Live Thread: Heat @ Cavs
2021-12-13Good evening CtB!
Tonight the fans are in for a treat, with the Miami Heat coming to town to face off against the Cavs in a early season playoff preview. The Heat will be without their best player, Jimmy Butler, but Kyle Lowry is an NBA champion and ultimate competitor. The Heat also have young stars Bam Adebayo and Tyler Herro, both of whom with Finals’ experience and are looking to make names for themselves as All-Star/All-NBA players. Also, the Heat surely are trying to establish themselves as real championship contenders along with Milwaukee and Brooklyn. The Cavs have thrived in challenging opportunities, so the opportunity to usurp the team ahead in the standings seems like the perfect bait!
The Cavs will just be without young guard Collin Sexton, but will have all other hands on deck. Supposedly Dylan Windler had a great game in his Charge assignment, so it’ll be interesting to see if Coach J.B. Bickerstaff sees a chance to exploit that newfound rhythm.
This will be a classic “strength vs. strength” game with the Miami Heat’s top 10 offense going against the Cavs’ top 5 defense. In another contrast of styles, the Heat sacrifice size to put more shooting and offensive play creation on the floor. Can the Cavs’ size dominate the game? That’s really the only question because when they impose their will on the game, the Cavs play championship caliber basketball.
Tip off is scheduled for 7:00PM ET and the game will be broadcasted on Bally Sports Ohio/Great Lakes… GO CAVS!
DG OFF THE BOARD TO MOBLEY!
RUBIO IS THE MAN
That KLove pump fake has gotten more birds…
DG completely asleep weakside.
Got stuck on a weak screen
LOVE EATING IN THE POST
Well, still up 5. Not feeling great about this one.
Mobley looking like a rook tonight. That has not happened often.
Love saved us this quarter.
We should just start calling JB “8-Man.”
Why no Cedi?
What’s up with no Cedi ???
he looked awful, but JB’s being a bozo.
Does JB just not know how to use more than an 8 man rotation? Is he just gonna give Cedi’s minutes to stevens?
no cuz he did it last year LMFAOOOO
Didn’t even notice no Cedi in the 3rd quarter, JB coaches like it’s college sometimes LMFAOOO
Great finish, Love!
LOVE IS DOMINATING!!!
PJ Tucker is gonna have a career high in points
damn PJ Tucker killing it.
WOW Mobley is out of sorts,
damn nice idea but gotta execute. Love is balling now.
LOVE SHOOTING THREE!!!!! LOVE TAKEOVER!
SHOT CLOCK VIOLATION!!!
K3V!
JA HUSTLE LOVE FROM DEEP!!!!!
If we were not taking such good care of the ball tonight (5 TOs to their 13), we’d be in deep trouble.
Okoro going down hill has been unstoppable.
LOVE REBOUND AND OUTLET ICE FINISH!!! RAGE TIMEOUT!
cant stand Lowry
JA completely ignored for those 6 minutes.
Criminal negligence.
LOVE IS IN THE AIR!
More bullshit
holy shit what a bullshit call Lowry such a rat.
LAURI HUSTLE!
Make up call. That foul on Lowry was bs
Miami playing hard
DG with timely buckets tonight!!!
4 pts in 6 minutes is putrid.
Mobley needs to catch that and shoot
yup hesitated.
LMFAOOO OK
Bank is open for Ice!
Figured they would come out harder. Didnt figure a 10-0 run. good for the cavs to get tested this way
Oof. Mark just had his ankles broken. Lie to the point I was actually worried he might have injured himslef.
LMFAOOO Cavs come out lackadaisical part 2!!!
Mobley struggling a bit tonight with getting pushed around down low.
yup tough game for he and DG with the physicality.
wide open 3 just missed.
Mark setup maybe a little deep.
Looking for some #RealDWade mins in the 2nd half
I’m on that train.
Well, PJ hit a couple triples there at the end. Still, a very nice quarter, up 11.
Allen, DG, Ice, & Markannen all in double figures.
Cavs took a quarter off and are still up double digits LMFAOOOOO
NBA is in trouble.
People will doubt us all the way to home court in the first round
I mean we’re a good team. Probably not great team based off the health of a lot of the teams we’ve played of late. Against a healthy Miami, bucks, suns, nets, etc….we have yet to breakthrough. We win against the Bucks…..
Bucks are better than all the teams you listed so winning against them would be pretty incredible. Had a shot to win the last one though.
I think Miami will be scary when Butler and bam come back.
Of course, not saying they won’t be good. But being #6 is not a fake or flukey thing is all i’m saying. We have played the 2nd toughest schedule on the season. No reason we can’t compete with those teams.
For sure. I think we can compete. If cavs play d like they have they can be competitive against most teams. Don’t think we’re to that level yet though as far as consistently pulling close games out against the elite teams.
Lauri got hacked on that board. Good foul by rubio.
agreed
PJ Tucker keeping them in the game.
Then Stevens should see more playing time
So many lob threats. Four in the starting lineup usually.
The Cavs are a for real 6 in the power rankings. Great adjustments by JB to insert Stevens finally and to take a couple timeouts. we can stop being surprised when they take leads quickly
OKORO FOR THREE!!!!!!!!!!
Great closeout by JA. Mobley got manhandled by pj.
RUBIO TO MOBLEY!!!!!
THE DEFENSE IS CHOKING THE HEAT OUT!
JA just dominating last few minutes.
Heat are just missing too much talent. Cavs were eventually going to break through
Isn’t over but as long as the cavs play d like they can they have very good odds against teams that are missing guys like Miami, chi town, etc.
Whoa. JA with a quasi dream shake.
JA HUSTLE TO ICE!!!!!!!!!! RAGE TIMEOUT!!!
JA SOFT TOUCH!!!!
Great d by mark. Lowry can’t bull thru a 7 footer.
Allen taking over.
Cavs grinding now, love it.
Ffs should never give up boards on fts. Dedmon pushing us round. No harm thankfully
JA keeping us in this game.
we’re winning lol. we aren’t in the game.
Haha. I’m spoiled, feels like we’re losing when we’re not up 30.
Lol posted the same thing at the same time
If we’re not up 30, we’re not in it. Loving the new normal :)
JA HUSTLE!!!!!!! RUBIO KOBE ASSIST!
LAURI NICE FINISH!
Oof. As soon as I saw okoro go up that close figured they’d call a foul.
Miami takes so many threes that make for long rebounds, Stevens is grabbing them, finally
Good board by ja.
Stevens making the most of his minutes! looks great!
Miami got us out of position last two possessions.
LAURI DONT MISS TWICE!
Lamar is making his case for MORE MINS PLZ!
Finally miami makes a mistake on roll coverage. I think I would pretty much always give the floater to us and play the lob.
damn that was a great pass Stevens! Lauri just missed.
DG STARTING TO FEEL IT!