Live Thread: Cavs vs Thunder
2025-01-08This is the game we’ve been waiting for, Cavs fans. The Cavs have lost four games: Boston, Atlanta twice, and Miami. Tonight’s battle against the 30-5 Tacoma City Plunder looks to be the best matchup of an NBA regular season that is nearing its mid-point. The Cavs have been playing a lot of scrub teams and playoff squads with major injuries and not enough depth to cover for them. It’s gonna be a blast to see how they stack up to a Thunder team that just happen to be my most hated NBA team.
Ever since Aubrey McLendon absconded from Seattle with the then Sonics in tow, Oklahoma City has been just… the worst, and I have family there. OKC has frankly beaten some better squads of late including the Gizz, the Knicks, and the Celtics on Sunday, but their losses show a key to beating them. Denver, Houston, San Antonio, Dallas, and Milwaukee (in the NBA cup championship) all feature solid big man play, and with Chet Holmgren out with an injury, only Cavalier cast-off made nemesis, Isaiah Hartenstein is the wall standing in the way of a Cavalier victory. The Cavs will need to make controlling Harty and Co. on the o-boards a priority.
The other key will be keeping grift merchant SGA off the line, and making him have to score on a lot of tough shots to beat them. Limit the other scorers, run 10 deep and make the Thunder’s limited bench pay. Then all the starters gotta do is hold serve.
Cleveland gets Ike Okoro back tonight, J.T. Thor is active, and Sam Merrill remains sidelined. Meanwhile OKC is missing the aforementioned Holmgren, Alex Caruso, A.J. Mitchell, Adam Flagler, and Nikola Topic (only two of which matter). Go Cavs.
DG got a Lenny Kravitz look in his outfit tonight..
Courtesy of ESPN, the Cavs are in legendary company when looking at the now extremely short list of teams that exceeded their winning pace through 36 games: leaving aside the 2016 also rans, the other three are the ‘67 Sixers, ‘72 Lakers, & ‘96 Bulls. That’s the list. Wow.
That’s good company.
96 Bulls best basketball I ever seen, singularly minded team on winning every game, and winning the championship… kinda like this year’s Cavs
This team is straight up special!!!
GOD I LOVE ME SOME “ HARD ROCK “ 🪨……………” IF ONLY………. “
he was good and has gotten better, and paid a lot more
TO REALLY CAP / CELEBRATE THE EVENING —- WE NEED A POST FROM “ THE EVIL 😈 GENIUS “ ——SHOCK US EVIL 😈 ONE!!!!
Man Ty Jerome letting it fly! 15 pts in 11 minutes
somehow he’s a chucker but also a great passer LMFAO
and they go in fairly often.
Might have to watch that one again.
THEY WERE MISSING CHET / CARUSO ———WE WERE MISSING SAM / “ MORE THOR “ 👍🏀💪
Plus it was Okoro’s first game back; only 13 minutes but +12. I assume he’d get a longer rotation and take more of the SGA load when fully healthy.
He was hitting Thunder guys really hard in scrambles and off screens. Impressive given he’s coming off a shoulder
OH YEAH CONGRATS 👍👍
“ LIL DISTRACTED “ ——- I ATTEMPT THAT EVERY NIGHT WITH “ THE “ MRS NOMAD —— MY SUCCESS % IS SIMILAR TO WILT’S FOUL SHOOTING % 🤪🤪🤪🤪
Hahaha! Maybe I can make a basketball fan of her yet, but that was neither the time nor the place! Lol!
First game I’ve seen on live feed in almost a month (was on a 3-week delayed honeymoon in Europe overlapping with Christmas and New Year’s – a little distracted, lol). What a game to come back for! I am loving that: (1) Mobley and especially Allen both matched up physically with Hartenstein much better than two years ago – that Knicks series is ancient history now; (2) Kenny stuck with his 10-man rotation and trusted his roster (no one played over 35 mins) in the biggest game of the regular season – imagine how hard JB would have leaned on… Read more »
Hey, congrats Windwill!!
Thanks!
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32-4…wowzers… just one more ‘W’ and the 24-25 Cavs match the win total from the infamous “Season of Huh”
#NeverForget
LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
CLF HAS ENTERED THE CHAT!
THATS RIGHT AND THE AUSSIE OPEN IN 4 DAYS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Huge game by our bigs Ja and Evan… 1st teammates with 20 points, 10 rebounds, 5 assists since Nov 17, 2017 (LBJ and D. Wade)
And the efficiency! 8 o-boards for JA. A big tap out late for Evan. Spida was 3-16 and we won.
JA 25/12/6/3/1 with 8 o-boards on 9/11 FGs.
Mobes: 21/10/7/1/1 on 8-13.
DG : 18/1/7 on 7-15.
Wade: 11/3/1 on 4-5.
Strus: 17/3/5 on 6/7.
Jerome: 15/2/1 + 2 stls on 6/7.
Ice: team best +13.
Our rebounding seems good enough to get by imo
Killer night
What a W!!!
The whole roster contributed as always. Bring on all challengers!
DG & Mobes with big boy pants on down the stretch. JA still man of match for me. How man extra possessions & fouls did he get?
Strue, Jerome, & Wade also excellent. Vert hit some big shots. Mobles darn near a triple double.
JA’s rim protection as well, blocked both Hartenstein and SGA down the stretch (though somehow the ball ricocheted right back to SGA who then scored).
129 and Mitchell was 3/16. DAYUM
Yep. If Cavs can do this with DG and Spida not playing their best, I mean…
TBF OKC missing Chet
And Caruso.
You can still only play 5 at a time.
Swap Cason and (I guess) Dort for Chet and Caruso and it’s a team that’s better in the paint but you also have to have seven footers chasing Mobley and Wade and Niang in our five out lineups, which I’m not positive Chet and iHart are up for.
It’s certainly very relevant considering he might have as big of an impact as SGA on the Thunder. Good win. Incredible season, in part I think to the cavs having been very lucky with the health of the big 4, knock on wood. Playoffs can be a different story. I am tempering my expectations, but enjoying the ride.
unbelievable.. this team is going into the record books.. they can win a 7 game series against anyone in the league.. for the next several years
Serena interviewing Evan. Can’t hear much
Incredible win!
In your face once again, national media! Eat it, Wilbon and Perk!
Seconded.
Though with Chet & Caruso, that might be different.
Maybe, but as folks have noted, the Thunder without Chet were not just beating but dominating other contenders coming into tonight. Would be great if both teams were fully healthy for the game in OKC next week.
OKC was murdering everyone leading up to this game. Wow
Yeah.
After giving up 43 in the 3rd.. only gave up 20 so far this quarter.. big improvement.
What a great game!
Clutch buckets by Mobley and DG.. Evan has really elevated his one one-on-one play this year… The past few years has been real purposeless.
Doris says it’s a “ Grown man’s play”.
For sure… I was surprised it was the play they ran after the successful challenge.
And with my “purposeless” comment meant he would just do a few moves and then just pass it out.. and not really go up strong.
Clutch!!
Ev!!!! DG!!!!
Let’s go!!!!!!
Darius! Dagger!
DARIUS!!! OKC Rage TO!
DG rather pumped.
Fuck yeah.
Attaway Mobes.
MOBLEY!!!
Challenge successful!
I’ll take it!
Can’t see them over turning it. Bad call though.
Spida does not have it off the bounce. Spot him up for a J or a cut. Let DG cook or go to the big without Hart on in
Mobes. Focus bud.
What do folks think?
I think they lose it cause these refs suck.
Prove us wrong, refs!!!
Allen doing his harty impersonation tonight
That was an obvious call
Gotta hit freebies.
Might have been better if no foul was called there.
Get Allen the ball.
SGA on level with prime Harden and Trae. Such a foul merchant
Yes. This whole team plays that way. Cavs don’t want to foul either. Let’s them rest.
Was that on the floor or shooting?
Penalty. Doesn’t matter
Right
Time to go back to the bigs.
On cue
Garland gotta be better at the point of attach there.
Cavs depth charges exploding
Not much Ice could do there
Blew the momentum
TBF the refs have been blowing obvious calls.
There’s been some bad ones but overall feel like it’s been balanced
That one with SGA oob was egregious.
Yes. Yes it was.
Ty
Dammit Ty what the hell lol
Lol. OKC missed memo on Jerome.
Cava dodging bullets at the three line.
Jerome the Cavs secret weapon. Well, maybe not so secret these days.
Attaway Ty
Evan not looking for the pass there.
Yeah. He seems to lose focus for stretches
Beau Ty!!
Strus has been masterful on both ends.
I don’t think they got that off in time.
Haven’t seen DG in a while. Injured?
Just rotation. Ten deep
Here he comes
No word on broadcast.
Shoot that first time Georgeous Georges. Yeesh.
Mr Bean reviews
Gonna go about like this for him
Shoot the ball, Georges.
I’m old enough to remember Cavs celebrating three second violations.
Dear lord, I’m generally a JB defender but that was some seriously stupid shit.
OKC help D is so smooth