Live Thread: Cavs vs. Heat
2021-03-16The last time these two teams met, Kevin Porter, Jr., broke the spell that Miami had over the Cavs (seven straight wins over Cleveland stretching back to spring 2018), splashing huge buckets down the stretch and leading the team to an overtime victory in front of a big downtown crowd.
It was a game which is worth a full rewind, coming as it did a week after the ouster of John Beilein as coach, and against a team that would go on to become Eastern Conference champions that year.
Tonight, J.B. Bickerstaff’s honeymoon with the team is (it’s surely fair to say at this point) over, KPJ is in Houston, the Cavs’ new acquisition from Detroit has been displaced by a new big man of the future, and Kevin Love is out.
#Cavs Kevin Love is OUT tonight.
— Chris Fedor (@ChrisFedor) March 16, 2021
However, in spite of being in an 0-3 funk since having lost a tough game to Indiana just before the All-Star Break, these Cavs are still a better team, record-wise, than they were at this point last year. While it may be a long shot to get to the playoffs or the play-in, for incrementalists the Cavs’ “magic number” right now is six — which is the number of wins they need between now and the end of the season in order to surpass their performance in 2019-20.
(Should anyone need a reminder, last year the Cavs ended their truncated and bubble-exiled season 19-46, one game behind the struggling Atlanta Hawks.)
While it seems unlikely that they will right the ship against a sound Spoelstra-Reilly enterprise that has won nine of its ten last games, stranger things have happened in the NBA. And if the Cavs can scratch out more than nine points in the third quarter (see: New Orleans game) and avoid cratering again in the fourth (see: forthcoming Atlanta recap), they might give themselves a slightly better shot at an ugly win, if not recapturing the weirdly nostalgic days of a lost season — and lost talent — gone by.
live thread up
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First Moderna shot down, and I’m pumped. (not Cavs related, but please get vaccinated when able)
heck yeah, seems like progress is being made.
Getting my first tomorrow. No idea which one.
Not sure what “Sportsrush” is, but this popped up on Google News: “Kevin Love stole $120 million from Cleveland Cavaliers”: Collin Sexton causes uproar after liking a tweet with this statement
Not sounding good for our gang.
https://thesportsrush.com/nba-news-kevin-love-stole-120-million-from-cleveland-cavaliers-collin-sexton-causes-uproar-after-liking-a-tweet-with-this-statement/
yeah posted that yesterday, Sexton should stay off the internet and become an elite offensive player and All-Star like KLove was in his age 22 season LMFAOOOO
It’s been reported for a while that Sexton doesn’t even use his social media stuff, which I tend to believe. Probably a family member or someone like that who ‘liked’ it.
could be. but it puts him in a bad light, and if a family member is posing as him online, he needs to tell them to cut it tf out.
No argument here.
the team is regressing back to not good and not fun to watch….for a period of time the Heat were sloppy and couldnt hit shots and yet the Cavs could barely get close without messing up themselves. how they could shoot THAT poorly is absurd it defies reason and logic…especially at the professional level. Watching end of 3rd quarter and Nance has 7 points and 4 rebounds its like is he REALLY making THAT much of an impact to build around? I knew we were in trouble when Javale McGee was our leading scorer. The team’s problems run much deeper… Read more »
CELTS TONIGHT AFTER THEY LOST —–WILL BE ANOTHER TOUGH LOSS——YEP LIKE NATE SAID —-“TIME TO GO BOWLING “
WENT TO BED WITH ABOUT 10 MIN’S LEFT —-GOOD TO SEE THEY COMPETED TO THE END ——-BAD NOT TO SEE WINDL3R GET ANY RUN —WTF JB….UNLESS HE GOT HURT —-THIS IS WHAT BOTHERS ME ABOUT JB ( AMONGST OTHER THINGS )—–MIGHTY QUINN IS NOT OUR FUTURE ( IF HE IS WE ARE IN MORE DIRE STRAITS THAN I REALIZED )—WINDL3R -(AT LEAST I THINK)- IS PART OF OUR FUTURE –PLAY HIM !!!!!
We still stink. Decent effort tonight, though. So that is better.
That game was a huge improvement for Cleveland. I know score doesn’t show it, but Miami is ridiculously good and Cavs played with effort all game.
I don’t disagree with that. I mean 82 points….x2… against teams who have had bad defenses. The effort was nice to see. Miami played well.
Yeah, at the start of the thread I asked for competence, and that was a mostly competent loss against a better team.
Windler doesn’t play second half? Yuck
This is on point. They really need some luck in this year’s draft.
GAH. We all saw sexton doing something dumb there happening for like 15 seconds. 3 point play Bam. Ballgame.
bad shot Sexton
Sexton got bullied for a rebound… great they still defended tho
Prevent offense by Miami
Dg and 1 down to a dozen.
OK, Cavs. I aappreciate the work at least.
Man to bad it’s too little too late
TOUGH FINISH DG!!!!!
At least they’re playing hard this game.
Cavs need to go bowling.
LMFAOOO there ya go
Maybe should have practiced some over the break
Hard line. The season is a meat grinder.
Might be better at that than basketball.