Game Thread | 2021-2022 Season | Game #47 | Thunder @ Cavs | Jan. 22, 2022

[KevinLoveFan]

I thought moms were experts in multi-tasking.

I'm on the autism spectrum, so no, sadly.

 

[Soar]

Okoro missed about 2.5 weeks due to a hamstring and he's 20-21 years old early in the season.

Rondo is 35, going on 36.

He might be out a bit longer.

No reason to panic.

 

[KevinLoveFan]

Great writeup as always. I prefer your breakdowns to shit from guys paid to do it.

We will win. This will be a hands off betting game. Too many points and we have looked spent.

Favors is exactly the type of guy who will annoy me all night. I was kind of surprised how meh he was last week. Those past their prime big body types we struggle with. Poor mans Cousins. He scared me last time and then didn’t do much. Maybe that inch or two Cousins has on him makes him less effective against our trees. As long as Allen looks like Allen, we will likely cruise.

What a sports night. Almost too much. Great UFC card. NFL playoffs and the Cavs. Wish the football or we played earlier.

Here is to getting back to normal and stopping our slump at one. OKC at home is definitely the type of team you want to see after a really bad one.

Favors has fallen almost completely out of the lineup lately, at least partly due to a back injury. Not sure we'll see him play tonight.

 

[cavsfever]

Man wtf is going on with Rondo. I think we need to do another trade for another PG. Get Joseph from Detroit.

I wanted Corey Joseph in the first place, he’s better than geriatric Rondo. But I assume we’d have to give up something real for him.

 

[buzzdog]

Patience.

 

[Heat Check]

The longer Rondo stays out, the more Goodwin solidifies his rightful place as the backup PG of this team.

 

[All4One1ForAll]

OKC is 14-31 and have lost 9 of their last 10 games. They’re on a back-to-back while we’ve had 2 days of rest. It’s a home game. If we don’t blow them out of the building, something is wrong with this team.

 

[eChameleon]

Feels like it's been forever since the last game.
But that's probably because I was watching The Price Is Right at Night on Wednesday.

 

[CanadaEh]

Alright Cavs time to lock in and beat the piss out of these guys. And win me some money!

 

[KevinLoveFan]

OKC is 14-31 and have lost 9 of their last 10 games. They’re on a back-to-back while we’ve had 2 days of rest. It’s a home game. If we don’t blow them out of the building, something is wrong with this team.

Yes. If the Cavs lose to my Drizzle tonight, I will understand all "fire him now" rage directed toward JBB's coaching, heavy criticism of JA's Zelda-playing indifferent drunkenness, Love's bad defense and demand for replacing him with Deanlyn Wadeler, Futuredome's Garland rants, complaints about Lauri's inconsistency and wussiness, frustration over Mobley for being yet another Gen Z kid who can't box out for boards, and demotion of Cedi, Okoro, and Stevens to the G League. We can also demand LeBron come back from the Lakers, Kyrie return from the Nets, and J.R. Smith from wherever J.R. Smith is these days. It will all be fair game then, and I can rub it in further by kind of being happy that OKC isn't completely awful all the time.

 

[2 For The Brew]

Yes. If the Cavs lose to my Drizzle tonight, I will understand all "fire him now" rage directed toward JBB's coaching, heavy criticism of JA's Zelda-playing indifferent drunkenness, Love's bad defense and demand for replacing him with Deanlyn Wadeler, Futuredome's Garland rants, complaints about Lauri's inconsistency and wussiness, frustration over Mobley for being yet another Gen Z kid who can't box out for boards, and demotion of Cedi, Okoro, and Stevens to the G League. We can also demand LeBron come back from the Lakers, Kyrie return from the Nets, and J.R. Smith from wherever J.R. Smith is these days. It will all be fair game then, and I can rub it in further by kind of being happy that OKC isn't completely awful all the time.

We could win by fifty and this thread would still be packed with angry takes.

If I had the time I’d make “hot take bingo” cards for the game threads. You’ve already got a bunch of items above and they’re plenty more: player x playing too many minutes, a bad inbounds play, Mobley not shooting enough threes, Okoro not rebounding while guarding a perimeter player, etc.

 

[Cement]

 

[Futuredome]

Every time Allen does something bad, they should make Link deaths noises.

 

[red.]

Mobley with the hook.

 

[tkpbrowns]

Well that was an ugly defensive set on the first 2 possessions.
3 straight layups allowed. Luck Giddey missed his layup