Game Thread | 2020-21 Season | Game #56 | Cavs @ Bulls | April 17, 2021

[Rich]

I've pretty much already had my fill with Love, though.

The ball movement may be better, but he's fucking terrible.

He can't move. He doesn't hustle. And his shooting isn't close to what it once was.

Play Wade and just let whatever happens happen.

 

[jhernjh]

Cavs with some bad D at the end after getting it down to 3 points. Love cheated/helped on D & his man drained nailed those 3’s. But the offense had some fluid movements with Garland moving the ball for longer stretches. The kids are young and hopefully this is one of the many lessons to being a better team.

 

[Rich]

People need to stop with the SExton and Garland shooting numbers for a bit.


I don't know if people understand what the Cavs are asking them to do with a roster that can't shoot the fucking basketball.


Love is awful. Allen isn't a shooter. Nance won't shoot open 3s. Okoro won't either and isn't good at it. Delly is probably the worst shooter in the entire league.


Essentially, Garland and Sexton have to do all of the playmaking AND all of the spot up shooting too.

They're the only two willing to take AND make them in any consistent basis.


FOr hte love of god if we don't draft someone willing to shoot the ball from 3 I'll burn this mother down.

 

[red.]

Dont just post his splits,post his 9/21 from the field since everyone wants to do that for Sexton..

You’re overly emotional. Did I post anything regarding Collin Sexton? Don’t quote me with foolishness.

You may have to get put on ignore. The way you cry when someone discuss Sexton is unhealthy and I’m tired of reading it. Garland gets shitted on with zero kudos when he does good. Spare me.

 

[KilgoreTrout]

Wait,the bench gets outscored 45-15 but it's Love and Sexton that loss the game...

Yes.

 

[Rodzilla]

Wait,the bench gets outscored 45-15 but it's Love and Sexton that loss the game...

the bench only got 16 shots of the basketball compared to the 35 on the other side, this is a classic case of blaming the victims

i guess thats one way to avoid blame, sexton should go even further and take 40 shots next game so that low brainwave people can point to how he is not getting any help scoring ("the bench only scored 7pts and you are blaming sexton who scored 40pts")

 

[KilgoreTrout]

People need to stop with the SExton and Garland shooting numbers for a bit.


I don't know if people understand what the Cavs are asking them to do with a roster that can't shoot the fucking basketball.


Love is awful. Allen isn't a shooter. Nance won't shoot open 3s. Okoro won't either and isn't good at it. Delly is probably the worst shooter in the entire league.


Essentially, Garland and Sexton have to do all of the playmaking AND all of the spot up shooting too.

They're the only two willing to take AND make them in any consistent basis.


FOr hte love of god if we don't draft someone willing to shoot the ball from 3 I'll burn this mother down.

I’m more upset about the Love shooting and the Sexton turnovers. Sexton is a rotten ball-handler. He’s not a combo-guard; he’s a dwarf shooting guard.

Garland needs to run the offense. Sexton can try to score. Love can fuck right off. He’s stealing money.

 

[Rich]

the bench only got 16 shots of the basketball compared to the 35 on the other side, this is a classic case of blaming the victims

i guess thats one way to avoid blame, sexton should go even further and take 40 shots next game so that low brainwave people can point to how he is not getting any help scoring ("the bench only scored 7pts and you are blaming sexton who scored 40pts")

Delly was -14 in 10 minutes and teams aren't even guarding him anymore as he can't make any open jumper from anywhere on the court.

He's LITERALLY THE WORST JUMP SHOOTER IN THE NBA.

He's washed. Go be sad about it somewhere else.

 

[Rich]

And Allen got absolutely worked all night by Vucevic.

 

[Rodzilla]

Delly was -14 in 10 minutes and teams aren't even guarding him anymore as he can't make any open jumper from anywhere on the court.

He's LITERALLY THE WORST JUMP SHOOTER IN THE NBA.

He's washed. Go be sad about it somewhere else.

if you want to be fair then lets talk about delly +/- all the time and not only when it is in the minus, i had this same exact problem with bucks fans

he is now -4 on the season, i think he is still in the plus over the last 2 seasons, so my theory is the leakage is coming from somewhere else, sexton is -60 since delly returned and has had a couple of -31 games this season, so lets start there

 

[Rich]

if you want to be fair then lets talk about delly +/- all the time and not only when it is in the minus, i had this same exact problem with bucks fans

he is now -4 on the season, i think he is still in the plus over the last 2 seasons, so my theory is the leakage is coming from somewhere else, sexton is -60 since delly returned and has had a couple of -31 games this season, so lets start there

Give it about 2 more weeks and get back to me on the +/-.


No one is going to guard that man anytime he's in the game anymore. Took a few games to figure that out, and now they have.

He'll be completely unplayable going forward. Tony Allen level jump shooting only w/o the size and athletic ability to defend.


This is it for him.

 

[dartandbeer]

I think dellys done boys.

 

[Rich]

I think dellys done boys.

He's done.

Like maybe you get a lazy team in the regular season who doesn't pay attention to the scouting report anymore, but anyone else? He's done. Just play passing lanes and let him shoot whatever shot he wants to from where ever he wants to.

 

[dartandbeer]

He's done.

Like maybe you get a lazy team in the regular season who doesn't pay attention to the scouting report anymore, but anyone else? He's done. Just play passing lanes and let him shoot whatever shot he wants to from where ever he wants to.

Happy for him to be third string and coach. That 2 pt shooting around the basket tonight was awful. Not nba standard at all. Looks old and slow.

 

[Wham with the Right Hand]

Delly is done and I suspect Love is done, too. He was 2-for-10 on 3's tonight, and on most of those misses he was wide open. I get that he's lost a step and what little vertical jump he once had. But how do you lose your ability to knock down open 3's? If anything you should be better because that's all you got left.

Love is 3-for-17 over the last two games on 3-point attempts. Every miss is short and hits the front of the rim. Is he ever going to learn to put more air under his shots? I'm so sick of seeing that flat shot bang off the front of the rim.

The key was when Love had an uncontested 3 to tie the game at 96 with 2:45 to go and bricked it. Markkanen then hit a 3, Sexton tried to dribble through the entire Bulls team and lost the ball, then Vucevic knocked down another 3 and it was Bulls by nine with 1:49 to go and that was the game.

Once again the Cavs' bench was dominated by the opponents' bench. I don't know why Wade didn't play. The Cavs' bench had 15 points in 72 minutes. Prince is the only guy who doesn't need an invitation to shoot. The rest of them play hot potato with the ball until the shot clock is expiring and Sexton or Garland has to force up a bad shot.

Allen had no clue as to how to stop Vucevic who had 25 points on 10-for-17.

Like I said in the game preview, the Cavs had everything going their way, especially LaVine being out and the Bulls on the second night of a back-to-back and having lost five straight. Which almost always means they play like crap and lose. That held true tonight as I predicted.