Live Thread: Cavs @ Raptors
2021-11-05Good evening CtB!
Tonight the Cavs are across the border in Toronto, Ontario for an important early conference matchup against the Raptors. Some thought that the Raptors would really miss Kyle Lowry, but they’ve come out of the gates strong with a 6-3 record. OG Anunoby, Fred Van Vleet, and rookie of the year candidate Scottie Barnes have led their team’s great start. The Cavs will have their hands full on the road.
For the Cavs, Isaac Okoro has already been reported out for the game due to his nagging hamstring injury. There has been no news about Kevin Love or Lauri Markkanen, so it’s safe to assume they’ll be unavailable as well. Dylan Windler and Dean Wade were excellent filling in last game against the Portland Trail Blazers so it would be reasonable to expect some minutes for the duo tonight.
The question for the Cavs tonight is, “Do they want more?” 5-4 is a good record to start, far better than the expectations heading to the season. But do they want to be more than a .500 team? Do they want to go to another level? Or are they really just satisfied with being a competitive team? Beating a team such as Toronto on the road would be a real feather in the cap in this early part of the season.
The Cavs are six point underdogs at the time of this writing, and the public heavily siding with a Toronto cover. Tipoff is at 7:30pm ET and will be broadcasted on Bally’s Sports Ohio/Great Lakes… GO CAVS!
DG TO ALLEN ONE POINT GAME!!!!!!!!!!!!
MOBLEY TO ALLEN !!!!!!!!
WHAT HUSTLE!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cedi gotta finish that
CAVS ARE COMPETING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LETS F********* GOOOOOO!!!!!!!
Wild game…
DG WITH THE MOVES!!!!!! SEXTON BENCHED LETS GOOOOOO!!!!!!
favorite comment of the year by far, I am rolling
LMFAOOOOO i love to troll what can i say????
This raptors team is tough as hell (physically)
Allen just got embarrassed by barnes.
Sexton benched after 3 terrible possessions.
Barnes is a freaking linebacker…
SEXTON UNSUCESSFULLY TRYING TO PLAY “HERO ” BALL
100% correctt NOMAD!
CEDI CHASEDOWN
Cedi playing his ass off…
Well now we’re getting the other team oboards lol
CEDI CHASEDOWN!!!
Oof, that missed Sexton 3 hurts…
Sexton with some trash
SEXTON THROWING UP GARBAGE WTF
and refused to swing the ball… JB BENCH HIM YOU COWARD
Tied up, should be !! Somehow…
JARRETT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ALLEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FROM THE SKY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
too bad sexton wasn’t traded before the season.. i thought his star would rise with the winning.. i was wrong..
JA FOR THREEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
Raptors ffing amazing at closing out
WOW, LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Woof. Lamar.
Gary Trent Jr. needs a d***punch.
He’s been highly annoying…
Typical cavs killer scrub based off his whole career.
He’s actually been great this year. They were highlighting him pregame, and he’s been a gem on my fantasy team.
Must be on d because less than 40% fg and 33% from 3 on the season…..
Howard Dean Wade!
BYAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
“…and we’re going to win against Atlanta, and then we are going to win in Denver, and LA, and Charlotte, and then we are going to win in Ohio, and then we are going to win Canada, and then we are going to take command of second place in the Central Division — byeah”
Sexton’s D on Van Vleet has been solid on ball.
Yep, not bad…
DWADE!!
WTF is going on. Refs let this game get out of control. If the Cavs were the Lakers, there would be a fight right now.
Raptors set the physical tone early and refs been too meek to challenge it based on modern rules. Feels like a game from the mid 2000s
They have their hands all over us
Again reminds me of 2007 finals
How in hell is that a foul on Allen!!?!?!?
Raps have had the refs for the most part tonight…
cavs starting to get the tom petty battle cry down..
Loose ball foul on Allen? Wtf?
After he fell out of bounds?
You’d think the Cavs would get a rebound now and then by sheer chance…
Damn. Great shot OG.
BALL WATCHING FOR REBOUNDS INSTEAD OF FINDING A DIFFERENT COLOR JERSEY AND PUTTING A BODY ON THEM —-YEAH GIVING UP AN ‘O ‘ BD IS SIMILAR TO A T.O, / OUCH !!!
Dg huge bucket and bailed out wade with the dha on the cut
DG THE FINISH!!
DG WHAT A FINISH!!!!!!!!! AND ONE!!!!!!!!
DG and 1!!!!
That’s a bit on teammates for not letting Allen know he had someone there.
100%, breakdown in communication
DG WITH THE HUGE THREE!!!!
Allen gets stripped under the bucket for the second game in a row
WTF Allen
Gah, these offensive boards…just like TOs…
UGH. Great d until the o board.
Well if we could get a defensive board….
DG needed bucket
Khem Birch was grown in the same vat as Taj Gibson.
i think the east has the talent surplus over the west.. significantly
COLLIN!
Great hustle, Cedi. Just a phenomenal game by him so far.
Omg, what a strip by mobley.
Not Svi’s game.
TOO MANY “IPA’S ” –DOZED OFF—–WAS RIGHT ABOUT 1 THING—-A FORGETTABLE GAME BY SEXTON
The success here has been about abandoning the Sexland lineup.
yup
Refs decidedly mostly ignoring hand checking on perimeter which is a part of the tov issue and have definitely had some questionable calls favoring the raptors. Not blaming the refs but feels like the cavs are playing the 2007 spurs in the finals as far as refs calling perimeter contact for one team and not the other.
pretty much…
big mo’ outplaying barnes.. sweet
That’s what I’m looking forward to haha
Hard to believe this is a winnable game…
agreed!!! literally just need one good quarter!!!
Turnovers are the reason why teh Cavs are losing… sucks
16 TOs through 3 quarters…
Rubio was going straight up. Garbage call.
yup
So rubio gets an o foul, but trent jr they take the ball out at mid court…..
BANTON WALKED. OMG. Dragged the pivot.
Yeah that foot slid a good foot or two
yep…
yup
REBOUND!!!! SMFH
Nice rubio. But boy we cannot get a d board
RUBIO RIGHT DOWN EUCLID!!!
oh my god what the hell was that someone just threw teh ball out of bounds on the inbound LMFAOOO
Great vision by rubio to mobley.