Live Thread: Cavs at Hawks
2016-04-01https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FirzS-AORa4#t=58s
The last time these two teams played was November 21st. Â Can you remember how you felt about the Cavs on November 21st? Â The Hawks have quietly become as the 3rd best team in the East, behind the Cavs and the Raptors. Â But they are in a 3-way tie at 31 losses with the Heat, Celtics, and Hornets. Â The Cavs will be playing with a full deck tonight. Â The Hawks may get the support of a feisty home crowd tonight, as I’m sure Matthew Dellavedova and company will conjure up some bitter emotions from the ECF sweep.
The Cavs should hold the rebounding and 3-point shooting advantage against the Hawks. Â The Hawks have a more free flowing offense and generate more assists. Â The also turn it over a fair amount. Â They are a scrappy defense and get a fair share of steals and blocks. Â The key to the game for the Cavs could be playing to the Hawks scouting report and limiting turnovers on offense.
Let’s talk about it!
Thank Goodness Irving made one.
Kyrie is a matador on pick and roll defense. Clutch 3 though
And Irving dominates.
Are you kidding me Jeff? Did kevin really shoot you with a shotgun?
Boom. JR smith is awesome.
The heart in this team is amazing.
lol what are you talking about
I think you are accidentally watching a rerun of last season’s playoff matchup lol
I’m 100% happy that Kyrie was left in the game. This hardens players. This is what Kyrie needs. Failure or not, he needs this for his growth as a player. This is important for him to play through this.
Yep. Exactly.
And if people don’t understand that, they need to take a step back and think about it. This is very important for our growth as a team.
Kyrie is an impressive -15 while Delly is +10…
Good on Lue to keep Irving in. Gotta keep shooting out of his slump.
Way he’s going, he’s going to shoot them out of the playoffs…
This type of game against a quality opponent is CRUCIAL for the Cavs’ growth. We need hard fought games, win or lose. We need to fine tune our craft in close games against good opponents. Our guys are engaged, and that’s so wildly important this time of year. I’m glad we’re going to OT. Let’s see what we’re made of. If we win this game, it’ll be huge for our confidence moving forward.
Can Kyrie please be on a minutes limit or something?
https://twitter.com/ryenarussillo/status/716092056779808768
SHUMMMMMP nice D
https://twitter.com/CavsNationNet/status/716092329988382722
Kyrie in for defense at the end. Freaking unbelievable.
Gotta have your defensive stopper in at crunch time…
This has become such a weird game. If I was a Hawks fan, I would be losing my mind with some of these no-calls by the refs
Anyone else having issues loading comments only every 5 minutes or so?
Set to 3 minutes currently, I believe.
Love this team. Always fighting till the end.
Should they really be going to OT with this ‘sucky’ (your own words) team, after being up big early?
Sometimes fighting at the end. Often falling asleep for a quarter or half along the way. FIFY.
pretty sure that was a travel on bazemore….
Agree, but they never call that rule any more
Lebron with the crazy smart trap at the end
That was not an awesome possession by LeBron.
I agree. But then again Ty Lue needs to do a better job and draw a good play.
Someone should remind him he is literally the worst shooter in the league in end of game situations
Defense! Defense! Defense!
Could it be….. Again??
Unreal. Would rather see bron take a shot toward the basket where he can get fouled.
They don’t call those fouls. He knows it.
If Kyrie comes out of this timeout, I’m writing off Lue forever.
Inexcusable
Go ahead pessimist.
As a former player, Lue might be thinking long term. If Kyrie gets sat for Delly and the Cavs win this game, Kyrie will lose confidence in crunch time. You can’t risk those negative mental effects this late in the season IMO. He’s your max contract guy, you have to hope he makes a play despite everything else that’s happened this half. That’s what big time players do. You play them.
Really no chance that was a flop Hubie?
If we lose it all on KI. Pathetic on both ends.
LeBron again awesome.
Lue just wasted his last timeout!
Too bad Blatt isn’t there to keep him under control…
Oh, snap!
When there are these late-game stoppages, it’s idiotic for Lue not to put Delly in for D.
It’s idiotic not to have a friggin timeout left again!!!
Kyrie is the GD worst. Why is he playing? Teague just owned him.
Good god shut the heck up Hubie brown. That was a flop an a half
This is an important win to maintain space btw us and Toronto. Come on Cavs!
Nice lob!!!! Wow!!!! TT is becoming one of our most clutch players. Obviously and insane lob by LeBron. He told him to go for it and then nailed him with an amazing pass. LeBron is GOAT in my opinion.
https://twitter.com/CavsNationNet/status/716090880357171200
Of course! We go to TT!!!
Huge pass by Bron. Can we play Delly at least on D now?
James. Dominant again what a pass
Made up for throwing the ball to Teague on the prior play.
Need a little more energy to push across the finish line. Where do we find it?
Delly! Delly! Delly!
James with 26 10 6. Dominating
And? They are losing after blowing another 20 plus lead.
Eh. Doesn’t matter. They showed that they dominate this team when they want o.
LOL….moving the goal posts, as usual…those poor posts will be deep in the Atlantic soon…
How many in this quarter?
Lue has to sit Kyrie if he wants to win this game.
Should have sat him a long time ago. But Lue makes no adjustments. Ever.
Delly! Delly! Delly!
Might be thinking long term. If Kyrie gets sat for Delly and the Cavs win this game, he’ll feel like he isn’t able to do it in crunch time. You can’t risk those negative mental effects this late in the season IMO. He’s your max contract guy, you have to hope he makes a play despite everything else that’s happened this half. That’s what big time players do. You play them.
Hubie annoying me so much on questioning whether TT fouled the guy on that block. It was so so so so so close and such a 50/50 call, why are you taking away from the insane block? Terrible announcing. That was an opportunity to get the casual fan involved and they choked. Hubie is trash.
yeah…Hubie drives me crazy when he announces the cavs…He pretty much openly roots for the other team…
This is the first game I can say I agree with you. He’s usually 100% pro-Cavs in my opinion. Annoying tonight though.
You can tell by millsap’ reaction it was a clean block
TT NEEDS TO PLAY LIKE THAT ALL THE TIME!!!!
https://twitter.com/CavsNationNet/status/716089181664059394
TT IS THE MAN
Where did everything awesome go?
OMG TT BIG-TIME BLOCK AT THE RIM!!!!!!!!!
So……. What happened?
Irving forgot how to shoot. Otherwise Cavs dominating.
Check out @TeedUpKirk’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/TeedUpKirk/status/716088441818189824?s=09
The Cavs maybe can get out of the east but with their inconsistent play they will not win it all.
At the end of the first half, I would have disagreed with you.
But that’s the thing the Cavs are not a consistent team.
Not sure what is more frustrating; Kyries terrible shooting or Lues terrible coaching.
LeBron makes this team go
Yea and Kyrie makes it stop
Sometimes LeBron makes it stop too.
Love hits a high pressure shot! (finally)
Shumpert driving to the hoop is about as elegant as Thompson shooting a turnaround jumpshot.
Omg I want Irving to watch this game tape and learn
I almost think he is incapable of learning and is too selfish. Love has only gotten 9 shots and that is Irvings fault
I really think it’s because he’s hardly ever been coached, hardly played in college, then was immediately drafted to a dismal team, where he could just do whatever he wanted. Not ideal.
Cavs just refuse to move the ball
Could write that story almost every 2nd half all season.
We need Delly for Kyrie.
Delly is everywhere on D.
Good lord korver can shoot
Is there a statute of limitations for announcers on the Delly-Hawks thing? It was old (not to mention misguided) last spring.
Dear God. Kyrie is so bad tonight. Refuses to pass as well.
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Omg. What a terrible call. First Teague crosses back into Delly and runs into him and gets a foul call. Then they Call it a shooting foul when he clearly wasn’t even in a shooting motion till after the whistle.
It’s not worth having Kyrie out there right now
He is 4 for 17 but won’t pass. Put his butt on the bench
Irving is so annoying jacking up shots like that
He used to hit those last year. Has never found the rhythm on those this year
Great pass! To Delly.
Why do we love Delly? Because with ~10:35 left in the 4th, after missing a shot and then getting crushed on the box out, Delly defended the outlet pass while Atlanta was out in transition. One of their bigs rebounded the basketball under the basket, and while the big wanted to get the ball out to a guard running up the court in transition, Delly – trailing the Atlanta guard – throws up his hands almost like a bird while running. This made Atlanta’s big hesitate and slowed the entire play down. Instead of attacking us in transition, Atlanta settled… Read more »
Delly is everywhere.
LeBron looks as athletic as I can ever remember while he was with the Heat. Not quite 03-10 LeBron, but not the below-the-rim stuff we saw so much last season
That was such a carry on the way to a break away dunk by Lebron lol, hut he’s Lebron and this is the NBA
…. You… You would have called him for that….?
Like x100
Lebron is really good at reading that pass.
LeBron could still win the dunk contest.
https://twitter.com/CavsNationNet/status/716084026721845248
James is so great.
I stand corrected. Frye has been a fantastic pickup and I’m totally impressed with what he’s brought.
I need to eat crow about that too. Frye has been a big boost.