Game 3 | Cavs @ Indiana | Saturday November 2, 2013 7:00 PM EST

[MoFlo]

Game #3



Cavaliers (1-1, 0-1 Road) @ Indiana (2-0, 1-0 Home)

Venue:

Watch with:

Listen in with:

Head Coaches:

Mike Brown

Frank Vogel

Starting Lineups:

The Bad Guys:

C.J Watson

Lance Stephenson

Paul George

David West

Roy Hibbert

(Intro Video)

The Good Guys:

Kyrie Irving

Dion Waiters

Earl Clark

Tee Tee

Andy

Indiana's Scrubs:

Ian Mahinmi

Luis Scola

Orlando Johnson

Bench Brigade:

Andrew Bynum

Jarrett Jack

Geeeee

Anthony Bennett

C.J Miles

Z2

News & Notes:

- Indiana has allowed just 18 PPG in the 3rd Quarter.

- The Pacers are averaging 15 Blocks per game.

- Lance Stephenson is 15-24 from the field.

- Indiana's starters are shooting 45.5% from 3pt land. Their bench is 1-7.

- After having 1 20 pt, 10 reb game in his first 126 career games, Tristan Thompson has 3 such games over his last 18. After 14 double doubles in his first 86 games, he has 27 double doubles over his last 58 games.

- The Cavaliers are +16 on the glass after 2 games and are averaging 13.5 offensive boards.

- Jarrett Jack & C.J Miles are a combined 23-41 (56.1%) from the field, 7-15 from downtown, and 6-7 from the line, averaging 29.5 points between them. Bennett, Bynum, Gee, and Zeller are a combined 4-26 from the field, 1-7 from 3pt land, and 9-13 from the line, averaging 9.0 points.

- Cavaliers have held opposing starting shooting guards to 5-20 from the floor for 23 points.

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[shoes22]

Nice touch with the "news & notes" section, MoFlo.

 

[MoFlo]

Nice touch with the "news & notes" section, MoFlo.

Thanks.

Obviously not too much to work with after just 2 games :chuckles:

 

[Rich]

Earl Clark on Paul George. Weeeeeeeee.

 

[JFT]

CJ should start this game. It's not ideal but really the way to go based on the pre-season and first few games.

 

[oasis05]

I do not like the idea of starting the season 1-2. I suspect the cavs will get up for this game. bobcats just seem to have their number. This should be another bad game for Bennett with Scola looming on the pacers bench. West versus Thompson is the match up to watch. Two of the leagues premier power forwards will be on display.

 

[3 Ball...GOT IT]

 

[Tornicade]

Cavs need to serve notice just as they did with the Nets. I think the players will feel and show it to.

 

[Rainman]

No way Cavs win this one.

 

[Ohio]

Definitely a loss. Hopefully it is at least fun to watch. Last night was disgusting.

 

[Binkster]

Dion turns in a big performance, Kyrie has 30+, Cavs win.

And most importantly, everybody shuts the fuck up around here with their sky is falling attitudes.

 

[ice cream man]

Tristan and Andy need help, bottom line. They can't play the whole game.

And yeah, our backcourt needs to come up big offensively more often than not. So far, 0 for 2.

 

[chrisrich91]

Tired from last night, not enough time to work out the offensive deficiencies among the starters...this one will be ugly. But the defense shows up after Brown rips the players a new ass hole from last night, so there's that.

86-17 Pacers

 

[caf]

Well Charlotte benefited from a lot of Cavs turnovers and the resulting space in transition. If we can limit turnovers I think we will do just fine.

Charolette looks like a solid team this year. Not that we should have lost, but they have definitely improved quite a bit

 

[Rich]

I think it will be close for a while, then the vaunted front court of Zeller and Bennet make their appearance, and all becomes lost within 2 minutes.

Don't see Dion having a big game unless length suddenly stops giving him trouble. Longest team in the league right here.

CJ will still be under the influence of his hot shooting performance from last night, proceed to chuck 6 jumpers in the span 3 minutes, miss all of them, and then not play another minute.

Bennett will actually score a bucket.

Kyrie might actually play like a top 10 player in the league, but I'm not positive on that one.

Thompson will still be fine on offense, but West has given up trouble on defense over the years. Will do so again tonight.

Earl Clark will get left at the hotel on purpose.