InstaCap: Cavs 108, Raptors 89 (Big 3 Dog Night)
2016-05-19Let’s see.
-Cavs have won their 10th consecutive playoff game (tied for 2nd all-time)
–Tyronn Lue becomes the first rookie coach to win his first 10 playoff games.
–Kevin Love is 14-0 in the playoffs.
–LeBron James passed Shaquille O’Neal to become the 4th best playoff scorer of all time.
-The Cavs have won 16 straight playoff games against the Eastern Conference.
-LeBron notched his 15th playoff triple double.
–Kyrie Irving led the Cavs in minutes and didn’t even eclipse 37.
Biggest lessons learned so far:
1. I will never judge this team based on their regular season again. They were either hiding all their tricks, disinterested, bored, or all three.
2. Detroit remains the best team we’ve faced this post season. The east isn’t all pushovers, it’s just a deep conference full of 6 seeds.
Well said.
Teams are going to start doing the Hack-a-Bron strategy…
While his inconsistent FT stroke drives me crazy, I’ll bet pennies to pot brownies that he is at least 80% from the line in game 3.
So strong! Diff would have have been 25 if LBJ’s free throw stroke was on. KLove’s D and all around game has been terrific. Kyrie is destroying Lowry. Raptors are shooting airballs when they are wide open. Their confidence is shot. Why? Because their starters look over at the Cavs bench and think, “that’s where I would be sitting if I played for Cleveland.”
Oh, and Tom, your extended rant on LeBron’s play is spot on. He is the weapon the Raptors have no answer for.
What an incredibly satisfying win. Also satisfying which I haven’t heard anyone mention on CtB yet is that Lue passed the slimeball himself, Patt Riley, for most consecutive playoff wins to start career.
Yo guys I just read this about Kyrie on fox sports. Kyrie has yet to turn the ball over a single time in isolation this postseason. Great job Ky!!
He did get tied up tonight for a jump ball…
Fantastic game. Our team has shown the ability to withstand punches after punches every single game. I don’t believe every $hit that is thrown out there that says that we’re not “tested” enough so far. This is the f@cking playoffs and no child’s play are allowed here. I “all-in”-ly believe we’re battle tested enough to capture that title this year.
6 more to go. Let’s go Cavs!!
P.s. Lebron please use the off day to practice your free throws lol!
Shut your mouth!
Doesn’t get much better than this…
That looks like an owl.
You win the Rorschach Test JoeyB…
At least you went with owl…
Can someone put up Lebron’s reverse dunk. Jeff Phelps said to watch JR in the background.
I posted a few versions of it in the live thread. I don’t see one with a bench shot showing what JR was up to. If it was good, it will surface somewhere by tomorrow.
https://vine.co/v/iE7vJOFrZvg
Thanks! They probably seen more than we could.
If you missed it, there was this after a James dunk in the first game
https://vine.co/v/i0t7Zh9Fz2x
That is so coooollll.. Love the way JR is so free to celebrate like that
JR is great here, clearly. But there’s something about the Mozgov-TT embrace that makes me so happy.
Oh my goodness! That dance is so funny!
You know what the more I think about it. I bet Phelps meant RJ not JR. He has mixed up names before. He said JR but it was RJ turned his back right when Lebron was dunking because he was so confident in what he was about to do.
I think he just turned around like a flanker break away in football – checking to make sure no one was going to come up from behind and catch lebron
Here it is in every conceivable angle and speed… but I still don’t see JR’s reaction…
Never get tired of seeing it!
They might be talking about RJ instead of JR, he’s the only guy out of that play the did an “uncommon” thing on a regular fast break..
Yeah I think so too. Phelps has mixed up their names before.
Nice recap. Thanks! Many good points. Watched post game Fox Sports Ohio. Campy, AC, Jeff, Mike F having a good laugh on Lowry’s “I had to decompress” moment. Campy verifying that never happen in his day in the NBA. Legler blamed Kyrie for that. LoL He said it was really stupid for Lowry to leave like that because Kyrie seen blood in the water and just kept coming at him. Other things I see is impressive is on broken plays. How many times did we see a play go wrong and STILL Cavs somehow saved that possession into a basket.… Read more »
Nice!
Look who is fourth on that list. I don’t see OKC beating Golden State three out five times. That sets up a potentially epic finals with the Warriors who are quite possibly the best NBA team of all-time.
How weird was the Kyle Lowry mid-game mental break in the locker room?
Yeah, that was pretty weird. And it coincided with most of the Cavs’ 12-2 run to close the first half. Doris Burke tagged along for the injury report, but…no injury!
Pink Lady stalking . It was creepy.
Man… at this rate, Cedar Point is going to have to shut down The Raptor out of sheer embarrassment of the name…
Tom, I won’t be satisfied until you sing the “C’mon Cavs!” song in one of these…
Man I tried to get my energy up for this one. But I’ve just had such a long two weeks and there was so little drama in this game.
Just messin’ with ya… love the InstaCaps!
LeBron and Kareem have a moment.
https://twitter.com/CavsNationTV/status/733500072613158912
The very first varsity game of Austin Carr’s college career (his sophomore year back in the days when freshmen couldn’t play varsity) was against UCLA when Kareem/Lew was a senior. UCLA won.
I had my picture taken with Kareem once – unfortunately it was pre-digital era and I lost it
Here’s the RJ/Frye thing Tom mentions:
https://vine.co/v/iEZWIlt1115
amazing!
I LOVE this! It’s like RJ is the Dad in here. “You are in No Man’s Land. Pay Attention Damn it”
That’s amazing. It almost made me cry lol
An example of LeBron’s passing: With a glance at JR in the corner, he gets DeRozan to take a step away from TT — and then he fires it to TT for the dunk.
https://vine.co/v/iE7M3XWgW27
yeah this was one of them.
Hated to miss this one… but happy to be home in time for the InstaCap!
Nice musical choice…but the crowd will be disappointed that there’s no singing tonight.
The Raptors can play better. But can they play better against the Cavs the way the Cavs are playing now?
Tom… you HAVE to get your hands on a Lil Kev t-shirt for your next InstaCap!
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Get ’em quick before the copyright police shut it down!
https://vine.co/v/iEWA2wXVDut