Live Thread: Cavs vs Hawks
2023-12-16Evenin’ Cavs fans! The Hawks come to town and a battle for the 9th/10th seed is brewing. The Cavs are 13-12, while the Hawks are 10-14, and this feels like a big game if the Cavs are going to keep their playoff hopes alive. We all know the Cleveland Injury report, and if you’d like a discussion of the organizational malaise the Cavs find themselves mired in, check out my week in review from earlier.
But the Cavs are still 2.5 point favorites at home against a Hawks squad dealing with their own injuries.
Should be an interesting one. Hope the good guys start CPJ and let him eat against Trae, but there’s something to be said for letting Caris or even (ugh) Okoro start and set the defensive tone. Can they handle their business?
LT up
Cavs 4.5 point favorites. Houston on a b2b. F$ck Dillon Brooks!
RAOUL—-I JUST THINK BAKER WAS PRETTY “ BANGED “ UP HIS LAST YEAR/ ALSO PLAYED THRU / WITH THE “ ODEL CLOUD/ DRAMA “ SURROUNDING HIM—- THOUGHT THEY SHOULD HAVE GIVEN HIM 1MORE YEAR-/ JUST MY HUMBLE OPINION———-WHICH THE MRS NOMAD NEVER ACKNOWLEDGES 🤪🍺🤪🍺
true that they should have not allowed him to play.
As for Odel drama, certainly true that OBJ is a diva, but he puts up great numbers with any QB not named Baker.
CLF GOOD TO SEE “ WHO DEY “ DIDN T COLLAPSE AFTER BURROWS INJURY. BROWNS/ BENGALS LAST GAME OF THE YEAR COLD BE EPIC 👍🍺🏈
Yes sir, that game shaping up to be the most important game for the Bengals this season!
right. if they are both still in contention, it could be an all time classic! I am in an enclave of Browns fans who are also Joe Burrows fans because many are friends of Joe’s or his family. Everyone was rooting for the Bengals in the SB a couple years ago, and BTW the Bengals had a couple really bad calls go against them in the last minute or so.
GOOD TO SEE BAKER BOUNCE BACK WITH THE BUCS / TAMPA s COACH HAD NOTHING BUT PRAISE ABOUT HIM/ THEY RAN HIM OUT ALSO WITH THE WATSON SIGNING
good seeing Baker make a comeback. but there would have been no Watson signing if Baker hadn’t stunk up the gym the previous year.
“KARDIAC KIDS “ RELIVED 👍🍺🏈 —-BROWNS SHOULD SIGN FLACKO FOR NEXT YEAR ALREADY——RECEIVERS REALLY LIKE THE BALL HE THROWS
NOMAD bro.. absolutely !!! watson should be a tax-write off (and never suit up again).. flacco is a class act.. the 216 deserves a stable, mature, intelligent and non-mentally ill face of the franchise.. the feds are investigating the owner.. hopefully the league can order a sale in the not-too-distant future.. only a sad head-case gambles with a noble franchise by betting the chips on an utterly character-compromised mentally defective psychopath.. sign flacco for the duration of watson’s contract.. have a RR for uncle buck..
but unfortunately the contract will stand, there is a salary cap, and the draft picks are gone.
I would keep Watson for a change of pace and backup QB.
he might get some real money next year, which will be tough for the Browns.
i hear ya raoul bro.. at least they are 2/5 thru the nightmare
WOW THE MRS NOMAD WAS ALMOST A “ WIDOW “ —— GOOOOO BROWNS 🤪🍺🏈🤪🍺🏈
wildest and most exciting year for the Browns in like forever! and the Bengals!
KLOVE NOT PLAYING LIKE A “ WASHED UP 35 YEAR OLD “ 22// 18 THE LAST 2 GAMES 8 BOARDS / GAME KUDOS TO HIM WHILE NATE IS VOMITING 🤮 SOMEWHERE
MAN IT IS A LOGJAM FROM 5th SEED TO 9th SEED EVERY GAME COUNTS / NEXT 8 GAMES ARE WINNABLE ( IF WE HAD BOTH MOBES / DG ) I WOULD FEEL A HELL OF ALOT MORE CONFIDENT/ IF THEY CAN GO 6-2 // 5-3 // WE CAN POSITION OURSELVES MUCH BETTER// WILL NEED “ ALL HANDS ON DECK “ —-TOTAL TEAM EFFORT— LIKE LAST NIGHT——GO CAVS
WATCHED THE 1st HALF WITH ARCH/ 👍😀/ THEN SWITCHED TO A LOCAL HIGH SCHOOL GAME/SCOUTED BOTH TEAMS/ GREAT MORALE “W”FOR THE CAVS/ CONTRIBUTIONS FROM ALL THE PLAYERS——MAN I WISH NIANG COULD FIND HIS CONSISTENT 3 ——SAM MY MAN GETTING MORE CONFIDENT THE MORE HE PLAYS——NEED THIS TYPE OF GAME EVERY NIGHT FROM ICE—-WOULD GIVE “ELDER “ SOME MINUTES AT THE 4—5 POSITIONS 👍
Kevin Love had 6 3-pointers tonight (w/ 22 points, 6 rebounds) in a win over the Bulls.
Atlanta’s coaching upgrade and two and a half year “gap year” since the ECF is really interesting to me. Is the McMillan for Snyder upgrade moving the needle? It was a clear upgrade but they are still in the muck. They have a lot of late lotto good young players of the type we’d probably be taking swings on to complement the core without the Mitchell trade (Johnson, Okunwu). And they went for it with Murray. I’m saying they had optionality, used every method that we discuss the Cavs using to improve…And yet they are below .500. Should they have… Read more »
Freakin great thought. We will see where they are at the end of the season. Wiahing for a JB replacement even with a clear high caliber coach doesnt mean we have the stuff to mold into a title.
Are we better constructed as a roster than the ecf year for atlanta?
Maybe? It’s possible that they just kept it simpler and when they tried to do more with the roster and Collins it didn’t work in subsequent years (also that team switched to Nate M mid season and went on a tear, which is a good fact for the fire JB camp).
I believe the primary problem with ATL is the assumption trae young is a top level talent cornerstone type. it’s a swing and a miss. i mean, look at the guy’s official photo. He showed up high as a kite, imo. The other moves were net positives, though. Takes a lot to make an organization culminate into a champion for one year. I think the presence of so many dynasties in recent nba history makes it seem like you just need x, y, and z and boom, championship. Last year, we had good injury luck and a lot of other… Read more »
good points.
It’s luck. No rational reason Denver has a ring and the OKC squad with three MVPs didn’t except for luck of the draw re their opponents and health
Lmfao. This might be your worst take ever. In both cases (the Denver win and the Thunder loss), the team with the best player in the association won. (LeBron and the Jokic). Sure luck can be a part of it, but also, the best player very often wins.
6 games left to close out the month. These 3 should be wins (Houston, Chicago, and Jazz). I’d like to see them win 1 of these 3 (Pels, Mavs, and Bucks). Regardless, go 4-6 (with 4 of them at home).
CPJ Okoro Wade and Niang playing great and putting one in their collective haters’ eye would be great (didn’t really happen tonight but over the next few weeks I’m saying)
Tristan Thompson has been a gem!
Still elite offensive rebounder
Niang played like ass but everyone else played well—yes even the hated son Isaac Okoro.
We get the Houston Assholes on Monday!
Professional basketball win, there. Well played.
Trae is such a fraud.
Trae Young is such a turd! 💩
Jinx
It’ll be the Trae flop parade the rest of the way.
BS foul call on Wade. Investigate the refs!
This is where JB could’ve used his challenge – against the foul merchant
Foul merchant flopper Trae Young
Challenge unsuccessful
Trae Young is bad for the league
Keep taking those moronic ‘dagger’ threes, Trae.
SPIDA!!!
LCC
Okoro stinks!
Minivan needs to sit
Big surprise- challenge unsuccessful.
I know you’re allowed to high five the opposing shooter but I don’t see this challenge working.
You’re challenging that play JB? 😂
LCC!
G.D. Daugherty is grating
I’m not sure if all the comments on the in game promotions are grating or endearing. Man loves Wendy’s and discounts so much
Ugh
Having issues making shots in the 3rd Q
Great first half!!! Looked like some great team ball, passes zipping around and D intensity
SO FAR— SO GOOD—- NEED THAT ENERGY TO START THE 3rd —-DO NOT LET THEM GO ON A 12—0 RUN /GET ENERGIZED AND BACK IN THE GAME——-“ KEEP THE FOOT 🦶 ON THE HEAD “ AND APPLY PRESSURE 👍🏀🤬
SAM MY MAN —-DO IT AGAIN 👍🔥
FUN WATCHING A TEAM WHO HUSTLES THEIR “ASSES “ OFF 👍👍👍
Cavs smoking the Hawks
CMON CTB BROS —- JOIN IN ON THE FUN 👍😀
FRIGGIN CORNER 3s 🤬
SPIDA IS SPECIAL TONIGHT
SO FAR THE “ ARCH/ NOMAD “ SHOW IS FANTASTIC 👍😀🍺🤪
NICE FRIGGIN START…….”MORE BEER 🍺 PLEASE “
WE GIVE UP SO MANY CORNER 3s
ICE ——“ GO BIG OR GO G LEAGUE “ 👍🙏
On point the Bally’s app is shitting the bed again.
What’s up with Jerome? His injury seems to be pretty serious.
Maybe Ice will play better as a starter?
MOBES IS PLAYING——THE “ ELDER “ ONE ☝️
Is that right?