Game Thread | 2021-2022 Season | Play-in Game #2 | Hawks @ Cavs | April 15, 2022 | 7:30 p.m. ESPN

And to make matters worse they beat us without Capella

PeonHaiters said:

Less than a second passed between Lauri gaining full possession and passing the ball. I expected bad takes but damn lol

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Lol Lauri dribbled. He doesn’t even have to do that for there to be enough time to call timeout. As soon as he gets the rebound you call timeout and they can advance the ball if there was no dribble/pass made.

Bickerstaff is an empty suit, and maybe a real coach pulls out this game, but who on the roster other than Garland did anyone feel confident could make a shot in the second half? Altman has more work to do. Their one guy is better than the Cavs one guy.

And it's not popular, but Sexton would have scored with Trae Young and then fucked Young's wife after the game. So if they're running him out of town, they better find a 2nd option better than Caris LeVert.

InBoobieWeTrust said:

LeVert wasnt great. He had good moments tonight. Kept us close going into the 4th.

The box score actually tells the story for once today.

Rondo-18
Okoro -14

Stevens 0 mins
Osman 0 mins

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Rubio would've been a solid +15.

Rich said:

Well the takeaway is you either need a player like that, or you need a better system to help compensate.

But in reality, one of our guys just needs to become an elite offensive player.

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I agree!

I believe that player will be Mobley before it is ever Garland.

Cassity14 said:

Garland played his worst game in a long time.

Trae Young went superhuman.

I REALLY don’t think there’s much more to take away than that tonight.

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If the star player is shooting so poorly and not getting good shots, then the coach should probably get them running an offense to try to get other guys open looks instead of just praying it all works out somehow.

Marcus said:

One big difference tonight was the bench play.

Love was non-existent. Okoro made a few flash plays but was otherwise inconsequential. Rondo looked like an actual turtle trying to play tonight.

Meanwhile, the team had no answer for Bogdanovic.

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Love didn't get involved much at all in the offense. If we had one KLove burst tonight it may have been the difference. The veteran should be ready for games like this.

Rich said:

So...my issues with the coaching are entirely offensive.

They had the right defensive game plan tonight.

Trae Young IS that good on offense. He can just beat you.

And we do not have a Giannis/Durant type that can both play center and switch onto him. Mobley eventually, but not yet. So once Trae got rolling, he found it easy to dust by Markennen and Allen.

That's life against great offensive players.


But our offense is just devoid of all creativity. He let's Garland just run the show and do w/e he wants while the team watches and he's not good enough and the team isn't good enough on that end for that to be the system. He has to be committed to making serious changes on that end in the summer.

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I wish he entrusted Mobley more offensively.

Mobley, ESPECIALLY after Capela went out, could have put up triple double tonight. He had 5 assists and 18 points and only took 12 shots. He had like the 4th or 5th most "touches" on the team.

We have a dominant superstar to play off of. Thats the good news.

Garland is a perfect offensive partner for him. Better news.

Allen is a great frontcourt partner for him. Even better news.

Markannen is a great roster fit around all 3 of them too.

Tlyons said:

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Thought about this scene today.

Don’t ask.

It would be nice to have sexton this game. He gets up and plays his best against trae and he defends him well. Ahh well, on to the draft and next year. Proud of these boys. I just hope the coaching and front office makes the right moves next year to avoid being just a one hit wonder.

Cassity14 said:

Garland played his worst game in a long time.

Trae Young went superhuman.

I REALLY don’t think there’s much more to take away than that tonight.

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Coach doesn’t know how to use our players?

All4One1ForAll said:

Rubio would've been a solid +15.

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Or not, because +\- sucks as a stat.

Rubio would have played more minutes and with a wider variety of teammates.

People wanted Okoro moved to the bench, so he was, and the bench happened to get torched tonight. Low and behold, the +\- of guys who were on the floor as the bench got torched isn’t good.

It just so happens that that stretched aligned a lot with Young heaving and hitting all over the floor. Garland checked back in after the damage had been done.

JBB is what he is. Always find it funny how most say coaching doesn’t matter in the NBA, players do, yet every coach we have from Mike Brown to Ty Lue to JBB is the boards whipping boy.

Also, the Lauri slander in here is just weird and misplaced . Guy was a stud for the most part tonight.

Garland, as much as we all love him, was really fucking bad. We wouldn’t have been here without him but we didn’t advance tonight because of him. Delon Wright shut him down. That hurts to type.

LeVert had a few moments and played hard on D, but overall was brain dead from a basketball IQ standpoint.

Cavs didn’t take advantage on offense of the size advantage down low once Capela got hurt. Instead opted to dribble out the clock and throw up some garbage contested 3.

Lastly, refs did us no favors, as usual it seemed this season. That flagrant taken off the board before the half and the DG 3 pointer that was taken away loomed large at the end there. Very likely may have even been the difference.

Cavs finished 8th. Should have been a playoff team. Deserved to be a playoff team. This play in tournament made sense last year with the shortened Covid season but not this year. After 82 games you shouldn’t need a play in tournament to determine the final seeds. The 82 games did that. Whatever, I’m mostly just salty, but it only exists for the NBA to draw more eyeballs and make more money. Meanwhile, we lose a playoff appearance because of those reasons.

Headed to noble beast to get smashed.

In case any of you fucks want to meet

ice cream man said:

Coach doesn’t know how to use our players?

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What did he do tonight that you wished was different?

I though he picked the correct starting lineup. Did you disagree?

I’d rather have anyone on the team out there over Osman. I think it’s laughable hindsight to have wanted him out there tonight.

He didn’t play Stevens. Oh well.

What did he do so badly with rotations?