Playoff Live Thread: Cavs @ Celtics, Game 1
2017-05-17
The Cavs open up the Eastern Conference Finals on the road in Boston tonight. After rolling through the first two rounds in just eight games, they come into this series favorites once again.
The Celtics have their best chance to win tonight. The Cavs are coming off of over a week of rest, and they may actually be rusty. Or, and this may very well be the case, LeBron James will be at full strength and ready to completely make the Celts go into a full on “we’re not good enough as is with our super short super fun point guard, Isaiah Thomas” rebuild.
I’m picking the Cavs to win 107-98.
https://twitter.com/cavs/status/865034873727205376
Ya, keep shooting Korver. He will start hitting. We are still up by 20. THIS is the time to shoot yourself out of a slump, not in a close game.
Ky still getting backdoored.
Jet Travolta calls for the hack-a-thompson
Hack a TT? Really Stevens? That’s all you got left?
He’s a genius
Make em Pay, TT
The Celtics are a joke.
It must really suck to be a Celtics fan and be stuck watching this style of play for years.
They are hoping the Nets’ gifts pan out…
If they trade that #1 pick for a stud (PG13 or Butler) they won’t be.
That’s just sick LeBron!
Spin AND ONE!
Lol…that was so casual…
All day long…
Korver a bit trigger happy tonigh
He was foul hunting on one.
Shump has that Jo Noah disease where he throws it off the glass too hard…
Well Shump got himself two rebounds out of that drive…
Chance for injury considerably less with uberscrub Smart out…
this team is cheap as hell
LeBron obviously getting too flashy with the fact that he’s a cyborg. If he doesn’t be careful, the government is going to start sniffing around.
Maybe KK should stop shooting the corner threes…
You shut your effing mouth.
Ha! It’s so weird to watch him release that shot and then watch the ball not go in. Seems like he was too close to the baseline on those misses. Backboard a little in the way. Or maybe Earth was off its axis for a few minutes.
korver cold from outside…otherwise this is 30 point game
I hate this f’ing team and stupid coach.
Someone gif the Lebron travel pantomimes. Priceless
Get Smart out of the game…finally
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoyvvEWHodk
Haha dumbest foul out I’ve witnessed. Not that it remotely matters.
Nice box out by Smart
Marcus Smart is absolute trash
Such a chump
Effing Smart
Would like to see Thomas get pulled to the ground by a bear hug around his waist. They’d charge the defender with murder
Truth. Theyd invent the flagrant 3
Hahaha Smart…….
Nice steal Shump!
That was nice.
$&*%…
Effing Celtics.
Dirty play by IT…
Yes it was. Reggie looked at a replay & got it wrong.
LeBron will be fine.
Crowder crunched someone (Shump?) on a rolling screen.
Amazing the Leprechaun didn’t get the and one call on that drive on RJ…
IT TIME!!!!!!!!
Good one Reggie.
EG….
http://www.pleasestopdribblongShump.com
Shumpert on an island with the ball…ugh. Lucky to get it back.
http://www.PleaseStopDribblingShump.com
Please!
We must have been typing this simultaneously
I’m terrified ever time Shumo dribbles.
If KK had knocked down the 2 wide open 3’s he got the lead would still be at 23.
Is Kyrie playing? He’s been mostly a non-factor tonight…
He needs to step it up.
He’s played an ok game defensively. A few steals and deflections. We will need him to work out his 3 point stroke to have any chance
Gotta at least appreciate the celtics fans trying to will their team in to it.
Clean the bs’ing around and up the defensive tempo. Cavs need to win by 15+.
We lapsed badly on defense the latter part of that quarter
When we got up big we stopped playing D. Then we cooled off. Shootout mode is dangerous for us.
Yes, enjoy this mini run and the knowledge that the Cavs haven’t hit anywhere close to their average on open jump shots, nor have they rolled out LeBron and the devastating second lineup
God I hate this team. The most obnoxious fans I’ve ever seen.
The worst. Any sport, any team. They are all exactly like Bill Simmons.
cavs still scored 30+ points that quarter…defense a little lax….be alright
Not a great defensive quarter…
Good wakeup call.
They can hang with the Cavs playing a clean game so they gotta muddle it up.. F Coach Stevens. Punk asz.
Can’t*
Just 6 threes and KLove has 5 of them !
Another flop from Smart. Ty Lue has to let the officials know.
If the officials don’t know that about smart already, we’re in for a long sweep
Fully expected smart to pick someone and try to rile them up but I thought he’d pick JR. TT is not a guy who you want to rile up you idiot…angry TT is twice as good
We are getting 3 happy.
“The physical play has picked up”…who woulda guessed????
why is he even slaming his hand on the floor like he did something ?
Heeere we go with the junk ball
Smart is such a chump
Boston trying to thug it up and psyche themselves up…
That’s president Stevens…
never seen crowd get hyped by their team losing by 23 haha
Isn’t it Olynyk time?
Can they change it on review to a foul on Smart?
Yes get pumped up. Maybe you’ll only lose by 20.
Celtics trying to WWE it up.
Lol.flop.
Smart is such a tool
Tomahawk that little turd.