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Cavs vs. Pacers - 2018 NBA Playoffs 1st Round

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What will the final result be?

  • Cavs in 4

    Votes: 48 26.8%

  • Cavs in 5

    Votes: 80 44.7%

  • Cavs in 6

    Votes: 34 19.0%

  • Cavs in 7

    Votes: 8 4.5%

  • Pacerd in

    Votes: 3 1.7%

  • Pacers in 6

    Votes: 3 1.7%

  • Pacers in 5

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Pacers in 4

    Votes: 3 1.7%
  • Total voters
    179
  • Poll closed .
Real Deal said:
Terrible caculated post.

If we won the Davis sweepstakes then we definitely wouldn't have the #1 overall to select Wiggins because Kyrie and Davis would've garnered more wins than the few tanking teams.

It's cool to think back and all, but it's also depressing and we shouldn't put that evil here.
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If we managed to win a number of games, we could have landed mid lottery abd probably selected Giannis. Fucked up isn't it?
 
Lyst said:
Was excited for every game so far, but no longer. It's clear as day I'm not seeing any player on this team magically ball out like we need them to. Hill was never really a 1 or 2 or 3, just a good role playing PG. Hood has really proven nothing in his career except a 'potential', but lets be honest, does anyone see a dog in him ready to fight? No. Korver and JR will have sporadic big games but it's only like once every 6 games- so not what we need right now. Love is great, but he was soft to begin with-- add in the injuries now he's tip-toeing around the court. We need a dominant version of him, one that he cannot muster. Jeff Green is Jeff Green, i'm not going any further with him. Nance has shown some fight, but the lack of coaching, gelling and gameplanning hurts his ability to make big and consistent plays. Clarkson looks like a child in a man's game. The ONLY thing we have not seen is Cedi-- who has recently missed some huge wide open threes in games when we needed him to step up. I would personally unleash him right now, but not sure if he will be able to make a difference. Maybe have Lebron inject him with some of his extra growth hormones.
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That’s about the size of it.
 
KilgoreTrout said:
That’s about the size of it.
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Good Hill is out and Calderon is starting. We are better, more organized wit Calderon starting. He has should have been starting the whole series. Osman should be playing just because of his defense. Zizic should be getting any minutes that go to Green at center. Lue sucks
 
avs2000 said:
Good Hill is out and Calderon is starting. We are better, more organized wit Calderon starting. He has should have been starting the whole series. Osman should be playing just because of his defense. Zizic should be getting any minutes that go to Green at center. Lue sucks
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Dont get me wrong i like the idea of Zizic BUT -- this pacers team is really good at taking advantages of any defensive weaknesses. I think Korver got scored on every single time he guarded someone. I see the same thing happening with Z especially since they have some competent big guys.

This is the kind of coaching our team realllllly lacks. Tyron lue is so used to people basing their gameplan around our team that hes never had to do the reverse. Its depressing to watch a head coach in the NBA have zero idea how to make any kind of adjustments.
 
KilgoreTrout said:
It’s basically up to LeBron.

Does he want to score 46 points again? Because that’s what it will take.
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From what we've seen, the only thing that 46 points on 70% shooting guarantees is that the game will be close.
 
Hope Hill can go. Calderon and Korver in the starting lineup would be an issue.
 
Zog said:
Hope Hill can go. Calderon and Korver in the starting lineup would be an issue.
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I believe the team is ran much better with Calderon. Every time he starts it looks like a different team. I do agree that both in the lineup are trouble defensively. Its hard to play Korver against any team very athletic. Too hard for him to get his shot off against a dedicated defender and then he becomes only a defensive liability.

Then with all the issues he's got going on just isn't there mentally. Displayed by him throwing passes directly to the other team on several occasions lately. He usually has trouble on the defensive end but doesn't make blatant mistakes like he has of late
 
http://www.cleveland.com/cavs/index.ssf/2018/04/tristan_thompson_to_get_his_ch.html

Cavaliers coach Tyronn Lue intends to give Tristan Thompson his first real minutes of the 2018 playoffs tonight in Game 4 against the Pacers.

Pacers may as well just give up now. It's over

/sarcasm

Tristan may provide us with some rebounds Green can't, but what's going to happen to the overall offense with Tristan in there?

Was really hoping Cedi would get some burn tonight if Hill couldn't go.

Nope. All about loyalty and experience with Lue.

Time for Kardashian to step up.
 
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FrontPageNews said:

Lue throwing in the towel
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I just hope he realizes he can't play Nance and TT at the same time. This is really where we miss Frye or any real stretch 4/5 as a backup. We are going to lose either size or spacing. I like Nance and I hope the staff ask him to work on his 3 point shooting all summer. This current big man group as alot to be desired.

A true stretch 4 or 5 backup would make it so much easier to rotate any combination of Green, Nance, and TT.

I hope that Lue is just going to ask Nance and TT to not conserve anything and play hard for 4-5 minutes and then swap them. With how Green is playing I expect Love and Lebron to play all the PF minutes. Hopefully we get good enough play at SF from Korver, Hood, or JR when LeBron isn't playing there.
 
Stark said:
Second best player on Anthony Davis' team since he's been in the NBA:
'12-'13: Eric Gordon who played 42 games or Ryan Anderson
'13-'14: Ryan Anderson (22 games played) or Tyreke Evans
'14-'15: Tyreke Evans
'15-'16: Jrue Holiday
'16-'17: 17 games of DeMarcus Cousins
'17-'18: ruptured Achillies Boogie or Jrue Holiday, who finally, has come into his own a bit

They finally gave AD just a bit of talent this postseason, and he sweeps a Blazer team that was the one of the hottest teams in the league coming into the postseason.
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Lyst said:
Dont get me wrong i like the idea of Zizic BUT -- this pacers team is really good at taking advantages of any defensive weaknesses. I think Korver got scored on every single time he guarded someone. I see the same thing happening with Z especially since they have some competent big guys.

This is the kind of coaching our team realllllly lacks. Tyron lue is so used to people basing their gameplan around our team that hes never had to do the reverse. Its depressing to watch a head coach in the NBA have zero idea how to make any kind of adjustments.
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Seems he adjusted very well to take down the mighty Warriors after being down 1-3 to win the ship.
 
CTownSportsFan said:
Seems he adjusted very well to take down the mighty Warriors after being down 1-3 to win the ship.
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His slowness to adjust is arguably why we were in that position in the first place.

If you play that series 100 times, we would win 30-40 of them - I don't see it as the unrepeatable fluke that other teams' fans do - but in many of both the series wins and losses, we would enter game 5 at 2-2 even with Lue.

The Game 4 collapse could easily have gone the other way with better adjustments.
 
BannerYearz said:
His slowness to adjust is arguably why we were in that position in the first place.

If you play that series 100 times, we would win 30-40 of them - I don't see it as the unrepeatable fluke that other teams' fans do - but in many of both the series wins and losses, we would enter game 5 at 2-2 even with Lue.

The Game 4 collapse could easily have gone the other way with better adjustments.
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It went how it went and Lue guided the team down 1-3 to win the ship. I’m not interested in woulda coulda shoulda’s.
 
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