Live Thread: Cavs vs Mavs
2024-02-27The battle of the “avs” is brewing in the RMF as we celebrate Slovenian Heritage Night and the coming of Luka Doncic to the shores of Lake Erie. The Cavs are healthy sans Ty Jerome, while Luka will play despite getting clocked in the shnoz the other night. Only former Cav Dante Exum is out for Dallas. It should be a high scoring affair as Luka doesn’t guard anyone, while the tall Mavs will give Mitchell, Garland, and Strus trouble. Should be fun. Go Cavs!
Guards need to start rebounding instead of watching
Put in CPJ
Oof getting annihilated on the glass. Feels like the playoffs
Keep niang in JB
God Niang is a dumpster fire and Mobley isnt helping on offense
LeVert has been kind of trash lately too.
Agreed on that, but he does create so i like him to put some pressure on the defense at least. IDK why Merrill cant get some rub
JB is a bum!
How about some CPJ and Merrill?!
Alright let’s change this lineup
This lineup stinks
Having trouble getting rebounds
Love seeing DG shooting these 3s
Bulls looked real rough; they should be happy to only be -9
Meanwhile the Niang defensive game looks like a 50 year old at the Y
Garlands shot looking smooth.
DG 4-7 from 3
Okoro: 2-4
Rest of the team: 2-13
Man I love Wades defensive game. So fundamentally sound
Wade with some great defense.
DG3!
Strus hits his very next shot after the buzzer beater! Carry on, son!
The second one toilet bowled out – almost went in too.
Great article from Fedor about Irving. I’m surprised to hear Kyrie say all of that.
Feels strange to say that Kyrie was here for only six years
RAOUL “ HOT HAND” 👍👍———THE ONLY TIME I HAVE HOT HANDS ANYMORE IS WHEN I BURN THEM ON THE STOVE…….. OR THE OCCASIONAL “ ROMANTIC INTERLUDE “ WITH “ THE “ MRS NOMAD 👍🤪
A HIGH IQ BASKETBALL PLAY BY MOBES / STRUS —— UNDERSTANDING EACH OTHER !!
STRUS TOP PLAY OF THE NIGHT——— HOPE THIS CAN “ JUMP START “ HIS CONFIDENCE / SHOOTING
He had like two heat checks in the last quarter prior to the last shot, all of them were wet. He had the hot hand. Watching the replay, there doesn’t seem to be any signal or talk between he and Mobley on the last play – it just seemed understood that he was gonna take the shot. A tight team that know each other can pull this kind of stuff off. Glorious.
I’ll admit, I was very much WTF R U DOING MOBLEY in the moment.I didn’t think they’d get the shot off. Felt glorious to be so wrong.
The “Hot Hand” is hard to explain to people that haven’t ever had it. Fond memories!
On NBA.com
What a shot.. they had to give him the focus on ESPN
Love this capture because JA and Caris have looks on their faces like Max is screaming a bad word in front of his mom.
Loved the way everyone ran to Strus, except Allen – who just stood there jaws agape for a long time.
STILL WOULD LIKE TO SEE SOME SAM MY MAN 👍🏀
BULLS TONIGHT—— ANOTHER “ POTENTIAL PLAYOFF STATEMENT “ GAME———— SEND A MESSAGE
I think if we win Bulls and Pistons we clinch division tiebreaker over Milwaukee, who may make up some ground in the next few weeks
WATCHED REPLAY —STILL GOT EXCITED ON STRUS s SHOT ————- REALLY LIKE HOW ICE IS PLAYING CAVS NEED TO FIND AWAY TO KEEP HIM——- NEED TO CLEAN UP OUR RECKLESS BALLHANLING / PASSING/ HOPING DG FIND s HIS “ MOJO “ SOON
OMG 👍🍺🏀👍🍺🏀👍🍺🏀👍🍺🏀🎵🍺🏀
I am trying to correct some grammer, and I can’t save the comment because “duplicate comment detected”.
You repeating yourself again, Raoul? 😉
no. trying to clean up grammer so the CtB gang doesn’t think I am an idiot!
Is Doncic the best player in the NBA now?
He’s definitely got the purest game. I think LBJ, Giannis, and Jokic have physical gifts that elevate them above his level. But he just turned 25. Today! Lol
not sure that LBJ is still in that discussion. He still is occasionally the best player in the NBA on a given night, but so are a lot of guys.
My picks for best for the year are Giannis, Jokic, and Doncic, in no particular order. All Europeans, I might add.
Anyone else at that level?
Probably Embiid. He’s been incredible
I went to the game it was unbelievable. I think I would have been annoyed that they needed a half court heave to win, but they got sooooooo egregiously boned by the refs it felt like justice. Go Cavs!
It was fun to watch on tv. Must have been great in person!
No doubt. The officiating was horrid.
what’s his name has leading +/- again
Knicks and Sixers lose, Bucks win.
The sound of the ball snapping the net from 59 feet and the pause and then riot is sooooo satisfying. Mavs had 23 assists to our 35. They were just hitting pull ups like nobody’s business, man. We’re gonna need all the extra close wins we can manage to have a chance in round 1
make that round 3
2nd longest game winner in NBA history.
The memorable shot was the second-longest game-winning buzzer-beater in the 3-point era, according to Basketball Reference. Only Devonte’ Graham has hit a longer one — 61 feet — in that span in the New Orleans Pelicans‘ victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder on Dec. 15, 2021.
According to ESPN Stats & Information, Strus is the fourth player in the past 25 seasons to make five 3s in the final four minutes of game.
Rather be lucky than good. Both guards rough as hell (7 TOs for DM, 20% shooting for DG). Luka beating the shit out of us.
Wildest finish ever with the Strus 3s the DG tackle and a few funky turnover calls
Its so fantastic that it’s Markieff.
Saw this too and had to chuckle.. love seeing the bench reactions in these situations from both sides.
Serious question: should Garland continue to be part of the starting/closing lineups?
I mean, I know he will. JB is a long way from making that change. And we should make everyeffort to make it work.
But I’m not asking if he will. I am asking, from a pure BBall perspective, is he one of our top 5? In crunch time, do you want him out there?
Offense yes.
Yes. He could be stronger to / with the ball but he had some really great possessions, including a dish for a Mitchell 3, that stopped Donovan’s weird stretch
No; he’s anti-clutch
He’s got to figure out the end of game. The poor games definitively are scarring as a fan. But the good games, damn. Thing is, he’s still a little lackadaisical, at times, and too tight in others. He doesn’t need to keep the ball in his hands until his shot of the last second for that assist. Just bring it up under pressure and start the offense. There’s more guys to trust. It’s not on him
Unreal end to that game. One for the ages. The Max Strus game.
There has been more than one. But none this memorable.
4th quarter comeback epic. 4 shooters out
Holy shit. I got goosebumps.
That was one of the coolest endings to a cavs game in a very long time.
I’m glad I tuned in
Im sick as a dog and just jumped about 5 feet off the couch
Omg!!!
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME
Oh my gosh !!!! I had to scream 😱
Why do you have Mobley as the I bounder?
That’s incredible! Mad Max!
Why wouldn’t he make that,he made everything else!!!!!!
HOLY SHIT!
Holy fucking shit Max Strus
FUUUCKKKK OFFFFFFFFFF!!!!
thats what our ooto play was
Cavs turnovers are killing them.
Spida with 7.
Out of bounds play 🤦♂️
Cavs protection of ball down the stretch is becoming a problem.
Jfc
WTF was that?!
You know, as soon as Mitchell passed to DG I was like “noooo!”.
Yeah. Unfortunately felt the same.
So tackling is allowed now
i mean you saw the pistons knicks right?
Man the Mavs announcers are salty AF with ref calls. Luka rubbed off on them
No 3s
No threes.
The bank is open!!!
Off the glass, sensational 😂
Mitchell MVP!
And it’s closing time!!
Oof
Bahhh. Goddammit
Well. Ok then.
Nice to see Cavs get a little bit of luck (Kyrie’s foot) and take full advantage of it.
That bank shot 3 felt another bit of luck.
Spida!
Lol. Hell yeah.
That was a foul on Hardaway..Strus could have gone on the line to tie.
Strus is loose.
Love seeing Strus catch a bit of fire. Benn a tough year for him