Live Thread: Bulls @ Cavs
2021-04-21The Bulls are in Cleveland tonight trying to extend their two game win streak. The Cavs are trying to break their three game losing streak. Or, are they? The Bulls “loaded”up at the trade deadline adding Nikola Vucevic to Zach LaVine and have gone 5-9. They are currently in tenth place in the East. Yay, they could make the play-in tourney.
The Cavs did the opposite of the Bulls. They unloaded at the deadline; well, they bought out Andre Drummond post deadline and have seemed to not have competent players in the lineup almost all season. Despite that, the Cavs still almost won against Detroit two nights ago. It took some miracle blowing it to save the L in the final minutes.
Folks, we are in for the battle of Great Lakes’ incompetency this evening. One team wants a win. One team probably wants a loss. I’m not sure either team can pull off their intended outcome.
Here’s some stuff about how the Cavs are trying to lose these days:
The Cavs have stalled their offense this season by relying on something only people born before 1992 will know about, the post up. It’s not dead folks, don’t worry. Cleveland has got you covered in the sense that they do it to do it and not because they have some post Gods on the team.
The Cavs post up 4.8% of the time which is good for 13th highest in the league. They put up 0.81 points every time they do so. That’s good for 26th worst in the league. Is that a tanking inefficiency? I think so. They could and should double down on that though and post up even more.
And 3s, let’s look at those wily long balls. The Cavs make the least in the league hitting just 9.6 a game. They take 28.6 per game which is also the least in the league. That’s pure tanking efficiency.
However, the Cavs have won some games despite those two stats. I’m not saying I them want to tank, but they should be given what they’re doing and probably for future success. The front office and J.B. need to get this right. The team needs to be more successfully incompetent.
The Cavs are without Damyean Dotson and Dylan Windler for this game, and the Bulls are without Zach LaVine and Troy Brown.
The Cavs will also be without J.B. Bickerstaff (it’s for personal reasons, but I’d like to think he’s doing it because the Cavs almost blew the loss to Detroit ). Some guy named Buck is filling in.
#Cavs Jarrett Allen on Greg Buckner filling in for J.B. Bickerstaff tonight: “I didn’t even know his name was Greg. We just call him Buck.”
— Chris Fedor (@ChrisFedor) April 21, 2021
What an awesome first game back for me! So much fun hangin with y’all in the comments!
missed you EG!!!!
Yep, really nice to have you back, EG…
D.G. POST GAME INTERVIEW—KID IS SO LOW KEY
Sexland 55 points on 19-30… 7-9 from deep…
Both were on their games…
hell yeah, Love with a tidy 15/9/4 with 4 threes!!!
So much fun to see KLove and Delly contributing again!
they’ve been truly missed this year
Great game Cavs — good to see Jarrett Allen get back in the groove also. Delly goes 1-3 from distance, the fact that they started closing out on him opened up a couple of nice scores, so he’ll probably continue to chuck…Darius was mostly extraordinary with a half-dozen small flaws but sheesh, Sexton was a complete bulldog on both ends of the floor, nice team win for Coach Buck
DG trying to hide the grin from a helluva game
” CLF ” EVIL YOU ARE MAKING MY NIGHT !!!!
FROM BEILEIN TO BICK TO BUCK —“B” IS ARE WILD …. OR UNLUCKY
KNUCK IF YOU BUCK
“WHYYYY? WHYYYY CAN’T I COACH LIKE BUCK???”
LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOO
lol…save that pic…
Lol… I got a whole file cabinet dedicated to President Stevens pics…
truly living up to your name!!!! LMFAOOOOOO
BUCK THE BICK
BUCK >>>>>BICK
THE “EVIL CLASSIC—PRES STEVENS “—–LOVE IT !!!!
BUCK IS 1-0
BUCK IS UNDEFEATED!
Trade Bick for Buck! The campaign starts NOW!
Greg Buckner is better than…
…this guy…
LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO SPEAK ON IT!!!!!
Greg Buckner is the truth…
He’ll probably do great things somewhere else…
Why not here?!
Man I really hope so. Buck and Gottlieb >>>>>>
Hard to see the Cavs hiring someone on the staff over JB…
BUCK STOPS HERE!!!!
Wow… Cedi is buried deeeep on the bench
hmm good point! he’s healthy too
Lamar put back dunk… love it!!
MOVE THE BALL SEXTON!!!!! LMFAOOOO ok nevermind it doesn’t matter.
LAMAR!!!!!
#FREELAMAR
great flush there
Sexton should’ve just pulled up for 3… trying to do too much.
Wow… unexpected…
https://twitter.com/cavs/status/1385037337869094912?s=20
holy crap…. that’s actually an amazing stat!!!!
better than Boobie, that’s really something, in addition to those two other guys listed
Wow. Ahead of Kyrie. Surprising.
CONGRATS TO D.G. ON HIS “TREY ‘ RECORD—-HOPE HE BREAKS ALOT MORE AS A CAV
+1 Nomad, I hope so too
GUESS I CAN’T LEAVE YOU GUYS :-)—-WOW DOWNTOWN SHOT BY D.G.
EVIL HAS RETURNED HOME NOMAD!!!
DG DAGGER
ANOTHER DG STEPBACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOW!!!!!
Great drive and kick by Sexton to LNJ
great pass! great finish Nance.
Okoro with a bad play, the young guys taking turns screwing it up.
SO TRUE EVIL (ON KPJ )—-SOME HEAT OFF KOBY NOW
JUST STEPPED OUT —WTF HAPPENED
Sloppiness…
Cabs
good timeout Buck, rip into the guards! they looked awful the last two minutes.
Time for some Lamar…
I LIKE THAT!!!
Need a timeout… Cavs getting sloppy
GREAT DEFENSE SEXTON!
but you stalled on the ball… MOVE THE BALL!!!
Buck looking very coachly on the sidelines…
He should get an interview somewhere this year.
Like… in Cleveland
LMFAOOOOOO ABSOLUTELY!!!!!!
bad shot Sexton, move the ball.
KLOVE HUSTLE!!!!
KLove active on the boards… great to see
Lazy pass… gotta keep the intensity for a few more minutes…
yup spot on
DG ISO BLOW BY!!!!!!!
DG with a lazy turnover, worst play of the night c’mon young man!!!
Sexland with a cool 52 now…
KPJ violated health & safety protocols by going to a strip club (is he even old enough?).
Windler has knee surgery. Out for the year.
Nice to see he’s acting like a mature professional…
Leopards don’t change their spots…
https://twitter.com/cavs/status/1385034269697925121?s=20
Lol sexy heat check…
BUT YOUNG BULL is STREAKIER!
LOVE IS IN THE AIR!
Bulls on a three streak…
Way too easy for Sexton!!!
Sexland in full effect tonight…
feels like a pick up game broke out now
Every time I think I am out, they pull me back in.
READ WHERE HARD ROCK IS UP FOR FREE AGENCY THIS SUMMER —WOULD LIKE TO THINK CAVS ARE SMART ENOUGH TO KEEP HIM AROUND
he has earned himself possibly tens of millions this year.
Or at least teens of millions…
LMFAOOOO definitely you said it better LMFAOOO
Buck for President…
LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I love how you 100% all in from the jump
38 point quarter…
oh man, that might be a record, or 2nd best quarter for the season.
Delly to LNJ!!
How did Denver not play this guy more?
Jokic
Jokic plays about 40 minutes a game LMFAOOOOOOO
Nicola. Jokic.
Can’t believe they got such a useful piece in Hartenstein as a throw in for McGee…
So how are we keeping both Hart and Allen? Love em both
They should!
I hope so!!! wouldn’t have to worry about the position for a decade!
What a ball movement clinic!
Delly, Hartenstein, Nance…. elite passers
TIME FOR KAVENGELE SIGHTING AND SOME “INTERNATIONAL “TEAM PLAY
We want Lamar!!!
HARD ROCK JUST AN “OVERSIZED DELLY CLONE “
HARD ROCK HUSTLE!!!!!!!!!
Still hard to believe the Cavs assembled a strong unit at Ceneter by magic, basically…
market inefficiency!!!!
I rag Altman, but it was not magic. It was Koby.
Prince to the Hard Rock!!!
BEAUTIFUL EXECUTION!!!!!!!
https://twitter.com/NBA/status/1385029334163931140?s=20
DG got a little too hyped on that possession… still been a pretty impressive game for him
LMFAOOOOOOO he’s kicked it up a notch lately!!!!
LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOO THAT WAS DISRESPECTFUL
DG STEPBACK?!!??!?!??!?!!!!!
D…. G!!!!
Better view…
https://twitter.com/cavs/status/1385028530426294276?s=20
WOW WHAT A PASS LOVE GREAT CUT OKORO!
Okoro is so good…get on the bandwagon now…I think he’s going to take a leap next season…
Great juke by DG
BALL FAKE IS THE SECRET TO BASKETBALL HEAVEN!!!!