Live Thread: Cavs @ Heat
2023-03-08Good evening CtB!
The Cavs venture to the beaches of South Florida to take on the Miami Heat in a pivotal late season Eastern Conference tilt. Miami is desperate for wins to hop into the sixth seed and avoid the play-in while the Cavs are fighting to hold onto the fourth seed. It appears that former Cavs and NBA champion Kevin Love is probable for the game, but the Heat will still be missing Kyle Lowry. The Cavs are fully healthy, exactly where they want to be heading into the playoffs.
What do the stats say about the Heat? That they’re not a good team and if the Cavs lose to them (which they already have once this season), it would only add ammo for those casual NBA fans who think the Cavs are a fraudulent team. While the Heat still have an excellent defense (ranked top 5 in the NBA in defensive rating), their offense is a disaster (ranked bottom 5 in the NBA in offensive rating). It shouldn’t have been a surprise to see the desperate Heat pick up Kevin Love and start him because their roster outside of Jimmy Butler is overrated and stinky. Unfortunately for the Heat, Love’s shooting woes from January have carried over to Miami in his short time there. The fact that Erik Spoelstra has this team above .500 is a miracle.
What will the key to victory be for the Cavs? It would help the Cavs to push the pace against this poor shooting team, as they prefer to keep the game a half court grind much like the Cavs do. Rebound and run will help mitigate the Heat’s excellent half court defense.
Tip off is scheduled for 7:30PM Eastern time and will be broadcasted live on Bally Sports Ohio, Go Cavs!
That wasn’t good for my stress eating.
That was the fastest 5 seconds – wtf?
That was an adventure!
Woof
Bad defensive possession for the Heat…I love it…
😂😂😅 Cavs ate a lot of time because the refs don’t give them calls.
My internet is acting up.. stuck listening to the radio broadcast.. a little breathing room with 5.. thank God.. don’t foul !
No 3s!!!
No fouls!
Love JB leaving ice in here when they are clearly getting his man (Herro) into the pick n roll and then counting on DG and Okoro to make it work
DG TO OKORO THANK GOD YOU MADE THAT JUNK LMFAOOOOOOOO
Ice clutch bucket
Damn nice game for ICE…
Mobley with the defense. DG with the great assist to Ice!
Mobley big stop.
Big shot Darius. No threes.
DG FADEAWAY
Please get in your sets quicker…
Or like at all
GET THE REBOUND JARRETT QUIT BALL WATCHING
Cavs making a supreme effort to crap this game away…
The offensive coaching is pathetic.
PUT CARIS BACK IN
They get all the calls – we don’t get the same ones
I fucking knew that was coming.
Lame. Of course Butler just runs into players and gets fouls. F him!
Don’t breathe on Butler
Gotta finish. Don’t get baited by Jimmy F-head and his flops!
DG and DM gotta play together more instead of taking turns
Darius missed the easy pass early. Mobley was wide open. Cavs lack of offensive diversity is killing them.
Cmon Darius.
Every time AC says need a basket here, immediate turnover.
DG doing too much
Garland stop over dribbling
DG cannot foul out…
He’s got 5 – but if he fouls out Collin Sexton comes in
Little known factor of the Mitchell trade.
Good lord the grifting.
Evan thump!
MOBLEY BALL FAKE AND SLAM WHAT A MOVE
Lots of acting with Miami
Mobley with the fake and slam!
Jarrett come on.
9 and 10 for Buthead at the line
HOLY SHIT WHAT A FINISH CARIS!
LeVert do something with the ball challenge.
And he does!
There you go Nate! Leverrrrrrt
Wow LeVert
This game will end at midnight
Has quintuple overtime written all over it.
I quite like watching games over lunch, bring it on.
LMFAOOOOOO
LeVert has to put up shots. No one wants to shoot. It’s a slop game. Gotta slop em up.
SHOOT YOUR SHOT CARIS DONT PREDETERMINE YOUR READ!
SHOOT THE THREE OKORO DAMMIT
CARIS HAS BEEN A MENACE ON DEFENSE TONIGHT!
And offense, but not in a good way.
???? 3-6, should’ve called his number more LMFAO
Ball stopping and turnovers.
+1 only bench player that’s in the positive.
Thank you for not passing mitchell
Caris drawing the foul
🦙 got moves like a bowling ball lol
Stevens should’ve gotten a foul call
This is just a dogfight…
Stevens playing solid
DG CLUTCH 3
DG3!!!!!!
Good call
Herro gets called for antics
They got Herro…good…
Like the emphasis on moving screens and traveling calls. Nice shot of spoelestra there haha
That sure looked like a goaltend
Bam totally fouled Allen on that rebound
Let Caris cook!
Bam with 4
Double clutch LeVert!
I’d also love to see a cap on the # of fouls a player can draw per game. Make it maybe 12.
Cavs defense still stinks, just getting lucky Miami decided to be turnover machines tonight.
not rebounding, not forcing tough shots.
NBA needs to fix the rules on defending 3-point shooters. It’s gone too far the other way!