Podcap: New York 139, Cleveland 135 OT (Or, SOS Success Dynamics)

Cleveland almost came away with a victory, Monday night. Poor coaching, poor execution, and most importantly, poor defense doomed a Cavs squad that went 18-35 from downtown and had 52 field goals on 34 assists. In the end the Cavs lost yet another winnable game to a bad team. We took the subtitle of this podcap from a recent scam email we received that, while ridiculous, had amazing production values. The earnest yet ludicrous descriptions of the “Maximum Spillover” we could achieve from the pyramid scheme designed by the folks from SOS Success Dynamics perfectly described the farcical defense played by both squads.

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Kevin Love had his best game possibly of the season with 33/12/6 with just one turnover in 41 minutes. He was was definitely looking to cycle his way out of Cleveland with superior play. Cleveland couldn’t overcome their lack of depth with Tristan Thompson out of the lineup due to tradinitus. (As in the Cavs really want to trade vets for assets, and they can’t risk TT getting hurt before they can do so). Alfonzo McKinnie is also off the squad again. The Cavs have run through both of their possible 10 day contracts on him, and if he’s coming back the Cavs have to guarantee his deal for the rest of the season. So if he comes back it will probably be after Thursday’s trade deadline.

Cleveland was up by 10 after a monster alley oop to KPJ made the score 118-108 at the 5:17 mark, and then Marcus Morris got mad and started eviscerating Cedi Osman to power the Knicks to a 14-2 run before the lead sea-sawed until a Julius Randle finger roll (on horrific D) put the Knicks up three, and Collin Sexton (29/2/7) answered with a big threeball to send the game to overtime (after some tough Cavs D).

In OT, Cleveland failed to adjust to Morris fileting Osman, and John Beilein failed to make simple defense for offense subs to give the Cavs the chance to get a stop late before the Knicks pulled away. It was frustrating.

Nate Smith, David Wood, and Tom Pestak slunk to the podcast boost and lamented the lost opportunity. Nate spent a lot of time ranting about John Beilein. David Wood wondered whether coach was a plant to lose games. All agreed that Kev really was playing his butt off to get out of dodge. We complained about the game’s horrendous officiating full of moments that literally would’ve been personal fouls in the NFL. We growled at the Knicks pinball bumper lineup of power forwards that seem straight out of a 2K video game.

In brighter news, the Super Bowl brought good memories to Nate, and we spent a good deal of time reminiscing about the commercials, J-Lo and Shakira, and Patrick Mahomes’ brilliance. We then got on the subject of the insane pyramid scheme recruiting email Nate had received and how the folks at SOS Success Dynamics really captured the zeitgeist of this Cavs squad. We’re still hoping for “maximum spillover” and that the Cavs will “cycle” soon, despite having (as Nate alleged) destroyed this rebuild year with dumb movies that toxified their tradeable assets.

Nate was ranty and took on the Cavs, the NBA, and commercials to task for their awfulness. While we pulled out the trade machine for a few trade scenarios for KLove. Finally, David Wood regaled us with his movie treatments: a basketball themed remake of the Cage/Travolta classic Face Off, but with Koby Bryant and Will Smith , and his Indie hit, Neck Tattoo Criminal 3: Fonzie Scheme, a crime noir about running out of stolen leather coats. Trust us. It’s a wild ride.

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