Live Thread: Cavs vs Celtics
2019-12-27Welcome to your 4:00 start, Cavs fans. The Celtics come in winners of four straight and eight of the last ten, including wins over Toronto, Dallas, Denver, and Miami. Cleveland, meanwhile, has won three straight against admittedly weaker opponents.
Boston is missing Marcus Smart, Vincent Poirier, and Robert Williams III while Cleveland is missing Dylan Windler and, of course, Jordan Clarkson. Dante Exum is in uniform today, but no word on whether he’s going to play this afternoon. Should be interesting to say the least.
More focused on CFB & the Bucks tonight. One thing is certain: with the first pick in the 2020 NFL draft, the Cincinnati Bengals select Joe Burrow, quarterback, LSU.
As for the Cavs, winnable game. Wolves lost 9 in a row before winning their last. Only 2 wins up on the Cavs after a promising start.
I’ve been unable to live post much lately, but some things seem clear: *A starting lineup Garland, Porter, Cedi, Love, and TT could have a lot of potential. *Sexton is desperately needed as a gunner off if the bench without Clarkson. *Windler’s shooting can’t be added to tge lineup (especially the bench) soon enough. *Henson has a ton to offer if he’s happy being a short minute bench guy. His offense is limited, but I want him to stick around. *Even if Sexton gets moved to the bench, the Cavs need more scoring from the bench. LNJ’s passing is less… Read more »
Neither of our starting guards is starting caliber.
Just tuned in…how has Exum looked?
Pretty good considering. Had a steal right when he checked in. Made a triple. Perfect from the field (like 3-3). Missed a couple FTs.
Thanks. I was mainly curious how he did defensively, since that’s his major potential role right now on the Cavs. I saw him from the late 3rd on, unfortunately that’s about the time the Cavs allowed the Celtics to scorth them from 3 every time down the court…
Exum trey. Down to 8.
President Stevens can apparently veto the refs…
The overturn was weak.
From 22 down to 9. Nice rally there. Garland, Delly, KPJ, LNJ, & Love.
Let Love Rule.
Delly Trey!!!
Delly with a nice finish.
Sexton’s gotta go to the bench. They need his scoring now.
Agreed. Who starts? Porter? Delly? KPJ? Windler if healthy? Knight?
Give Exum the start. He’s a good passer and can make others better and will help defensively.
Sexton with 8 FGAs in the first 5 minutes of the half.
If he plays 30 minutes, that would be 48 shots.
hope Garland gets a Paul George growth spurt
Man. What has happened to Sexton’s J. It’s so broken.
The bench is 1-8 on FGs and 1-6 on FTs. Brutal.
Sexton Missed a wide open Love twice in a row. No wonder he drives the vets nuts.
He sucks. Not a winning player at this point. Inefficient chucker who plays with blinders on and plays terrible D. Poor vision & recognition.
I see no signs his vision is improving at all.
The high GPA, gym rat thing is not translating so far. Though he did make a jump around the ASG last year.
He’s still very young. At least he has some physical upside.
Kev! Insanely hot with 19 so far!
Brown pushes off then gets a weak foul on TT.
How many times have the Cavs lost the ball going up? How does Cedi sit for that long. It’s maddening.
Celtics on a 22-4 run.Cavs missing Clarkson’s offense for sure.
The Cavs have scored 4 points in the first 4.5 minutes of this quarter. Zero sense of urgency either.
Argh. Sexton. Re-post there.
Garland is stinking it up outside of that one layup.
Nice play Dante! Stops the bleeding, then gets a block.
And now the turnovers start. Though there was no foul on KPJ there.
Getting blitzed now. Just not executing at all on offense.
Struggles at the line continue.
Theis is a goon.
No FGs the last 4:52 of the quarter (Love triple). 3 pts in that span, 2 Sexton FTs, 1 from Exum.
We need Windler healthy fast. That second unit is gonna struggle to score.
Nance has got to look for his shot more. Everyone out there feels like a facilitator. They need a finisher other than Porter.
Cavs absolutely stink at closing quarters.
All Nance had to do was pump fake there. Then too loose with the ball on the passes next time down. Quarter getting away from them now.
Nance gotta be more aggressive in the post.
5-9 from the line. Yuck so far.
Too bad we couldn’t get the ball after those Cedi/LNJ blocks. LNJ misses two from the line.
Still in it. 2nd unit of Delly, Exum, KPJ, LNJ, Henson.
Yeah, Love with a token defensive effort on Kanter.
Exum starts his Cavs career with a steal!
Sexton going left has become a weapon.
Nice block, Cedi.
And Larry.
Beautiful reset by Love for 3.
Wow. That was a BS call on Sexton. Walker initiated the contact.
We need to punish Boston by posting up whomever Tatum is guarding (Love or TT). Do it a lot.
On the other end, the Lollipop Guild has a real problem with Brown.
Cedi losing Hayward like he did his first game in Cleveland. Makes it up a couple plays later.
Sexton with a nice push.
What the hell on that offensive foul?
TT already annoyed with Sexton for getting stuck on a screen. Kev gets a putback.