Official Game Thread: Cavaliers at Hawks

[benhillboy]

Delon rarely complains that had to be all ball

[Final_quest]

Trae is really feeding Hunter tonight. 

[terrell]

Capela.. smh

[TheNorthCydeRises]

Marcus Smart just hurt his leg.  Don't know how serious, but he couldn't walk off the floor.

Celtics killing the Sixers right now, but Smart is the key to their defense.

 

Good shot Gallo.  He can make open 3s.

Replay shows it was Smart's ankle.

LOL . . and he's on the FT line shooting FTs

[TheNorthCydeRises]

Red hot Trae . . . but Cavs still right there.

[terrell]

Bogi has played good help side defense tonight, but other than that... Defense is optional..lol

2 minutes ago, TheNorthCydeRises said:

Red hot Trae . . . but Cavs still right there.

We gotta pick up the defense, or Trae can go for 60 and it might not matter...smh

[hawkman]

Mobley is a handful for Capela to deal with.

[TheNorthCydeRises]

USC's guards must've been straight trash, when Okongwu and Mobley played together.

Or did they play together?

[hawkman]

Just now, TheNorthCydeRises said:

USC's guards must've been straight trash, when Okongwu and Mobley played together.

Or did they play together?

No. They just missed each other.

[h4wkfan]

This game may not be a great example, but has anyone noticed on the PNR with trae this year, it feels like he is way more frequently pulling it out off the switch and trying to go 1 on 1 vs forcing the issue and driving with the roll man?

 

Probably remembering wrong, but it feels like he’s trying to do way more 1v1 work than last year. 

[terrell]

Another halftime lead.. Can they can finish it? No 3rd qtr blues please...

[Final_quest]

Danilo is making impact tonight.

[Diesel]

Can we sign Torch as our BU PG??  She got Handles. 

[Diesel]

Hustle Squad does it again!!!

Let's keep it up. 

[terrell]

13 minutes ago, TheNorthCydeRises said:

Marcus Smart just hurt his leg.  Don't know how serious, but he couldn't walk off the floor.

Celtics killing the Sixers right now, but Smart is the key to their defense.

 

Good shot Gallo.  He can make open 3s.

Replay shows it was Smart's ankle.

LOL . . and he's on the FT line shooting FTs

Losing Drummond and Curry is gonna hurt Philly..

[benhillboy]

Love that last play by Trae.  Just getting off the ball for 3 seconds and spacing a couple steps led to the bad close out and his driving lane.  Him playing off a little more would lead to some high quality two man play between he and Huerter.  I think he needs to look to drive even more he’s so fearless in there.

For some reason his bounce pass frequency has been lower of late compared to his vintage play where he was arguably the best ever, or at least most creative. That bounce to Capela was a welcome sight.  He used it as a counter to Bigs anticipating the lob with outstanding effect, I’d love to see him get back to that.  Way too many lobs broken up in recent memory.

[JayBirdHawk]

11 minutes ago, h4wkfan said:

This game may not be a great example, but has anyone noticed on the PNR with trae this year, it feels like he is way more frequently pulling it out off the switch and trying to go 1 on 1 vs forcing the issue and driving with the roll man?

 

Probably remembering wrong, but it feels like he’s trying to do way more 1v1 work than last year. 

That is Nate's offense having Trae attack the mismatch.  We are playing less PnR lob/pass this year unfortunately.

[TheNorthCydeRises]

Trae is like . . . "I need to get Okoro out of this game right quick."

[hawkman]

Trae is working Okoro. I'm not sure why the Cavs insist on keeping him on him.

[TheNorthCydeRises]

Huerter hit an open jumper.