Live Thread: Cavs vs. Timberwolves, 2/1/2017
2017-02-01
“Onto February!”
It was a rough January for the Cavs. On the court, the team underwhelmingly finished below .500 at 7-8. Their losses included a flashback-walloping by the Warriors on MLK Jr. Day, a heartbreaking OT loss to the Spurs, and some headscratching L’s to the Mavericks and the Anthony Davis-less Pelicans. The Cavs have also had to adjust to life without J.R. Smith, while facing sickness and food poisoning, Kevin Love‘s balky back, and long nights on veterans’ legs. There was a trade that presently looks awful. Off the court, Cleveland has endured trade rumors, LeBron’s jabs at his teammates, LeBron’s jabs at Cavs management, LeBron’s jabs with the media, and the media’s own jabs back. For the past month, every step the Cavs have taken forward there seems to have been one back. But January was January.
This is a brutal graphic for Cavs fans.
Onto February. Tonight at 7:00 EST, the Wine & Gold look to get back to their winning ways with some home cooking against a young Minnesota Timberwolves squad. The Wolves’ roster is young but dripping with talent headed by top draft picks Karl-Anthony Towns and Andrew Wiggins. The latter, in particular, has historically played particularly well against the Cavs, scoring a blistering 28.8 points per game, the highest of his career against any team. The veteran Cavaliers should be able to overcome the less tested Wolves, but don’t be surprised if the game becomes a battle.
Kevin Love will sit out tonight’s game due to his back, and Channing Frye will take his place. Let’s see if Cleveland can right the ship at home.
just finished the game on replay…cavs played soooooo good on offense. So-so on defense until about halfway through the 3rd…but man. This game should be replayed on a loop for Lebron every time he thinks he should be the most used player on the cavs…Kyrie is a real MVP candidate baby! Obviously not this year…but coming soon to an NBA near you…Kyrie puts up a PER near 30 and begins averaging near 10 assists while scoring 20+. This will happen…if lebron knows what’s good for him. he has struck gold and doesn’t seem to know it. Kyrie has surpassed every… Read more »
If he regularly put in real effort on Defense, there is no doubt in my mind.
Why the LeBron bashing? Of course LeBron knows how great Kyrie is. He didn’t come back just because he’s from the area. He knew Kyrie, TT, and Love were all great.
The video of Korver helping coach TT on FTs (he’s 9-12 since Kyle started helping him)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNt3JzG5ToI
This is great. He is already showing correct shooting form. All the power should come from the legs, and you flick it in at the top of the extension.
Of the zillions of guys in college or the NBA who can’t shoot, you can tell they have been coached, but don’t get it. These guys bend their knees, but come up to a standstill before shooting, which totally defeats the purpose of bending the knees.
Saint weirdo is straight Ballin
Toronto might have more talent than the Celtics, but they’re less tough… especially minus Biyombo…
Biyombo is trash. He sucks this year. He sucked last year except for two playoff games.
Look up the difference between “tough” and “good” in the dictionary for me…
Wow Thomas is clutch
He has 15 in the fourth quarter…
Now 17 in the 4th. For a national audience, this should have been the game
Isaiah Thomas just hit a three to give the C’s the lead (with :48 left) and give him 40…
This Boston/Toronto game is good…
Not as good as csvs
Better than the OA tho…
Rubio: first half shooting 4-4… second half shooting 1-7…
#EGHexInEffect
Man, if KShrimp could become even half the player Isaiah Thomas is, Cavs wouldn’t need another playmaker…
True. But if IT was the Cavs would LeBron make him stand in the right corner?
IS THERE A TIMETABLE ON WHEN CAVS MIGHT MAKE A DECISION ON ” THE AUDITION / TRY OUT” TODAY—–ANY ODDS WHO IS THE FAVORITE ——AS EVIL MENTIONED EARLIER CELTS WERE NOT IMPRESSED WITH SANDERS ( OR ARE THEY BLUFFING )
Don’t know if they’d add anyone before the road trip…
Jaylen Brown and Kyle Lowry getting into it in the Celtics/Raps game…
Kylo Quinn is killing it tonight with zero points and two boards in five minutes…
It’s the Nate effect.
I shouldn’t troll so hard though… he’ll probably go off on Saturday…
LeBron and Wiggins vs Lowry and derozan? EG. Fans would take the former every time. That Celtics team is trash.
It’s more about competitiveness of the games IMO…
Hoping this can be a good springboard game for Threezus…
CTB BLOGGERS EARNED THEIR MONEY TONIGHT —OH YEAH WE DON’T GET PAID
I’ll pay them in beers and weed when they come here.
Hey!! Let’s all take a summer road trip and stay at Cols’s. He obviously has good weed!
WIZARDS GAME COULD BE THE RIVALRY GAME —–LEBRON 1.0 —-THEY ARE PLAYING SOME GOOD BASKETBALL —-WILL WANT TO PROVE THAT THEY CAN COMPETE / MAKE A STATEMENT
TT earned his money tonight…
Nothing against having Cavs on ESPN, but wouldn’t Celtics/Raptors have been a better game for them to showcase tonight?
No
We are biased obviously, but the average NBA fan would probably rather see the #2 and #3 seed in the EC go at it rather than the Cavs beat down the fourth worst team in the WC…
Twolves are the 4th worst team but they have been rather hot recently. I didn’t mind it being on national TV and I thought the twolves would keep it close/competitive. This is the same Toronto team that almost lost to Orlando at home and then went to Boston for a B2B
JEFF AND CAMPY ARE LIKE EVIL AND COLS ” COLS YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT “
Good win. This four game trip will tell us a lot. None of these are easy games, even NY.
Oh, right… because they have to face Kylo Quinn… ;)
GOT HIM
GEEZ CHANNING TALKING ABOUT THE KEYS TO THEIR SUCCESS TONIGHT —” DEFENSE AND BALL MOVEMENT / PASSING ” WOW WHAT A UNIQUE CONCEPT—-NEVER HEARD THAT DISCUSSED HERE ON CTB BEFORE —-SARCASM !!
So Jalen and Chauncey think Cavs would still have won the chip with Wig… #Braintrust
They are really terrible….just uninformed hot takes….
Cavs with 37 assists…
Tom P: Campy’s first post game comment, “Jeff, your absolutely right.”
Death, Taxes, and Campy
Nate. I like to dribble and shoot.
Thanks NOMAD.
That was a really fun game…
it really was. Cavs needed that one
SO WE VOTE TO KEEP “COLS ON THE ISLAND ” I’M ALL IN —DRINK 1 FOR ME COLS !!
Wouldn’t be an Island without Cols…
Beach community!
Bron is all smiles…
YES! Kept em under a hundo!
I really want to keep them under 100…
The ESPN play-by-play guy doing a Feb. 1 NBA game disses mid-January NBA games,
if that felder reverse had gone down….
Good. Need some
Good vibes around here. Speaking of vibes. Valentine’s Day is coming up.
See… even Mamba…