Live Thread: Cavs @ Raptors (#WeAreBack)
2018-10-17
If you haven’t read Nate’s ode to our Aluminum Anniversary… make sure you check it out here at halftime.
Meanwhile… are you ready for the 2018-19 NBA regular season?! Because, it’s finally here! The future is now for your Cleveland Cavaliers. Time to find out if Kevin Love can become a Terminator… if Collin Sexton can be the next John Connor to save the franchise from a bleak existence… or if this year is just an introduction to an oncoming post-apocalypse.
The wine and gold trot out a starting lineup of Love, Cedi Osman, Tristan Thompson, Rodney Hood and George Hill. They’ll face a slightly different looking Raptors team than they faced in the Eastern Conference Finals last year. Toronto adds a potential T-1000 in Kawhi Leonard (replacing DeMar DeRozan), to start alongside OG Anunoby, Serge Ibaka, Danny Green and Kyle Lowry.
Not many give these new Cavs much of a chance against a Raptors team that should contend for the best record in the Eastern Conference (Cleveland was a 13 point underdog for this one). Yet, what chance really did Sarah Connor have of taking down SkyNet?
Prediction: With LeBron gone, the Raptor machine gets some revenge on the team that terminated them from the last few playoff series… but the scrappy Cavs make it interesting 112-108.
Catch all the action from Scotiabank Arena in Toronto, starting at 7:30 EST on Fox Sports Ohio. And, as always, come back and comment below…
GO CAVS!
Dont let Dekker shump you, Lue. Get him out of here
Surprised to see so little of zizic, but love and him on defense would likely be exposed and unless he develops a three probably can’t play with love.
Can’t play with tt or nance
He is a threat on offense whilst TT is not. We play 4 on 5 when TT is in the game.
Yes, but you usually get two chances to play 4 on 5 per possession…
Ha nice
Wow! JC actually with a dribble drive pass…
Finally some Nwaba!
Dekker has a wide open three earlier, and didn’t take it. But decides to take a contested 3…
NOT WATCHING GAME —-CHECKING IN ON BLOGS / BOX SCORE—–IS LOVE JUST MISSING SHOTS –OR IS THE DEFENSE STOPPING HIM ??—-1/8 IS NOT GOING TO CUT IT —“PLAYING WITH PACE “—WHERE HAVE I HEARD THAT BEFORE ?
He’s trying to play the post and Ibaka/JV too big/strong down low. He’s forcing it.
Yep
7/9 from the line.
Missed shots he can make.
That’s the three Dekker decides to take?!
Dekker steal & 2.
Sam dekker. Why?
He’s a three point sharpshooter…/s
TOLD YOU GUYS DEKKER NEEDED TO PLAY!
DEKKER WITH THE STEAL AND FINISH!!!
Dekker the Toronto Wrecker!
Sexton looks raw. Like some of his effort, but he ha a long way to go on the offense.
Well… he is a rookie…
Hah yeah, arch beat me to the punch. True. I hope he can tighten up his handles though sooner rather than later.
Dekker with nice D on Kawhi!
The Wrecker!
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Dekker actually blocked Kawhi! And Sexton just out of control…
Nice defense Dekker on Leonard.
Haven’t been around for a while… a little late to the party. Ready to see the new look Cavs and welcome in the new era of Cavs basketball with the best Cavs fans around!
Welcome back!
Welcome back Vintage!
Three fouls on the rookie…
Sexton looks… raw…
Rookies usually are…
Wow… some actual good D from Dekker…
Back to 10 with a chance to get it to 8.
This game totally coming down to the fact that tt, Jordan, and Sam suck.
Ibaka is gonna foul out before the half
They were playing with pace and it worked pretty well in the first qtr. Raptors seem to be getting back. Disappointed we haven’t seen a single elbow set for love. Think it has been all post ups and he may not be big enough anymore to do that efficiently. Obviously he struggles finishing against guys his size or bigger. Still can draw fouls though. Cedi has played pretty well. Clarkson seemingly killed the flow when he came in. Sextons dribble has been real lose. I fear we may struggle to score this year because we don’t have much of an… Read more »
In the BONUS
No Korver for the 2nd quarter?
33% from the field. Love 1-8 (though 6\7 from the line). Gotta be better.
Dekker needs to sit. Play Nwaba or Zz over him
I’m pretty sure Lue isn’t ever going to play Zizic…
Dekker The Wrecker…
And it begins 👍
Yeah…we have so much less depth than I thought. Obviously nance and JR are out but Dekker is not playable and hood is not playable as the focus of an offense
Nwaba and ZZ should be playing…
Cavs can’t make shots…raptors hitting everything…Cavs don’t have strong offensive weapon so lack of ball movement is killer
If Love wasn’t 1-6…
Cavs with a few too many TOs.
Play Nwaba!
This is a little more what I was expecting…
Fun while it lasted.
JUST JOINING IN—( GRANDKIDS DUTY —-WHEW !! )—–SEE “ZZ” GOT SOME RUN—–LOVE ROUGH NIGHT FROM THE FIELD—SOLID AT THE LINE —–SEXTON WILL IMPROVE HIS “HANDLERS –( HAS TO —TO PROGRESS )—CLARCKSON—–LOVE / HATE TYPE OF PLAYER —————-FREE NWABA !!
Bench Dekker for Nwaba immediately please…
This seems obvious…cannot believe the Cavs staff thinks Dekker is really this playable…
Nwaba is too small to play the 4.
Tt! You are not a point forward!
I’d say too much TT… but he’s still getting rebounds…
I agree…. like to see Zizic in there when they go big.
Had a ton of o boards. But he really can’t do much on o without someone to draw attention on the p and r and throw him lobs.
TT should sit.
Cavs should leave TT in Toronto
Awful call there. On Kawhi or nothing.
Hood is such a terrible communicator.
Dekker is a poor g leaguer.
Dekker is a big negative out there.
Okay now would be a perfect time for Lue to sub in Bron /s
Gonna get away now. Dekker has to shoot that.
Uncalled elbow by Kawhi on Hill…
Already tired of Dekker…
Dekker had the three…. turns the ball over instead.
You suck Dekker!
Dekker is worthless…
Feel like Kawhi is gonna come alive in the second half…
Agreed.
Gotta hit those George…
Man Clarkson is such a black hole. Cedi was wide open
Found money for TT LMAO!!!
Cedi D strong on Kawhi!
Come on Kev.
Canadian Pirouette!
They need to get Zizic out there to body JV IMO.
Damn… lot of chances that time…
HILL FOR THREE!!! ASSIST CEDI!
Does it look like we are trying to get any specific shots out of our offense yet? Anyone seeing something I’m not besides a Kevin love free throw?
Timely three by Hill!
Cavs are faring better than I thought they might so far…Raptors have to gel a bit, too…
Like last year Raptors money from 3
Crap. Down 6.
We simply are not shooting well enough to win.
It will be interesting to see if we develop any actual sets. Cuz so far…no.
Cedi pull-up halfway down… rims out.
Can’t believe I’m saying this… but need to get Hood back out there…
He has done some nice things tonight.
Cavs with a big edge at the line.