Playoff Live Thread: Celtics @ Cavs Game 4 of the Eastern Conference Finals
2018-05-21
The Cavs took care of business in Game 3. In a game where LeBron James and Kevin Love didn’t have to score 60+ points and still win handedly, did the Cavaliers find a new formula for sustained success the rest of the NBA Playoffs? Will the role players continue to show up? Does Ty Lue trust the lineups that don’t combine Jeff Green and Tristan Thompson for another game?
While many are expecting the Cavs to have found the switch, the Cavs are gonna Cavs so we really don’t know what to expect. Expect Brad Stevens to make some adjustments and the Celtics to perhaps not let Jaylen Brown get into early foul trouble.
LeBron and Co. will play in a much more competitive game tonight but the good guys will take it, tying up the series 2-2 and heading back to Boston.
115-108 Cavs.
WOW…. dumb pass by Green…. LBJ saves his butt, then LNJ finishes off the play with hustle!!!!
Two of Love, TT, Nance should always be out there for 48 min
Man. Hill missed Korver in the left Korner. Cavs lucky to get a bailout call.
Nance Jr!!!
Love Larry nance this series
Nance is literally erasing Greens negativies
Nance bailing us out.
Wow, Nance great play
https://twitter.com/cavs/status/998751458588856320
They call ticky tac on us & let them do all kinds of crap.
ARGH. What’s with these fouls?
Nance is +9 in 4 minutes. Why has he only played 4?
LARRY PROVES YOU RIGHT WITH THE AND1!
A 10-point lead at the end of this quarter will look pretty good considering how poorly the Cavs have played.
Got to hit those FT’s
They should’ve subbed Korver instead of Green…. huge mistake by Lue in this quarter.
Just 13 pts with three mins to go in the quarter. Love started the negative momentum
“He did push a little bit with that right hand.” Really JVG? Really? That is a push? Come on, as a coach who presided over the late 90s roughhouse Knicks and in the early 2000s hyper defensive era you cannot be seriously considering that a push.
He was being sarcastic…. made that clear when Jackson called him out.
Didn’t sound sarcastic. Sounded as if he was actually trying to see if he did. I think he realized their wasn’t much there though. Still I just find it amusing.
Why the F would I want to surf the web on my fridge?
Every time you try and put ice cream in the freezer AC says get that weak stuff outta here
To watch recipes?
Your fridge needs to know when to order more tater tots online…
Boston bailing the Cavs out with an unending stream of fouls.
Turnovers and missed free throws are going to doom Cavs …they need to pull away
Boston is literally fouling on every possession now.
What the H was Tatum whining about? That’s a foul, rook…
Lol. Tatum whined a lot about that call, but replay don’t like.
lie
13 pts in 9 minutes is awful.
The Cavs are going back to being really bad defensively.
T him up
James splitting so many trips to the line.
What is Lebron doing
https://twitter.com/NBA/status/998751194037260289
Awful defense and throwing away the ball with 14 turnovers. Slow torture this quarter.
LBJ with 3 terrible TOs this quarter.
James missed a wide open Kyle. Dang.
Green with a terrible shot.
Bad Green D & then a miss.
Good Green D & bad Bron pass.
TOs 14-4.
Defense is falling apart now
35 pts in the second. It has been mostly awful since the 1st.
LeBron offering no help on D as Tatum drives
ARGH Jeff.
Jeff Green SIGH
What was james doing on that tatum layup?
At least they called it even. Brown and JR both called for the reach around.
We need some Korver here.
Yep, soon, I hope…
Here he is…
That was a foul on Horford…
More terrible officiating.
Another horse crap call on JR.
TT playing big tonight
There was a wall of three Celtics waiting at the rim for James
TT has been HUGE!!
FOUR POINT SWING, THOMPSON BIG BOY BLOCK!
Ball don’t lie lol
Two out of three balls don’t lie
Some terrible calls here.
Lot of TOs & missed FTs. And dumb fouls. And bad calls. This is a game we could lose if the O cools.
Jesus. How do you blow that call. There was absolutely zero contact.
BALL DON’T LIE!
Need Phantom Cam for that phantom foul on JR
Do we seriously have to watch this…COME ON
WTF ARE YOU DOING JR????
Nm, there was no foul…screw you, refs
That’s nice! G Hill need to attack more.
Big shot, Hill!
Green doing Green things.
Good play by Hill! Five on Morris.
Yes Hill ! Right at Morris
Welcome to the game Mr Hill.
Jeff freaking green
GHill!!!
Bron in attack mode.
https://twitter.com/NBA/status/998748850063015936
Definitely not good. LeBron will need to be aggressive with KLove in the bench.
Hate the green sub here. Much rather see Nance.
WTF did Lue leave Love in? Freaking stupid.
No we get Green. Trouble on the glass.
Gonna get a huge dose of Jeff Green after that silly Love foul…
Damn it, Tyronn. That’s on you.
Yep, absolutely.