Live Thread: Cavs @ Heat
2021-12-01Good evening CtB!
Tonight the Cavs travel to South Beach to take one of the Eastern Conference’s most formidable foes, the Miami Heat. The Heat have had the Cavs’ number for a long while, winning 9 out 10 previous matchups. Luckily for the Cavs, they should be coming into the game healthier after today’s report that Bam Adebayo will be out about six weeks after thumb surgery.
The Cavs will be again missing key reserves Cedi Osman and Dean Wade, along with Collin Sexton. The Heat will be missing Bam, Markieff Morris, and possibly Jimmy Butler and Dwayne Dedmon. They should get back Tyler Herro.
With Bam out, look for the Cavs to try and dominate the paint with their plethora of big men. On the defensive end, the task for the Cavs will be containing Butler, Herro, and Lowry from getting into the paint and collapsing the defense for easy kickouts or oops to the bigs.
Tip off is scheduled for 7:30PM ET, and will be broadcasted on Bally Sports Ohio/Great Lakes, GO CAVS!
Excuse me 3!!!
LOL….WHAT A QUARTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DG BUZZER HEATER REST IN PISS SOUTH BEACH BOZOS!!!!
Jeez I enjoyed that a little too much
OR NOT ENOUGH???????
Freaking love this team
LOVE WITH THE BLOCK!!!!!
OMG RICKY TO MOBES AND 1!!!
RUBIO TO MOBLEY AGAIN!!!!!!! MIAMI BUNCHA CHUMPS!!!!
Mobley everywhere
Cavs guarda nor over dominating the ball has cleaned up some of the turnovers.
Best stevens game in a while. Really playing well.
Gritty
He gritty, not pretty. And I was calling for Windler earlier.
DG & Allen scoreless for the quarter until that last splash from DG.
Good recovery after a poor start to the 3rd.
Stevens gotta dunk that, but got the bailout foul
STEVEN HUSTLE!!!!!!!!!
Don’t hurt yourself Mobes…
KLove throwback game…
Getting calls in Miami. Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Clause
Rubio gets the harden hook foul
Heat defending the lob well this period
Rubio has got to atop forcing the interior play and hit okoro on the corner/wing. Hes wide open.
Or stevens.
15 TOs mid third. We’d be up 25 if we valued the ball better.
Lowry definitely still moving into Okoro while he was in the air. Good call.
Incredible the refs let the Cavs have that one…
Heat will probably get this but its a low expected value challenge here. I think lowry moved in after gather started.
Lowry with 2 very dangerous late step ins to try to take the charge. Got a bad call earlier…probably will get this bad call too
Okoro was lucky Lowry didn’t get that call…
Spo agrees.
I think it was a block, but Lowry usually gets that crap called in his favor…
He stepped in late. Like a lot late. Was a good call.
GREAT DEFENSE LOVE!!!
Mobley’s O keeping us on top.
JA gets that weak stuff outa here…
WTF Bigs are getting mugged, finally foul call
MOBLEY PATIENCE IN THE PAINT!
Turnovers going to kill us
Blocks might save us!
One thing I love about Mobley. No. Matter how much he struggles early, he never seems to press offensively. Lets the game come to him.
Very even keeled
He plays like a 33 year old future HoFer…
Reminds me of grant hill
The Mobley fallaway jumper look unstoppable -Durant-like…
DG TO MOBLEY!!!!! LETS GOOOOOO
SUFFOCATING DEFENSE
MOBES!!
MOBLEY LOOKING TO SCORE LETS GOOOO
Imagine how much we could dominate if we didnt turn it over this much.
Good TO. Rough start.
Is that TOs on 4 of the last 5 possessions?
Egads. 3 points in 4 minutes.
The Heat can shoot.
Time to get some good looks…good TO…
WTF Okoro
Herro did exact same thing first half and didn’t get called.
great ball movement Lauri just missed.
DRob has really stunk it up this season…
GET that WEAK STUFF OUTTA HERE
nice pass DG, JA bad pass.
Omg! Just caught up. What a half.
damn DG cooked Robinson but didn’t pull up.
then turns it over, get it together DG
Mobley on the board
MOB3BS!!
WANT TO SEE WINLER GET SOME MINUTES THE 2ND HALF—WE WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO GET AN ACCURATE EVALUATION IF WE DON’T GIVE HIM GAME MINUTES TO SEE IF HE CAN COMPETE AT THIS LEVEL— C’MON J.B.
Love to see Love playing well.
I think the Rickey reunion has helped him a lot. Plus the fact that Mobley is just so obviously gifted that it makes the demotion easier to take.
IDK if he wants out or not, but I’d really like to hold in to Live & Rubio this year and see what this team can do.
I realize Miami is down Jimmy & Bam.
Strus probably scoring more than Butler would have so far. But yeah, they’re down their two best players.
NBA app just staring at the Heat logo in the center. Now I see it as a Cuttlefish going through a hoop.
Mobley looking a little out of sorts on the offensive end, but on the other side of the court the kid is a monster.
MOBES WITH NO POINTS BUT STILL IMPACTING THE GAME —–IF HE AND LAURI GET GOING THE 2ND HALF–HEAT COULD BE IN FOR A LONG NIGHT
Mobley has no points and two TOs. Also, 5 boards, 3 dimes, and 4 blocks.
he’s getting rooked tonight… just needs to be more aggressive offensively
Great on D, though.
Love and Rubio definitely have some bounce in their step. This is such a fun team. Great combination of exuberant youth and a couple savvy vets.
You know it’s a fun team when loads of fans of other teams across the league are saying, and have been saying it. Cavs are a League Pass team now.
Hellava flurry there to push it back to 15.
Love with 17/4/3 in 12 min on 5-6 from the field, all triple tries.
DG with 13 & 4 dimes on 5-8 & 3-5 from deep.
Fro with 13/7 on 5/6 FGs.
Ice with 8 on 4-5 FGs.
GOT GIVE BUCKAROO A SHOUT OUT —HERO IS GOING TO BE A DAMN GOOD PLAYER —-WILL STILL TAKE D.G. OVER HIM
the anti-Herro agenda will prevail NOMAD!!! LMFAOOOO
Cavs absolutely needed a guy like DG.
Great half by the Cavs. Both teams scrapping and playing hard. Shot blocking and shooting by KLove and Garland is the difference.
I arrive just in time for the break 🙄
Highlights?
LOVE IS BACK BABYYY!!!!
Catch him while he’s hot?? 🤪
Also, DG is good…
BACK INTO TIME WITH “TIMBERWOLVES ” LOVE AND RUBIO —–LOVING IT !!!
JARRETT ALLEN IN THE NICK OF TIME!!!!!!!!!!!
Preach AC. Use the bigs
ALLEN PUNKS OUT ZERO
LOVE IS ON FIRE!!!!!!!!
Not a fan of early shot clock Rubio triples.
Thought at 36% for the year.
GREAT PASS DG!
GREAT CUT LOVE! NICE PASS RUBIO!
If there are two areas that really worry me about our start, it is TOs (we are 29th in TO rate) and perhaps we’ve been a bit fortunate with other teams missing shits. Pluto said we are in the longest streak in the league (11 games?) without an opponent cracking 40%, from deep.