Live Thread: Bucks @ Cavs

LeBron said the Cavs are “too nice”.  LeBron says a lot of “we gotta” things and yet I rarely notice some kind of dramatic change afterwards.  If the Cavs don’t come out and stomp on the Bucks tonight, it won’t be for lack of motivation.  There’s the revenge factor from falling in double OT last week.  There’s a losing streak to break.  There’s an OJ Mayo (season debut) to punk.  There’s a Greivis “Cam Newton’s dance moves without Cam Newton’s successes” Vasquez to punk.

For the first time this season, we might learn something about the Cavs.

We’ll learn whether Mo Williams is young enough to learn new tricks, like, watching game film on MCW and realizing you never, under any circumstance, go OVER a high screen when MCW is the ball-handler.

We’ll learn what it means to LeBron to not be “too nice”.  Does it mean he cleans up the turnovers (7 against the Bucks on Sunday) and foregoes telegraphed, one-handed, needle-threading bounce passes to stone-hands Mozgov?

We’ll learn how David Blatt approaches a game he really doesn’t want to lose.  (You really don’t want to lose two games in a row to a fellow central division playoff foe)  Does he lean heavily on LeBron?  Does he go extended periods without substituting?  The Cavs responded to adversity last season by dramatically shortening their rotation.  Will that be Blatt’s modus operandi or will he show some Popovichian chops this season and defiantly strut out “heat check lineups” and such?

Follow along here.  It’s a TNT, nationally televised game, so the start is 8 instead of 7.  For fun, comment as if you were Golf TV Commentator.  Inspired by the GEICO Kraken commercial.

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