Game 30 | Warriors @ Cavs | Sunday, December 29, 2013 | 6:00 PM ET

[redscoon]

This has to be the worst closing team I've ever seen. They are total ass in the final couple minutes. If they were just mediocre at finishing they would probably be .500 or close to it. We can't even get a clean look 80% of the time. Just brutal.

 

[Rich]

Just can't find a more frustrating team in the league. Right there, but have no idea what to do on offense in late games. Everyone is out there running around like a bunch of maniacs.

Waiters was awful. Varejao was almost as bad.

 

[KilgoreTrout]

If this team knew how to win for a brief period, it's forgotten again. This team sucks my butt.

 

[Birdy89]

It's all boom or bust with Dion. He either has those nights like when he's 9-14, or like the last 2 days where he's no where near 50%. There is not enough middle ground with him when you look at this season as a whole.

 

[PepsiRacer4]

We're not getting an SF this season and that's what no one gets. We're gonna suffer all the way til next summer.

 

[Cashius X]

When Waiters has a bad night he doesn't play around. Just kept finding ways to suck. Looked like last year's version. Bennett struggled too.

I really didn't like this game. When we put up 64 points in the first half I knew they'd heat up and we'd fall back to earth. Played out exactly as expected. On the plus side, Kyrie is continuing his return to all-star form, and Thompson had a great game with some nice jumpers.

How? The shots he took were shots he normally makes. Yeah his offense was sub-par tonight but at least he knew when to defer to Kyrie in OT and he didn't let his bad shooting night affect his defensive effort. It was a rough night, sure. But there is more to a basketball game than just scoring the ball.

 

[Rich]

Everyone happy we don't go to Kyrie rice in the 4th and twice in overtime all 4 possessions in the last minute and we get zero points out of it? Kyrie saved the day the first time.

I forgot the last two possessions the last game.

Miss the game dude? Kyrie touched the ball every single possession in OT and missed all 3 of his shots.

 

[shoes22]

If you are getting blown out, talent on the team is the problem.

If you lose close, winnable games, the coach is at fault.

#MikeBrownOut

Both of these statements are so wrong...

 

[Rich]

It's all boom or bust with Dion. He either has those nights like when he's 9-14, or like the last 2 days where he's no where near 50%. There is not enough middle ground with him when you look at this season as a whole.

6-16 is 2 made shots from 50%. How is this not middle ground?

 

[mAo_mAo]

We need more shooting especially with our bigs. Aside from Zeller, all of them are paint cloggers. The offense struggles with the piss poor spacing.

 

[Rich]

We need more shooting especially with our bigs. Aside from Zeller, all of them are paint cloggers. The offense struggles with the piss poor spacing.

The offense struggled because every single guard wanted to catch and drive the entire second half. SO many times they had catch-and-shoot chances, and chose to drive into traffic instead.

 

[OptimusPrime]

Waiters played awful, everyone has a bad game, but it's not like he was forcing bad shots, except for the one drive in OT. The big issue is when Golden State packed it in the paint in the second half, the Cavs didn't move on offense and don't have any shooters to open things back up. Waiters and Irving had nowhere to go inside, and the Warriors didn't give a fuck about guarding Thompson or Varejao.

 

[KI4MVP]

Miss the game dude? Kyrie touched the ball every single possession in OT and missed all 3 of his shots.

The most.critical possession of Tyne game they had Kyrie stand it the opposite corner and was not involved in the play. And on at least one of he drives he was fouled with no call.

 

[mAo_mAo]

The offense struggled because every single guard wanted to catch and drive the entire second half. SO many times they had catch-and-shoot chances, and chose to drive into traffic instead.

That is why you need those type of bigs. Opposing bigs close on them quickly because our bigs do not provide enough space.

 

[OptimusPrime]

We're not getting an SF this season and that's what no one gets. We're gonna suffer all the way til next summer.

We're gonna suffer a long longer than that unless we draft one.