Preseason Live Thread: Pacers @ Cavs
2021-10-08Good evening CtB!
Tonight the Indiana Pacers coming to the shores of Lake Erie to take on the Cavs. The Cavs will be looking to make it two wins in a row, while the Pacers are looking to bounce back from their decisive loss against the New York Knicks Tuesday night.
Stats to Consider, Part One
Cavs’ preseason offensive rating while Jarrett Allen’s on the court: 79.8
Cavs’ preseason offensive rating while Evan Mobley’s on the court: 90.2
Cavs’ preseason defensive rating while Lauri Markkanen’s on the court: 129.5
Cavs’ preseason defensive rating while Kevin Love’s on the court: 121.4
What to watch: Does J.B. Bickerstaff experiment with different combinations of the quartet of bigs?
Stats to Consider, Part Two
Darius Garland’s preseason usage rate: 15.3%
Cavs’ preseason offensive rating while DG’s on the court: 76.6
What to watch: Will Darius Garland start asserting himself as a scorer after an unacceptable start?
Stats to Consider, Part Three
Collin Sexton’s preseason usage rate: 32.6%
Collin Sexton’s preseason true shooting percentage: 51.3%
Collin Sexton’s preseason assist ratio: 6.3
2020-21 NBA season average assist ratio: 18.0
What to watch: Will the Cavs’ offense feature anything more than Young Bull hijacking the offense with below average, volume shooting?
Tune in to find out, 7:00PM ET on Bally’s Sports Ohio… GO CAVS!!!
Recap up if you want to head over!
Denzel Valentine patented turnover
this is embarrassing, get Mobley off the floor no point if you’re going to run Tacko Fall postups
WTF WAS THAT SEXTON???? 4 point swing all by himself with his turnover
WADE GREAT READ!!! SEXTON FOR THREE!!
MY GOD WINDLER IS ON FIRE!!!!!
4th quarter, looks like third stringers will be playing unless it’s close at the end.
stand corrected, Mobley back in!
Mobley is going to be key to me sticking around a lot of games this season…
100%!!!!! LMFAOOOOOO
Lol. I turned it off the second he came out.
LMFAOOOO i kept it on but started searching on the web LMFAOOOO
damn, good pass Okoro, Wade just missed.
Okoro trying to out-dumb Sexland.
that was pitiful LMFAOOOOO
Okoro with an awful turnover.
WADE WHAT A PLAY GREAT PASS RUBIO!
MARKANNEN WITH THE THREE!!!!!!!!!!
WADE WITH THE PUTBACK!!!!
Sexton May get released before he gets extended
LMFAOOOOOOO
RUBIO TO MARKKANEN!!!!!! WHAT A PASS!
WHAT WAS THAT SHOT SEXTON?????
RUBIO EASY MONEY!!!!
Sexton completely asleep and gives up a rebound put back
great defense Markkanen! forced the turnover!
RUBIO KEEPS MAKING WINNING PLAYS!
DG has 6 turnovers, and is 3-11 from the field… barf
He’s been bad. No doubt. But…
Don’t we need this type of aggressiveness. Who else can play make (ya assuming Rubio isn’t starting)
Ironically eye test says he’s playing a lot better than last game, shots just not falling.
But yes 100% correct, he’s our 2nd best PG by far.
WOO WHAT A PLAY BY THE INDIANA GUY!!!
RUBIO TO MARKKANEN!!!!
The whole bench has positive plus/minuses LMFAOOOO
Sexton is -20 in 16 minutes, Jarrett Allen is -16 in 17 minutes LMFAOOOOOOO
Sometimes the stats backup the eyes!
Sometimes!!!!
DG GET THE BALL TO MOBLEY WTF!!!
Okoro’s turn to get burned
Our conversion rate on DG in the lane with a guy on his hip and Allen with the vertical spacing has to be last
Nice pass DG
Allen’s defense has been terrible last two possessions