Game #60 | Cleveland Cavaliers (35-24) vs. Brooklyn Nets (19-41) | February 27th, 2018 @ 7:00 PM

[MirORich]

Great to see Nance hit an 17 footer and make two free throws at the end

Great to see Hood and Hill both seeming to get more comfortable at the Q

Especially good to finally have that loud hometown energy in the arena. Let’s those new guys know they’re appreciated and this crowd wants to roar for him.

 

[KilgoreTrout]

Nance with the double-double!

Hill with 26 and all the new guys in double figures.

But when you score 129 points, you shouldn’t have to eek out a win...

 

[PIP]

Hood can be LeBron pippen

That’s always been me, slim !

 

[wremy]

Imagine a lineup of Lebron, Love, Nance, Hood, Hill/Clarkson

I do every night right before bed...then I clean myself up and fall asleep

 

[red.]

Intense game. I'll take it.

 

[dark2332]

LeBron with a super humble interview with Allie.

I mean, he has a right to say what he says, but that was the biggest case of sucking your own dick that I’ve seen in awhile.

 

[Sir'Dom Pointer]

Ban him from the NBA! lol

This Nets team is terrible. Everything we did tonight was wrong.

I'm relieved beyond belief that the Cavs won this game, as I can't imagine how I would feel if they didn't. This just shouldn't be like this.

Every defensive PnR play was bad, every switch was late and uncoordinated, players were rotating to the wrong players...it was a total chaos.

There was no reason to switch the PnRs tonight as the Nets are one of the worst teams in the league in PnRs. Literally the only thing they are good at on the offensive end is shooting Spot ups in which they are ranked 4th in the league.

I have seen everything tonight. I'm traumatized and and disgusted by our game plan(or lack thereof) and execution.

Just by scouting the Nets though they should probably be the easiest teams to score against given our personnel. They can not defend off-screens to save their lives...Korver could have reached 30 points easily if we ran stagger screens for him on every possession.

I can't believe Nance took that 16 foot jumper...this requires some big fucking balls. Wow.

Actually all role players came up big tonight, so they might not be regular role players after all and might come up big when it counts in the playoffs.

I applaud the players on the floor tonight for saving the Nets pick. I salute them.

I almost had a heart attack, seriously.

 

[stoike]

Lue would find a way for Smart/Roberson/Kawhi/Draymond and Gobert to give up 120+ points.

You got me thinking...which is always dangerous, BUT; Notice how the Cavs played their two best games, especially defensively, right after the new Cavs came aboard. KNOW WHY? Because Lue did not have a chance to screw them up! They just went out there, played hard and played active defense. A few practices under Lue, and their team defense has gotten worse and worse.

Let Lue and his staff coach an NBA all-star team for a week before the All-Star game, and they could probably give up 200 points.

 

[stick]

31st time in NBA history (*in the regular season) a team lost when making 10+ threes, made 20+ free throws, and shot 53%+ from the floor.

469 teams have won under those circumstances, meaning there is a 93.8% chance of winning if a squad puts up those kind of numbers.

Brooklyn becomes just the 5th team in NBA history to lose when making 12+ threes, 23+ free throws, and 53%+ FG%. They also scored the most points in such a loss (123).

Thank you, Nets.

 

[dark2332]

You got me thinking...which is always dangerous, BUT; Notice how the Cavs played their two best games, especially defensively, right after the new Cavs came aboard. KNOW WHY? Because Lue did not have a chance to screw them up! They just went out there, played hard and played active defense. A few practices under Lue, and their team defense has gotten worse and worse.

It’s Longabardi defensively installing his shitty schemes.

But for some reason, Lue won’t let the FO axe that guy. They wanted to. Lue said he’d walk if Longo goes.

 

[Lyst]

You got me thinking...which is always dangerous, BUT; Notice how the Cavs played their two best games, especially defensively, right after the new Cavs came aboard. KNOW WHY? Because Lue did not have a chance to screw them up! They just went out there, played hard and played active defense. A few practices under Lue, and their team defense has gotten worse and worse.

This and getting introduced to Lebron's regular season "Chill Mode". What do you do when the leader of your team does not even put his hands up to defend shots right in front of him? Doesn't make you play harder defense i'll guarantee that.

 

[MirORich]

GTFO. Lue can't manage rotations to save his life. He played Korver, Nance and Hood 15 minutes straight.

He is the worst coach in the league.

Lebron put the team on his back in the last 3 minutes like it was the finals of game 7. Lue is a criminal and should be fired and banned from the NBA.

Honorable mention to Nance, Hood and Clarkson... they beat Nets and Lue.

Giving Lue praise after watching this game is comical.

You have zero objectivetivity on Lue.

I respect that you at least can intelligently illustrate some of the things you dislike about his decisions and I agree with some of them as I’ve maintained he’s an average coach who does some things well and something poorly.

But you’ve already made it clear that we could have a perfect game, and you would give ZERO percent of the credit to Lue. Which gets at a strange paradox wherein when we’re playing well it’s ALL in the players and when we’re playing poorly it’s ALL because things he did in game, in practice, or schematically.

LeBron in the post game interview even said they tried out several new things defensively, which is what you do when you have new personnel and a short amount of time to figure out what they can and can not do before you have to settle in on a more narrow plan of attack in matchup specific playoff games.

You’ll give this a disagree and suggest that I’m defending or endorsing Lue which I’m not in fact doing. I’m taking issue with how you assign responsibility for what happens on the floor, especially at this point here we’re still working in 4 new guys, defining Cedi’s role, and doing it all as we can only anticipate how Love will fit into and positively/negatively affect what we’re doing.

 

[stoike]

It’s Longabardi defensively installing his shitty schemes.

But for some reason, Lue won’t let the FO axe that guy. They wanted to. Lue said he’d walk if Longo goes.

Then, by all means, PLEASE fire Longo!

 

[MirORich]

Nm

 

[MediumBaller]

This and getting introduced to Lebron's regular season "Chill Mode". What do you do when the leader of your team does not even put his hands up to defend shots right in front of him? Doesn't make you play harder defense i'll guarantee that.

Lebron's not in chill mode anymore.