Live Thread: Cavs vs Jazz 2023-12-20 Off By Nate Smith Lauri, Captain Bandaid, and Collin Sexton return to Cleveland and the Cavs are without Donovan Mitchell who is out with the flu. CPJ makes his first NBA start. Should be interesting! Live Thread: Rockets @ Cavs Podcap: Cleveland 124, Utah 116 (or, “Sam I am.”)
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That was the most enjoyable game of the year for me. My general impression is that when the stars aren’t available, the ball moves better. It seemed that way during the Lebron years, too. Sometimes I feel like these guys just don’t know how to pass the ball or move without it, but then you get a night without the stars and different and unfamiliar rotations and the offense is actually dynamic and works really well. Possibly a mixture of playing opportunity and a nothing to lose attitude. Possibly a poor offensive schemes during normal games (vs. “we’ve got a… Read more »
Agree
I think it’s more a matter of familiarity and experience, especially when it comes to CPJ and Merrill, who won summer league together. Also TT, Caris, Niang are well-established veteran players.
Spida/DG/Mobley/Okoro/JA are very young, and don’t have that institutional knowledge that you get in late 20s/early 30s veteran player.
Just finished watching. Great team win!!! I miss our studs for sure but cant help noticing there is a more team feel here.
Merrill abdolutely needs minutes no matter what, he is a flame thrower!
Yep,very different feel.
I am on a bullet train out of Osaka, reading the comments from the start. I have a huge grin because of the bench win, the Olynyk hate, and the EG love. Missing being online for these kinda nights.
Was this the Sam Merrill coming out game?
It wasn’t the Sam Merrill coming out game, it was the “Sam Merrill’s first big game was no fluke game.”
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If Merrill shoots like this, he needs minutes. It’s not like he’s shooting wide open shots.
Hope you are enjoying Japan. I haven’t been, but my dad was several times.
His shot is a little flatter, but his release is curry-esque
His release is rapid & what I love most about his shot. Apart from the fact that they go in.
Japan is jaw-droppingly amazing. Incredibly polite society, food is epic, public transport actually works?!?! We can learn so much from them.
I have some friends in Osaka, involved with Osaka Bob.
Seeing EG was on and I missed him. Got me all up in my feels.
If Merrill is playable as a two way player, and it appears that he may be, you need him on the team.
He’s on a regular contract, not a two way.
YEP “ MORE BEER PLEASE “ ——REALLY APPRECIATE THE CAVS PUTTING THE MRS NOMAD “ IN THE MOOD 👺” ——COLD BEER AND A “ HOT “ MRS NOMAD——-“ LIVING THE DREAM “ —- I MIGHT BE OUT OF ACTION FOR TOMORROW NIGHT S GAME——IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN——SEE YOU BROS / CANT KEEP THE MRS NOMAD WAITING——— HOPE MY “ AIM “ IS AS GOOD AS SAM MY MAN ☝️👍🤪👺🦵
HAD TO LEAVE——WOW —A”BENCH “ WIN —-EVIL GOOD LUCK CHARM ———-WHEN EVERYONE GETS HEALTHY—JB HAD BETTER FIND TIME FOR CPJ/ SAM MY MAN —-IF NOT HE SHOULD BE FIRED ON THE SPOT—— REALIZE THIS WAS ONLY THE JAZZ —BUT WE WERE MINUS 3 ALL STARS ——CONSIDER THIS THE BEST “ W” OF THE SEASON 👍👍🍺🍺🏀🏀—-GO CAVS
agree
That is a helluva win sans Spida, Mobes, & DG.
75 points from 4 bench players, all in double figures. And it wasn’t garbage time stuff, either. 50 from Sam (the man) Merrill & LeVert.
CPJ and Wade were huge on the boards, Cavs won the rebounding battle against one of the tallest front courts in the NBA.
So many “team” rebounds — multiple guys going up to get a piece of the ball.
Everyone chipped in (except for Niang with 1):
8: JA
7: Wade Porter
6: Okoro
5: TT
4: Strus
3: LeVert, Merrill
sam the man with 27.. NOMAD bro must be doing back-flips (likely with the MRS NOMAD)..
MORE BEER PLEASE
little blue pill with rolling rock.. elixir of the gods
Wow! That was so much fun! Total vindication for the Sam Merrill Agenda. How are they going to score? I thought. Well…..