Live Thread: Cavs @ Pistons
2018-11-19Here we go again. After four days off for Cleveland, and a whoppung fuve days off for Detroit, two rested squads square off at Little Ceaser’s Arena.
For the Cavs, Larry is still starting at the four and looks to go against Blake Griffin, while TT will take on Drummond. On the injury front, the Cavs are missing Hill, Dekker, and Love while Detroit is missing only Luke Kennard. Lets see if the Cavs cleaned anything up in their time off, and if they can avoid looking ahead to the King’s return to Cleveland. Go Cavs!
Kyle misses another freaking tech.
19… With two more coming for Nwaba
How would a lineup of Sexton Hood Cedi Korver Nance do? Reason I ask, why can’t the Cavs use Nance like Clippers use Harrell, high screen, dive, surrounded by shooters. I feel like Nance could perform that role well. Cedi and Nance have really not taken steps forward this far which hurts more than the record
Harrell has much better hands and is a better finisher. Larry probably a better passer.
Too much Tristan Thompson
Drummond blocks Tristan’s shot all the way to Pontiac
You want him to shoot 70% instead of 60%?
They are stupid shots. Fool’s gold.
If he puts up 18 on ten shots with 2 threes and four assists to zero turnovers every night he would be in contention for rookie of year.
His d is bad. But so is the whole teams d. Cedi is bad on d. He tries hard but he is bad on d. Hood is bad on d. Clarkson is bad on d. Jr is bad on d. The Pistons struggle to score. That wasn’t all Sexton.
only down by 24 with 9m to go in the 3rd quarter.. sticking to 135-98
Cedi!
Good shot, collin.
this team may actually be 2-35 on dec 29th
once they know they can’t win.. the losses will be flowing like blood in the street.. the schedule is not their friend
Give it a rest
I just “read up” on the play-by-play. I cannot come up with any great teen jokes, but I still cannot believe the number of 14- to 20-foot jump shots this team takes. Guess what, Collin–they stop going in at some point, or worse, guys like Reggie Bullock and Ish Smith see your two and raise you one. Mr. Drew, please discuss this with your team.
Your daily Sexton WTF: Youngbull denies the screen and dribbles into 21-foot clanker w/ 17 on the clock and 22 left in the half. Reggie Bullock hits a three for Detroit w/ .4 left to go up 20. Just abysmal decision making for Collin gives the Pistons a 5 point swing. 66-46, Detroit.
Work in progress?
Ok obviously Sexton can’t run an offense but at least he can score efficiently. Sexton has 18 points on 6-10 shooting, 2/3 from three, with 4 assists to 0 turnovers. That can’t be all bad. Certainly a better line than Trae Young usually puts up, he of the 39% fg, 24 3pt %, 49 % TS club.
Gah. Great defensive posseasi9n and rhen no one gets the rebound. Leads the Griffin freebies.
Cedi. Nice drive.
Cavs had a nice stretch there. then the Pistons started caring again.
Yezus. Stupid turnovers. Throwing a lob to Korver…
Sexton 3!
Haha. pity call on that blake steal
CAN’T BELIEVE I COULD HARDLY WAIT– ( AFTER 4 DAYS OFF ) — FOR THE CAVS TO PLAY AGAIN—CAN’T WAIT NOW UNTIL THEIR NEXT EXTENDED BREAK ——–IT IS WHAT IT IS ——–LEBRON “MIGHT ‘ HOLD IT BACK / SHOW SOME MERCY WED NIGHT —–THEN AGAIN HE MIGHT JUST GO FOR 60+
LBJ goes for the cav-nots dan jugular.. the cavs players will just be collateral damage
he may go full wilt chamberlain on them
Nice mini run here. Nice to see Cedi get himself to the line.
And to actually string together a few stops in a row
i am sure they can’t wait to face LBJ on wednesday.. that should be a real hoot.. bron goes for 60+
Oh, I am out for the remainder. Suffer on, Cavs fans.
WOW 4 DAYS OFF TO PRACTICE—–” RUST OR RECOVERY “—I AM GOING WITH “RUST “
Our only saving grace
DOES ANYBODY THINK THE PISTONS CAN BE ‘PLAYERS ” IN THE EAST WITH CASEY COACHING THEM
I think a solid 6th and a tough PO series. A healthy Blake & Jackson help. Together for camp. Casey is an upgrade over SVG.
not watching, no surprise there, but at 48-27 with 7 left in the 2nd.. are they trying, or have they quit?
i’m honestly not sure which would be worse
OH YEAH !!!—ESPECIALLY ZION AGAINST THEIR BIGS
Second time Stanley johnson has outraced whole team down the floor.
Either of Zion or Barrett would look good in wine & gold.
No points this quarter.
Harrison is trash.
So glad we do not have Quinn Cook. /s
Yes. Yes he is.
TOOK A BREAK—HAVEN’T EVEN CHECKED BOX SCORES –BUT BY READING YOUR POSTS —DOES NOT SOUND GOOD ——–WE NEED BLOSSOMGAME TO ‘BLOSSOM ‘ SOON !!
Clarkson tries to knock a drone out of the sky with a pass to the 6th row.
Pistons in bonus the rest of the way
Poor roster construction. Nwaba/JR on Zaza is a huge mismatch. Too many wings. Not enough PGs/PFs. Plus an open roster spot.
Three team fouls in the first 72 seconds.
Can they Trade JR to China?
If not, maybe Turkey?
Sexton needs to turn the corner.
i see this ending at about 135-98.. the road to zion is long and painful.. almost biblical in its scale
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Blake making our bigs look foolish. Sexton getting torched off drives and screens. Cedi has to hit wide open corner threes if he is going to be out there.
Sooo. Many. Mid. Range. Bricks.
Bad miscue on that Blake jog to the hole for the slam. Also my stream is way behind.
Someone guard the right corner three. Argh.
Yezus JR
the earliest they win a game is dec 3 against brooklyn.. so, 2-20 going into that game
Sexton is scoring efficiently at least.
PREDICTION —DRUMMOND TO HAVE ‘MONSTER ‘ GAME AGAINST THE CAVS ——OH –HE ALREADY HAS ONE : )
Man, LNJ’s face during the break – looking completely demoralised.
Remember when they told us the cavs were going to push the pace this season? No energy. No hustle.
Detroit is attacking Sexton right now. Getting demolished in the PnR.
Ish has traveled twice no call already. Pretty tough guard when you can take a full step before you dribble. Still, he’s schooling the rook.
Jesus. This is a disaster so far.
WHY NOT GIVE ‘ZZ” SOME RUN AGAINST THEIR BIGS —CAN’T DO MUCH WORSE THAT WHAT WE ARE DOING
That was a really nice move by Hood.
Gah. Awful fouls. first a clear path and then a three.
Thats a terrible call. How can you have a clear path on a lob?
No clue. Never seen that before.
Thompson and Nance cant both go for the o board
according to my esimates, the cav-nots have 5 games that they may be able to win (with some luck and effort) between now and dec 29th.. brooklyn, washington, new york, charlotte and atlanta.. i think, at the end of the day, they may be able to win 3 of them.. so, i am upping my estimate to 5-32 at the close of ’18 calendar year.. we will see what ’19 brings later on down the road.. but, hey, keep tryin’ for zion.. that’s the name of the game
Not a bad start save for offense that involves TT going 1 v 1 vs Drummond. We would be ahead without TT butterfingering that D board.
Sexton & Hood look good. TT better after a rough start. Have to play with legit bigs vs Det.
Awful d on that blake drive.
AGREE WITH YOU NATE —–CONSISTENCY IN HIS GAME WILL BE THE KEY
Sexton looking better every game.
‘ TRYIN FOR ZION —NOT LYIN ” PUTTING ON ANOTHER ‘DUNK ” SHOW——–GO CAVS ——BUT REMEMBER ” THE ZION “
Hood! Confident three
Jusst a terrible first possession and awful floor balance on the second. Nice drive, Collin though.