Game #77 -|- Cavaliers @ Hawks -|- April 4th, 2014 @ 7:30 PM EST

[Futuredome]

The Front Court defense was the problem besides to much "hero" ball going on. There was still some good passing. Hawes and TT just shit the bed on d.

 

[Rich]

Kyrie gets crushed in here when he calls his own number


Dion has done it a couple times tonight and it never gets mentioned.......

Understand why. Kyrie has called his own number after he's been the only guy to touch the ball an entire possession. And his number is long 2. A long 2 is one thing. It can be bad. It can be necessary. but when you shoot one early in the shot clock off of zero passes? That's really just terrible offense. And he's done that at least 3 times tonight.

 

[#21]

I'll take 12.

 

[Toph]

 

[supermario21]

We cut it to 12 and we blew like 4 or 5 possessions the last 3-4 minutes. Atlanta will stall out like they usually do. We just can't let them come out of the locker room on fire.

 

[Witz]

On the brightside from the 8 min mark we only gave up 10 points and somebody guard Mike fucking Scott 8-9 shooting 18 points

 

[Simon]

Need to come out with energy in the second half. Start making those easy shots, and also stopping Mike Scott.

 

[Cassity14]

Kyrie gets crushed in here when he calls his own number


Dion has done it a couple times tonight and it never gets mentioned.......

Please don't start the, "Kyrie did a bad thing but so did Dion" and vice versa shit. Kyrie's done it routinely tonight - he just looks lost when he isn't having success doing it all himself or doing none of it himself. He's gotta find the happy medium. Dion's taken some bad shots as well. However, I rarely see Dion slow dribble the ball up the court, look at his man, then launch a jumper without anyone else touching it.

 

[Rainman]

Kyrie hasn't? I think we are all a bit too hard on Kyrie

Dion could take the same bad shot( and he has) and it doesn't get mentioned at all.

Can Kyrie throw down like Dion?

 

[AuxiliaryPie]

WHO THE FUCK IS MIKE SCOTT AND WHY IS HE RUINING MY GAMEDAY

 

[Pioneer10]

Kyrie gets crushed in here when he calls his own number


Dion has done it a couple times tonight and it never gets mentioned.......

There is a difference between trying to bail the team out or trying to take advantage of a mismatch versus walking the ball up the court and then taking taking a contested jumper without a single pass.

Kyrie has done that what 5 times already this half? I don't think he's hit one of those shots either

 

[Toph]

Never followed another teams official twitter account until this playoff race. The Hawks twitter is annoying as fuck.

"@ATLHawks: Can't follow the ball right now? Don't worry...that's just our ridiculously-quick passing."

 

[Akron330]

Understand why. Kyrie has called his own number after he's been the only guy to touch the ball an entire possession. And his number is long 2. A long 2 is one thing. It can be bad. It can be necessary. but when you shoot one early in the shot clock off of zero passes? That's really just terrible offense. And he's done that at least 3 times tonight.

I get that and I don't disagree.

Only point that I'm making is that Kyrie isn't the only guy on this team that settles for bad shots

 

[Cassity14]

Cavs played extremely well down the stretch of the first half. Being down 12 is a blessing. Still a very winnable game.

 

[Rich]

Please don't start the, "Kyrie did a bad thing but so did Dion" and vice versa shit. Kyrie's done it routinely tonight - he just looks lost when he isn't having success doing it all himself or doing none of it himself. He's gotta find the happy medium. Dion's taken some bad shots as well. However, I rarely see Dion slow dribble the ball up the court, look at his man, then launch a jumper without anyone else touching it.

This is the point. Dion doesn't bring it up, tell everyone else to clear out, and then launch a jumper. He might launch one off of a screen, which isn't the greatest, but at least there is some player movement there.