2015-16 NBA Eastern Conference OFFICIAL THREAD

[TurnUpTheHeat]

Another "brilliant" 4 th qtr performance by James.
His usual stat line, but so what?

And as far as Love, yep, nice stat line but how often does he ever come up clutch in close games?

 

[TurnUpTheHeat]

James says injuries and fatigue can't be used for an excuse, while he's mentioning injuries and fatigue.

 

[WiggyRuss]

shit...i honestly fell asleep in the 1st quarter and didnt wake up until about half an hour ago....Cavs lose in Toronto?

 

[WiggyRuss]

Drake night? lol.....of course they have the Cavs on "Drake Night".

The Cavs have had problems @ Toronto....No Delly tonight? JAson Cunningham starting is less than ideal...geezus......looks like LeBron struggled from the field...6/16.....looks like Love continues to play well- 21-13 5/8 from 3....

Lowry ripped us up...not that Kyrie is GREAT at defense, but at least hes an athlete and was much improved last season- you add missing Delly too and give that job to Mo Williams and Cunningham your gonna get hurt against really good PGs like Lowry. Neither team had their center- Mozgov and Valuncuinas were both out.

Thats a pretty small Toronto team right now with no VAlunciunas- their 3 bench players they use- Petterson, Ross and Joseph- Ross and Joseph are guards- and Petterson is just 6' 9'.......wish Blatt would have given Varejao a little more run against htem.

James Jones and Jared Cunningham combined for 36 minutes....if this team is REMOTELY healthy neither one will see the court.

 

[WiggyRuss]

only problem about falling asleep from about 8 till midnight is then your up all night.....

 

[WiggyRuss]

Andre Drummond with 18 pts, 20 boards, 5 blocks vs. Whiteside- who also had a very good game at 13, 15, 3...

who was guarding Wade tonight? Prime Joe Dumars? 1/9? 2 pts? Thats the kinda game you have once in a blue moon when you start getting up there in age....

 

[WiggyRuss]

Bucks give up 129 to the Kings IN Milwaukee? thats pretty bad.

 

[Ragingcroc]

Andre Drummond with 18 pts, 20 boards, 5 blocks vs. Whiteside- who also had a very good game at 13, 15, 3...

who was guarding Wade tonight? Prime Joe Dumars? 1/9? 2 pts? Thats the kinda game you have once in a blue moon when you start getting up there in age....

KCP was guarding Wade. He is a pretty good wing defender.

Glad Drummond got some blocks. He has been really hesitant protecting the rim. He needed to be more aggressive protecting the rim.

 

[Ragingcroc]

Bucks give up 129 to the Kings IN Milwaukee? thats pretty bad.

They havent been good on d at all this year.

Still can't believe they traded Brandon Knight for Mcw

 

[DJ Fieri]

Players only meeting? LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL.

Sources: Cavs' leaders call out effort in meeting

That's never a good sign.

 

[DJ Fieri]

Since they can't add a whole lot of talent in the offeseasons now (they are in Salary Cap Hell) how long till Blatt takes the blame and fall for this?

 

[bksballer89]

Players only meeting? LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL.

Sources: Cavs' leaders call out effort in meeting

That's never a good sign.

The best part of that article was Blatt doing as he always does and making excuses for his team. Lebron on the other hand was not hearing any of those excuses. Blatt is one of the biggest excuse makers in the league. You don't bring up injuries to the public. Fans could bring it up all they want and that is fine but looks lame when a player or coach brings it up

 

[DJ Fieri]

The best part of that article was Blatt doing as he always does and making excuses for his team. Lebron on the other hand was not hearing any of those excuses. Blatt is one of the biggest excuse makers in the league. You don't bring up injuries to the public. Fans could bring it up all they want and that is fine but looks lame when a player or coach brings it up

I agree 100%.

 

[TurnUpTheHeat]

The best part of that article was Blatt doing as he always does and making excuses for his team. Lebron on the other hand was not hearing any of those excuses. Blatt is one of the biggest excuse makers in the league. You don't bring up injuries to the public. Fans could bring it up all they want and that is fine but looks lame when a player or coach brings it up

I started watching that game because the Heat game became unwatchable.

I just don't understand James' timing for these things being that he was a non factor in a tied 4th qtr game.

Raptors even made a couple nice plays defending him (even bias Cavs announcers agreed) and he chose to do his usual hand throw/argue with the refs vs hustling down and playing D.
That lead to at least 1 and1 because the others were out of position playing 4 on 5.

 

[lakersrule]

What's up with the Cavs players coming out while the Toronto dancers were still going? Seems a bit disrespectful. So does not doing the player introductions. The fans like seeing that.

 

[WiggyRuss]

KCP was guarding Wade. He is a pretty good wing defender.

Glad Drummond got some blocks. He has been really hesitant protecting the rim. He needed to be more aggressive protecting the rim.

pretty good, lol...like I said- he musta invoked the spirit of in-his-prime Joe Dumars last night.... 1/9 for 2 points for Dwade? Gonna be 34.

 

[bksballer89]

pretty good, lol...like I said- he musta invoked the spirit of in-his-prime Joe Dumars last night.... 1/9 for 2 points for Dwade? Gonna be 34.

Wade had a bad night. It happens. I would watch the game before you talk shit. That is the difference between me and you. I actually watch games when I speak about other teams. You on the other hand you don't watch any game outside of Cleveland games but run to the espn box score and make assumptions about other teams. Wade had a bad game and had really poor shot selection. KCP defense wasn't anything out of this world. Wade bad night had more to do with shitty shot selection

 

[bksballer89]

What's up with the Cavs players coming out while the Toronto dancers were still going? Seems a bit disrespectful. So does not doing the player introductions. The fans like seeing that.

Yeah it is pretty stupid. The least you could do is stay on the sidelines in that situation.

 

[TurnUpTheHeat]

Yeah it is pretty stupid. The least you could do is stay on the sidelines in that situation.

It's a total bitch move.
When you are the road team, there's pretty much a 4 minute gap between your team being introduced and the start of the game.
The first 2 minutes is the home team video, dancers, etc.., then the intros, then the 90 seconds to get ready for the opening tip.

There is no good reason to be in the way and need to stand there during that time frame.

 

[bksballer89]

It's a total bitch move.
When you are the road team, there's pretty much a 4 minute gap between your team being introduced and the start of the game.
The first 2 minutes is the home team video, dancers, etc.., then the intros, then the 90 seconds to get ready for the opening tip.

There is no good reason to be in the way and need to stand there during that time frame.

It sure helped them last night