Round 1 Game 2 | Cavs vs. Celtics | April 21, 2015 | 7:00 PM ET

Tornicade said:

I think the issue is people are expecting 20 to 30 point wins. Its unrealistic. Boston took their shot and lost.

Another thing is this perception thing. if Blatt wants to bench Jr smith and start shumpert. then thats what he should do. I personally dont think he should but he shouldnt give a crap about what people think.

I mean holy shit JR Smith has 5 friggin steals and people are talking about benching him so he can be the "microwave"

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Boston is one of the best teams in the NBA in the last month plus. Are they a title contender? No. But the Cavs aren't playing some schmuck team. It is also a squad the Cavs just gave a lot of confidence to with two gift wins to end the season.

Yaaaaaaaaaawn.

Crowd stuff again.

If MoFlo said the atmosphere was good enough then that's that. He was there Sunday, he said it was good but it wasn't the crazy Cleveland crowd. Im expecting all hell to break loose vs Chicago when that long haired tranny comes to town. If not then you guys can sit there and bitch about how bad 20,562 are. Right now, it doesn't mean nothing.

Fans are probably hypnotizing each other with the goofy herd shirts.

Of course you got to give it to the likes of James and Irving and the fact the best player in the world had half his point total in the 4th, but I want to highlight the glue guys.

Breath of fresh air to see an open Love 3 hit nothing but net on their first offensive possession. Love looked to get into a tad of a rhythm earlier on and that is a sign of improvement and hopefully things to come. While his point total of 13 doesn't look impressive on paper, he had a nice contribution tonight.

I freaking Love Mosgov. He is a Russian assassin, this dude was a steal. Everyone thought the Cavs gave up too much for him but they wouldn't be in this position without him. I didn't know he had that much offensive prowess before coming here and he netted a big 16.

Lastly, Smith. He can get hot or be extremely cold and I thought it was brilliant he wasn't forcing his shot and he would rather defend to help the team than get numbers. Cat had 5 steals and his defense was key at points....

Onto game 3 AND my first official game thread...

Kenny Roda is the next Bob Barker, anybody saw his purple pimp suit and hat in tonight's post-game?

KilgoreTrout said:

I miss those Mike Brown Third Quarters (tm) like I miss having a glass catheter shoved up my urethra and broken off.

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Ah yes, The infamous 3rd Quarter Nap™

Frank Stallone said:

Boston is one of the best teams in the NBA in the last month plus. Are they a title contender? No. But the Cavs aren't playing some schmuck team. It is also a squad the Cavs just gave a lot of confidence to with two gift wins to end the season.

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They are a young scrappy team with athletic players who fit good together.
They just need a dominate player to take them to the next level.

theSTEREO. said:

I don't see the problem here. Blatt's was smart to bench Love at that point. Kev had 5 fouls, and the C's were attacking inside. The last thing we needed at that moment was anyone being timid on interior defense.

Plus, the game was still within two possessions at that point. If it went to overtime, or if it was still tight within the last minute or so, we'd need to bring Love back. Fortunately we were able to put the C's away without having to bring Love back.

I honestly don't think Simmons was trolling on that tweet.

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I just think Simmons can go fuck himself in general. He sucks.

Dribble said:

Kenny Roda is the next Bob Barker, anybody saw his purple pimp suit and hat in tonight's post-game?

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he has to get attention somehow, his questions wont get him noticed.

KilgoreTrout said:

I miss those Mike Brown Third Quarters (tm) like I miss having a glass catheter shoved up my urethra and broken off.

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You can't tease us with a story lead-in like that without expounding.

Brought out the big guns for this game last night at the bar:

Jack Brickman said:

Brought out the big guns for this game last night at the bar:

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That's gonna be one of the stranger things to get used to when I move to North Carolina next month. When I was visiting a few weeks ago, I was surprised that dogs were allowed in bars and without leashes. You just don't see that up here anymore (although I'm sure you're well aware of that, considering you lived up here IIRC).

macbdog said:

You can't tease us with a story lead-in like that without expounding.

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Just sayin': no one gets nostalgic for the insertion of sharp objects into one's urethra. Or am I wrong?

Marcus said:

That's gonna be one of the stranger things to get used to when I move to North Carolina next month. When I was visiting a few weeks ago, I was surprised that dogs were allowed in bars and without leashes. You just don't see that up here anymore (although I'm sure you're well aware of that, considering you lived up here IIRC).

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Yup. Grew up in Ohio. Went to Bowling Green for college and grad school. Loki, the dog in my picture, is from Ohio as well. Got him in Marietta. So yeah, you can't really bring dogs anywhere up north. It seems kind of silly now that I live here and basically everyone has a dog.

For the most part in Charlotte, you can bring you dogs inside any bar that doesn't serve food, and places that do serve food usually have dog-friendly patios. A lot of those places with patios even have big water buckets specifically for customers that have dogs. The picture above is from a brewery, so Loki was allowed inside with no problems. That place is literally right next door to me, so he's there all the time. If I say the name of the brewery now, he gets excited.

I took that picture after the game was over, though, so he was pretty wiped out at that point.

Most places in Charlotte do require you to have your dog on a leash, though. Aside from the handful of dog bars that are like indoor dog parks with alcohol. If Sycamore (brewery next door) isn't busy, they'll generally let people have their dogs off leash. Doesn't work too well now, though, since the nice weather means their doors are always propped open.

KilgoreTrout said:

We had ALL KINDS of adversity in 2010. What good did that do us?

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This is a MUCH better and DIFFERENT team from 2010 though

adversity will make or break you. It's needed.