Live Thread: Cavs vs Raptors 2016-02-26 Off By Nate Smith Well, Iman Shumpert is GO! And the Cavs look to be at full strength against the Raptors, who are sporting a fully healthy roster as well. This probable Easter Conference Finals match-up looks to be a fun one! Go Cavs! Stat Stats: Joe Johnson’s New Year’s Resolution Recap: Toronto 99, Cleveland 97 (Or, the time Kyle Lowry was the best player in the Eastern Conference)
Love what Lue has done with the offense…. like a finely-tuned engine… /s
I’m surprised the Cavs did nothing to throw Lowry a curveball down the stretch. Just Delly on an island. No help, no double teams.
LeBron should’ve guarded him. But when he falls down after every shot and the refs call it, what can you do?
I think Lowry was only doubled once in the second half. Lue takes the biggest share in this loss IMO
Kyrie sucked in this game! what the hell? Lowry and Kyrie flipped flopped from a year ago. Moz was useless. Surprised Lue didn’t have TT in at the end. Lebron fought a tough game. Never came out in the 4th.
Pretty disheartening loss. Should have had it in the bag in the third. Gotta shoot better and maybe not let Lowry drop 100… Championship in 7, still
The refs were awful in this game. So was Kyrie’s defense.
If Ben liked Lowry over Kyrie BEFORE this game….
I’d take Lowry over Kawhi.
We could’ve used Andy.
This game was for anyone who didn’t think Toronto could beat Cleveland in a playoff series.
It proves TOR can beat CLE at her me with help from the refs. So CLE just needs to wn the home games
I have never seen so many offensive calls in my life.
Well they haven’t won a playoff series yet, so they should first accomplish that!
Cavs would sweep Toronto. This game proves nothing.
If anyone needs a good laugh, rewatch the GOP debate from last night.
That audience was drunk before they came in.
Yeah it’s hilarious to see our potential leaders acting like clowns…..
Defning moment: http://media.salon.com/2016/02/gopdebate-614×412.jpg
Excited about the panic coming…
No panic here — I was well aware before this game that Toronto is no gimme in the playoffs. I’m sure there be the usual panic from the usual suspects at any critical comments from this game, though.
wow. lebron…you of all people should know that you don’t need to be the one shooting that three. JR or Kevin or even Delly is a better option. Cmon man.
Cavs won this game. Just got hosed by the refs again vs Toronto. Seems to happen every year vs Toronto.
Hindsight here… But they never tried Lebron or Shump on Lowry?
They did try Shump. Lowry drew late whistle fouls every single time
Man. Hope this is an impetus to work on our defense against strong point guards
Yeah. Poor coaching throughout. Sad when Austin Carr has the scouting report on Lowry and no one on Cavs bench tells Delly.
Man. That’s a tough loss. I haven’t been this frustrated by a Cavs game since the Christmas day game.
I hate this Toronto team
How is that what you draw up?
Frustrating night.
Terrible minutes management by Lue. And a bad 4th quarter meltdown being up by 9 late. Playing LeBron the whole second half was stupid.
+ freaking 1. Gotta rest Lebron more than that, even if the Raps were scorching them when he was out.
Look…do you want to win games against good teams or not care about that and just beat bad teams on our way to the #1 seed? Cuz we have a really great player who can help us win (tonight excluded, and you’re logic CANNOT BE we lost anyway, cuz we got homered) while playing, and we didn’t have answers tonight with him on the bench. He’s not 90 years old. he’s 31 or something like that. he can take a few extra minutes.
Damn Vegas made out like a bandit… 2/3 of the action was on CLE. Sharps taking TOR. Something smells fishy…
Well that suck.
Delly blew that one
You’re an idiot. Your boy Frye looked like a 50 year old foul machine.
yikes. easy there. Yes, Cols, Delly had little to do with the loss. but no need to call someone an idiot. Frye didn’t play much in the second half…that was GOOD coaching. There were other coaching errors for sure.
Lue screwed up the timeouts at the end. And if they were going for a 3 to win, he shouldn’t have had LeBron take it.
I couldn’t believe LeBron took the last three. Glad they went for the win though.
Go for the three. Get out of here.
Would be kind of fun to win by ten in overtime thoigh
But not by LeBron………. He should have been inbounding.
Right decision terrible execution.
Lue burned two timeouts before that last inbounds, so the Cavs are out of timeouts.
Too bad Blatt wasn’t there to manage timeouts….seriously, I think Lue stunk this game.
Surprised they didn’t give that to Toronto.
Oh it actually misses kev. Nice
Did you just post your own tweet? Ha that’s so meta
Saved me from typing it twice. Since I screwed it up three times in a row on twitter, I figured, I’d better protect myself.
Uh…………. are you kidding me?
The hell happened there??
Why no shump playing during there wtf
Just curious – didn’t LeBron used to guard guys that were going off, even point guards?
I mean Lowry is eating the Cavs guards for lunch. Maybe put a longer guy on him?
Lebron has played almost the entire game, he’s probably gassed.
He played the entire second half for some reason. Lue’s rotations were terrible tonight.
Good d by Delly, better shot. Thank god it was a 2 and not a 3
Goddamnit, Delly. Second night in a row you screwed up the scouting report.
really? you think delly could have done ANYTHING else? maybe push him right but that’s pretty good d
AC Called it. Make Lowry go right. He prefers going left. See below.
His defensive footwork was also bad. He got crossed up.
Kyrie is useless out there
You know that was Delly, right?
Still will get the last shot here
Yikes. Nice analysis by AC. If Delly takes three steps down the right right lane, that’s a wide open look for Kevin.
Aw man, if JR could’ve made that extra pass..
LeBron under the hoop kicks it way out? Go up strong!
i mean it’s not like he’d be at the free throw line. refs lack of calls in there has gotten to us
Yeah, thought he was in a good position to go right up.
Not on Biyambo. Good pass.
lets please see some real passing here
At least Lowry’s using up his career game before the playoffs start
Was that a miscommunication?
Delly’s gotta dig in. LBJ or TT has to at least swipe a hand in there.
I’m ok with that D. Better than a three.
How was that not a foul on Lowery? I mean he had a defender on him.
NO THREES.
Seriously. More worried about three point plays thogh
Gotta get a stop
Delly let him back him down way too easily. Wow Lowry going off tonight
Delly / LeBron pick and rolls are my favorite initial offensive action.
I cant believe lowry has the balls to complain about a call.
Honestly, what a joke. Watching this game on film will be one big laugh fest for the raps. I can just hear Casey telling them “make sure you are getting these crap calls the rest of the way boys…we can’t lose!”
Love with a huuuuuuge three to tie it at 95. 2 more free throws to push it to 97-95 advantage good guys
Wow. I am shocked they called that foul on Lowry.
Great play, Kevin. Great passing.
Lowery was called for a foul. Which means 10 free throws for the CRaptors!
Love actually didn’t even touch Lowry while he was shooting. Lowry reached out for contact. Refs should be shot with airsoft guns while watching themselves botch this game
Kyrie With just terrible d on Ross back there, and LeBron has no energy.
No surprise, Lebron is at 39 freaking minutes…
Love got caught on this mismatch.. No way the refs aren’t calling that based on how it’s been the entire game
I honestly dont understand how they expect us to play defense.
Unreal. Shoddy defense sure, but the refs have guided this game back to competitive
Gonna guide the Raps to a win…
Another late whistle.
This is 2006 D-Wade stuff right here.
I don’t usually complain about refs too often but they really took over this game. Bummer.
Exactly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kyrie’s man scores. What a surprise
Love can’t buy a 3!
I’m so angry right now!
Of course it’s only a common foul!
That foul by JOnas on Lebron would be a flagrant. Happens so many times a game, just called a common foul
Cavs/Raps would be a hell of a playoff series.
The Cavs need to figure out how to slow dribble penetration.
How was that not a friggin flagrant after delly’s joke of a flagrant?
Terribly officiated game
JR made him earn em. Most you could ask there.
Shouldn’t that be a flagrant? He grabbed LeBron around his neck!
I don’t like this Raptors team…
Seems eerily similar to the brand of bully basketball the Celtics tried to use last year
They will choke in the playoffs when Lowery can’t buy calls.
Way too much dribbling by Kyrie, let’s move the ball! We got this
Surprised that wasn’t a flagrant on the Cavs…
Kyrie is horrible this year
Watch some basketball before you spew crap like that
He is killing us this game.
He’s been terrible this game, for sure…
He was useless. TT would have helped us more.
Are you kidding me on that shump foul call?
How do they expect the cavs to play defense?