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NinjaBro wrote:raptor jesus wrote:Can somebody tell me why Kevin Love's elbow to Derozan wasn't called a flagrant? Offensive players striking defenders w/ elbows is routinely ruled a flagrant.
valanciunas got so many flagrants for that elbow in the past
JohnPferdelack wrote:On Thursday, we will watch "Round 2": Maybe the Raptors can answer, maybe not.
But this matchup could be very entertaining^^
After watching Love for these 8 games, Im just not confident he will suddenly get hot. I hope he proves me wrong, and in that case youre right.bb22 wrote:bmurph128 wrote:It wouldnt happen for political reasons, but the same starting lineup except Thompson for Love would be great. Tristan was the only guy that could guard JV tonight.jbk1234 wrote:
I'd sit Korver and start J. Green. Not a J. Green fan for most match ups but I love him against the Raptors.
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If I'm the Cavs, I'm letting them go to JV all they want. Trading 2s for 3s is not a sustainable offense. He had a monster 3rd quarter, but the 3s by Korver were also an indirect result of JV being out there on D. If Love managed to hit anything at all from deep, JV wouldn't have even been out there.
jonjames wrote:Kyrie For Three wrote:jonjames wrote:Very disappointed by the Raps but it's only one game. Now if they lose game 2 then the series is over but if they win game 2 then all they have do is win game 3 at Cleveland to regain control of the series. They have done this many times in the past. Cleveland won but barely. They should have lost this game. No matter what happens in this series Cleveland will NOT make the NBA Finals this year. I can bet $2000 on that. If it's not Toronto it will be Philly. BOOK IT.
Seriously, don't get dramatic and do that......
I'm so confident on it that I will make a RealGM bet on anyone here regarding Cavs not making the NBA Finals. How can you watch this game and think otherwise? The Cavs last year dominated the Raptors in game 3 on their home court. This game they were losing pretty much the entire game and should have lost the game. Anyways the series is far from over so let's see what happens in the next few games. I'm confident Toronto will win this series. Cleveland's role players stepped up and made their shots (14/35 from 3 40%) and Thompson had 9 offensive rebounds. That was the difference in this game.
CobraCommander wrote:bb22 wrote:CobraCommander wrote:
The rest of the east (not in the playoffs) are pulling for you...but it just looks hopeless when you play one way ALL year and then when you need to run the offense and play with poise...the raptors resort to the same offense run in OKC, Wash and Portland. Do you know what they have in common...Raptors dont be OKC,Wash and Portland...
There's one offense that you run during most of the game, and another in late game situations. Ball movement and motion slows down in crunch time. That's why you pay stars to make plays down the stretch. I can't really blame them, their stars just could not make plays.
Couldn’t disagree more...you always run the offense and get the best shot..and shoot it when there isnt a better shot. Its not just me that thinks this...math thinks I’m right too and math always wins.
PrinceV wrote:Casey lost us that game. He should have went small with Lowry, Fred and Delon. Lowry made some horrible decision that led to TOs. Casey calling a time out with 16 secs left was bad.
Kabookalu wrote:CobraCommander wrote:Kabookalu wrote:
I mean I'd rather have that too, since close shots are the highest percentage of shots on the field and Jonas generates a lot of good shots. But again, he missed 12 shots, a lot of them were good easy looks. We involved him the entire game and he didn't deliver.
Not saying I'd go away from that plan, but out of all our players he had the greatest chance of building us a lead and he disappointed.
If they put Love on JV next game he going for 40! Have heart...NO WAY IN HELL LOVE OR TT CAN DEAL WITH HIM. JV balled OUT!
Like I said I'm not going away from that gameplan since it worked out well. With how many shots Jonas got he probably should have got 40 points this game. Though he missed a ton of easy shots. He's our source of easy offense. Every time he gets an inside shot that's one less shot DeMar, Lowry, and Ibaka are taking from outside. Though he missed a lot of easy shots. He's the one that was generating the highest percentage of easy shots and he went 7-19.
I'm going back to Jonas in game 2, I don't expect him to miss so many close shots again, but for this game alone, he blew it down the stretch.
Childs wrote:JohnPferdelack wrote:On Thursday, we will watch "Round 2": Maybe the Raptors can answer, maybe not.
But this matchup could be very entertaining^^
Is that a joke? Im going to get a brain aneurysm at the end of this.
bmurph128 wrote:Strange shot selection by LeBron tonight. Too many jumpers. I think he might have been trying to conserve energy for defense.NaturalBuns wrote:Heej wrote:The Raps fans literally could not conceive of the possibility that Indiana being a bad matchup for the Cavs didn't also mean the Raptors were too. Like it was legitimately inconceivable. The only thing the Raps have is a legit "LeBron-stopper". Thad Young actually put the clamps on LeBron all the possessions he was on him but that wasn't Nate McMillans strategy. I thought Siakam would be another Thad Young but he doesn't have the same core strength, clearly
Lebron shot 12-30. Had literally nothing easy 5-6 of his shots fadeaway for deep 2s. Literally his worst game this post season so that doesn't add up.
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bb22 wrote:CobraCommander wrote:bb22 wrote:
There's one offense that you run during most of the game, and another in late game situations. Ball movement and motion slows down in crunch time. That's why you pay stars to make plays down the stretch. I can't really blame them, their stars just could not make plays.
Couldn’t disagree more...you always run the offense and get the best shot..and shoot it when there isnt a better shot. Its not just me that thinks this...math thinks I’m right too and math always wins.
Math is one thing. Psychology and human behaviour is another. Ideally you want to run the offense and find the best shot, but players aren't robots, they're different and will rarely take the optimal shot.
B-Ball Freak wrote:Oladipo > Derozan
bmurph128 wrote:After watching Love for these 8 games, Im just not confident he will suddenly get hot. I hope he proves me wrong, and in that case youre right.bb22 wrote:bmurph128 wrote:It wouldnt happen for political reasons, but the same starting lineup except Thompson for Love would be great. Tristan was the only guy that could guard JV tonight.
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If I'm the Cavs, I'm letting them go to JV all they want. Trading 2s for 3s is not a sustainable offense. He had a monster 3rd quarter, but the 3s by Korver were also an indirect result of JV being out there on D. If Love managed to hit anything at all from deep, JV wouldn't have even been out there.
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That call on Melo was attrocious.raptor jesus wrote:NinjaBro wrote:raptor jesus wrote:Can somebody tell me why Kevin Love's elbow to Derozan wasn't called a flagrant? Offensive players striking defenders w/ elbows is routinely ruled a flagrant.
valanciunas got so many flagrants for that elbow in the past
Here's Biyombo getting a flagrant from a couple years ago - ironically against Love:
Melo got a flagrant 2 for this:
I can't make sense of it. They didn't even review it.
bmurph128 wrote:The look on Lowrys face at the end of the game....just looked like defeat
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CobraCommander wrote:Kabookalu wrote:CobraCommander wrote:
If they put Love on JV next game he going for 40! Have heart...NO WAY IN HELL LOVE OR TT CAN DEAL WITH HIM. JV balled OUT!
Like I said I'm not going away from that gameplan since it worked out well. With how many shots Jonas got he probably should have got 40 points this game. Though he missed a ton of easy shots. He's our source of easy offense. Every time he gets an inside shot that's one less shot DeMar, Lowry, and Ibaka are taking from outside. Though he missed a lot of easy shots. He's the one that was generating the highest percentage of easy shots and he went 7-19.
I'm going back to Jonas in game 2, I don't expect him to miss so many close shots again, but for this game alone, he blew it down the stretch.
If Lue puts Love on JV...JV gonna either foul him out or go for 40. He wont blow those bunnies the next game..trust that. A smart man makes the Love and TT play him straight up. Y’all cant win this with DD and Lowry playing Hero Ball.
