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Game Thread 2020-21 Season | Game #31 | Thunder @ Cavs | February 21, 2021

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I'm not gonna blame JBB anymore.

This roster is so incredibly bad, poorly envisioned, and without two of it's best players. and those two players aren't exactly all-stars. think about that.

Pop wouldn't be doing much better IMO.
 
I'm not gonna blame JBB anymore.

This roster is so incredibly bad, poorly envisioned, and without two of it's best players. and those two players aren't exactly all-stars. think about that.

Pop wouldn't be doing much better IMO.

His 2nd best player played 0 minutes.
 
They traded all of their star players though. We didn't.


That said, they shouldn't be better than us RIGHT NOW. Set up for the future? Absolutely.

But they should in no way be fielding a better team than us today. And they are.
They did what we should have done. Once LBJ left, the door shut. And instead of getting something good for Love and our other championship run assets, we signed them to futile contracts. OKC actually treated their vets right. Once they made the decision to rebuild, they let guys go and compete for relevant teams.
 
His 2nd best player played 0 minutes.
I wouldn’t go so far as to call him the 2nd best player, but watching Muscala tonight should have shown why we need a 4 who can shoot. Because you have to honor the shooter, the lane opens up for drivers/slashers like Alexander, Dort, and Diallo.
 
The Cavs finally get a losing team but it makes no difference as they lose by 16. I don't know if there's a team in the NBA the Cavs can beat right now. I'm starting to think Nance is the team's MVP although Allen made a nice case tonight.

The Thunder rank 27th of 30 in points per game but the Cavs were still helpless defensively, giving up 62 in the first half. They would have given up another 62 in the second but the Thunder slowed down the game in the last few minutes. They shot 54.4% after shooting 36% in their loss to Milwaukee two nights ago.

In addition to no defense the Cavs lost this one due to no bench and no three-point shooting. Their bench was outscored 42-9 and went 3-for-13. Frankly, Dotson, McGee, Stevens and Windler sucked. The Cavs were outscored by 14 points in McGee's six minutes, meaning they were outscored by 2 in Allen's 42 minutes. Basically the game was lost in those six minutes.

The Cavs were 8-for-35 on 3's while the Thunder was 13-for-28. The Thunder rank 28th in 3-point percentage but tonight they were one bucket short of 50%. Every opponent shoots and scores much better against the Cavs than their norm. In the first half the Cavs were 4-for-17 from deep and our bench was outscored 29-4, which means our starters outscored theirs by 14. For the entire game our starters outscored theirs by 17 points.

Their four bench players were all between +18 and +20; ours were between -10 and -17.

Cedi was 0-for-8 on 3's. Absolutely no excuse for going 0-for-8 at home after a day off. And they were all uncontested. Sexton was 1-for-6.

The disparity between the Cavs' ability to shoot 3's and their opponents' ability is night and day. Every damn game. Until the Cavs can at least not be blown out in the 3-point game there is no chance.

Kudos to Jarrett Allen for hustling for 42 minutes and scoring 26 points with 17 rebounds on 11-for-11 from the field. Garland had 21 points, 8 assists and 3 steals but was abused defensively. Sexton had 27 points with 5 rebounds and 3 assists but committed four turnovers. Other than those three we had nothing. Okoro took 12 shots, 11 of which were 3's. He made four, but some of the others were embarassing, especially the air ball on an uncontested corner shot.

As usual the opponent had a tall, skilled wing the Cavs had no answer for. Tonight it was SGA who had 31 points, including 10 on free throws.

I thought it was interesting that JBB kept the starters on the floor right up to the end instead of pulling them with the Thunder comfortably ahead with a few minutes to go. It's like he was saying, "That wasn't good enough, you have to stay on the floor, you haven't earned the priviledge of sitting out the last few minutes of garbage time." Or maybe he was so disgusted by the bench that he refused to put them back in. Either way I like it.

Until Nance gets back the Cavs have little chance against anybody. Minnesota is the only Western Conference team they might have a shot against.
 
If you get clocked by the Thunder at home, then who are you beating? Nance and Drummond sure covered up a lot of badness on defense. Will we not win another game until Nance comes back? The players we were positive about, in December, actually suck the farts out of my anus.
 
Last game there was outrage over our our three shorts starters not getting rebounds. They got 13 boards tonight. We still got blown out at home by a crappy team.
 
Last game there was outrage over our our three shorts starters not getting rebounds. They got 13 boards tonight. We still got blown out at home by a crappy team.

They are, in general, bad players.

Rebounding is just one of many reasons for them being bad.
 
For all the complaints about Sexton and Garland, throw Nance in at PF and a competent wing replacing Cedi’s minutes and it would have been a win or a 5 point or less loss at minimum.

The issue tonight was ZERO quality tall depth behind Allen and Cedi going 0-8 on almost exclusively wide open threes.
 
I’m just praying for the ping pong balls to give us either the first or second spot in this year’s draft! We need a prime time player with play with Allen.
 
Shai is a winner, Sexton is not. I want Cade. We need him. And dump our current Guards for picks to pick up length+ shooting on the wing. Also ditch the GM and JBb. Thank Altman for the Allen trade though.
 
The sad thing is Okoro shooting 4/11 on those 3s ends up being a better point per possession rating than the Cavs normal game.

It comes to 109 points per 100 possessions. That would still be bottom 10 in the league.

But the Cavs currently sport 104.7 points per 100 possessions. Which, before tonight was 2nd to last, ahead of only OKC.

I'm guessing after tonight they'll be behind them.
If this is true then the cavs are better off just jacking up 3’s all game than running their offense. What a joke lol
 
Shai is a winner, Sexton is not. I want Cade. We need him. And dump our current Guards for picks to pick up length+ shooting on the wing. Also ditch the GM and JBb. Thank Altman for the Allen trade though.

Have you actually watched Cade play?
 

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