Live Thread: Cavs @ Raptors
2021-11-05Good evening CtB!
Tonight the Cavs are across the border in Toronto, Ontario for an important early conference matchup against the Raptors. Some thought that the Raptors would really miss Kyle Lowry, but they’ve come out of the gates strong with a 6-3 record. OG Anunoby, Fred Van Vleet, and rookie of the year candidate Scottie Barnes have led their team’s great start. The Cavs will have their hands full on the road.
For the Cavs, Isaac Okoro has already been reported out for the game due to his nagging hamstring injury. There has been no news about Kevin Love or Lauri Markkanen, so it’s safe to assume they’ll be unavailable as well. Dylan Windler and Dean Wade were excellent filling in last game against the Portland Trail Blazers so it would be reasonable to expect some minutes for the duo tonight.
The question for the Cavs tonight is, “Do they want more?” 5-4 is a good record to start, far better than the expectations heading to the season. But do they want to be more than a .500 team? Do they want to go to another level? Or are they really just satisfied with being a competitive team? Beating a team such as Toronto on the road would be a real feather in the cap in this early part of the season.
The Cavs are six point underdogs at the time of this writing, and the public heavily siding with a Toronto cover. Tipoff is at 7:30pm ET and will be broadcasted on Bally’s Sports Ohio/Great Lakes… GO CAVS!
RUBIO TO MOBLEY!!!
Rubio has gotten Banton on about 3-4 vet versus rookie plays.
Hey they called another reach on the spursian raptors perimeter d.
RUBIO WITH THE CHARGE!!!
Cedi what you doing man (also didn’t liek the play call used Mobley)
Oh brutal travel by cedi.
BALL DON’T LIE!
Mobley won the tip over Barnes…checkmate, Raps…
Unexpected challenge win. Great job.
Wow…won the challenge…good job.
yup saved a likely 3 points
Great challenge jb. Even if they lose. BS. Even raptors broadcasters saying they will probably win the challenge
Great challenge.
Cannot believe we are still even in this game. Raptors have always felt in control. Trent jr, treated like NBA royalty by the refs. Wait what teams did his dad play for…….?
i could hear the CtB moans about sexton coming through the radio..
Lol ohhh yes lots of reasons for moans
CHALLENGE THIS GD CALL!
My good what s horrible call
What a garbage call…
Good challenge…he may lose it, but it was bullshit…
another BS call, JB should challenge
Weak foul. Trent was already falling and off balance due to leveling his shoulder. Windler had position on the drive.
yup
Windler getting refballed bs call
At least we are playing 9 now, sheesh
AMEN!!!! LMFAOOOOOO
Cedi fire
HELL YEAH SWEET SHOT MOBLEY!
Windler should’ve pump faked and passed, saw he and Steven communicate it which is good.
Great pass rubio. Better d by khem birch
Osman trey. Probably needs to play a ton this second half if just because he seems to be the only one to make threes consistently on this team. Can’t believe I just uttered osman and consistent in the same sentence.
CEDI THE JEDI!!!!!!!!!!
Cedi rights the ship, for a minute, anyway…
Only guy who can hit a three…
CEDI!!!!! PULL UP THREE!!! HELL YEAH!!!!
I mean he’s making alot of those.
Lamar Stevens sighting! probaly should’ve seen some minutes in the 1st half.
awful turnover DG, have to get that pass to Wade for the open 3
Trent jr of all people killing us.
I’ll say it again, I’d rather have Gary Trent Jr than Sexton LMFAOOOOO
100%. He’s at least a wing…
Think. No matter what happens in this game, think I’m ready to say the raptors are for real.
The look good…without Siakam, too…
Toronto going 10 deep, Cavs 8 deep…. fatigue alert.
Why is Sexton yelling at anybody on defense???
DG!
DG finally.
DG FINISH LETS GO!
DG THREE LETS F********* GOOOOOOOOOOo
Hey they called a reach on van fleet. Wow.
Terrible foul, Collin.
Brutal sexton. Brutal. But also some euro flopness by van fleet.
DG TO MOBLEY!!! LETS GOO!
Put Windler and Cedi in JB you coward!!!
He can’t get 43 minutes out of Mobley by doing that…
JB stinks!!!!!
Tactically he leaves a lot to be desired.
One way to stop the reaching so much on d is to pop some guys in the arm/shoulder on ball screens.
that’s right time to get physical
Wow, heck of a pass on the oop from DG…
Shoot the ball, Darius.
4-17 from three…gah…
I wish Allen would just catch at the top of the key and fire. Garland had him at trailer, but couldn’t hit him with momentum.
Raptos definitely get away with a ton of reaches on perimeter. Credit to them. Refs not calling it, then they can really stymie a flow of the offense.
Yep. Tons of contact, but if you get away with it, don’t stop…
Need more/better ball screens, and staggered ball screens.
DG great pass, Wade missed, DG TAKES THE CHARGE!!!! CMON GUYS!
WOW, Mobley swiped, instant Raptors bucket
Sidney Lowe, was correct… AC correct… guys aren’t passing the ball.
My favorite play from the first half was the one Nick Nurse drew up to have Fred Van Vleet go stand in the left corner and have no on the Cavs guard him.
The mark of genius!
LFMAOOOOOOOOOO GET THEIR ASSES~!!!!! Perimeter defense in this game is TRASH!!!
Toronto shooting nearly 60% from three!
Cavs zone special
15 points off of turnover for the Raps…lol…just nonsense…
Pretty certain they lead the league in that stat based off the raptors broadcast, which makes sense given their pressure on d.
LMFAOOOOOO WOW
https://twitter.com/oldseaminer/status/1456784023972425730?s=20
It’s not just Sexton’s turnovers, it’s his refusal to make/shoot three pointers and getting blocked at the rim. Honestly, He may need to go back to embracing the mid range.
yup, midrange game noticeably missing, and that’s probably his best shooting range relative to the league.
He’s a talented guy funneled in the right direction but his judgement is really lacking.
I’d be happy if he were actually getting shots up….that driving into 3 guys in the paint garbage should be benchable…
Exactly.I think that bugs me the most.You don’t want to hammer the energy out of him but someone needs to take him aside.
I think sexton only has a decent chance to make a three under absolutely perfect conditions. Has to be absolutely still, no lateral motion, no one in face face unless he is smoking hot. Probably part of his reticence.
The defense is getting absolutely shredded and Sexton is a turnover machine and guys aren’t hitting any shots.
Somehow they’re only down 9 LMFAOOOO incredible!!! Still in the game!
They climb back into it and Sexton with two turnovers that turn into runout points and they’re back down 10 again.
Sexton has a real talent in that it seems like 95% of his TO result in fast break buckets for the opponent…very high leverage TOs…
They may have all led to points tonight. Dunno. Felt like it tho
Pretty sure they all led to fast break conversions…
Uncanny
there was a similar swing in the Grizzlies game, makes you wonder what the balance would look like with Okoro or Stevens in instead
Raptors are impressive. Defense is smothering.
Sexton is -2 for the half, feels like he should be -15…
I actually think we’re losing the game because of DG, Rubio, and Mobley… too passive on both ends of the court IMO
Don’t disagree, but Sexton’s team high 3 TO not helping…
yup
Sexton had three brutal tovs that qtr.
yup, definitely responsible for that collapse at the end of the quarter.
Mobley on pace for 40 minutes. He has to pace himself. I thought he was good on offense and defense.
man LMFAOOO 40 minutes again???
DG WHAT A PASS!!!! CEDI CLUTCH!!!!!!
Rubio i think on the pass.
ESPN has it as Darius Garland assist.
Maybe my eyes are failing me if it was the pass for the last cavs bucket.
i think so, DG had the ball the whole time and even did his patented, “wait too long” move LFMAOOO
Could be doing dishes at the time. Watching out of the corner of my eyes
I don’t think we box out. Think our bigs just jump.
Allen terrible turnover
totally gassed, got owned on the boards
WTF was Sexton… 4 point swing
God, Sexton…stop…
Get sexton off the floor
Oh Allen… LOOK OUT BELOW
JA VICIOUS dunk!