Live Thread: Cavs vs. Bulls (#EnoughRope)
2017-10-24
I’ve had a bit of a conspiracy theory about Ty Lue this season… and it involves a whole lot of rope. As the guy being tasked with balancing a roster full of interesting and disparate egos and personalities (which also now includes a former League MVP, as well as a three time champion/LeBron’s BFF), his work would seemingly be cut out for him. After all, he’ll most certainly get the lion’s share of the blame if he can’t find a way to overcome the aftermath of the summer of upheaval and tie (Ty?) this patchwork herd of current and waning stars together for yet another title run. But, he’s got to find relatively diplomatic ways of going about it that doesn’t ruffle too many feathers… ways that might initially make us scratch our collective heads and say “well, that doesn’t work at all dude.”
So, follow my thinking as I imagine Coach Lue kicking back with a fairly giant spindle of rope, giving out slack to say Iman Shumpert as he hijacks the offense and tries to flash back to his Georgia Tech days of poorly imitating a point guard… or JR Smith as he grouses about losing his starting spot… or most recently DWade as he goes from insisting he should start… to realizing his talents would best help the team off the bench. My point is, we might not collectively agree that Ty Lue always know how to steer his team… but I believe he’s willing to give his players plenty of rope to try to see what works…
Sometimes, it’s not going to be pretty (e.g. Saturday’s goring by the Magic), but have at least some faith that there’s a method to Ty’s wrangling… especially in these early stages.
Tonight, the Cavs try and lasso some Bulls, using a wholly different starting five. Ty is going to try LeBron at the one, with JR at the two, Jae Crowder at the three, Kevin Love at the four and reinsert Tristan Thompson at the five (not that positions seem to matter all that much with this team anymore). No matter how it works out… it should be interesting to watch…
I, for one, can’t wait for the Killer Shrimp tribute video at the end of the first quarter…
YEE-HAW!
good run Cavs. now step on their throats.
And, game over. Order restored. Thanks for showing up Chicago. See you at the draft.
LeLongTwo…
FTS had a story where JR had a back issue & was in doubt today. Missed some preseason game with the back.
Fake news…
Did the bulls just have two shot clock turnovers in a row?
Cavs a completely different team when they actually play D…
Bulls halftime speech: “Uh, guys, you know we’re tanking, right?”
lol that’s amazing
That’s so funny, I was just thinking – “just keep shooting J.R., you’ll get it back.”
PIPE!
Cavs finally figured out that Baby Unicorn is a rook and can be flustered…
YEAH LEBRON HAS IT FIGURED OUT—HE WILL NEED TO HIT 50 FOR THE CAVS TO WIN—-AND YEAH I THINK YOU ARE CORRECT “23 ” IS THE MAGICAL NUMBER —-SO UPSET I HAD TEMPORARY MEMORY LOSS—IT HAPPENS TO US OLD FOLKS
Don’t worry, even though it only gets worse, at some point you’ll forget how much you forget, and it will seem fine.
Holliday only has 15 points…seems like 25…
Cavs lead!
https://twitter.com/SInow/status/922981269369171969
Wish Vin Scully was still at the Mike for this
+1000
https://twitter.com/JasonLloydNBA/status/922981431483256832
https://twitter.com/CavsJoeG/status/922981475590590464
JR lost his starters mojo….
JR was better coming off the bench with aggressive mid range twos… his threes are way off… maybe the back?
Likely. Back injuries suck for all sorts of reasons, but mainly because they screw your alignment on everything else.
Cavs lead!
This is going to be one of those games where Lebron has to win all by himself. Because whenever you can solely rely on one player on a bad ankle who could probably use the rest and who is the only chance you have at a title, you have to do it.
CROWDER! So good from the corner… and TT did a great job corralling that board
Oumf! For three!
Just not going to stick…
Noticing more hustle on D so far….
Wow… Baby Unicorn finally missed one…
Great start. O foul. Foul a 3 point shooter.
Eh. That three foul was horse crap
SO WE ARE GOING TO PLAY LEBRON 40 + MINUTES ( AND POTENTIALLY FURTHER INJURE HIS ANKLE ) AGAINST THIS G LEAGUE BULLS TEAM WHO WE SHOULD HAV E PUT AWAY ALREADY IN THE 1ST HALF AND ALLOW LEBRON STARTERS REST / RECOVERY TIME / AND THE BENCH PLAYERS QUALITY PLAYING TIME—-THESE GAMES FRUSTRATE THE HELL OUT OF ME—-NOT ENOUGH BEER TO ………………….GO CAVS —WILL TRY TO BE MORE POSITIVE THE 2ND HALF !!
Holiday falls over for three shots.
Wow that is two bad fouls on Crowder
How was that a foul?
The Bulls got the letter deal on their Butler trade imo.
*better
Too early…
It’s gotta be an effort and focus thing… if Cavs had played like this against Boston and Milwaukee, they’d be 0-3
No question.
So Calderon is useless???
Correct. That was also true when he was signed.
I’m not sure which is more painful… watching the Cavs bleed almost 70 points to the Bulls, or watching CWebb, Zeke and Kevin McHale try to show fans how plays are run at the half…
SO IS THE ” MAGICAL 21 ” GOING TO HOLD TRUE FOR THIS GAME —-I WOULD HAVE LEFT A.C. GO IN AT HALF TIME AND CHEW SOME TAIL
I’m pretty sure it’s 23, no?
JR’s back is off. Sit him until it is right. Play Holland & Cedi.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/iman-shumpert/id591965501
JASON AGREE—CUT JOSE–BRING UP HOLLAND
They can play Holland now.
Don’t ever tell me this is stil extended preseason
It’s still extended preseason…
You missed the memo – Preseason = training camp. Regular season = preseason. Playoffs = only season.
WHEN DO WE PLAY THE 76ER’S—–SIMMONS AND EMBIID WILL DESTROY THIS DEFENSE ( OR LACK OF IF YOU WANT TO VIEW IT THAT WAY )——-WHO YOU CHEERING FOR IN THE SERIE S EVIL ( SURE IT IS PROBABLY THE DODGERS—IF IT IS I WILL TAKE THE ASTROS—WHAT IS THE WAGER ? )
You cheerin on the local team EG? I’m on the fence. Thinking of going for Houston because they’ve never won one. Also, Dodgers fans are likely also Lakers fans, which means they suck.
Dodgers are my NL team… can’t root for another AL team… would be disloyal ;)
Well, at least we get to watch the Indians in the World Series. (too soon? too soon.)
Ahhh man. Low blow
Cavs do have 17 assists, which I would have assumed with Bron at PG…
LBJ running the point = 4-4 from three, 5 assists. You’re hired.
I WOULD LOVE TO SEE CEDI GET SOME RUN OVER SHUMP ( OR RUN OVER SHUMP )
Holland, Cedi, & Zizic should play more.
I DON’T CARE IF IT IS ONLY THE 4TH GAME OF THE YEAR — TY NEEDS TO GET IN SOME PLAYERS FACE AND CHEW SOME ASS—-STARTING WITH SHUMP
He’s probably telling Shump right now, “with Kyrie gone, we need you to be a playmaker”
Yeah that clear the air talk Shump had with Lue is paying dividends
Went almost as well as the one with Kyrie.
68 pts for the Bulls in a half. 77 vs the Spurs last game.
Missed the first half. Bad d or are the bulls crazy hot?
Both…
Bad D, mostly…give pros open looks, and they are going to hit a lot of them…
both. vicious cycle i suppose
As AC would say, you gotta hang your hat on your D. Needless to say, Cavs just throwing their headwear on the ground for now.
38 point quarter followed by a 30 point quarter…these Bulls are a championship contender…
Sounds like improvement to me.
Amazing they’re only down 3… hard to believe they just gave up 68 to the nobody Bulls…
Cavs played better after a lousy first.
WHAT THE HELL IS GOING TO HAPPEN WHEN WE PLAY A LEGIT NBA TEAM—–DOES NOT HAVING DROSE HAVE THAT MUCH OF AN IMPACT —AND IF YOU CAN’T PLAY JOSE –RELEASE HIM AND GET SOME YOUNG BLOOD IN HERE —” EWNCHILADA ” STILL NOT SIGNED –LEAST HE GAVE AN EFFORT
So we sign Calderon & 4 games in we know he is useless. We cut Felder & he scores 10 on us in a half. 12. 14. And we let go of RJ, who can play. Mistake, mistake, mistake.
This one is on coaching. There’s no way in hell KShrimp scores that much if we play defense. There’s no way in hell too he gets playing time here if Lue is really runnie a proper rotations.
Maybe start Korver in second half? Or Cedi?
problem with cedi is he doesn’t know rotations on d very well yet. not that it seems like any of our veterans do either i guess. nvm. Yes. Play Cedi
I don’t think knowing rotations on D is a part of our defensive strategy.
We need someone to whack Shump in the knee like Tonya Harding had done to Nancy Kerrigan.
I laughed out loud at that one. Our collective venom for a perfectly decent human being is getting hilarious. I hope he doesn’t read this blog. I’m sure he’s a good dad, or something.
He’s a good rapper. We need to support his music endeavors.
He delivered his own child, so he has that going for him!
bron gonna need to score 50
That call on TT was horse crap
Timely three by Kev
YEAH I TRY TO BE A HUGE LOVE SUPPORTER BUT GAMES LIKE THIS FROM HIM TEND TO GET ME FRUSTRATED
Klove!
Bulls getting loads of open shots…how surprising…
Bron looked like he tweaked the ankle again on that fall…
Different ankle?
Yes
If you’re playing the Cavs I don’t know why you’re taking any other shot than a 3 pointer.
http://www.pleasecontinueyourmusiccareershump.com
Bulls 12-20 from three… 59%
this sucks
Maybe Ben Werth can word us up about Zipser.
Well, at least we beat Milwaukee.
MEANWHILE TY DOESN’T EVEN TRY TO SEE WHAT CEDI / “ZZ” CAN DO—–THIS IS WHERE I HAVE A BIG PROBLEM WITH LUE
Love, JR and Crowder all not doing much. Love and JR are really puzzling.