Official Game Thread: Cavaliers at Hawks

[kg01]

3 minutes ago, High5 said:

Frankly we don’t play good or aggressive enough defense to be in a position to foul in a lot of situations. Meanwhile they had Okoro riding Trae at half court. So I think it’s mostly sour grapes.

Haha, hard to get called for fouls on missed rotations and general malaise on D. 

Also it amazes me how fans/players suggest the way to defend Trae is to up the physicality ... then complain when they get called for fouls.

Like, you can't have both.  We gonna rough 'im up ... but we not foulin'

No, doesn't work that way.

[Final_quest]

28 minutes ago, kg01 said:

I missed the game.  Any meat to the complaints of Cavs fans about us getting a favorable whistle?

Trae got a couple more calls than usual.  It wasn’t crazy.  I think all it takes is one questionable call in his favor that sends people over the edge.  
 

Of course there was the usual moments where Trae gets hacked on a jumper, no whistle, and he has to pass or shoot before landing on his feet again.  Clear fouls that don’t get called.  
 

The refs did not steal the game.  

[marco102]

32 minutes ago, Final_quest said:

Trae got a couple more calls than usual.  It wasn’t crazy.  I think all it takes is one questionable call in his favor that sends people over the edge.  
 

Of course there was the usual moments where Trae gets hacked on a jumper, no whistle, and he has to pass or shoot before landing on his feet again.  Clear fouls that don’t get called.  
 

The refs did not steal the game.  

@kg01 when the Cavs fans complain just show them this foul on OO. 

 

[macdaddy]

1 hour ago, kg01 said:

I missed the game.  Any meat to the complaints of Cavs fans about us getting a favorable whistle?

That's crazy.  I generally think most games have bad calls that go both ways.   This one seemed mostly bad calls in favor of the Cavs in my opinion but maybe i just ignored the bad Hawks ones.   I will say that i don't think we should have won the challenge.  I guess i can see the logic but to me if you slide in front of a guy who's already launched to the basket that's a block.  Other than that i didn't see any other egregious ones in our favor.

Rondo definitely should have gotten called for being on Trae's back but he took a back to the jaw so i guess there's that.

And why isn't BG playing?  Rondo is terrible.   

[kg01]

24 minutes ago, marco102 said:

@kg01 when the Cavs fans complain just show them this foul on OO. 

 

This one is in my back pocket for when the guy responds to my incredulity at his suggestion that 'the league' has decided to help the Hawks.  Like who thinks that even?

[macdaddy]

1 minute ago, kg01 said:

This one is in my back pocket for when the guy responds to my incredulity at his suggestion that 'the league' has decided to help the Hawks.  Like who thinks that even?

Just watch Smart's flailing in the last game and see if the league is helping us.