Live Thread: Cavs @ Rockets
2023-01-26Good evening CtB!
The Cavs have made their way to down to the Gulf of Mexico to taken on the Houston Rockets in what will be a test of the Cavs’ ability to handle trap games on the road. The Rockets are one of the worst teams in the NBA; they’re badly coached, perform comically on the court, and have lost nine out of their last 10 games. It’s the NBA so any team can beat anyone on a given night, but if the Cavs take a loss to the Rockets it ought to be considered alarming to say the least.
The Cavs will have to do so without Donovan Mitchell, who wanted to play for the home crowd that he ended up re-injuring the groin that kept him out a few games. In retrospect it was a selfish move on his part, and a stupid move on the organization’s part. Whatever the “plan” was that got him back on the court prematurely should be canned. Protect the franchise player from himself, even if he hates you for now he’ll thank you for it later!
Kevin Love is also out, who hasn’t been the same since breaking his thumb. Maybe it’s a sign of a different approach to injuries by the training staff, one can only hope.
#Cavs Donovan Mitchell (groin) is OUT tonight against Houston, sources tell @clevelanddotcom. Kevin Love (back spasms) is also OUT, sources sayhttps://t.co/fQMP2KVTC1
— Chris Fedor (@ChrisFedor) January 26, 2023
Tip off is scheduled for 8:00PM Eastern time and will be broadcasted live on Bally Sports Ohio/Great Lakes, GO CAVS!
LT up!
NETO WILL GET OR AT LEAST WE SHOULD SAY // EMPHASIZE “BETTER ‘ GET MIN’S TONIGHT ——OKC LOVES TO RUN —–COULD BE A TOUGH ONE TO WIN TONIGHT —CAN SEE SIR G GIVING THE CAVS FITS TONIGHT ——HOPE I AM WRONG ON ALL ACCOUNTS ——TIME FOR THE BENCH TO REALLY STEP UP !!
YEP RUBIO NOT READY FOR BB GAMES// NO USE TAKING CHANCES WITH HIS HEALTH
No Rubio, Mitchell, or Love
bummer about Rubio
No surprise
https://twitter.com/ChrisFedor/status/1619121534311845888?s=20&t=FrCiOb5jE7Dr-8B9WLPfdQ
FRIDAY NIGHT OL MAN WISDOM FROM OL NOMAD —” NEVER FRY BACON WHEN NAKED ‘ ——NOW THAT CAN TAKE ON SEVERAL DIFFERENT MEANINGS —-GO CAVS !!—-HOPE I HELPED PUT A SMILE ON YOUR FACE SWEETCHIE !! :-)
I wish there was enough space to relate my best “frying bacon while naked” story.
AGREE COUNT ME OUT ON A TRADE WITH LAKERS// CARIS —-I MIGHT ACCEPT A CARIS FOR AD// BUT THAT AIN’T HAPPENING –AND A BIG HELL NO TO ANY WESTBROOK OFFER ( AM SURE THE SALARIES OF AD// WESTBROOK WOULDN’T ALLOW THE TRADE TO HAPPEN ANYWAYS
totally agree. perhaps the Lakers fanboys expect the Cavs to give him up for nothing.
SI: LeBron wants Caris?
https://www.si.com/nba/lakers/news/lakers-rumors-la-interested-in-trading-for-scoring-guard-who-is-a-favorite-player-of-lebron-james-rm94
I don’t see anyone on the Lakers that helps the Cavs besides LeBron or AD.
I wouldn’t include AD, sadly due to his injuries and contract
RAOUL—-BUT THAT IS A BIG “IF ” —RECENTLY ABOUT CAVS PLAYING GOOD—-FEEL BETTER THAT DWADE WILL BE GETTING KLOVE’S MIN’S —-IT WAS NOT ENJOYABLE—I SHOULD SAY PAINFUL —WATCHING KLOVE’S PLAY SINCE HE HAS BEEN INJURED —BELIEVE CAVS WERE EXPECTING// HOPING FOR THE SAME PERFORMANCE FROM KLOVE AS LAST YEAR WHEN HE WAS —IN MY OPINION —6TH MAN OF THE YEAR—-SUCH A HUGE DROP OFF HAS NEGATIVELY IMPACTED THE CAVS SOMEWHAT
https://twitter.com/kirkgoldsberry/status/1618995010149695489?s=20&t=NnzcDEfohurJyO2O20Iscw
RAOUL// JASON—AGREE ON BOTH SPIDA// LOVE ——WITH A HEALTHY SPIDA WE SHOULD HAVE BEEN ABLE TO GET A ‘W” FROM OKC—–NOW I HAVE MY DOUBTS –OH WELL
If the Cavs are playing good, they will probably win.
This entire year the NBA seems to have a LOT more upsets than usual. Am I dreaming this?
Cavs and OKC both average 13.2 turnovers per game.
OKC 1.5 point favorites tonight.
Playing Mitchell too soon was dumb.
Love was trying to tough it out while Wase was hurt, but he needs to shut it down & get right.
agree. agree.
there are literally zero conclusions we can draw from this game. houston is a dumpster fire. Give me Cedi and Dwade against the clips on Sunday and split love and wade’s mins and Cedi and Okoro’s mins…I’m ready to raise the agenda’s flag
What do you mean by “split love and wade’s mins”?
I want Wade out there, but am all for giving Love a couple weeks on the IR. Hopefully he can return to where he is a net plus. Right now he is killing us.
I mean when they are healthy they are almost the same impact. Wade’s d is exceptional…Love’s rebounding makes up for his lack of on ball D. And they shoot about the same percentage but Love is streaky and Wade is fairly consistent. Their mins, when properly calibrated for lineup, should be similarly impactful.
good point.
but Wade is on the upside of his career, and Love is going the other way.
OKC tomorrow
Clippers Sunday
Heat Tuesday
We need these 3 wins.. .. need a revenge win at home against Clips and a win against Heat will help keep separation between us.
I think they go loss, win, loss
I watched the last few minutes of Heat/Celts on Tuesday. Celts were up 10 with about 3 min, Heat scored 15 straight, Celts 5 straight, the the Heat a couple for the win.
Cavs 13-1 when both Evan and Allen have a double double.
Houston is so bad it’s hard to make any conclusions about the Cavs other than it was great to see Wade find his stroke.
great teams cover, the Cavs covered comfortably… also, Cedi finally got minutes ahead of Stevens and Wade’s looking like he can eat minutes from Okoro, which will be huge for the offense.
Agree WC. Hope JA and Mobley aren’t too tired tomorrow, thought they could have had more rest tonight.
Cavs forced 22 turnovers, 40 points off turnovers, 35 bench points.. biggest lead 32 .. defended the 3 (5-21)
Only thing Houston got 60 out of 95 points in the paint.. and shot 51% for the game.
I think the Rockets probably forced half of those turnovers
Hahaha
Cedi finally back into the head of class, Cavs crush… another agenda victorious
Cavs shot (14/42) 33% in the 2nd half and Houston shot 56% (20/36)
Mobley 0-7
Levert 0-4
Rubio – 0-3
Rest of the team 14-28 (50%) .
Cavs scored around 40 pts in the 2nd half.
I don’t think they took it all that seriously.
they only gave up 47, they were taking care of business regardless.
We should trade Windler and two second round picks for Dean Wade… lol
Nets lost tonight !!
Cavs to 30 wins, alrighty!
To the Pistons yikes!
Schedule loss
Because it was a back to back ?
Hate that Knicks win, means they are creeping up on us.
DEAN WADE TOP 5
We missed you D Wade !
Wade has found his range with this game
Neto/Diakite time
Mobley forced that shot instead of just passing it out.
JB running a 9-man rotation all game 😂😂😂
Tari Eason Agenda victorious
Normally I would be pissed about all these Mobley 3 attempts, but f&ck it, why not?!
If you’re ever gonna try it, tonight’s the night
yup, that’s right!
That pass from DG to Mobley at the 3 point line was crazy… if he made it, that would be a top highlight.
Sloppy second half.
Not sure if already posted but Mouthpiece Man got his THIRD ejection for throwing his mouthpiece :) https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/35529324/warriors-battle-back-stephen-curry-tossed-throwing-mouthpiece
Stevens getting minutes over Neto is ridiculous c’mon JB
Hopefully he gets some run tomorrow…
Going to need Neto for Ricky minute’s tomorrow. I don’t know if Ricky is playing b2b yet
Good point. Rubio won’t play tomorrow.
Good point, still giving him 5 to 10 tho
Crowd befuddled by the Cavs celebrating the 3s ruling 😂
LMFAO !
DG GETS CEDI AN OPEN THREE BEAUTIFUL TEAM WORK
Allen was tackled with no call
Not a great quarter offensively
Sengun can play…
TURK ON TURK CRIME
ACTUALLY CEDI IS NORTH MACEDONIAN APOLOGIES TO THE GREEKS!
RUBIO MAGIC
STEVENS 3
Llama trey!
Game over
KPJ the poison pill in the Houston locker room?
RAGE TIMEOUT SILAS
CARIS TO WADE
My god eating them alive
we should be they 100% worst team in the NBA, they all hate each other.
DG looking to cash in. I like it.
DG traveled but whatever LMFAO