Cavs vs. Pacers - 2018 NBA Playoffs 1st Round

[KilgoreTrout]

I can’t wait for lue to trot out a Perkins TT Jeff green lineup.

Perk needs to F some mofos UP.

 

[billmac91]

I can’t stand our organization....

If there was ever a time to just start LeBron at PG and go extra athletic with wings it’d be tonight.

But alas.......

 

[FrontPageNews]

I can’t stand our organization....

If there was ever a time to just start LeBron at PG and go extra athletic with wings it’d be tonight.

But alas.......

PG Lebron is a turnover machine. It doesn’t make sense but it happens every time.

 

[shoes22]

Game 5 will be on Wednesday, 7 PM on TNT. Schedule in the OP has been updated accordingly.

 

[Jscc]

I can’t wait for lue to trot out a Perkins TT Jeff green lineup.

I truly believe he is trying to get fired.

 

[Jscc]

Really George hill

Biggest game of th season and you’re sitting out

They don’t make them like they used to

Lue's incompetence making the atmosphere toxic and uninspiring each other right on cue.

 

[inliner311]

I truly believe he is trying to get fired.

George Hill isn't able to play so it's either Perkins or Okaro White. I don't think Okaro White is fully recovered from his broken foot. At least we can put Perkins in to set a hard screen or foul hard and get ejected.

 

[Heej]

Damn man no George Hill and playing TT instead is a recipe for disaster. We literally need LeBron to save us tonight holy fuck this is bad. If there was any game we badly need our shooters to regress to the mean and drop 120 on these cats it's tonight

 

[Thunder]

Hope they start going down for Korver soon...he’s been wide open and is 0-4 from 3.

 

[Cavsfan1985]

Why did LJ start the 2nd?

 

[Benedict_Boozer]

Game 5 will be on Wednesday, 7 PM on TNT. Schedule in the OP has been updated accordingly.

This is good. Lebron will be rested and come out guns blazing in a pivotal game.

 

[Stark]

Game #5 adjustments (assuming Hill will play):

• Don't run LeBron and JR the first 12 minutes of the game. Get them some rest at about the three minute mark. Those two guys are too damn old to play at a playoff level for that long of a period. You can see them both start breaking down towards the end of the first quarter every game.
• Play more Larry Nance. It's simple. Love has been bad, Nance has not. Make the switch.
• Keep getting Korver more open looks. He's been good in both our victories, and we need him to keep playing like that if we want a chance. He'll hit some, and he'll miss some. He did a good job on Bojan down the stretch.
• Give Osman some spot minutes for Christ's sake. Let him spell LeBron for three minutes at the end of the first and third quarters. LeBron has been garbage in the third quarters, so no reason to play him the entire time and then continue to ride him into the fourth.
• Throw Ty Lue and Tristan off the team plane.

 

[redscoon]

It's not hard to get Lebron a couple minutes rest in the middle of quarters. Take him out during a deadball, put him back in during foul shots. Lue is just so rigid and mechanical. You don't have to sit a guy for 3-5 minutes consecutively l.

 

[Benedict_Boozer]

It's not hard to get Lebron a couple minutes rest in the middle of quarters. Take him out during a deadball, put him back in during foul shots. Lue is just so rigid and mechanical. You don't have to sit a guy for 3-5 minutes consecutively l.

His tendency to play guys 12 min+ stretches is crazy in general.

Even worse how we will get worked, he will call a timeout and come back with the exact same lineup.

Was this a Doc Rivers thing he learned from? Irritating.

 

[GStera]

Game #5 adjustments (assuming Hill will play):

• Don't run LeBron and JR the first 12 minutes of the game. Get them some rest at about the three minute mark. Those two guys are too damn old to play at a playoff level for that long of a period. You can see them both start breaking down towards the end of the first quarter every game.
• Play more Larry Nance. It's simple. Love has been bad, Nance has not. Make the switch.
• Keep getting Korver more open looks. He's been good in both our victories, and we need him to keep playing like that if we want a chance. He'll hit some, and he'll miss some. He did a good job on Bojan down the stretch.
• Give Osman some spot minutes for Christ's sake. Let him spell LeBron for three minutes at the end of the first and third quarters. LeBron has been garbage in the third quarters, so no reason to play him the entire time and then continue to ride him into the fourth.
• Throw Ty Lue and Tristan off the team plane.

Hahaha this is the GOAT post.