Live Thread: Cavs vs. Nets
2017-10-25
Tonight is the second night of a back to back. History shows us that the Cavs turn into zombies on the court in these situations. Halloween isn’t quite here yet, but the team seems to be a bit too old for bodies to rebound quickly enough to handle the strain. Unfortunately, this game counts for double as Cleveland looks to help increase the value of their most recent trade/draft asset in the unprotected 2018 Brooklyn Nets first round pick.
So far, the Nets have comported themselves quite well with a 2-2 record. Every win they notch correlates to a decrease in value of that pick. The Cavaliers need to come out of the gate strong tonight to ensure their success on both fronts. Luckily, the Nets will be without starting guard D’Angelo Russell. It’s a good thing too because the Cavs are already thin at the guard position. Rose is out still and their de facto back up, Dwayne Wade, is out with a knee bruise.
The second night of a back to back will likely make this game a lot closer than it should be. Regardless, the Cavs should still have no issues dispatching this less than established Nets team. Hopefully they can avoid turning this into Night of the Living Dead. Go Cavs!
KLOVE!!!
Jeff Green and Bron are saving us
Dinwiddie!
Bron, Green and Korver are the only Cavs in double digits…
Korver and Green are the secret weapons. This is also Kevin Love’s team.
Kev joined
Bench 47, starters 44. Amazing
LeBron was just not letting that inbound in. Muscling that dude out. Still a man amongst boys at this age. Nothing short of remarkable.
Terrible out of bounds by the nets. A timeout on a out of bounds not in the last minute or two of a game?
James need one more board for the triple double
Allen’s fro is fantastic
Agreed. Rocking the Larry Kenon & Dr J ’76 Nets vibe.
Intensity cranked up to 11…
Waking up? Chance to pull within one.
LeBron is a vadass
Horrible call on Korver. This is absurd, and I normally loathe complaining about officiating.
RIM CRUSHER
Time to make a run!
We will get an offensive jolt when IT returns, but you have to admit we are missing Irving’s scoring bursts
Well, hanging around. Korver & Green have been pretty decent. Bron good save for some chill mode. Everyone else has been terrible save for Channing
34 minutes for LBJ so far. Ugh.
Cavs are getting killed tonight if not for Korver. The dude is a pro’s pro.
Nice little run. We’re going to need to actually make a few more threes I’d guess.
LeBron is hot. Angry. Shump not playing like crap for once. Cavs can break this open.
Call the foul or call it out off James. That was a makeup call for the horrible officiating the rest of the game I guess.
We have made an incredible number of sloppy passes. Green with another one
How about a foul?
Bad shump three. You know James is gassed when he passes it to shump and stands waiting for shump to ISO.
Absolutely – but Rose seemed to be filling some (not all) of the void before he went down.
The Jeff Green experiment is so far a pretty surprising success
If Shump player for the Nets he could take as many 3s as he would like.
Dump in the Shower…
chump’d
Sung like “Smoke in the water”
Shump you f’ing stink!
Friggin Joe Harris…seriously…
Lol… smokin’ joe…
Hey defend the 3 point line
This has not been one of Kev’s better shooting nights…
iOle!
Korverlier!!!!
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Damn it Lue. Let it run!
Harris with the tackle!
Back to back nice plays from the cajoled senor…
Nets are flippant
Please just leave Lebron on the bench and give Love a million touches
Si Senor!
Pull the fork out.
I miss David Blatt
This team is not worth watching.
I thought we were supposed to be better defensively?
JVG for Cavs. Fire Lue.
Please no JVG… insufferable
We will trade you Lue and Shump for Popovich!
Cavs offense this year is a tire fire unless Korver is hitting all his shots…
I disagree. They simply don’t have or play the three point shooters they did last year with JR being cold and Kyrie gone, and Frye having limited minutes. They have actually gotten a fair number of easy opportunities at the bucket in the games I have seen off cuts. However, tonight they have 19 turnovers going into the fourth, the vast majority unforced or off terrible offenses even foul calls. On pace for around 26-27 total. I am not sure when the last time a team won with that many turnovers, but I bet it has been a decade or… Read more »
Offensive, dam auto correct
As I said, their offense has been a huge dropoff…you are just listing reasons.
The cavs make mediocre teams look like world beaters on back to backs. Maybe they should just rest everyone on back to backs and play 500 ball this season. They look like they have lead boots on d and have had too many unforced turnovers for me to even keep track of this game.
Calderon is fork.
FIRE LUE!
Nets r awesome
Getting embarrassed by the Nets?
If Wade was not going to play, we should have called up Holland. Instead we play with 12 vs a high tempo team on back to back.
Lue is an idiot
Freaking calderon sucks.
Calderon stinks!
Cavs hanging their hats this season on one game against Bucks…
Lebron should have been sat down a few minutes ago to cool off
Joe Harris didn’t shoot a shot with that much confidence his entire cavs career
LeBron gonna lead the league in minutes again
I mean, did you expect anything else?
It’s really infuriating. We go through stretches of terrible play with him on the floor and frustrated and lazy…may as well go through that with him on the bench
so we plannin on sabotaging the pick eh?
Green has been really good again.
Frye just has made good stuff happen every minute he’s played so far this year
Cavs are gassed already.
Green should excise the midrange contested j from his game.
That’s his game…only way to stop it is to keep him off the court…
He hit a couple threes and occasionally has a nice cut. He should never get the ball in an ISO situation though.
Green has got to take that jab step J out of his game.
Do the cavs use grease on their hands instead of the chalk or powder before they come into the game?
We are a really poor defensive team. Again.
It makes sense cuz he’s Lue and forgets he has a bench whenever we’re behind
The Nets have played 11 guys, yet Lue won’t play Frye, Zizic or Cedi. Makes no sense given the b2b