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ECF- Cavs vs. Raptors - Cavs Win 4-2

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Who wins?

  • Cavs in 4

    Votes: 120 42.1%

  • Cavs in 5

    Votes: 104 36.5%

  • Cavs in 6

    Votes: 40 14.0%

  • Cavs in 7

    Votes: 10 3.5%

  • Raptors in 7

    Votes: 3 1.1%

  • Raptors in 6

    Votes: 4 1.4%

  • Raptors in 5

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Raptors in 4

    Votes: 4 1.4%
  • Total voters
    285
mrbeaks said:
Cory Joseph had two prayers go in. Gotta tip your cap. Delly had more than a few of those fall for him last year.
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The falling down tear drop flip ten feet over lebron was an act of God
 
CavsSimmy said:
It really is a make or miss league.

You have all these "experts" in the media discussing Lue's rotations, not running plays for LBJ at the end of the game and what we could've done better to improve.

But apparently everyone is ignoring the fact that if the Cavs made their wide-open shots, they probably could have won this game by 10. If they had played the exact same game with the same rotation and same playbook, the result could have been significantly overturned in our favor so long as those wide-open shots we were making consistently on the 10 game win streak continued to fall.

This is on execution. We played almost identical games away to Atlanta but got away with it both times because we made our good looks.
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I think certain Cavs (Love) are missing, because they are spooked. Other Cavs (Bron) are missing, because they just can't shoot 3s anymore.
 
Lue was asked about Casey clapping when Kyrie shot his threes. Wouldn't take the bait, just shrugged it off. Good. If Casey is going to go bush league, Lue doesn't need to join him.
 
Videos from off day practice.

Lue:
http://www.nba.com/cavaliers/video/teams/cavaliers/2016/05/24/1464114835953-160524-Coach.mov-543474

Delly:
http://www.nba.com/cavaliers/video/teams/cavaliers/2016/05/24/1464113985912-160524-Delly.mov-543444


Lue was very even-keeled, as was Delly. I think the Cavs are feeling relatively good about things given how they played in the second half of Game 4. LeBron said as much after the game last night (basically said "we finally figured out how we need to play in this building" [Cavs are 0-4 in Toronto this season]). Hopefully the team comes with more intensity tomorrow night, Love isn't too hurt, and we win.

I'm a lot less upset today than I was yesterday. Love does seem to be struggling with some unnamed injury and we were much better in the second half last night.

Win Game 5 and all is well.
 
Something funny: a lot of people, myself included, were worried about the Cavs winning in Miami. It's tough to tell what would've happened in that series, but so far, it seems like the concern should've gone the other way. Cavs really struggling in Toronto this season, too.
 
Truthfully I have faith in all our guys to bounce back in this series...except for Love. If we lose, him and Tristan will be big culprits.
 
LeShaq said:
Lue was very even-keeled, as was Delly. I think the Cavs are feeling relatively good about things given how they played in the second half of Game 4. LeBron said as much after the game last night (basically said "we finally figured out how we need to play in this building" [Cavs are 0-4 in Toronto this season]). Hopefully the team comes with more intensity tomorrow night, Love isn't too hurt, and we win.

I'm a lot less upset today than I was yesterday. Love does seem to be struggling with some unnamed injury and we were much better in the second half last night.

Win Game 5 and all is well.
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Not sure how I feel about being "even keeled" at this point. We are up against the wall and have a good chance of losing everything the team has worked toward all season long if they lose tomorrow. Sure, if we win Game 5 things are looking pretty good, but if we lose it it's a disaster.
 
jking948 said:
Something funny: a lot of people, myself included, were worried about the Cavs winning in Miami. It's tough to tell what would've happened in that series, but so far, it seems like the concern should've gone the other way. Cavs really struggling in Toronto this season, too.
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I was thinking about this today after seeing all the love Biyombo has been getting. The Cavs likely would have gotten Miami sans Whitside. They still would have had the same issues guarding the Heat backcourt, but they would have been able to attack the rim at will against Miami.

Interesting how things shake out...
 
"a LeBron James basketball team is never desperate"

Therefore were not losing to some Canadians.
 
Both teams held home court. We have 2 more games at home. It seems like both teams don't play well on the road vs eachother.
 
David. said:
Yea

I'm gonna come out and keep it real.

Heavily invested in this team but I'm practically out. Between the rigging of the league and our deficiencies, I'm miserable. Sick to my stomach.

No team in the nba knows what to do with their offenses now. Jump shooting teams aren't consistent, Iso superstar teams aren't consistent. Teams with ball movement not dependent on threes aren't consistent. That's all the three different options. Shots go in or they don't. No one knows.

Players apparently can't even shoot the same in practice and in the games. Dwight is a 90% shooter in practice I hear.

The whole thing is a crapshoot. It's 250 possessions and normally comes down to less than two possessions difference.

Look at all these posts. No one knows what to do. No one knows what's going to happen. We make shots or we dont. Pop NORMALLY gets taken out by the second round. Think about that. Stacked teams with the best coach.

If you're sitting there telling me you could foresee Toronto guards missing practically everything for two rounds, and then making everything, you're full of it. There are so many variables no one can predict and it all amounts to the difference of five points at the end of the day

I'll happily eat crow but my confidence is gone
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I don't know Dave: I even wrote a post before this series about how the one matchup I was worried about was Biyambo. He definitely plays significantly better at home as an energy guy. Series has played out similar to the regular season: blowout by the Cavs at home and close games in Toronto. Add in we were due for a bad game

I'm actually pretty confident we blow them out the next two games; combo of home game and also now game tape with Biyambo in there now.
 
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