Live Thread: Cavs vs Knicks
2017-02-23
Well, Cleveland stood pat today, choosing not to to ship anyone out, and instead hopefully add some insurance in the buyout market. The Knicks also chose to stand pat, but it was more like standing on 15 when the dealer has a seven showing. So after half a season of drama, Carmelo Anthony leads the the unchanged Knicks into the Q. The Cavs are, of course, missing J.R. Smith and Kevin Love while the Knicks are missing Joakim Noah. Courtney Lee is expected to return after an illness and try to infect the Cavs’ roster.
It will be interesting to watch whether the Knicks are enthused to all be back together, or if they’re already coasting till April. Other things to watch: will the Zinger be Zung by his NBA Skills Challenge victory? Will Melo be competitive? Is this the start of the Phil Jackson death march? And will the Cavs start transition to “playoff mode?” If I was a betting man (and I’m not) I’d bet the house on Cleveland beating the spread.
Not A Recap is up…
I would like to see the Cavs be as dominate as in those days in the end of Blatt’s first season where they just destroyed everyone in 3 quarters and have the bench played all 4th quarter.
Dude. They are killing people in chill mode. The Cavs under Lue won title and you are talking about a failed NBA coach?
Stop jumping on every single comment just cause someone uses one of your trigger words.
Ha. OK. We won by 15 though. Without two starters. And Leb was in chill mode just firing passes everywhere. Made me happy.
A song for Draymond:
I can’t seem to face up to the calls
I’m tense and nervous and I curse them all
I can’t stop ’cause my head’s on fire
Don’t whistle me I’m a real live wire
Psycho kicker
Qu’est-ce que c’est
Fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
Better protect your jewels run run run away
Nice
Geez. That Bray kick was awful. What a horrible bunch of people
And his technical could have easily turned into a second and an ejection. The refs just look the other way.
Is the league doing anything about the kick?
Do they ever?
https://youtu.be/u78557IFc_o
At it again
And… the Dubs drop a 50 point third quarter on the Clips to turn a 12 point deficit to 12 point lead going into the fourth…
Dray with yet another technical…
This guy is psychotic
Biggest douche in the league…keep them coming, Bray…
Doc’s kid having a good game…
Clips up by 12 at the half… imagine the Dubs still win by double digits though…
+1.
Hes fine it looks like. He’s just a cupcake.
Cavs starters went 4-17 from three… bench went 11-18… all without Kev, J.R. and potentially DWill2
KD just took a hard fall on his wrist… looks okay
Poor Casspi…
That’s a bummer…good guy…
We won that at a canter.
With four horses still on the way…
Really amazing
Can’t stop watching… won’t stop watching…
LeBron just as high – if not a touch higher – than the epic block on Iggy
https://twitter.com/World_Wide_Wob/status/834967842860609536
29 assists and 7 Cavs in double figures… which is impressive because only 8 played more than 3 minutes…
JohnB. LeBron was just chilling and toying with people. What the heck are you complaining about?
This whole team is dominant.
Ligg is fouling folks with us up 19 with a minute left. He ain’t got no chill mode.
This is awesome…
https://twitter.com/SInow/status/834967601642156036
Great win… #40
LeBron with a base 13 triple double!
Good to see some math skills in the CtB crew! As they say in Java, “OxCAFEBABE”.
I was hoping he would get a base 15 TD, which might be called a “Triple Double and a Half”.
So glad the break is over, great game.
Even the KShrimp to Orange Mamba drive and kick for three play is working tonight…
Particularly impressive, because he was on the bench for the last one!
I love LeBron
LIGGINS… FREED!
Why is James still in the game and not Kyrie. Why rest a dude who is 24 as opposed to a guy who is 32? Cols? Rationale please.
Well, they did just have a week off basically…
So did everyone else???
So he wants to play…
And Kyrie doesn’t??
James is indestructale (almost) & Kyrie isn’t.
44 BENCH PTS —SO YEAH ADD DWILL/ HEALTY J.R/ LOVE AND WHO ELSE —–I AM LIKING IT !!—C’MON DWILL COME JOIN THE FUN !!
Lebron is incredible
TT with 14 boards tonight
Digging to get back…and then just sizing up his prey.
Like a lion attacking a gazelle on the savannah
RJ looks like he’s feeling some lactic acid after that runout, as LeBron picks up another rebound and assist.