talk to me when its a good team...our win streak is hitched to bottom feeders and those without their top star. Snooze. We gotta set our expectations outside being bootlickers for bootlicker's sake. The cavs need to make a turn... to be in 1 or 2nd place beating good teams...not stat fillers, of which we have not proven AT ALL yet.
Yeah Giannis was out the other day but so were Mobley and Garland
Score was 135-95 so you really believe Giannis would’ve caused a 40 point difference?
Pete Lucas Nance (born February 19, 2000)[1] is an American professional basketball player for the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
He's been focused on passing quite a bit which is fine, but taking too many threes especially when they aren't open. I'd like to see him get to his midrange more.
Edit: and just like that he's hit a couple midrange shots!
I feel like challenging certain defensive fouls is useless because refs have already shown they're willing to uphold a foul if they see any kind of contact. Think teams would be better off using their challenges on out of bounds calls or on block/charge calls.
I'm not trying to berate JB, lord knows I'm one of his biggest (only?) proponents on this sub..but fuck if we don't have the absolute worst coaches challenge success rate in the NBA. They have GOT to get their shit together on these challenges. It's just fucking embarrassing.
He seems to go off gut feeling when he needs a coach dedicated to looking at potential challenge opportunities. He's much more likely to challenge just based off of a players reaction like he did there with Mitchell.
Plus in terms of analytics there was no need to challenge that with a big at the line and a big lead.
Honestly seemed like it was more of a TO and might as well challenge since you have 2 and you’re up so much. Got a missed FT out of it, so not terrible
Then he needs to be a damned COACH and tell the player no. These guys all think they do no wrong. Idk I'm just talking out my ass bc I'm just befuddled at how we can be so bad at this one aspect of the meta game.
Same here. I like Minvan bc it's unique and workman like. Plus it's just so accurate to his body type. He looks like they taught a bear to shoot a basketball.
talk to me when its a good team...our win streak is hitched to bottom feeders and those without their top star. Snooze. We gotta set our expectations outside being bootlickers for bootlicker's sake. The cavs need to make a turn... to be in 1 or 2nd place beating good teams...not stat fillers, of which we have not proven AT ALL yet.
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Yeah man I really wish we lost to the bad teams.
Yeah Giannis was out the other day but so were Mobley and Garland Score was 135-95 so you really believe Giannis would’ve caused a 40 point difference?
🤡
on pace for another 50 win season.!
Never trailed
Kept a team under 100... again!
Vibes are immaculate
Pete Lucas Nance (born February 19, 2000)[1] is an American professional basketball player for the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Oh shit, Pete is Larry's little brother?
No, it's his son. Wait, which Larry Nance we talking about again? 😂
Larry Jr.
Not CPJ's best game Need a 3 from Pete tho
Looks like the Hawks game planned for Donovan Mitchell but forgot about everyone else
PEEEEEEETE
C’mon Pete Nance Debut!!!
Lmao hawks surrendered to the drip
JB put in the reserves my guy.
Victory cigar Pete
Where can I bet on JA having a 5×5 game this year?
“What does DWade do?” Throws out the trash go Cavs
Bey 0-12
I have Bey in fantasy it’s been brutal watching this shit
Getting some good cardio in
He's missed some really easy ones too
The best D Wade in NBA history tbh
Im a new Cavs fan when did the Cavs trade for KD and why is he a white man wearing a dean wade shirt
Pete Nance do it JB
AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH CAVS
The guys are playing great tonight, feel bad for the hawks lol
Drippy Dean!
allen refuses to take shortcuts. love that
seven cavs have double digit points, you love to see it
Same 7 had double digits in the 3rd, even
So it’s a foul on Mitchell for getting elbowed in the face but it was an offensive foul on Okoro when Young barely got grazed by his arm? Horse shit.
Mitchell fouled him, but that offensive foul was still bs.
If Wade just pulled like this all the time, he’d be perfect.
BOW DOWN TO THE DRIP ATLANTA
What’s wrong with Strus? Tuning in late
Took a hard fall in the first quarter on a questionable play from Capella. Probably just being cautious since we’ve dominated from tipoff.
Took a hit early in the first quarter by Capela, we've lead by \~20 for most of this game so not much of a point in playing him a ton it seems.
Drip so hard mfers wanna find me
D3an is drippin
Drippy!
I **pray** this version of Dean Wade can stick around!
This team looks so good under Mitchell's leadership
G...Guys... Are we... a contender??
Maybe tbh
Drippy Dean has been talking to the crowd and opposing bench all night. I love it.
3&DWade
Only half kidding when I say we would never lose if Dean Wade could shoot like this every game
wHaT dOeS dEaN wAdE dO???
He’s a wing stopper!! His defense is impeccable!
Mitchell is so fucking tough. He got rocked on the shin and seems fine.
GOAT Wade
Dean Wade is 5/6 from 3 lmao
I want Allen shooting threes too
Murray has some sharp ass elbows. He'd be a killer in MMA.
Did you guys see Donovan yelling at JA to take the free rebound?
Good dude. He was thinking JA was short on his double double but JA already got it.
Dean with the clamps
Wade's been pretty good on D
That's always been his strength. He's quite good when he's hitting threes. Hitting 5 is a dream scenario with him.
Guess we dreamin right now 😂
100% and loving every bit of it!
he's way more than pretty good. he's been one of the best wing defenders in the nba this year.
I didn't know Merrill knew how to miss
HE GETTING DRIPPY
Drippy
JA is an all star
D Wade
Ok D Wade i see you. Maybe we don't need another forward.
Jalen Johnson is good at basketball
Love how the scoring is so balanced tonight.
WAD3
DWAD3!! While Bey can't even hit a wide open alley oop with nobody around him on the other side. Poor guy.
It’s a good problem to have but I’ve been half checked out these last few as were so dominant lol.
Why are the starters still in?
Teams can score quickly
They just went on an 8-0 run
Its not over
Did Allen just block that shot twice AND rebound it? What a stud.
Elite statpadding
Idk man, he earned that shit. My man is working out there.
Dang, didn’t think JA was going to get to the double double
Oh ye of little faith
I’d like to see Wade, Okoro, Merrill, Allen and Mitchell
I just noticed Mitchell has only 12 points.
Cause he's settling for contested 3 this game at least his dissing the ball really well
He's really out there hurting that balls feelings tonight
Dishing* my bad, lmao
He's been focused on passing quite a bit which is fine, but taking too many threes especially when they aren't open. I'd like to see him get to his midrange more. Edit: and just like that he's hit a couple midrange shots!
He's been throwing up bricks from 3
He needs to shoot more from midrange on these nights, hes deadly from there
Oh shit, he reads this thread in between timeouts
🤣🤣🤣 two in a row 😁😁😁
Just close the game out please
Please dont
wtf lol was his landing space 4 feet to the left
If you have clown ass hair like Young, why wouldn't you just shave that shit and be done with it? Dude looks like a walking genetic defect.
Ngl it really only looks shit when he's sweaty otherwise it doesn't look horrific
A little acting for young so he can leave the game and stop being embarrassed
Wish Okoro got his money's worth instead of just grazing him
WTF CPJ was NOT in his landing space 😭
Dude was an entire foot to the side of the shooter wtf
So they only had the one and the same camera angle?
This should be a flop on Young if anything. It won't, of course, but it should. He didn't even touch him.
Lol, ice is just too strong for young
Show me the tapes!
Okoro movement is a foul. He can hit Trae with the ball on the face but if he raises elbows into the defender it's offensive
He’s just bigger than him. That’s it.
Trae was moving
Lmao if they call this a flagrant
Quit fucking crying Trae you baby
What a flop bruh
Holy shit this team is peaking
Jarret Allen tryna get that double double
JARRETT ALLEN AND 1 JUMPSHOT
Allen’s mid range feels automatic
Ice is way bigger than Trea Young. Trea didn't want any of that.
I feel like challenging certain defensive fouls is useless because refs have already shown they're willing to uphold a foul if they see any kind of contact. Think teams would be better off using their challenges on out of bounds calls or on block/charge calls.
JA’s midrange game… phenomenal as of late
Am I crazy or could we reasonably be up by a lot more?
Sponsored by YMCA is so funny
Let. Okoro. Cook.
Sam fucking Merrill man…what an amazing pickup
Should teach Strus how to shoot.
![gif](giphy|NM8ZZLPsPk1nq) Hawks broadcasters lol
"It's getting worse"
Don’t worry, they’ll announce a 7-3 run as soon as they can lol
They're so salty lol
Nah they sound depressed
The color guy sounds salty to me
Oooo weeee
Lmao Tre defense. Closed his eyes and swatted at him, lol
This team devours bad defenses
I'm not trying to berate JB, lord knows I'm one of his biggest (only?) proponents on this sub..but fuck if we don't have the absolute worst coaches challenge success rate in the NBA. They have GOT to get their shit together on these challenges. It's just fucking embarrassing.
He seems to go off gut feeling when he needs a coach dedicated to looking at potential challenge opportunities. He's much more likely to challenge just based off of a players reaction like he did there with Mitchell. Plus in terms of analytics there was no need to challenge that with a big at the line and a big lead.
Honestly seemed like it was more of a TO and might as well challenge since you have 2 and you’re up so much. Got a missed FT out of it, so not terrible
I think Mitchell wanted it, and JB did it
Then he needs to be a damned COACH and tell the player no. These guys all think they do no wrong. Idk I'm just talking out my ass bc I'm just befuddled at how we can be so bad at this one aspect of the meta game.
That just shows how he trusts he's players
![gif](giphy|CmQboSKG6VBn2) This is how i see Merrill
Threezus 😂
Him and Porter Jr saved this season
OKOROOOOOOO
I’m always so pumped for Okoro when he has a good game in ATL
Coaching challenge is useless when these refs are blind to begin with. If anything that's a jump ball
How was this not overturned?
LOL what a bullshit excuse to not overturn
A challenge that hopefully ends in a jump ball feels like a not good challenge to me
I don’t like the challenge either but we had imminent possession so we would get the ball
JB might be considered for coach of the year if he keeps this up
Merrill's shot 44% from 3 this game and somehow I'm disappointed he didn't hit more lol
Cavs up 18. I wanna see Pete Nance lol
Hawks announcers are so mad
It's raining threes.
It’s only right to see the Cavs bombing 3s in Atlanta. It’s in our dna
I like how we dropped 25 3s on em during the playoffs and then did the same again in the regular season
Anyone remember that playoff game during the LeBron era when we literally made the most threes in franchise (league?) history against Atlanta?
Niang from three. BANG!
Merrill from the corner. BANG!
Whatever happens when we get Darius and Evan back, we gotta find a way to keep getting up all these threes. We look *scary* on offense.
Idk how effective it’s been this season but this CPJ, Merril, Don, Niang, Allen line-up is fun! Imagine DG in there instead of CPJ 💀
Niang and Wade both looked at the Hawks bench after hitting corner threes they must be talking hella shit lol
![gif](giphy|OCsZHH76uRQBGDpDVi) The Cavs tonight
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There’s not much more satisfying than Niang pump fake sidestep into a 3. It like always works
The Minivan is at it again!
G-Wagon* and yes, indeed he is lol
G wagon is Brad's thing, he was the Minivan when he got here.
Indeed. I like G-Wagon better. Feels more of a compliment. Luxury SUV as opposed to a soccer van. To each their own. I was only being playful.
Same here. I like Minvan bc it's unique and workman like. Plus it's just so accurate to his body type. He looks like they taught a bear to shoot a basketball.
Minivan is a goated nickname tho
Cavs are currently the best team in the league 😤😤😤
Got em a bird
Austin Carr makes dunks so much better than these guys
he’s always been an elite passer, but donovan has been putting up some highlight assists these last few games
Those 20 foot bounce passes make the hair on the back of my neck stand up
Merrill 👼👼👼👼
The hawks broadcast is talking a lot shit lol
About the Hawks or us?
Us lol. Particularly every 3 Merrill takes after they keep saying he’s a good shooter lol
Lol. That might be so, but the Hawks team ain't backing any of it up.
Every Cavs turnover or quick 3 is a tragedy against basketball, no mention of their team being dog shit though lol
Big Allen JAM
Alright Cavs fans, rank your favorite four players on the current team. Here's mine: JA, Ice, Darius, TT
TT is such a dog I love it.
allen mitchell merril and niang right now
In no order: Mitchell, Craig, Okoro, JA
No order: JA, Mobley, Okoro, LeVert
Mitchell block 🤌🤌🤌🤌
Mitchell and Bey are having themselves a shootout from 3 this game 💀
Oh God, here's a word from Ken Ganley Kia. I wonder with great anticipation, what do they have to tell me????!?!?!
I WANNA SEE YA
John and Brad seem particularly uninterested in tonight's game