminer/status/1381400246866079747?s=20
Wade’s hot hand is likely not sustainable (Gary Trent Jr. aside), Zion’s feasting likely is.
ACTUALLY MY 5 YR OLD GRANDSONS SHOT IS BETTER—-DNA FROM PAPA :-)
DELLY HAS “NO ” OUTSIDE SHOT ANYMORE —-SHOOTS LIKE MY 5 YEAR OLD GRANDSON
That 3pt attempt was ugly. He looked like someone from the crowd at half time trying to win a bucket of chicken.
Cavs getting outrebounded, which will come back to bite them… need to tighten that up and keep launching 3s.
CAN WE HANG ON OR DO THE “WHEELS FALL OFF ” THE 2ND HALF
Likely wheels off. Though only 4 TOs may keep us in it.
Delly has holes in his game, primarily his outside shot, but damn he just makes everybody better.
Holy crap that half was fun.
Yep. If Hayes’ heave impacts the outcome, I will be upset.
And yes, competent PG play (not PG scoring) makes a huge difference.
ENTERTAINING 1ST HALF —–
WOW, Jaxson Hayes LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOO
DELLY STEAL AND HART FINISH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!