Live Thread: Cavs @ Nuggets
2023-01-06Good evening CtB!
The Cavs are in the Mile High City to take on the Denver Nuggets, what will be a massive test against the best of the Western Conference. The Cavs will have to do it without Donovan Mitchell, who is understandably on load management, and possibly also Darius Garland, who is a game-time decision.
This is a matchup that Tower City needs to win against the formidable tandem of Nikola Jokic and Aaron Gordon for the Cavs to have a chance. Denver is ranked #2 in the NBA in offensive rating (116.7), while the Cavs are ranked #1 in the NBA in defensive rating (108.5). Something’s gotta give. The Cavs would do well to pay attention to how Denver moves the ball on offense, they are ranked #1 in the NBA in assist ratio at 20.3. The Cavs rank 19th at 17.4.The ball movement needs to improve if the Cavs want to compete with the best of the best.
Tip off is scheduled for 9:00PM Eastern time and will be broadcasted live on Bally Sports Ohio/Great Lakes, Go Cavs!
When the talk all day was “who is resting?” It’s a bit of an eye roll when JB’s press conference is all about “we weren’t locked in” and “I don’t think we gave em our best shot.”
Arch I thought Garland must be worse from 3 too…turns out he’s at 40% and would be the highest in his career so far.
His problem is he’s shooting like 46% at home, 30% on the road. It’s one of the strangest stats for this season so far.
That’s bonkers. Has to be vision related i would think. He is so comfortable with the home arena that his vision doesnt need to be as good?
Maybe, could just be one of those outlier things, nothing like this had happened in his previous seasons.
Happy birthday, Chris!
THank you Nate!
between Lamar and Okoro…we went 0-1 from 3. really hard to win when your wings don’t even try to shoot 3s and missing DM and Love and DG both have hurt hands and can’t shoot that well. We can’t keep both those guys.
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Happy Birthday Chris!
KCP been such a glue guy with 3 and D this year.
letting him and Caruso go did the Lakers in
It was pretty stupid.
Not quite sure why they didn’t rest a lot of guys. Also sharife Cooper should be on a ten day RN.
we have 6 turnovers. would that be our lowest total of the season? still getting destroyed. rebounding has been atrocious and our second half 3s have all been desperate or dribbled into instead of catch and shoot.
Not too worried about tonight. DG and Mobley aren’t 100pct. No Mitchell. Just not our night.
Agree. I thought they competed well & hung around despite Nuggs hot 3pt shooting and Jokic’s inside work. They were only 9 down with 8 min left in thr 4th from memory. Mobley cleans up his FTs and this game was a lot closer. Then add Mitchell? The gap isn’t as big as I thought it was.
Rebounding this bad all second half?
There weren’t any rebounds, Denver has been shooting lights out
Denver shooting 55, 50 and 79
we need to launch 3s and get lucky
Like Toronto the other night. They should just empty the bench.
yup
And that was likely the lead. They should’ve rested most of em.
Pretty much gotta be perfect from here.
Jokic three steps.
With Mitchell we win this game
Altitude catching up with Cleveland.
Jokic man among boys…
Mobley fouled
Gah. Mobley gotta swing that faster. Can’t wait for d to recover.
Hey ass hats reffing…when a guy lands out of bounds it is too late for him to throw the ball off the other team
Oh. That was some some bullshit.
This is the first time in a long time when I’ve watched the Nuggets and Hyland has been anything but a useless chucker…
Back from the hot tub. This is within reach.
Points wise yeah. But it really is not. We couldnt gain ground on their b team
Cavs hanging around. There’s still time
Defense getting its back blown out and Cavs choking at the FT line… sucks
Exactly why I wish they had rested DG…may have aggravated the thumb there.
Also, swapping in DJ for Jokic is like sliding the difficulty settings a long way toward ‘easy’…
Balls. He will be even worse shooting now. This is a winnable game. Neato time baby
DG hurt good grief can’t we just have nice things
God Jordan is just creaming everyone
10-23 FTs.
Oof that is flat out embarrassing
They need a waiter to slip a matchbook under the support
By the time this game resumes Rubio will be ready
Post of the night
I had to chuckle
Can we lodge a protest?
What the heck is happening? Did denver screw us with a crooked hoop in the 2nd half?
I think we should go back to halftime & start over from there.
Yes plz
I might punt this game.
We don’t play tomorrow. Still a lot of time. Denver can get sloppy/three happy. A cold spell and we are back in.
To rebutt myself, we kinda already did, sitting Mitchell.
Woof Mobley.
Mobley going need to be like Giannis and really put in that work on the free throw line..
Mobleys missed all his FTs. 🤦♂️
I will give DG a pass with the thumb.
Good effort tonight. Still not over. But give me Soida, Rubio, & Wade and I think we can take them.
And we can’t make a friggin free throw
Bugs just can’t miss from 3
Ugly shot by Stevens
Neto has been putting in some solid minutes
Mobes is in a real funk. Undecisive, lost his court awareness…we need rubio. For that matter…we need to remember to involve Neto in the offense more than just sitting in the corner.
He looked great in the first half. I guess the consistency will come with experience
Mobley either needs to bulk up or learn to improve his shot. He gets bullied under the rim and can’t really shoot well.
Don’t see this happening the way the Nuggs are shooting above the break threes…just killer. And DG obviously doesn’t feel comfortable shooting yet with the thumb. Either way, good effort.
Nuggets 15 3’s against our 8 (21 more points) and we have missed 11 free throws.. come on Cavs !
Bizarro Cavs night. Solid first half, shitting the bed in the second half.
Mile High air
FFS, make a FT Evan.
Not sure what the stats show but Garlands 3-pt % seems to be down this year.
Man Denver can shoot
If they are healthy, they are good an offensive team as there is. Jokic, Murray, Porter, and Hyland.
LET CARIS COOK
League pass is continuous gambling ads. Still not used to that whole thing
Hate it. It’s everywhere.
Le3ert
That didn’t look like an illegal screen. Bad call against Love.
Good last couple minutes. Stabilized it.
Denver coming back down to earth. They were shooting lights out
DG CLUTCH BUCKET
Desperately need shooting
CARIS BIG BUCKET
WHAT A PASS DG TO MOBLEY
Like the resilience
6 of 15 FTs. Putrid.
Left 9 points at the line
and co7nting
Obviously one of those random Cavs games where everyone shoots FTs like they’re drunk…
Gosh FTs 🤦♂️
Defense no showing, Offense not as good at passing as Denver
I am ready to shelve that point forward idea for Mobley this year. Give the ball to a ball handler and go get some High post touches young man.
Haha, I feel you, I’m biting my finger nails every time he’s dribbling
Simply cannot allow that follow-up offensive board…that’s just gifting them points…
Geez, Jokic.
If we can defend that weak side corner three better we win