Game 45 -|- Pelicans @ Cavs -|- Tuesday, January 28th, 7:00PM.

[Kouki]

Is your last name Grant or Gilbert? GTFO. You're embarrassing.

Embarrassing? Pot, meet kettle.

 

[JFT]

This team...

Gotta be the biggest Ohio sports disappointment in quite some time.

If you recall the goal of owners and the GM mandate was to make the playoffs. Nothing more or less.

We're 2.5 out of the 8th seed, even after tonight.

Get used to this as we develop as a team. We're sloooowwwwllly getting better and better, piece by piece.

 

[JFT]

Trade Jack, give Delly his minutes. Trade CJ, start Dion and have Karasev as the backup 2. Trade Andy, start Zeller and Bennett and make Tristan the 6th man. Too bad CG is trying to keep his job and this won't happen even though I have no faith in MB playing the young guys if it happened anyways.

No.

 

[kidduck]

From the MSB game story:

For the Cavs, though, there is plenty to worry about. The demeanor of the team is as bad as it was at any time under Byron Scott and called to mind the sorry days before LeBron James arrived.


There's no effort on defense, no comprehension on offense, no cohesion whatsoever.

 

[KilgoreTrout]

At least our "big three" netted us 59 points. Woo.

And the starting forwards combined to shoot 5-20 from the floor, 1-6 from the line, and get 7 rebounds. Pure egregiousness.

 

[Rainman]

From the MSB game story:

For the Cavs, though, there is plenty to worry about. The demeanor of the team is as bad as it was at any time under Byron Scott and called to mind the sorry days before LeBron James arrived.


There's no effort on defense, no comprehension on offense, no cohesion whatsoever.

Bullshit

 

[JFT]

Bennett tonight reminded me of the Bennett in the single game he rocked during the pre-season. If you haven't seen his 4th quarter performance in that pre-season game, look it up as it was really what the Cavs thought they were getting, and much better than tonight's work.

 

[BimboColesHair]

No.

Solid rebuttal, full of such gripping insight.

 

[Tornicade]

I believe the whole idea of the playoff push was primarily to put pressure on this team. and they need pressure. Its a mindset and one the team should have.

Playoff aspirations should be th eexpectation of every team. I was annoyed with zeller getting benched but he was getting ate up on the defensive end and he can play better on that end.

 

[MirORich]

There's no effort on defense, no comprehension on offense, no cohesion whatsoever.[/FONT][/COLOR]

I agree that there is no consistent cohesion. No consistent effort on defense. And many of the guys don't seem to yet fully understand how to play the defense.

But there have been many recent stretches where the offense is lively. The ball moves. The players move. Plays are run. The ball is shared. The first half against Phoenix. The first quarter of this game. Plenty of other examples.

So obviously collectively everyone, players and staff, are failing to put it all together. But I think its not totally fair to say that there is no offense or no comprehension on offense. It just seems like every time the go cold for a few minutes or another teams strikes back at them, they revert back to the bad habits on offense, and take turns playing hero ball.

-Earl has got to be taken out of the rotation entirely because he's not part of the future, we're not winning this year, and he's not contributing. He should be traded for a second round pick or just released
-CJ has actually overperformed since about mid December but his contract is also up at the end of the year and we're not winning this year enough to justify anything more than 16-20 minutes per game. I actually don't care who starts, but Dion needs 32+ minutes per game and needs to have stretches on the court with the other starters
-Jack needs to get some of Miles minutes, not Dions. If he's hot and facilitating motion and ball movement, let him earn some minutes on a per game basis, but otherwise he can no longer get the verteran guaranteed minutes.
-Andy should lessen his minutes 4-6 minutes per game and stay healthy, giving maximum effort(he always does) when on the floor. But no 36 minute games fro Andy.
-Deng is the only vet who should get guaranteed big minutes provided he's healthy. He needs to communicate with the young guys on the floor and be the leader, explain to them how hard those Bulls teams worked and how committed they stayed to their defense and effort.

 

[RchfldCavRaised]

I believe the whole idea of the playoff push was primarily to put pressure on this team. and they need pressure. Its a mindset and one the team should have.

Playoff aspirations should be th eexpectation of every team. I was annoyed with zeller getting benched but he was getting ate up on the defensive end and he can play better on that end.

Tyler was guarding Alex Ajinca. A big part of why Tyler looked so good to begin with, is he was thoroughly outplaying Alex.

TRISTAN was getting eaten alive, however, by Anthony Davis. Luol was also giving up offensive rebounds and tipins to Aminu as his lively legs looked a little too much for Luol tonight.

Tyler is just another case of Brown being a horrible game coach. As he often subs out guys who are hot and goes with predetermined lineups or reacts to what the defense is doing against him.

Zeller spaced the floor in the first half and provided a reliable threat from 15 ft as well as a guy who was crashing the glass and creative enough with the ball to make Davis/Ajinca have to expend energy on defense.

Every game, someone/thing on our team brings something to the game that the other team has no cure for, and then we watch as our coach makes an adjustment that neutralizes our advantage in that area.

Tonight it was Tyler.

 

[MirORich]

...as his lively legs looked a little too much for Luol tonight.

Killing it with that alliteration tonight RCR

 

[Cavatt]

Losing the rebounding game is really tough. The team has a hard time scoring sometimes and when they don't get second chances they really struggle. It seems like games where the bigs get dominated the cavs don't have much of a chance. Davis just outclassed them, and there is not much more to it than that. Everyone talks about Kyries talent, but he doesn't impact the game on both ends like Davis did tonight.

 

[CleveRocks]

which leads us to another Big would be constructive. Tyler Played well, but pairing him with Sims against a guy like Davis will not win often. I think another true center would make us a better team. As for Jack, I like him when he tries to involve the young guys, hate him when he takes bad shots..Interesting that Delly has been benched in favor of Jack. It seems to that Delly brought more contribution, better defense and a money outlet three. Dion is your second point guard on this team.

 

[Tornicade]

Tyler was guarding Alex Ajinca. A big part of why Tyler looked so good to begin with, is he was thoroughly outplaying Alex.

TRISTAN was getting eaten alive, however, by Anthony Davis. Luol was also giving up offensive rebounds and tipins to Aminu as his lively legs looked a little too much for Luol tonight.

Tyler is just another case of Brown being a horrible game coach. As he often subs out guys who are hot and goes with predetermined lineups or reacts to what the defense is doing against him.

Zeller spaced the floor in the first half and provided a reliable threat from 15 ft as well as a guy who was crashing the glass and creative enough with the ball to make Davis/Ajinca have to expend energy on defense.

Every game, someone/thing on our team brings something to the game that the other team has no cure for, and then we watch as our coach makes an adjustment that neutralizes our advantage in that area.

Tonight it was Tyler.

Anthony started out what 10 of 11?

he made six shots on Thompson and 4 on zeller.

he made 4 jump shots on thompson and 3 of them were well contested. He also had 2 plays that thompson left him. on zeller 1 of them was from a double side lane screen but he was shooting over zeller too. lets no forget angica played a total of 17 minutes and was lucky to get that after only playing the first five minutes. after that Steimmsa came in and went 4 to 4. Lets not pretend Davis is a 20PPG scorer.

Zeller played 9:36 minutes in the 2nd quarter.1-3 and 2 turnovers. Kyrie went 1-4, Deng went 0-4

The team shot 25% and allowed 63 percent shooting. in the second quarter.

I didnt like zeller getting benched in the third either but once a team is up by 20 its really hard to gauge who is doing what defensively.