Game 44: Cleveland vs. Minnesota

[m2002brian]

Thank you Portland

[younggunsmn]

Man that was awesome to see us guarding like that on the perimeter against 2 great scorers.
Ant especially. We need to bottle that and bring it every night.

Luka needs some regular minutes. He brings A+ effort and we could really have used that interior scoring in the Detroit game where they kept forcing us into so many bad perimeter shots.

Naz: Are we seeing his further evolution? 2 nasty dunks in traffic, the athleticism is so much better from when he first entered the league. If he could rebound a little better defensively he'd be a no doubter as a starting 5. Loved the effort tonight.

Rivers and Anderson: When these guys are on the floor the team plays so much more together on both ends.
I underestimated the value of adding these 2 veterans at the time of their signing.

Jaden: Love the D, just has got to learn to stay out of foul trouble. There is a lot of untapped potential there offensively too.

Cleveland: Like their depth, great bench mob with Ricky, Kevin, and LaVert. Mobley is a good role player, not the star some make him out to be. Mitchell looks like a better shooter than when in Utah, Wolves just did a great job on him tonight.
Cleveland needs a Korver-esque knockdown shooter at the 3 to go with those 2 rolling bigs.

Liked the 4th quarter lineups from Finch, especially the no DLo part.
Last year took a bit for him to find a place for Vando, hopefully this year he will be able to find lineups that work.
It's going to be a big change when we get KAT back and he has to slip into the position Slo-Mo is now playing most of the time defensively. I hope he is watching closely.

[shangrila]

Respectfully, this is an insane take.

Garza too

That goes without saying.


G.O.A.T.

That jawline, my god.

He's basically that chad meme come to life.

[Neeva]

I wondered why Luka barely played the last few games, he needs to play more.

[TwolvesFanRome]

ARRRRROOOOOOOOOOO!

[Guidus88]

Iconic win!

B2B against full squad cavs!

It’s clear that Ant+ kat are enough as offensive powers…we need high IQ role players such as Prince and SloMo.

[thinktank]

Iconic win!

B2B against full squad cavs!

It’s clear that Ant+ kat are enough as offensive powers…we need high IQ role players such as Prince and SloMo.

But KAT didn’t play.

When the defense was so good.

Know what I’m sayin. We need KAT to play DEFENSE like Slo-Mo. That’s a HUGE ask.

[Dalvin]

Aaaaarrrroooooo!!!! That was great game to watch! Leaving the detroit game out, they could've been riding a long winning streak already. I'm ok if they only lose to the Pistons and beat all the other teams
They even won after trailing at the end if the 3rd quarter!

[TimberKat]

Iconic win!

B2B against full squad cavs!

It’s clear that Ant+ kat are enough as offensive powers…we need high IQ role players such as Prince and SloMo.

But KAT didn’t play.

When the defense was so good.

Know what I’m sayin. We need KAT to play DEFENSE like Slo-Mo. That’s a HUGE ask.

DLo only played 21 mins with worst +/- of the game. He needs to step up before Towns. Just wondering if anyone has advance stats that shows if he is a real positive player with his silly turnovers, defense mis assignments and quick miss 3s. I hope KAT is picking up the chess moves of defense while sitting on the bench. It's also interesting that we consider Prince a high IQ player. I always thought he was fairly average in the category.