Live Thread: Blazers @ Cavs
2021-11-03Good evening CtB!
Off the back of a wildly successful road trip, the Cavs are back home to face the somewhat struggling Portland Trail Blazers. The Cavs will be dealing with a lot of missing pieces tonight, with reports just coming out today that Lauri Markkanen has entered the NBA’s Health and Safety Protocols, joining Kevin Love on the list.
Cleveland's Lauri Markkanen has entered Health and Safety Protocols, team says.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) November 3, 2021
The Cavs will also be most likely missing Isaac “Ice” Okoro with the hamstring injury according to Chris Fedor. One could presume that this opens the door for end of bench guys such as Lamar Stevens, Dean Wade, and Dylan Windler to receive some minutes. But Coach J.B. Bickerstaff has been coaching the beginning of this season as if he’s coaching in the playoffs, with a shortened rotation that while has produced some winning results, seems unnecessary given the slog of the NBA season.
It can’t go unmentioned that this will be a homecoming game for the beloved Larry Nance, Jr. LNJ has fit in seamlessly with his new team, leading the Blazers by far in net rating (+12.9). Welcome home, Larry! Tip off is scheduled for 7:00pm ET and will be broadcasted on Bally’s Sports Ohio. GO CAVS!
Super win for a young team
JB must have been mentored by Thibs in the offseason.
LMFAOOOOOO * insert Larry David ambivalent GIF*
Better d but riding dudes hard.
WOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! OVER .500 BABYYYYYY!!!!!!!!! LETS F*********** GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Over a hideous span of games…
Better now than late. Caught a fair number of teams at the right moment. And have taken advantage of it.
Cavs are again pulling ahead in the closely-watched competition with NBA champion Milwaukee Bucks for standing in the scrappy Central Division
CENTRAL DIVISON IS BACK BABYYYY!!!!!
game and a half out of first!
Escaped a pretty sloppy end.
JA POTG….
Whew!
impressive W given the 3 shower by the blazers at the open..
Allen. AMAZING defense to close the game.
Terrific defense!
A WIN!
ALLEN WITH THE DEFENSE!!!!!!!!!!!! MOBLEY SECURES VICTORY!
Please foul here JB…don’t let them get off a three…
That dumb foul deserves a three to tie.
Sexton was wide open just missed.
No complaints
yup
Good shot really, gotta lock up D here
yup
Seriously? Bad foul, mobley.
FFS. Our out of bounds plays still absolutely suck. JB has a giant gaping weakness there.
Rubio bad turnover, just lob it to Mobley
OH MY GOD WHYYYYYYYYY
Our old friend the baseline out of bounds turnover.
LMFAOOOOOOOO TOO TRUE
10 yr vet that doesn’t know to call timeout in that situation.
How dumb is that foul up 6?
Ughhh….TO on the inbound…
looks like a w.. good job men
Spoke too soon.
This is the time for the Sexton isos.
This review giving the Cavs a blow, which is nice…
Off PoweLL
oh shit, Collin might’ve turned it over again.
Looked like it went off his knee to me
It didn’t, I thought so too.
no he didn’t looked like Cavs ball thank goodness. DG was wide open for three if anybody can make a skip pass.
I’ll just take not turning it over. Good skips easier said than done. LBJ special and one of the few people in the league who can get people good shots without tov consistently
Look like Cavs ball, but WTF knows what refs will do here…
Sexton dribbling to the right corner like a 7th grader.
Is that a bad thing…?
Oof sexton. Boy we got lucky the refs didn’t call dg for a foul
THAT WAS NUTS
OH SHIT WHY COLLIN!!!
OH MY GOD DG STOPS THE FASTBREAK!!!!!!!!
Lol. Ok. We’ll take it.
Mobley 1, Lillard 0…
big bucket, collin!
LILLARD BLOCKED BY MOBLEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SEXTON TOUGH BUCKET ISO SITUATION!!!!!
Big shot. Forced it but he made it
Damn good thing lillard cold as ice this game
Mobley oop!!
I like a decisive move by sexton. No waiting just went and drew a foul. Allen needs a blow.
Yeah he’s clearly drained.
damn, Allen blocked on the finish
DG TO RUBIO TO MOBLEY!!!!! MOBLEY RUNNING THE FLOOR THATS A DOUBLE DOUBLE!!!!!
Why are the Cavs playing this garbage three guard lineup? WHY!?
Jesus, JB doing the 3 guard lineup we might in trouble.
when allen plays hard.. his team often wins.. so, play hard every night and win a bunch.. sounds like a plan
Can’t give the ball up this many times…
Why are the Cavs playing so fast with the lead!?
Addicted to turnovers. Can’t get enough
Allen is gassed. When you see it running down the floor, a guy is done
I agree, he needs a blow…playing his a$$ off…
WTF DG TAKE THE SHOT!!!! IT WAS OPEN!!!
Yup
a timeout here might be good…
We only have one left.
Back to back TOs, again.
Night of 3s continues
WTF DG WAS FOULED??????
Mobley trey! Huge shot
DG TO MOBLEY FOR THRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Amazing…
JA must be on fumes about now…
yeah, short armed the last two looks that he was making.
I can’t believe the Rockets took Oladipo over this guy.
Loooool you’re right
Thank you Tilman!!!!
Allen mvp this game if they win
OMG JA with a self past post move for a layup!
Man, Allen…earning that salary…
24/14 4 assists…
That was bad. Yeesh sexton
LNJ with the steal
I sort of never want sexton taking it out.
100% literally never should
ALLEN HUSTLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT COLLIN????
Dumb. So dumb.
Great textbook p and r rubio
Lillard is a witch. But Rubio to Allen answers!
RUBIO TO ALLEN BEEN COOKING ALL NIGHT!!!!!
Lillard was surprisingly strong on that post d despite the foul
Allen may save their bacon. Again.
ALLEN STRONG MOVE!
Good closeout by sexton on covington
GREAT HUSTLE ALLEN!
damn this pic goes hard!!!
Portland running a 9/10 rotation.
Mobley mentally hitting the wall
8 man rotation possibly will be their downfall…. DG, Allen, Mobley already at 32 minutes!!! WTF JB???????
JB gonna have three guys hitting nearly 40 minutes, including two big… dumb as hell.
Who’re they gonna play?
They could play Stevens some…
yup and Cedi and Windler have been cooking and both under 20 minutes.
Wow…. gotta get it together