Open Thread 2.0: Summer League Cavs vs. Bucks
2025-07-12Good afternoon CtB!
The Cavs take on the Bucks at Cox Pavilion in Sin City as the good guys look to shake off their deja vu performance against the Indiana Pacers losing a close one 116-115 in spite of dominating the game most of the way. On the positive side, the Cavs had two elite performances from Nae’qwan Tomlin and Jaylon Tyson.
Unfortunately it is becoming a repeating pattern under Kenny Atkinson’s offensive system that the hyper aggressive, fast paced offense leads to pitiful defense, especially of the transition kind (and especially against an all gas, no brakes team such as Indiana). Also, the Cavs have displayed too many times a lack of on-court pace control, the inability to switch gears and be versatile depending on game situation. Lastly, Jaylon Tyson’s lack of condition showed up with critical turnovers leading to the lack of pace control. Also it doesn’t speak well of Craig Porter Jr. that cleveland.com’s Terry Pluto reports his lack of conditioning (and he didn’t look in shape during the game) and straight away he pulls his hamstring in the 1st quarter… do you even stretch bro?
Don’t be surprised if Tomlin and Tyson are not for long in Summer League, they look ready to head into training camp to fight for rotation minutes. Tip off is at 3:30PM, Go Cavs!
Tomlin seems, to me at least, the only guy in SL who is at all likely to get rotational minutes when we are healthy. And that only if LNJ plays a lot of 5. Agree with CLF that he is pushing Wade.
CPJ & Tyson may get spot minutes due to injuries and resting guys. I think each can handle that.
Proctor has a long way to go on ball, but can still shoot spot ups.
But from 11-14 on the roster, that is perfectly fine.
CPJ is gonna get a lot of run to protect Ball, who may not play back to backs. Also, Tyson is going to get a lot of run in a completely different role than he is playing in Summer League. His job will basically to take Okoro’s role as a higher upside 3 and D guy. They’re stretching him in summer league to force him to play faster and smarter. He’s trying to do a bit too much given the turnovers, but it’s good reps for him especially with CPJ down. I expect to see him as 7-8-9 in the… Read more »
good stuff
WOW KJG MUST HAVE READ SOMEONE s POST HERE ON CTB ( YOUR s TRULY) ——-“ LNJ PROs PRO SHOULD MENTOR NYQUIL “ —— CHECK OUT KJG ARTICLE TODAY——— PLAGIARISM 🤬
more KJG posts are on the money lately, so it is likely they are reading CtB
THAT WILL WORK RAOUL 👍🏀
WAITING/ HOPING FOR A PROCTOR “ COME OUT GAME “. 5-6 / 3 PT SHOTS———- DIDNT WATCH——— HOW WAS ORMIER ( ORNRIER )
Proctor was great today relatively speaking… definitely helped the team win showed great improvement, his on ball was needed too.
going with “Ornery” for the nickname!
DITTO “” WHAT CLF POSTED—— BYE – BYE TT —— NYQUIL IS A FORCE AT BOTH ENDS—- GET HIM PLAYING AROUND A BETTER SUPPORTING CAST MAKES HIM EVEN BETTER———-YES WADE HAD BETTER BE LOOKING OVER HIS SHOULDER—- THE NYQUIL TRAIN đźš‚ HAS SOME STEAM
same
Proctor and Tyson didn’t shoot well, but far better at defense and controlling pace. Gutty win especially since they came out like dogshit.
KOBY GET TOMLIN SIGNED NOW…. DEAN WADE WATCH YOUR BACK
2016 NBA CHAMPION CAVALIER CHANNING FRYE ON THE CALL
IS CPJ PLAYING OR IS HE DONE FOR SUMMER LEAGUE—— PULLED HAMSTRINGS CAN BE LINGERING— REST IS VITAL FOR RECOVERY
Chris Fedor reporting nope, and probably done for the summer:
https://x.com/ChrisFedor/status/1944109138495357053
SURPRISED/ DISAPPOINTED ( IF TRUE) CPJ s LACK OF CONDITIONING/ IMPROVING HIS SKILL LEVEL—— IF TRUE—— COACHES NEED TO HAVE “ MAN TO MAN “ TALK——- LAY THE CARDS ON THE TABLE—TELL HIM WHAT IT IS AT STAKE—— HOPING ORMIER KEEPS MAKING ME LOOK SMART—- NEED ALL THE HELP I CAN GET 🤪
yeah, CPJ and JT: WTF? do you guys want to get into a NBA rotation or not?