Live Thread: Cavs @ Raptors (#WeAreBack)
2018-10-17
If you haven’t read Nate’s ode to our Aluminum Anniversary… make sure you check it out here at halftime.
Meanwhile… are you ready for the 2018-19 NBA regular season?! Because, it’s finally here! The future is now for your Cleveland Cavaliers. Time to find out if Kevin Love can become a Terminator… if Collin Sexton can be the next John Connor to save the franchise from a bleak existence… or if this year is just an introduction to an oncoming post-apocalypse.
The wine and gold trot out a starting lineup of Love, Cedi Osman, Tristan Thompson, Rodney Hood and George Hill. They’ll face a slightly different looking Raptors team than they faced in the Eastern Conference Finals last year. Toronto adds a potential T-1000 in Kawhi Leonard (replacing DeMar DeRozan), to start alongside OG Anunoby, Serge Ibaka, Danny Green and Kyle Lowry.
Not many give these new Cavs much of a chance against a Raptors team that should contend for the best record in the Eastern Conference (Cleveland was a 13 point underdog for this one). Yet, what chance really did Sarah Connor have of taking down SkyNet?
Prediction: With LeBron gone, the Raptor machine gets some revenge on the team that terminated them from the last few playoff series… but the scrappy Cavs make it interesting 112-108.
Catch all the action from Scotiabank Arena in Toronto, starting at 7:30 EST on Fox Sports Ohio. And, as always, come back and comment below…
GO CAVS!
LOVE that Cedi just runs up the floor EVERY time…
Oof. Love has to make one of those
Cavs defense on Kawhi has been pretty good in the second half
Jeez Kev… bad time to brick two…
man…. that was a ridiculous shot by Lowry.
Cedi doing his best Bron impression with the passing…
Wow fantastic finish by lowry
yeah that was crazy
In other news:
1) Buzzer beaters: Bucks 113-112 in Charlotte; Pistions 103-100 over Nets in Detroit; Orlando 104-101 over Miami in the Kingdom.
2) Carmelo effect: Rockets down 27 at home to NO with 5 left in the 3rd.
Melo can wreck a team even coming off the bench…/s
WHAT A PASSS CEDI!!!!! KLOVE WITH THE AND 1!!!!!!!!!!! RIDICULOUS!!!!
Love for three maybe four. Ballsy fantastic cross court bounce by cedi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HktV2yGtLv8
Clarkson has some interesting tattoos…
Great recover by cedi! Fantastic effort leading to the easiest look love has had all night.
CEDI WITH THE STEAL OFF THE TO!!! GREAT PASS HILL TO KLOVE!!!
Tys rotations are baffling this game
Baffling THIS game….? Lol
Now NOBODY plays more than 32 minutes…
Wait till Nance and JR are available…
This genuinely made me laugh
Tristan definitely looks healthy this year – solid rebounding and effort should be enough of a showcase to get him traded to a contender (hopefully)
Great ball movement! That’s more like it
All ISO stuff all of a sudden.
TT is horrible.
Sexton will drive you nuts if you forget he’s a rookie.
Hate that offensive possession. Contested Sexton mid-range from 20 feet. Basically a tov with Kawhi guarding.
SEXTON GREAT HUSTLE ON DEFENSE!
BS call on TT takes 2 away.
I don’t know why Lue changed the lineup. 2hat they had was working.
TERRIBLE CALL REF!!! CEDI had the pull up there!
The call was on TT for the arm at and it was legit.
Not on replay it wasn’t…
Knew the foul was on TT… didn’t see it though on replay… I missed it thanks for the heads up.
You suck Ibaka… even a blind squirrel…
Two really nice defenses of Kawhi…
What was that call on cedi?! No contact!!!!
It’s weird not to be rooting for Nets Pick.
Where was the foul??
Little Young Bull run?
The running of the Young Bull?
Sexton with some buckets. I shiver when AC says Sexton has to make his living in the mid range…..
That’s his game right now, he’ll need to extend the range…
And learn how to finish inside, clean up his handles in traffic, and maybe get a change of pace move.
Exactly… that’s his shot if summer league was any indication.
I’m fine with mid range, but not ok with long 2s. Anything more than one step outside the paint is too much
SEXTON TWO MAN GAME ZIZIC PULL UP AND1!!!!!!!!
YOUNG BULL!
SEXTON OFF THE GLASS!!! TWO MAN GAME WITH ZIZIC!!!
Young bull takin over!
Clarkson is the definition of fool’s gold.
TWO MAN GAME CLARKSON AND ZIZIC!!!
That last Sexton bucket looked like vintage Kyrie…
Can’t trade twos with VanVleet…
Van Vleet killing us.
VanVleet is killing them all night long off the dribble.
Van fleet is fast
Would love to have him as a bench guard. He was a great find by Toronto.
Gotta get in front of VanVleet…
Dekker wrecked it…
http://i.ebayimg.com/images/i/141559625543-0-1/s-l1000.jpg
Clarkson with some instant offense. Singlehandedly bringing it back to double digits. Sort of kills everyone else’s flow, but I guess if he makes 3-4 shots in a row. He is about the only guy on this team that can get his own shot other than cedi or zizic in the post.
Band Aid man! Down to 9.
Got a ballgame!
CLARKSON THREE AND ROW…. TWO MAN GAME WITH ZIZIC TO PERFECTION!!! LOVING ZIZIC RIGHT NOW!
NICE SCREEN ZIZIC!!!! CLARKSON JUMPER!!!!
JC takeover!
NICE DRIVE AND FINISH CLARKSON!
Keep shooting the threes Ibaka… lol
Nice left handed finish by JC…
Clarkson has been pretty good. Korver OK.
Only lost that quarter by 2…
Everyone else: not so hot.
Ibaka should’ve fouled out 20.minute a ago.
Glad he didn’t so he can continue hoisting awful threes…
Might might not lead to a lot of wins, but feeding Zizic on posts or rolls might be some of the Cavs most consistent and efficient offense this season. Cedi needs to have the ball to start the half court sets.
Encouraging: Cedi, Hood, Zizic.
Meh: Hill.
Zizic may make Lue play him by getting too many buckets…
Hope so. Of course that requires people to give him the ball.
Hill hasn’t had a bad game. He isn’t going to be a guy that propels teams to wins though. He is a solid role player 3 and d guy and someone who can bring the ball up the floor. Unrealistic to think he will be a guy that does much more than that.
“Yes! Kept them under a hundo!”
http://thumb.usatodaysportsimages.com/image/thumb/650-510nw/8469259.jpg
GREAT PASS SEXTON AND ZIZIC!!! Clarkson you have to finish that!!!
Zizic actually had an easier kick out to Korver in the corner, but yeah, gotta finish on that.
That wasn’t Korver IIRC, I think it was Dekker.
Sexton looks very raw and out of control….may take half season until we see any potential
Yep. I don’t expect much this season, just hope to see improvement…
https://twitter.com/BenAxelrod/status/1052717452440862720?s=20
Didn’t he just go 2-12 last night?
NICE TOUCH PASS KORVER!!!
Ibaka shouldn’t shoot threes…
Sexton needs to feed Zizic there. Ibaka erases him again.
I was thinking the same thing. Let Zz go to work on the small guy. Find the easy baskets.
He has a bit of tunnel vision tonight
Sexton not smart…. dump it down to Zizic on the mismatch!!!
Sexton needs to pass…
Sexton a bit out of sorts. Think his dribble is a bit high.