Game 12 | Cavs (8-3) vs. Bucks (5-6) | November 19th, 2015 | 8:00 PM EST

[Walter White]

Good win, they came back a bit but wasn't close enough to be a real threat of giving it away.

 

[InBoobieWeTrust]

Good to see the team respond to LeBron and Blatt after the Detroit debacle. Even losing Moz and with Mo out, we played well and got a lot of good bench contribution. How about Andy? Man he looked good.

 

[MD13]

Cavs were 1 board away from doubling up the bucks on rebs. Definitely seemed like we had more, but that's pretty shocking.

 

[Ryan Gladish]

Delly again with highest plus/minus

 

[DrSmoov]

Any updates on Moz? Haven't really heard anything kinda strange...

 

[MirORich]

TT not feeling it tonight.

26 minutes
5-7 FG
2-3 FT
12 points
11 total rebounds
4 offensive rebounds
1 steal.

I know he had some bad plays as well but this was hardly a "not feeling it", shitty game.

 

[crazyfish]

On a bad night Kev & TT with 4 rebounds more than the entire Bucks

 

[Jordan]

Better game than we've played in awhile. Some complacency issues still exist. Getting Love the ball problems still exist. But, considering how injured we were (four out of our top-eight rotation players were missing), and how bad we've looked recently, I'll gladly take it.

Two things are clear to me, right now: Delly should start over Mo; and Moz, for all of his weaknesses this year, is still super important to our D.

 

[kookoo]

Most of the team played pretty well.

 

[Rick Astley]

26 minutes
5-7 FG
2-3 FT
12 points
11 total rebounds
4 offensive rebounds
1 steal.

I know he had some bad plays as well but this was hardly a "not feeling it", shitty game.

My bad. That was before seeing his stats. He's better than Monroe.

 

[KilgoreTrout]

Surprised to see that LeBron played 35 minutes tonight. Looked like he got a lot of rest...

 

[MirORich]

On a bad night Kev & TT with 4 rebounds more than the entire Bucks

The Bucks are unique in that guys they put at the 4(Giannis and Parker) are extremely athletic and quick. It's hard match up for TT, Love, and anyone with a more traditional PF toolkit on defense.

On the flipside though you have the rebounding prowess of those two on both sides of the ball. Even though it looks bad when they get beat off the dribble by Parker and Giannis, the rebounding makes me a little more forgiving of that matchup of our PFs on D against their PFs

 

[MirORich]

Most of the team played pretty well.

I'd say that everyone but Jefferson and Timo(more for the injury than how he played) had a good game tonight.

 

[KilgoreTrout]

The Good:
- Shot 55% as a team, 45% from three
- Out-rebounded them 43-22
- Very efficient 27-9-6 by LeBron
- Pipe was feeling it
- 13 assists from Delly, should have been more
- Love and TT with double-doubles
- AV, JJ, Cunningham were big off the bench

The Bad:
- Delly still misses a lot of open shots
- Jefferson looked awful

The Ugly:
- 16 turnovers
- Moz was a mess, and now he's hurt (if he wasn't before)
- The Greek Freak was eating Love, TT, and sometimes LeBron alive

All in all, a good win.

 

[scopedog]

Every goddam team for the last two years knows they are outclassed and tries to rough us up. For some reason the refs allow this. Inevitably somebody will get hurt. Blatt (and Gilbert if necessary) need to raise a stink about it... Shits gotten ridiculous.

This is the real fucking story people need to be talking about. Seriously. Golden State gets treated like prime Michael Jordan by both the players and refs and for some reason we get the shit beaten out of us every other night. You'd think after we all had to put up with that Boston series and 2 of our best 3 out ruining an NBA finals for everyone the refs would be told to stop letting our opponents put our health in jeapordy just to steal a regular season win.

This thug ball seems to be so much more prevalent in the East coast in general where you have scrub teams with young players and big egos. Frankly I damn near stopped watching the sport after last years debacle.