Live Thread: Cavs vs. Magic (#Abracadabra)
2019-03-03
And… poof! It didn’t take much prestidigitation for the Cavs to turn back into a pumpkin after a few solid efforts in a row. All that was required was a bit of injury (Ante Zizic, Tristan Thompson) and load maintenance (Kevin Love), and the wine & gold conjured up a disappearing act last night, losing by 36 points at home against the Detroit Pistons.
Perhaps with Love back on the floor, the Cavs can pull a rabbit out of their hat against the visiting Orlando Magic tonight at the Q. Then again, the Magic has been putting on a pretty good show for the first time in recent memory, and are actually positioning themselves for a real shot at a playoff berth. They’re a surprisingly good defensive team also, ranking 8th in the NBA in defensive efficiency.
Prediction: The Cavs have a bit more effort up their sleeves for a while, but before you can say presto-chango, the Magic make the chance for victory disappear… 115-107.
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ESPN highlight article.. “The Boston Celtics are running out of time.. Why the Celtics are less than the sum of their talented parts”
At Celtics Blog they call Stevens Robocoach & think he should get fired.
I’ll take him. At some point that dude will break through. Will be just fine with it being on the cavs.
The page reload thing gets it to work.
Yeah. I think the latest WordPress updates breaking our out of date comment systems.
Autoupdate is a scam for everything save malaware/virus protection.
One. Two. Three.
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JUDE AGREE WITH YOU –COMPETE / GROW / GAIN CONFIDENCE —-“ROLL THE DICE ” WITH THE LOTTERY —-GO PURCHASE A “SURPLUS OF BOW TIES “
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I forget who pitched this originally, but starting Season 3 of The Expanse tonight.. super pumped it’s finally on Amazon Prime!
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AGREE WITH NATE -( ON HOOD )–WOULD BE NICE TO SEE HIM REALIZE HIS TRUE POTENTIAL–IF HE DOES –BLAZERS COULD BE A VERY DANGEROUS TEAM——–RUMORS / BOGUT MIGHT RETURN WITH THE DUBS OR 76ERS
I thought Bogut signed a big multiyear deal in Australia….
And the season is over…
ANYONE CONCERNED ABOUT US PASSING THE BULLS IN WINS——OR JUST GO OUT THERE COMPETE / WIN OR LOSE AND TAKE OUR CHANCES WITH THE ” FROZEN–WEIGHTED ENVELOPE “
Id rather the growth we get from competing than the 1.5% better chance we get at the #1 pick.
Possible. But I tend to doubt it.
Cavs last 10 = 5-5.
Bulls last 10 = 6-4.
We are better with Love but they are better with Porter & without Parker.
Remaining SOS:
Cavs: 5th hardest
Bulls: 13th hardest
And that is based on opponent Winning %. In terms of home/away:
Cavs: 7H/11A
Bulls: 9H/9A
Yes. We are the only crappy team not tanking for some reason. Have you noticed how many “comeback” wins we’ve had against crappy teams like the Knicks, the Suns, the Bulls, and against tonight against Orlando. Other teams are trying to lose, and it’s costing us draft position. I get it, but still. We’re going from a likely 3 or 4 pick to a likely 6 or 7 pick, which is a big difference.
I love seeing the #43 next to three point attempts as long as they are 90% from passing to shooters. I don’t have stats on that but i think about 70% were non-off the dribble if i remember correctly. But the cavs found something that worked in terms of dribble and kick and swing and penetrate and swing it again. It was masterful at times. Our bench was all in the positive double digit plus-minus. they smashed them.
YES JASON I AM ALSO HAVING PROBLEMS POSTING
Thanks. Had issues once before but it was an issue with my phone.
Loved how sexton and cedi played down the stretch, their pick and roll game with K love was on point.
Anyone else having comment issues? The little block in the corner goes forever and you have to hit post comment twice to get it to post, which you cannot see until after you get a duplicate post message & logging out of thread?
21 in the 4th for Hood tonight.
Yup, having same issue. Also can’t even get a page to load on my laptop browser.
Same issues here.
For me as well.
same issue here. happens mainly on chrome it seems
I’ll try to fix.
Same issue kind of. For the last several days it seems like my comments take forever because of that loading bar in the corner, but i noticed if I just reload the page my comment posts instantly.
So they are posting right away…just it doesnt look like they do.
wiggins watch.. 14pts.. 4rebs.. 0ass.. 33min in 135-121 loss to wiz.. supa-max in action
25.6Mill/yr..
Weird game. Bench unit killed it in terms of +/-. Delly +11, Nwaba +14, Chriss +15, Stauskas +17, Clarkson +20.
They were great in the 2nd half…. All of them stepped up big time.
I hope we do.
Rodney Hood with a big 27 points in a Portland win. Good for him. I would love for him to figure it out.
LeBron on this team would’ve been fun to watch. Starting lineup of Sexton, Cedi, LBJ, Nance, Love with Delly, Clarkson, Nwaba, TT off the bench.
I’m sure we wouldn’t have traded Korver/Hill/Hood, gotten Delly, or jettisoned JR if LeBron had stayed, but that team with Playoff LeBron would’ve had at least a chance against anyone in the East
They maybe don’t get Delly or move Korver, etc. It’s a journey that couldn’t be replicated. Cavs should get 4th pick and trade JR and TT for Bron.
How many of our wins were the second night of a back to back? It seems like a lot
We’re 3wins 4 losses on the second night of a back to back. Weird.
Great win ;)
I wonder if the Cavs had had the whole team healthy from the beginning of the season would they have a better record than the Lakers and would they be in a playoff spot currently.
Is there anyone at this point that thinks the Lakers without LeBron are actually better than the Cavs?
At this moment, it defintely looks like he crapped the bed on that one.