Game 59: Cavs @ Celtics 2/28/2025

JujitsuFlip · Post #2 » by **JujitsuFlip** » Fri Feb 28, 2025 2:18 am

Sorry, couldn't wait until tomorrow. I was so amped for last Friday but i think i may be even more excited for this one.

This is the 1st game against Boston, regular season or playoffs that the Cavs are fully healthy since March of 2023. That was prior to Jrue and KP joining their team. White was still coming off the bench for random games back then too.

Having Wade, Hunter, Strus, Okoro, and Green available for this one should be helpful.

JujitsuFlip · Post #3 » by **JujitsuFlip** » Fri Feb 28, 2025 2:27 am

Celtics have a couple questionable tags for tomorrow night.

Brown with the thigh bruise he suffered earlier in the week.

Jrue with mallet finger (whatever that is).

Kornet for personal reasons.

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Torrey Craig was DNP-CD last game too, not sure what that was about.

Post #4 » by **ijspeelman** » Fri Feb 28, 2025 3:40 am

JujitsuFlip wrote:Celtics have a couple questionable tags for tomorrow night.

Brown with the thigh bruise he suffered earlier in the week.

Jrue with mallet finger (whatever that is).

Kornet for personal reasons.

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Torrey Craig was DNP-CD last game too, not sure what that was about.

Hope everyone is healthy. I just want to see the Cavs win, no excuses

Post #5 » by **ijspeelman** » Fri Feb 28, 2025 3:40 am

Also, super excited to be at this one. I'll send some photos as I always do

JujitsuFlip · Post #6 » by **JujitsuFlip** » Fri Feb 28, 2025 7:22 am

ijspeelman wrote:Also, super excited to be at this one. I'll send some photos as I always do

Oh yeah, i forgot you live up in Boston now. My former co-worker lives in NH and was gonna make the drive down but plans got changed.

Be safe and enjoy!!

JujitsuFlip · Post #7 » by **JujitsuFlip** » Fri Feb 28, 2025 8:12 pm

ijspeelman wrote:
JujitsuFlip wrote:Celtics have a couple questionable tags for tomorrow night.

Brown with the thigh bruise he suffered earlier in the week.

Jrue with mallet finger (whatever that is).

Kornet for personal reasons.

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Torrey Craig was DNP-CD last game too, not sure what that was about.

Hope everyone is healthy. I just want to see the Cavs win, no excuses

Jrue has been ruled out.

KP was added to the injury report with an illness (same reason he missed Tuesday, despite playing Wednesday).

Brown is still questionable but was active in shoot around.

No new news in Kornet.

Post #8 » by **ijspeelman** » Fri Feb 28, 2025 9:25 pm

The Cleveland Cavaliers have no injuries to report for tomorrow night against the Boston Celtics.

For the third time this season, they will have their full rotation available.

https://bsky.app/profile/dannycunningham.bsky.social/post/3lj6wz4mu3s2d

JujitsuFlip · Post #9 » by **JujitsuFlip** » Fri Feb 28, 2025 11:08 pm

JujitsuFlip wrote:
ijspeelman wrote:
JujitsuFlip wrote:Celtics have a couple questionable tags for tomorrow night.

Brown with the thigh bruise he suffered earlier in the week.

Jrue with mallet finger (whatever that is).

Kornet for personal reasons.

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Torrey Craig was DNP-CD last game too, not sure what that was about.

Hope everyone is healthy. I just want to see the Cavs win, no excuses
Jrue has been ruled out.

KP was added to the injury report with an illness (same reason he missed Tuesday, despite playing Wednesday).

Brown is still questionable but was active in shoot around.

No new news in Kornet.

KP has been ruled out.

Kornet will play.

No official news on Brown yet.

Edit: Brown is active.

JujitsuFlip · Post #10 » by **JujitsuFlip** » Sat Mar 1, 2025 12:23 am

Headed to the sports book now to watch this one, go Cavs!

Post #11 » by **ijspeelman** » Sat Mar 1, 2025 12:35 am

JujitsuFlip · Post #12 » by **JujitsuFlip** » Sat Mar 1, 2025 12:55 am

Getting smacked 25-3, should maybe rotate in some other guys lol

Post #13 » by **jbk1234** » Sat Mar 1, 2025 1:14 am

The Celtics have no fear of Mobley on the defensive end.

Post #14 » by **jbk1234** » Sat Mar 1, 2025 1:46 am

If the Celtics are going to put Tatum on Allen can I at least get an entry pass to Allen on the block.

afarmenian · Post #15 » by **afarmenian** » Sat Mar 1, 2025 1:54 am

Not for one second have I thought that the Celtics weren't better than us but man I just don't understand why we continue to get absolutely smacked around by them.

they have no fear and they absolutely turn it up several notches against us of all teams.

it's very very demoralizing because I don't think they're that much better than us but the results are what they are.

afarmenian · Post #16 » by **afarmenian** » Sat Mar 1, 2025 3:00 am

Well about that

Post #17 » by **ijspeelman** » Sat Mar 1, 2025 3:24 am

Celtics tried hunting Allen all night so Atkinson pulled him before the half and a majority of the 4th.

One thing I did not love was him relying on no Mobley or Allen during a portion of the final 5 minutes. I understood why and it was bold, but I didn’t love it and on those few possessions it didn’t work (not that it can’t).

To start 3-25 and end on top is amazing especially after so many large Celtics runs to try to keep it out of reach. I’ll have to rewatch the game later after I collect myself lol

Great game

JujitsuFlip · Post #18 » by **JujitsuFlip** » Sat Mar 1, 2025 3:38 am

After spotting them 20 points, I'm surprised we won. That was fun.

I can't decide if they would be harder to beat with Jrue and KP or not.

JonFromVA · Post #19 » by **JonFromVA** » Sat Mar 1, 2025 5:07 am

ijspeelman wrote:Celtics tried hunting Allen all night so Atkinson pulled him before the half and a majority of the 4th.

One thing I did not love was him relying on no Mobley or Allen during a portion of the final 5 minutes. I understood why and it was bold, but I didn’t love it and on those few possessions it didn’t work (not that it can’t).

To start 3-25 and end on top is amazing especially after so many large Celtics runs to try to keep it out of reach. I’ll have to rewatch the game later after I collect myself lol

Great game

Not only was Kenny going deep in to the rotations, he was experimenting with different looks. Better to figure stuff now, then once we're playing them for everything (assuming we do meet).

Mitchell did play 35 minutes for just the 11th time this season.

I do wonder why the Celtics went away from isolating on Garland. Maybe it got too boring.

JujitsuFlip · Post #20 » by **JujitsuFlip** » Sat Mar 1, 2025 1:23 pm

JujitsuFlip wrote:After spotting them 20 points, I'm surprised we won. That was fun.

I can't decide if they would be harder to beat with Jrue and KP or not.

What i mean by that, is did we take their best bunch? It seemed like the Celtics really wanted that game.

It didn't matter who we had on Tatum or Brown, we could not stop them. Some guys were having more success than others.