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Round 1 Game 4 | Cavs @ Pacers | April 22, 2018 | 8:30 EST

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My Twitter feed was 70/30 Lance fouled, with multiple NBA Twitter follows pointing out that it's a shame Stephenson gets pumped up like this given he's a terrible person.

And I mean legitimately terrible, for those unsure of what I'm talking about. Dude pushed his pregnant girlfriend down the stairs.
Do you upload ringtones to Zedge by any chance? Mr czvo1
 
Cavs almost coughed that shit up again. Just once I want to see a complete game with effort from start to finish but credit to the team for staying poised. Game 3 was the opposite, they got into their heads and it showed, tonight they just played. It was a sight for sore eyes to see Korver go off in the 2nd half and I only hope that first half gives Jordan some much needed confidence because offensively he can disrupt the Pacers flow.

Series is tied. You got the momentum, you brought back home court. Just win in Cleveland on Wednesday and you are in the driver's seat.
 
As much as I hate Stevenson and he’s completely off his rocker, he had a legitimate jump ball there.

He definitely went all WWF afterward, and I thought the proper call was a tech on Stevenson followed by a jump ball...but I wouldn’t have been surprised if they just said the takedown was a result of him keeping his hands on the ball.

Happy with the result though. Can we fire Tyronn Lue now and make an emergency call to David Blatt?

I never thought it was a jump ball, it looked like he made contact with Jeff’s body before he ever touched the ball, then threw Jeff down. Watch the replay his hands were on Jeff then as he did the take down he got the ball. Clear foul, if it was not for the announcers missing the fact run ref called a foul it would not have have been a big deal.
 
Still thinking our Cavs eek out a win
Dumb ass lue has to find a way to get Cedi and Zizic in the game and if Green is a scared pussy again Cedi goes
in , Korver will be key in game 4

Cavs should win ---- nice call

The above was my pre-game post
 
Reminder, Kevin Love grabbed 30.5% of our rebounds. While only on the floor for 29 minutes. I get that he's struggling on offense (and the coaches are making this a disaster by not calling plays that he's comfortable with and instead posting up one of the 3 or 4 PFs in the league he shouldn't even bother trying to post up), but he is providing space even when he's not getting shots, and he is rebounding the crap out of the basketball. Something no one else seems remotely interested in.

You can blame him, and he certainly deserves a large chunk of it, but LeBron and the coaching staff not putting him in a position to succeed are a huge part of his problems right now as well.

We ran a ton of elbow sets for him early in the season. I can't imagine how nice it would be to have a Korver/Nance off-ball screen with Love holding the ball at the left elbow while LeBron is taking a play off in right corner and JR/Calderon/Hill is camping at the 3 point line on the right wing. Or dribble handoffs for Love and Korver. Or fake dribble handoffs where Love can step back and take a 3 if the defense overplays Korver.

Those kinds of plays should be a staple of our offense to get good offense while LeBron doesn't have to create. Instead we run awful offense that's doomed to fail.
 
Reminder, Kevin Love grabbed 30.5% of our rebounds. While only on the floor for 29 minutes. I get that he's struggling on offense (and the coaches are making this a disaster by not calling plays that he's comfortable with and instead posting up one of the 3 or 4 PFs in the league he shouldn't even bother trying to post up), but he is providing space even when he's not getting shots, and he is rebounding the crap out of the basketball. Something no one else seems remotely interested in.

You can blame him, and he certainly deserves a large chunk of it, but LeBron and the coaching staff not putting him in a position to succeed are a huge part of his problems right now as well.

We ran a ton of elbow sets for him early in the season. I can't imagine how nice it would be to have a Korver/Nance off-ball screen with Love holding the ball at the left elbow while LeBron is taking a play off in right corner and JR/Calderon/Hill is camping at the 3 point line on the right wing. Or dribble handoffs for Love and Korver. Or fake dribble handoffs where Love can step back and take a 3 if the defense overplays Korver.

Those kinds of plays should be a staple of our offense to get good offense while LeBron doesn't have to create. Instead we run awful offense that's doomed to fail.

AT the very least, try something different, right? Move the ball, get it to him where he likes it.
 
AT the very least, try something different, right? Move the ball, get it to him where he likes it.
It's like our coaching staff has inherited Jeff Green's BBIQ this year. Try something stupid, and when it doesn't work, keep trying it over and over. Never learn.
 
AT the very least, try something different, right? Move the ball, get it to him where he likes it.

The only play we seem to run for him is everybody clearing up and LeBron makes an entry pass for him to post up his defender.
Other than that, he's a spot up shooter.
We don't utilize his passing ability from the high post, we don't even try to get him a favorable switch so he has a clear advantage on the post up, we don't run plays where a shooter is a decoy and he rolls inside. Nothing.
Plus, he's playing out of position.

It's like we do everything we can to help him fail.
 
The only play we seem to run for him is everybody clearing up and LeBron makes an entry pass for him to post up his defender.
Other than that, he's a spot up shooter.
We don't utilize his passing ability from the high post, we don't even try to get him a favorable switch so he has a clear advantage on the post up, we don't run plays where a shooter is a decoy and he rolls inside. Nothing.
Plus, he's playing out of position.

It's like we do everything we can to help him fail.

They have made some good defensive adjustments, but we keep seeing the same offensive problems over and over. It is pretty weird.
 

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