Game Thread 2020-21 Season | Game #25 | Cavs @ Suns | February 8, 2021

[Rich]

Booker is having a down year offensively.

I expect him to completely light us up though, the way we've been defending.

 

[Wham with the Right Hand]

I haven't seen former #1 overall pick Deandre Aybar play but here's a critique of his performance in last night's win over Boston from arizonasports.com:

Ayton’s perplexing play reached a boiling point in the fourth quarter. Possessions that include Ayton showing bad hands, missing bunnies or getting lost defensively off the ball outside of pick-and-roll coverage have trended back upward in his third season. That’s after he got better at that stuff throughout his rookie season.

 

[Wham with the Right Hand]

Allen and Drummond are worthless together on the offensive end. Neither is a threat from more than 8 feet and neither can dribble, meaning all they do is gum up the lane, getting into each other’s way, and making our perimeter players do what they do poorly - shoot contested 3’s.

I don't agree. Allen can hit the 15' jumper from the free throw line consistently. He and Drummond can do some high-low.

No Chris Paul? That could be significant.

 

[Alec]

Cavs may be the worst team in basketball right now.

Yep

 

[red.]

They need to keep the ball in Garland hands. Sexton is a scorer. Let him score. How hard is it to get it?

 

[red.]

Garland with the Oop.

 

[2 For The Brew]

They need to keep the ball in Garland hands. Sexton is a scorer. Let him score. How hard is it to get it?

If they keep the ball in Garland’s hands how is Sexton supposed to score?

 

[Dr No]

We need to abuse Kaminsky. He is really bad on d.

 

[daddywags]

Looks like we get the bad Drummond tonight.

 

[roozy]

Sexton has no awareness defensively, constantly lost.

 

[red.]

If they keep the ball in Garland’s hands how is Sexton supposed to score?

Running plays for him to get open? Sexton can play off ball and get to his spots. What don’t you get?

 

[Rich]

This is pathetic defense.

Sorry, Garland and Sexton are giving shit for effort on that end. Just putrid.

 

[ice cream man]

Definitely seems like it’s our game to lose and we’re already doing our best to lose it

 

[daddywags]

Pretty much everybody is playing crappy defense on both teams.

 

[Rich]

Sexton is just randomly leaving shooters. Garland is giving a half-assed effort in transition.

These two dudes need to look in the mirror and take some pride.