Live Thread: Cavs @ Bucks
2022-11-16Cavs take on the Bucks tonight, and will be missing Jarrett Allen. Lamar Stevens will start for him. Donovan Mitchell is going to play it seems, but despite Dean Wade being out, the Cavs a shot. I, personally, would’ve started Robin Lopez, if just to see two Lopezes battling when Rolo takes on his brother Brolo (should that be Broolo?). Speaking of brothers, Isaiah Mobley (along with Miamade Diakite) are also available tonight. The Cavs really need a win after four straight losses (all of which were close) but the league best Bucks don’t seem inclined to give them one.
At 10-3 the Bucks have found something in Javon Carter, who’s averaging 23/3/8 over the last three games. Meanwhile the Cavs have to deal with five other guys who average double digits and probable MVP Giannis. Somehow I think this comes to the wire again. I’m gonna pick the Cavs by four because nothing would be weirder than winning this one.
No quit from DG.
Single digits, buttholes tightening bucks TO
Let’s goooo
Cavs having so much trouble inside against Lopez and Giannis. Bucks looking really good tonight.
GET THE BALL TO MOBLEY IN THE PICK AND ROLL!
Garland hammered again.
Magical ten point mark.
More like Beauchump
Still within reach
DONOVAN LETS GOO LAUNCH SOME DAMN THREES!!!
They should have rested the team and sent the Canton Charge. Okoro also might need a shrink!
Mobley with some stout D on Giannis. Need a lot more of that…
Need some diakite minutes. Cuz love is worthless on D.
B. Lopez just nuts in this game. Can’t do much if he’s going to go off like that.
Could really have used LeVert though. What is going on with him?
Lamar is at least fighting.
good question re LeVert
Levert is a super trick or treater. He’s been tricking the last few games.
Okoro 20 minutes, zero rebounds.
shit is almost impossible to do unless you suck that badly.
You have to shoot that, Ice or Okoro.
Cedi didn’t shoot the 3, Okoro didn’t shoot the 3, Okoro missed a wide open pass to Cedi and threw it away LMFAOOOO
Get okoro out of here. Screw his development. He has zero courage. Wow that was shocking
Turns out when you have zero meaningful bigs…you cant compete with maybe the largest team in NBA history
so from being down 61-60 .. now we are down 91-71… 31-11 quarter.
It’s felt like a 31-11 quarter…
vintage no defense kevin love game
23 seconds of good defense, still got a wide open 3.
and this is without dealing with Holiday on the offensive and defensive end for DG and DM.
Not Holiday…no Middleton…4 other players put.
Doesnt mean those guys would for sure make them better…they didnt win a title last year with them. But it does mean Allen is way more important than most think…and wade is actually a core piece probably rather than a peripheral piece
over double the rebounds for the Bucks… Mobley has 3 rebounds, Okoro has zero in 16 minutes.
Their 2 starting guards are outrebounding our starting forwards 8-7.
LMFAOOO good stat!
I think 8-6 is a really representative record for the team. We’re good but pretty far from great
for sure, especially this early in the process.
Oof. Love on that non-lopez closeout. Don’t think Lopez could have had more time.
At this point, just let Lopez get the single game record for threes…
7 3’s for Brook Lopez….
DARIUS GARLAND BLOCK!
bout damn time.
game is out of hand, offense has no flow. all we do is DG + DM, no secondary guys involved at all. during that early win streak we had Love and Cedi cooking
Maybe this team will be healthy Friday? 🤦♂️
Yeah, not looking great…
Damn stevens
Thats where you really miss JA.
alrighty then brook middleton
THERE YOU GO LAUNCH THREES PLEASE
Guess we’re just gonna let Lopez hit 14 threes tonight…
That Celtics team is on pace to be the most annoying team of all time. Have already made 18 threes end of the 3rd. Basically all they do is shoot threes.
I dont think you are allowed to be annoyed by shot selection.
Flop selection….thats another story
Our bench has 8 points in 36 min and theirs have 27 in 44 min…
We were up 45-35 at the 10 min mark and we got outscored 26-10 in the last 10 min of the 2nd quarter…
12-7 on foul calls, INVESTIGATE THE REFS!!!
Bring in the robots!
https://twitter.com/oldseaminer/status/1593064717995892738?s=20&t=FMTwUl3iHg-Yt86LFHVrrg
Bucks shooting nearly double the amount of 3s…. cavs only shot 14 of them even though we have two of the premier 3ball shooters in the NBA.
It’s the defense. They’re letting anyone but giannis beat them.
i agree the problem this game is the defense, but that doesn’t change the fact at those rates Cavs are gonna lose the game.
just everyone is blowing by (I saw Ibaka beat someone off the dribble)
Guess the cavs could chuck em. Think part of that is gravity of Giannis and bucks having essentially everyone other Giannis 4 out and with a green light. Otherwise you’re looking at dg/dm pullup treys and creating treys for love, levert, Cedi, and DM or DG from one of DG/DM.
Cedi, Love zero 3pt attempts… probably could start there.
But again requires DM/DG entirely creating those shots. Or them chucking. If love is hot ok. Otherwise needs a catch and shoot.
i don’t get your point, how is that different than any other game? LMFAO
Bucks are very long and harder to get those catch and shoot against them.
I don’t buy that at all, Lopez, BP, and Serge camp in the paint they’re aren’t guarding the perimeter and they’re missing Jrue.
Love has had o hold on the trigger on a couple closeouts
the numbers don’t bear that out… slightly above average 3pt defense, nothing special or elite about them.
sigh. I am just saying what I am actually seeing. Not saying they’ve been great but if the guards have trouble getting into the paint or kicking it out thru, then this team will have fewer treys.
or maybe the scheme’s not great, since there’s more evidence that’s the case over the past two seasons? LMFAOOO which also what I’m seeing.
Wow foul on giannis. Doesn’t mean much as called on the floor.
Solid first half. Cavs should have more offense on floor.
https://twitter.com/beyondtheRK/status/1593061180062720001?s=20&t=_kEXph5SG_sNlaOsGvufVw
Was just about to post this – thanks CLF!
LETS GOOOOOOOo
Mobley got hacked
Yep.
exactly, so much body contact before they blocked his shot.
5 points for Giannis.. and its a tied game.. those 3’s are killing us.
Not as much as the free throws.
Giannis airball ft. Hahahaha
11-18 Ft for Bucks.. we need to stop fouling.. stop that and the 3’s and we’ll be okay.
Good luck on not fouling.
Three egregious calls this game. Separate two egregious blocks called for giannis.
that jumper from Mobley looked good, but he was shooting on the left side of the floor that time.
Don’t breath on Giannis
🦌 huntin’ season
Okoro got effed on that
Mobley gotta close better.
That’s a non call and flip by Portis
Flop
BS call.
Mobley’s hook shot becoming a little bit more automatic.
I feel pretty good about it usually. Not so much about his j this year.
Can’t leave Lopez open at the 3
Tough call
LMFAO cavs getting outrebounded 22-9?????
Unsurprising against this team when Allen is out.
Cavs shooting insanely well but not clearing the def board as well as they could. 9 boards in a half and competing is one of the weirdest things ive everseen
Good game so far.
yup stars showing out
I would like some neto mins
Stevens has played great. Solid D on bigger guys including Giannis
Mobley is shooting worse this year on midrangers. Don’t have the stats but feel like he was not terrible with that shot last year.
his jumper looks worse than it did early last year, fire the shooting coach sheesh… set the ball way across his body it’s ugly.
Some of the sophmore slump just comes down to adding muscle and having to recalibrate especially for bigs. I expected weird year for him with a major jump on year 3
yeah I’ve consistently made the comp to KG and KG didn’t pop on offense until year 4 or 5 actually.
But the jumper looks straight up awful, the mechanics… has nothing to do with muscle or sophomore slump.
Love ya but Disagree. Even on free throws you can see him struggling to manage the extra strength but adding more rotation with his fingertips and his consistency is all over the place so far
Offense looks very stagnant tonight, setting picks but no secondary off ball action
They didnt look like that to start. Discipline going away as game progresses and DG being hot kinda screwed with it
offense has been fantastic, the defense on the other hand…
Hily shiiiiiiit Okoro
Ice slam!
https://twitter.com/oldseaminer/status/1593061696687394817?s=20&t=EOaKyl2nLNuuuwLahxSENA
Damn okoro.
Damn Okoro!
Ugh, another shit call.