Game 52: Cleveland Cavaliers (31-20) @ Indiana Pacers (18-32)| Feb 6th, 2015

[tocov]

First game we let a team cross the 100 pt line and we lose.

This was a really really shitty loss. Fuck it hurts, but it's ok. You can't win them all. The important thing is to bounce back and keep playing our good D and run the plays.
Wasn't our day, mistakes made by players, coaches and refs. On to the next one.

 

[red.]

Love lost the game. The superstar who never shows up, not the superstar who always shows up but misses a play here and there.

He's injured. Do you expect him to shoot lights out with back spasms?

 

[bleedwineandgold03]

Refs should get fined for terrible calls. They're fucking the game up and deciding who wins.

Thats why the nfl has a better product...and i totally agree

 

[Rick Astley]

Lesson learned: Don't let shit teams hang around. Blow them out early. You don't ever want things close enough to where questionable officiating can make the difference.

You never know when the refs may want to reward an underdog that is playing their hearts out.

Now, take it out on the Lakers.

Not going to happen. They're forcing other players, off night or not, to get theirs early to mid game. Hence, the Cavs can't blow them out without shooting 65% from the outside.

 

[godfather]

Bro u need a chill pill but thats none of my business

You don't even counter anything I said, I know they won 12 games. What in the world does that have anything to do with what I said?

I am fine, I don't care that they got beat, it doesn't change my opinion of this team. But a clear problem we do have, especially when things go back, they stop playing together. And that's something I don't like seeing, and it does concern me some.

 

[Sebastian]

See you Sunday, Lakers. Condolences.

 

[-Akronite-]

We outplayed them for a while but once they got it going we didn't really fight back when it mattered. Really annoying to see after so much consecutively GOOD basketball.

Especially toward the end we saw a lot of apathy in comparison to those Pacer players. Oy.

If we play the blame game I put this on K-Love. I want so desperately for him to get it going but he's still not consistent. Today he started fine and then disappeared immediately. Every time he had a good look he shied away. Carr said it himself, even when he took shots it seemed like he didn't want them... WHY? Put your dick into it man and maybe we could've pulled away with this one.

I can't be too mad about 12 straight and a loss on a back to back on the road. I just really wanted that franchise streak record. And the 2 seed by the break. Whatever.

 

[Wrathe]

Played like a scrub.

Not trying to call anyone out, but stuff like this makes it feel like you revel in things not going right for the team. What's in that for ya?

 

[cavsfever]

REVIVE THE RANT THREAD!

 

[All4One1ForAll]

Fuck fuck fuck!!! This feeling sucks. If it was a team like the Warriors I'd be fine. But the Pacers? Our streak ended because of the motherfucking Pacers?!!!

 

[Kyrieville]

Thats why the nfl has a better product...and i totally agree

LOL. The NFL is far worse with their refs/rules. Spot fouls on pass interference? 10 yard penalties for holding?

 

[JSS2306]

For the first time I am literally pissed off.


Fuck anybody talking about anything.

Fuck you.

 

[Jscc]

Anyone that blames the refs weren't watching closely enough. Mistakes, mistakes, mistakes + circus shots = you lose.

Cleveland turned the ball over fifteen times while Indiana turned it over eight. Cleveland had eighteen assists while Indiana had twenty six. Cleveland had an unhealthy Kevin Love while Indiana had a healthy David West putting up 20/13.

 

[Jordan]

Why pick out delly in your comments then...why not talk about all the other issues in tonights game which were much more significant to our loss

Because Delly's small size, lack of any sort of offensive game, and terrible defense (tonight, I'll give you he has hustled out there on other occasions) hurt us down the stretch. You keep ignoring that I am saying the reason we lost the game was because of Iso ball and painting a strawman of my argument. You want me to complain about other players? Fine. Love played a crappy game. TT has one of the most limited offensive repetoirs of any rotation big man currently in the game. But, Love is a superstar and Tristan's rebounding has won us games this season. I can't think of one time where Delly has played basketball that has come close to winning us a game.

 

[Marcus]

First loss in almost a month.

Tough that it had to end this way, but every team has nights like this.