Live Thread: Cavs @ Warriors
2017-01-16
Greetings, Cavs fans. Big game tonight… Cleveland completes its road trip tonight in Oakland where they look to sweep the Warriors in the regular season after wining their Christmas day battle, 109-108. The Roaracle will be roaring, and the Dubs will be looking for payback after their loss. Meanwhile, the Cavs look to keep up their integration of Kyle Korver into the offense, and to solve some of their recent defensive woes.
Most of the oddsmakers have the Warriors at +8.5, but it sounds like LeBron isn’t trying to amp this game too much, or maybe he’s trolling them softly with these comments to Dave McMenamin,
I don’t think we have a rival in our game today… we’ve had two great Finals appearances the last two years, but I had the same with San Antonio when I was in Miami. We weren’t rivals. And I think I played those guys more, so I wouldn’t look at it as rivals.
It’s brilliant passive-aggressiveness by the King, and I’m sure he’s trying to throw the Dubs off their game by amping themselves up again.
As far as Cleveland goes, they appear healthy, and it appears Iman Shumpert will continue to start for the Cavs until Kyle Korver is ready to take his place. I’m all for anything that minimizes Shump’s ballhandling.
Meanwhile, the Dubs are a league best 34-6 and winners of 12 of 14. They’ve a new big three this year with Draymond Green’s scoring falling to 10.7 points and KD, Steph, and Klay Thompson combining for 72 points and 12.7 assists. Kevin Durant is even averaging 8.6 rebounds and 1.7 blocks. But with Dray kicking in 8.6 rebounds and 7.7 assists, the Dubs certainly have a formidable big four.
Iman Shumpert gave away the secret sauce that the Cavs are using to guard Iman Shumpert: physicality.
Throughout the game if you consistently guard somebody that way at the end of the game, if they’re last five minutes isn’t as up to par, you feel like you did your job because you wore on him the whole game.
You just gotta stay consistent with guys like that because they have the ball so much that no matter what you do they’re going to get in a rhythm. You just gotta survive their runs they go on and hopefully you’ve done your job as far as getting in to him and applying pressure the whole game. You see the effects of that pressure in the last few minutes of the game.
I’m hoping the Cavs extend the same physicality to Kevin Durant. If they do, then they should win. My prediction: 112-110, Cavs.
Send Felder to Kerr with a white flag and a note. “You win. Let’s play the backups and do some coaching. What ya say?”
Gonna be down 40 soon…
Nah I’m not watching this. Just sit LeBron and Kyrie and let the bench handle it.
I feel great that we are champs.
Pull the starters.
No Love to start the third. Betting we’ve seen the last of him tonight.
The great Pestak/EvilGenius debate on whether Frye is playable against the Dubs continues. EG is winning this round because Frye was WRETCHED. That half.
he looks out of place because Warriors bigs play in and out of paint and they also defend very well on perimeter….just looks to be a bad matchup
I mean… if that’s how they’re gonna use him, then yes…
DO THINK WE NEED A BIG ( KNOW THIS POST ON MY PART IS GETTING— OLD BUT THE KID MORELAND / CANTON— HAD 28 PTS / 18 REB’S / 3 BLK’S THE OTHER NIGHT —-VERY AGILE / ATHLETIC BIG WITH A GOOD POST GAME ( YES EVEN BETTER THAN T.T.’S )—WHY NOT BRING HIM UP FOR 10 DAYS / GAMES
No. We didn’t need one in the Finals.
He did nothing in preseason. Doesn’t move the needle much at this level, unfortunately.
Channing’s five first half minutes: 0 points, 0 rebounds, 0 assists, 0 blocks, 0 steals, 0 turnovers, 0 fouls, -15 plus/minus. COLD FRYES
Frye is unplayable against the Dubs. Doesn’t excuse his standing there looking at two loose balls in the first half
I cannot believed eve there are still Blatt dead Enders
ESPN stat. 29 pt half time deficit ties for the largest in LBJ’s career. Portland in 2015 was the other deficit that high
HOPE TY IS READING LEO’S POST——-REST THE STARTERS —PLAY THE SCRUBS AGAINST THE DUBS
he better hahaha….i mean seriously whats the point in putting in starters….time to eff with warriors and play kshrimp champ orange mamba and others
So Nate wants to trade our best players and others want to fire Lue. P A N I C
Some of these suggestions may not have been entirely serious.
Cols can’t take sarcasm
Move the team to Kansas City.
Cols doesn’t understand sarcasm or comprehend reality on occasion
We need a big. A defensive big. This is the last time I’m going to say it. We need a big.
Nah
anyone in mind….i don’t follow too much of nba so don’t know who would be available….or you just wanting random big dude who can give us 6 fouls?
Can’t pinpoint a clear name yet. But pretty obvious (aside from PG need according to Griff) that we’re thin on bigs this regular season. Lebron doesn’t like playing much 4 during the regular season. It’s basically TT who can give consistent defense in the interior and he’s not elite at this department to begin with.
ON THE BRIGHT SIDE —THE LONGEST ROAD TRIP OF THE SEASON IS BEHIND US / KORVER STILL LEARNING CAVS SYSTEM / J.R. WILL BE HEALTHY / GRIFF NEEDS TO LOOK AT THE TOP NEED FOR THIS TEAM MOVING FORWARD AND THEN DO HIS MAGIC / GET BACK ” TO THE LAND ” HEALTHY –REGROUP AND RENERGIZE AND ALL WILL BE FINE —-NO PANIC BUTTON YET !!!
How quickly everyone forgets the Cavs got blown away twice by the Frauds and won the Finals. No worries here.
no one is worried but weird how Cavs are going through motions might as well just say Big 3 and let scrubs play against ‘best team ever’
perfect thing for Lue is to start all bench guys and play them entire second half
Agree.
The way the Cavs began this game is like either they don’t even care about it since they already beat the dubs at the Q or the Cavs are way over their heads believing they can comeback against this team when ever they want.
Nah. Cavs have confidence and deservedly so. They’ve owned the Frauds for four straight.
I think Griffin should fire Lue there is no galvanization
That would be dumb. Lue is great.
Cleveland should trade Kyrie and LeBron too. They just stink on D out there.
Nope
i was joking here but its funny how Cavs are getting creamed again but Lue will stay…just shows Lebron didn’t like Blatt so Griffin made up some lame excuses to fire him…Cavs on track to lose by just as much if not more…plus i like the reasoning of galvanization
HAHA. Some terrible moments that first half. K-Love is gimpy. Defensive rotations are garbage, and Cavs got one point out of a flagrant possession. Those two terrible offensive possessions when Cleveland was down 14 pretty much doomed them.
Well, that escalated quickly.
Wow. That was…special. Cavs have every reason to not schedule their warriors game on the last night of their longest road trip. Good lord.
Ty Lue’s got that thousand yard stare…
I love how in their heads LeBron is. He’s even in the crowds heads
I think they and their fans are enjoying it even more tonight.
The way you continue to harp on GS’s fraudulence it’s pretty obvious you can’t take them out on your head.
AGREE WITH LEO –IT IS KSHRIMP AND HIS BENCH BUDDIES TIME IN THE 2ND HALF
Lebron just got clotheslined and Cavs didn’t even retaliate in any way….kind of shocking but maybe something like that isn’t necessary
K-Love’s back is bugging him. I can tell by the way he’s walking. Cleveland needs another big.
In his defence, it’s about time for him to get injured.
Ouch.
Frauds.
2 consecutive MLK blowouts. SMH
Where the heck was the foul on that curry drive?
Everything is still awesome. Don’t worry be happy people.
Love looks like he is 50 years old out there
Love is hurting. Took some awkward steps. Has the hunched posture of someone whose back is acting up.
Where was that foul?
Now an incredible 25/4 on assists. WTF !!!
Lue should throw scrubs in for second half no reason to keep starters in
Kyrie should fouled the *** out of KD on that dunk.
Why? That’s dumb. Cavs have owned these frauds. No big deal.
Your comments are laughable at best
To touch him up, duh.
Okay… now it’s over…
ZA ZA is an all-star? What a joke.
Looks like the bench is getting some burn tonight.
Shump just ruined that coverage and put Kyrie in an awful position
No ball movement whatsoever.
Cavs just going one on four.
Kevin Love.
Man you know things are bad when TT is losing boards to Zaza. Oof.
TT is getting out rebounded by a dude named Zasa Zasa….yikes
Well…. he is the second leading vote getter in the Western Conference for the ASG…
Regular season or not, our defense has been plain bad lately too
Too many that’s the key.
HAHA. Dubs getting calls now.
As Kerr said in Cleveland when the Dubs were down 20+, “We have them right where we want them.”
only guys really playing hard are RJ Korver and maybe Shumpert everyone else is looks disinterested and un focused
Honestly Cavs…we have the ability to look unbeatable and unplayable so readily…does coach have any role in this game yet?
The problem with spotting the dubs so many points is that you can’t afford to give them any 5-0 runs.
Lebron…wow.
Turnovers, bad shooting, awful defense. Story of the night
Bad defense, it’s been like this for the past month.
Cavs defense makes me sad… Just like that back up to 19
Two terrible offensive possessions lead to five points for the Dubs.
welp Lebron and Kyrie decided this game isn’t important to win….see if Lue has balls and puts them both on bench to finish out half
They knew they’re not going to win, that’s why they said what they said. Just an excuse.
Big exchange there. Big overdribble by LeBron. Gotta move the rock.
Get that WEAK stuff outta here Donkey…
wtf is kyrie doing tonight?!?
Jefferson loves to play the warriors apparently.
No one else on the Cavs got back. Sad.
STEPHEN A SMITH ALREADY TO ” CROWN THE DUBS NBA CHAMPS –AND TEAR APART THE CAVS ” TOMORROW —-JUST MORE FUEL FOR THE FIRE COME THIS JUNE / WHEN J.R IS HEALTHY AND GRIFF ” PULLS 1 MORE RABBIT OUT OF HIS HAT “
Anything said by a screamin’ dude in a Green Bay jersey this morning should be discounted as so much noise…
Imagine what would Skip say..
Most amazing bad stat. Dubs have 20 assists and we have 4
Love doing nothing tonight….why Cavs are down 15+…he needs to step up
Cavs working the bonus at least. Gotta hit the freebies though.
So many wide open weakside shots.
If Cleveland can get this under double digits before halftime, it’s huge for Cleveland.
I was hoping for that too but….
I know some of you guys say it’s just a regular season game but I know LeBron,Kyrie and the Cavs don’t want to lose this game just because it’s a regular season game.
MAN KLOVES JUST HAS A ROUGH TIME AGAINST THE DUBS OFFENSIVELY