Playoff Live Thread, ECF Game 2: Cavs @ Celtics
2018-05-15
Game two isn’t a must win; it’s a “man they really ought to win” if they want to come out ahead in this series. So the Cavs look to bounce back from possibly their worst game of the season (especially given the stakes). Fortunately, the Cavs aren’t playing on Sunday afternoon, where they tend to snooze like they’re watching the third straight hour golf tournament.
The Cavs plan to start Tristan Thompson at the five, and move Korver to the Bench. We’ll see if the Celtics counter with Baynes, but the Cavs should match Horford with Thompson all night. Hopefully, we’ll see some rotation minutes for Cedi instead of the painfully obtuse Jordan Clarkson.
Hopefully the Cavs hit the boards tonight, after getting outrebounded 48-40. Also key, getting to the shooters. Cleveland just left too many guys wide open in Game 1 (I’m looking at you, LeBron).
Also on deck, the draft lottery, where Nick Gilbert (bowtie made out of the Cavs’ championship floor pictured above) tries to play Leprauchan again, and get the Cavs into the top three. Prediction? Second pick, and a 109-105 Cavalier victory.
Bench emptied.
why is JR out there? seriously? What’s Lue doing? so tired of this BS with Green and JR out there for so long… why? why? why? why?
“Gotta trust my veterans”
The Cavs are getting so exposed defensively. I don’t know if they are gassed or if they just quitted.
Quit.
I wonder what Lue sees when he watches tape.
Green and JR lost a game that we should have otherwise won. Cedi sitting. Unbelievable.
I don’t see how Toronto can do anything but totally blow it up. I mean, this Cavs team swept them.
Letting scrubs like Rozier and Smart clown you…those guys will look like G leaguers if they play the Warriors…
Embarrassing. One of the most embarrassing fourth quarters I’ve ever seen.
LOL @ JR still being on the court.
That really is hilarious. If Lue had any control he would have been done after that flagrant.
Exactly.
Good night y’all. Need a break from this.
Jeff Green just handed the ball off to Boston.
I’m equally tired of JR and Ty Lue.
With the cavs mental toughness, I would not count them out yet
Down 15? They got this.
Green has been awful.
James: “OK fine I’ll exert my will on defense”
Lebron playing 3 on 7. Green and JR.
WTF IS JEFF GREEN DOING!?
Can Ty Lue get a flagrant 2 for bad coaching?
This team is a mess.
Goodnight nurse.
Complete and total lack of composure here.
That’ll do it.
I wish Lebron would just fire Lue already. What’s he waiting for?
Won’t have to if he rolls out the door this summer.
Lue most of the time has gone to this line up to finish games in the playoffs but tonight JR has been totally unplayable.
Damnit. Flagrant 2 on JR was our only chance to win this game.
Please eject him. Then Lue can argue and get ejected too?
Dirty play, JR. C’mon.
Great game to watch if you are a Celts fan. Opposition doing everything they can to help you, dirty plays to appear the villain…I’d love it.
Nice shove JR after a horrible three. And thanks Lue for putting him back in
Lue is saving Osman for elimination games only, I think.
Maybe the next coach will play him. Cedi could have the worst game of his life and still bring more than JR this game…
One of the worst games of JR’s career, and that is saying something…
A flagrant-2 on JR might turn the series around
JR should get a flagrant 2. What an idiotic freaking substitution by Lue.
Yup…. can’t believe they didn’t kick him out.
What the hell kind of lineup does Lue have in right now? LBJ, Love, Green, JR, TT? That’s baffling.
Blindfolded throwing darts at a board of names.
OH eff you JVG thats a F-1 not an F2
YOU WANT JR TO STAY IN!?
Boston bringing it home.
Down six. Out of a TO. That is the play we run? Awful.
I cannot believe Lue put Smith back in. He immediately blows the possession.
Danny, max Smart.
Why is JR in the game?
Because Lue.
More JR Smith please
Lue put smith Back in. He dribbles into 2/5 p/r with Thompson. Exactly the action they wanted.
Old school. Gotta trust my veterans. Guys that have been there.
JR is a doughnut…
JR Smith, starting shooting guard.
I guess Horford needs the refs to protect him
Marcus Smart under Stevens’ coaching is exactly the “ kind”of player the Cavs need.
I am NOT saying go out and sign Smart. Lue couldn’t get him to play like this.
That intensity and grit (AKA actually giving a s***) is what’s missing on this team
Silly foul from Bron there.
No freebies unless it is to prevent a layup.
Are you kidding me with that foul call? That’s ridiculous.
Foul? Wtf?
I know it’s kind of unfair but as good as LeBron has been his missed FT’s could end up being one of the reason the Cavs lose tonight.
It’s been his strange Achilles heel his whole career.
Still plenty of time.
Thank God we don’t have IT, at least.
I am sure that is what Stevens and Ainge are thinking right about now too.
I know people say Lebron costs coaches their jobs, but seriously, how many coaches has he given jobs? Spo was his best coach, by far. He won Freaking Ty Lue a ring as a head coach. He won Mike Brown 66 games. CavsDan basically hires homeless people to coach and Lebron puts them in the playoffs.
Time to bring it home.
We are getting outhustled like crazy. We have a 6’8″ hustle machine on the bench
Think Clarkson is only 6’5″…/s
But a dumb coach sitting next to him.
Green has 4 TOs. But he is still one of our top 5 tonight. Bron, Love, TT, & Korver have been good. We need another guy: JR (good D no O), Green, or Hill.
Cavs actually moved around on defense that time
Six point game.
The Cavs can’t get a stop.
JR back in. Lue with the checkmate.
That’s an offensive foul.
Boy Marcus Morris is the best Bron defender…
Korver got ran over.
Time to max Smart, Danny…
Cavs hanging around. Need to steal.
They’re walking dead. Celtics care 100x more than the cavs, which i just do not understand.
On the other hand, the Celtics should be ashamed of themselves that they’re not up by 30. If they go to the Finals, they’ll get more smoked than 2007 Cavs.
That sequence is prolly game…
This is garbage
Cavs look exactly like the Sixers…taking a tub full of bad shots…
What is this freaking offense?
LBJ concussed offense? Same as normal but with the lone shot creator dazed and confused?
LeBron isn’t right. He’s shooting way too many bad give up shots.
He does this a lot. He was just making them earlier.
Game over. Flagrant in JR for the push on the airborne Horford.