Live Thread: Cavs Vs Timberwolves
2014-12-23
Kevin Love’s old dysfunctional and drab family is coming to town to visit, and they are going to see his new sexy and high functioning family. At least, this is the type of family Kevin hopes they see, so that he doesn’t regret leaving the old one. Anthony Bennett, aka the Gum Drop Bear, will be playing for Love’s old family at the same position that he did. Andrew Wiggins, a Cavalier for around 35 days, give or take a few, will be playing across from LeBron James.
The Cavs should win this game easily, but this game could be a mentally damaging game either way if Wiggins wows and Love doesn’t play great. There will be talk no matter what after the game. What’s the talk during and before, you tell me!
I predict the Cavs win this one, 101-92.
And Zach LaVine does some of this stuff:
Sounds like AV may have a torn Achilles, which would mean he’s done for the year.
Is time to get a big one by trade or by other means. Hopefully Andy does not miss the rest of season.
It would be nice if we could at least get him back for the playoffs.
Next up the cHeat!
I love David Blatt press conferences.
Reminds me of Jim tressel pressers. He can be evading good questions as well as circuitous answers. Must say though he shows a lot of class and a broad range of compliments.
Nice runaway win for the Cavs. Only real downside was the injury to Andy. Hope it’s not too serious. Everyone else was for the most part awesome.
Haywood with the 10 seconds in the lane violation…
ROOKIE FOR THREEEE!!!!
BIG FELLA WITH THE 15 SECOND TURNAROUND JUMPER!!
JAMES FREAKING JONES!!!!!
My gut tells me Haywood will get serious playing time. Ready or not
You may be right if Andy is out for any extended length of time. Is Dirk down in Canton?
Way to USE those fouls Brendan!!
Brendan Haywood about to check in! Sound the Godzilla alarm
Time to find out if the deep bench can hold this lead.
Not sure why Kyrie and (especially) Love with the hurt thumb are still in there…
Carebear with 5 fouls and 0 points.
Bennet might be the biggest weenie I have ever seen play basketball.
Did you never see Danny Ferry play? He was the definition of “weenie”
GREAT effort from Love on that play! Seems like the lead should be safe enough to take him, Kyrie and LBJ out for the remaining 5 minutes.
Wiggins definitely going to go for his season/career high no matter what tonight
Games like this make you NEVER want to trade Dion. He can be unstoppable when he’s focused.
Man, Jeff Adrien is just thugging it up out there. Wouldn’t mind a Jeff Adrien type of guy on Cavs bench
An athletic bill laimbeer
Yeah, he just looks angry out there. He mixed it up with Dion after that hard foul a bit.
Love to see Dion being aggressive and driving the ball inside
Good energy by the Cavs tonight – Minnesota is an athletic team and the Cavs are getting their hands on a lot of balls and finishing in transition
Kyrie’s shot is just sweet tonight
Marion and Dion making sure the Cavs bench wins the scoring battle tonight.
Sounds like Andy hurt his ankle and not the knee. That’s somewhat positive news all things considered.
Wiggins and Dieng are going to be good to great players in this league. Shabazz might be decent.
AC commented on this, but it also seemed like after LBJ got popped in the face by Shabazz, LBJ got angry and flipped the switch.
TWolves are really not that good, but they were playing with energy and confidence early. LBJ and the boys turned up the D intensity and started hitting big shots deep and a 3 point lead instantly becomes a 17 point one.
Cavs just turned on a switch and its all of sudden 17pt lead….this could get over 20 rather quickly
This team can score at will.
DION!!! Opening up a large can of WHUPAZZZZ!
So I put my boys to bed and cavs dropped some serious points. What was the catalyst?
Combination of good D, some TWolves turnovers (couple of travelling calls) and missed shots, and some AWESOME deep threes from LBJ and Waiters
Refs blew that call on LBJ. That was an obvious charge
GREAT steal and fast break from Dion!
WOW! LBJ showing some RANGE tonight! This is where the Cavs close out the quarter and hopefully goes up by double digits and gets the starters some rest.
Man, I wouldn’t mind having Dieng on this team. Guy is going to be a beast. Maybe not Ibaka good, but up there.
Marion a difference maker in this one.
He’s definitely looked better since returning to the bench
Cavs should cool it on the double teams. No need to double team ANYONE on this team. They are overplaying and leaving the weak side wide open.
Another instance of a far inferior team that the Cavs should be able to put away early, but just don’t choke out and instead play down to their level.
Yep said so from the start.
Very true, you did call that one.
I thought so too. Cavs must have joked about their record or something but the wolves aren’t that bad. No where near the sixes or lakers bad.
Their record says otherwise, but I get what you mean. Truth is, this has all the makings of a revenge game for the Wolves. It’s probably the ONLY time they’ll be on National TV this year. They want to get back at KLove for leaving. Wiggins wants to show the Cavs and LBJ why they should have kept him. Mo and Bennett used to play here and got discarded. LOTS of motivation for them tonight. But they’re not that good.
@SamAmicoFSO: Kevin Love returns to court. Anderson Varejao carried off. Can’t put pressure on left leg. #cavs #timberwolves
That can’t be good. Here’s hoping it’s a strain and not a tear of any kind.
Damn! Wiggins with a slam!
His athleticism on that dunk was like Kenny “sky” walker.
Nobody really defending him right now
Love is back in he game though.
Ugh… Not good! Looks like a knee injury.
@twithersAP: Varejao face down on floor, entire bench over to check him out. #Cavs
Crap. My son said “what happened to Andy?”
Wiggins has 17 I think.
He’s got 19 now and is a perfect 3-3 from deep. I guess he’s got the motivation to play his best game of the season.
Love may have dislocated his thumb on Diengs elbow.
For real? Is he out of the game?
He’s on the bench and now AV is down in pain.
Just what they need… injury bug for Christmas. smh
A lot of airing of grievances tonight. Where is the metal pole?
I think George has it…
Festivus for the rest of us.
How has Wiggins looked Arch? Saw he had 14 so far
He’s looked good!
He certainly looks like he’s motivated at the start of the second half
I did see the one play where it seemed like Dieng got like 5 offensive boards
Stuck in a meeting for first half. Looks like there were some rocky parts, but that LBJ, Kyrie and Dion got going toward the end of the half to get a little separation.
Marion doesn’t seem to happy with the teams play in first half.
Total side note on Bennett. His shoulders are massive. The wwe would be a second career for him.
They probably have their own Twitter account.
Some careless basketball to close out the half. Or playing down to the competition.
LOVE the skyhook!
Dion playing better, now with 9 points and a couple steals.
I don’t miss Anthony Bennett.
Waiters with some St. Weirdo type decisions early on.
Mo Williams gets an ovation from the crowd
Love that sequence and pass by Dion.
Mike Miller has 3 fouls in 30 seconds
I could see this being one of those games where we play down to the competition.
The former Cav I expect to go all sub-fuego tonight is… Mo Williams
Btw if you haven’t read it, here is a good read in Joe Tait http://m.clevescene.com/scene-and-heard/archives/2014/12/22/tait-broke-dont-fix-him
Excited to see Wiggins play. Haven’t seen him since summer league.