2023-24 Season | Game #17 | Raptors @ Cavs | Nov. 26, 2023 | 7:30 p.m.

Uh oh, Darius got 41 minutes so the minutes police will be making arrests.

cabs said:

29-6 freethrows at home with 2 being take foul free throws is an instant please explain from the NBA

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JBB's fault. Of course.

cabs said:

29-6 freethrows at home with 2 being take foul free throws is an instant please explain from the NBA

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Not really... watching the game I didn't notice the FT disparity at all until the broadcast mentioned it in the 4th. This didn't seem like the refs' fault. We just weren't playing that type of game.

41 minutes is better than 0 minutes!

I mean, we did foul quite a bit if you take the Homer glasses off for a sec.

The good:

-Garland being Garland

-Mobley is now a full week into looking confident from 12-15 feet. That’s massive.

-Strus is phenomenal. Niang is a nice bench piece

-I thought Mitchell actually fit in with the starters tonight. Game was off, but he had 17 FGAs which I was surprised

-Allen looks much more like his 21-22 self. The bounce is back. He always appeared to be laboring last season.

The bad:
-No CPJ, which meant more no point guard lineups. Mitchell/LeVert didn’t work. Mitchell/Okoro is the worst possible choice. JB has GOT to see that his team needs a true point guard on the floor at all times.

-LeVert’s 3 point shot has regressed to the mean this season. With CPJ’s emergence as a rotational piece and Okoro looking like he can impact the game when on the floor with the right people around him, Caris is back to looking like the odd man out to me. Ben told us they signed him to trade him. I hope that proves to be true. I’d rather have his minutes split between Porter and Okoro and I think it would be wonderous for everyone’s production.

-Late game execution was still spotty. The Allen alley-pop was pure luck. Garland got to the rim for a good finish without turning it over finally, however, and the short roll into big-big lob worked great.

Overall I think this is the swingy team we’ll get all season. They won’t win 50 this year, but they’ll win games and lose games that both surprise you. I still think the starting 5 is magical in spurts, like the first quarter tonight. We’ve yet to see that group look great on both ends simultaneously, and we’ve yet to see the Cavs play 4 really strong quarters in the same game imo.

This thread is pure toxicity. If the team is losing or the game is in doubt the comments run 95% negative, some of them bordering on venomous.

There's a minority of people here who know basketball (and I don't consider myself one, I'm just a fan), and there are a minority who comment with legit criticisms of the coach and players. The majority just seem to be here to vent, to hate on players, and to trash players. Real Cavs Fans my ass. I'm ready to check the fuck out.

NtG said:

Not really... watching the game I didn't notice the FT disparity at all until the broadcast mentioned it in the 4th. This didn't seem like the refs' fault. We just weren't playing that type of game.

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i dont agree with that

The problem isn’t Garland 41 minutes… it’s Garland 41 mins and Porter 0 mins

CLEfan330 said:

I don’t give a shit if they won or not…no excuse not to keep CPJ incorporated in the rotation. It’s insane

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Our coach would struggle to beat a box of rocks in checkers…

bushwick_bill said:

I had a pretty interesting day today I will take this W to cap the day off... @The Oi lol

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@bushwick_bill is the Mayor of Sesame Street.

In the last week he has saved a baby that fell in the street and a dog that was run over by a car.

He has the receipts.

100% serious trade (no it’s not cuz I’ve been drinking since the Browns debacle). Would the Houston Rockets entertain trading like Jabari Smith, Eason, and some picks for Mitchell? Let’s get crazy!

buzzdog said:

This thread is pure toxicity. If the team is losing or the game is in doubt the comments run 95% negative, some of them bordering on venomous.

There's a minority of people here who know basketball (and I don't consider myself one, I'm just a fan), and there are a minority who comment with legit criticisms of the coach and players. The majority just seem to be here to vent, to hate on players, and to trash players. Real Cavs Fans my ass. I'm ready to check the fuck out.

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I mean welcome to a game thread… that’s what this is. Not really the place for great analysis…

buzzdog said:

This thread is pure toxicity. If the team is losing or the game is in doubt the comments run 95% negative, some of them bordering on venomous.

There's a minority of people here who know basketball (and I don't consider myself one, I'm just a fan), and there are a minority who comment with legit criticisms of the coach and players. The majority just seem to be here to vent, to hate on players, and to trash players. Real Cavs Fans my ass. I'm ready to check the fuck out.

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This is a game thread man.

Imagine what you’d hear if you were in a bar during a game. It’s pretty much that.

Lower your expectations in these.

2 For The Brew said:

Nice comeback win. I didn’t think we had a chance to comeback without Dean Wade but we did come back. Good thing we did comeback or comeback would have come back to lecture us on the importance of defensive play.

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We actually did play defense tonight for a change.