Live Thread: Bulls @ Cavs
2022-03-26Good evening CtB!
The Cavs are back home and will host Central Division rival the Chicago Bulls in what is another game of the year for both squads. The Bulls are desperate for a win against a good team, they even load managed DeMar DeRozan to be ready for this contest. They’re in absolute free fall in the standings after vying for Eastern Conference supremacy. The Cavs find themselves in a somewhat similar situation, struggling to scrape together wins without their All-Star center Jarrett Allen. One of these teams will get a big win tonight, which one? Stay tuned!
Stats and Notes
Why have the Bulls struggled so much? They’ve been missing their two best perimeter defenders in Alex Caruso and Lonzo Ball, and only Caruso is back just recently from injury. Their defense has cratered and they’re struggling to find it on that end. The same can be said to a lesser extent for the Cavs.
As for the Bulls’ offense, they limit turnovers with their veteran guards DeRozan and Zach LaVine making good decisions, although they’re not the best passing team in the NBA. They are also a poor offensive rebounding team, so the Cavs should be able to keep second chance points to a minimum.
The Cavs need to find some juice off the bench. The bad games have outweighed the good, which is understandable given the injuries. But there’s no sympathy to given, they will have to find a way to make due with whom they have.
Tip off is scheduled for 8:00PM ET and will be broadcasted live on Bally Sports Ohio/Great Lakes, Go Cavs!
cap up
When will Allen return?
rumored he could be back for end of regular season/playin/playoffs.
I’ve been personally saying minimum 4 weeks, which would put it the last week of the season.
Which one of them is correct about the real record without him lol
Well SVG’s tweet was from the two days ago.
Oh I see that yes.
So…we are screwed. Is there any talent on the 12-15 range of the draft that matters this year? Cuz we are careening towards that.
https://twitter.com/realstanvg/status/1507005274774818817?s=21&t=yIncq-0UhuBcPAqEvr6lhw
2 games up on the Nets after tonight. That’s likely to be a tough lead to keep. 3 games up on Charlotte. Wouldn’t be surprised if they made that up. Likely to end up as the 8 seed, chicago or nets the 7 seed due to them having tie breaker. But falling below the hornets isn’t far fetched. that puts us 9th playing the hawks in a player in game. We aren’t winning that game without major changes to our preparation.
You know its a weird game when Garland gets more rebounds than he does assists.
Fun game.
that 2nd half was incredible.
Spoken like a man who didn’t watch the first half. That was an atrocity.
Lol yeah that first half was atrocious
Allen needs to tape up his fingers and finish up the season.
JB couldn’t find 1 minute for Goodwin? Not 1?!?!
Inexcusable. No other word.
Not a great way to instill confidence in your players! LMFAO
Man another tough L. Windler definitely needs minutes over Cedi. Just have to play BG 5-10 minutes to get DG fresh in the 4th quarter
God, I would pay JB to play Windler over Cedi right now…
He sat Cedi in the second half for Dylan who looked good and was part of a good run. Only issue is Dylan does not look yo score at all and we were really relying on Cedi to come in and score
Yes, he did tonight. And watch, Windler won’t play the rest of the season. That’s been the consistent pattern. I agree he needs to look to score, that’s to some greater or lesser extent on the staff. They need to make him look to score. Spoelstra had to do that with Duncan Robinson, who used to never look to score.
For sure, gotta put him in position to score. Run some plays. Run him off screens to get some open looks. Hope you are wrong and he plays Monday !
Yup 100% agree DanK right on it.
Very tough to win when you play like a beer league team in the first half…
Dosomnu stole it.
hilarious
Lol. Darius misses. Unreal.
that couldn’t have been more of a tease
44 minutes, the poor kid can barely pick up his arms.
Yep…and it’s game after game…
Lol. I didn’t think they’d get that call. This game is goofy.
shades of charlotte game…
Lol hit a 3, foul, get lucky !
hahaha JB with a middle finger to the refs at the end at least. What a terrible call
NBA needs to do something about these bullshit late whistles…everyone hates them, and they are constant this season…
The stealth tank hurts. Though if someone told me in November we’d be here now I would have been happy.
Yeah season is still a success. I’m tired of all the injuries though.
less than 40 assists between both teams. that’s a shitty game of basketball.
Cavs are cooked. Not sure if they can avoid the play-in game w/ the way they are playing. It’s not good when they have to depend on other teams to lose, to take back the 6th seed. Btw I hate the play-in!
Play in is beyond dumb
Let’s reward the Nets for the anti-vaxxer! Cleveland should institute a vaccine mandate for whenever the play-in game is, to take Kyrie out of the game.
The Cavalanche variant of COVID is spreading through Cleveland and you must be vaccinated flat-earther!
WTF with the clock.
guy needs fired
same exact mins distribution as last game. except instead of cedi getting barely double digits it was Windler. We played better but needed more rest for Garland
Bad Cedi again tonight.
Pretty sure Bad Cedi permanently won his duel with Good Cedi…
Garland looks totally exhausted.
He has to be…
As long as he doesn’t get hurt, it’s good experience.
He looked gassed in the second quarter.
Led the NBA in minutes month of March
Dusted again.
Yeah, that’ll do it…
Okoro dusted.
He and Mobley been cheeks on defense tonight.
83 points. holy hell cavs.
Watching the first half, I wasn’t sure they’d get to 70…
Game over. Le sigh
JUST A BIT OUTSIDE
-Bob E.
Argh.