Game 61: Cavs at Planet Houston 3:30 EST, ABC

King Stannis · Post #1 » by **King Stannis** » Sun Mar 1, 2015 8:41 am

The Cavaliers take the carnival to Houston looking to pick up a road win after a lackluster loss in Indiana that saw both LeBron James and Kyrie Irving sit out with nagging injuries. Irving is expected to miss Sunday's game with a strained shoulder. Dwight Howard is out indefinitely. Both the Cavs and Rockets are 7-3 in their last ten.

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Keys to the Game:

1. Energy and hustle.
2. Tough defense.
3. Shut Harden down.
4. Share the ball.
5. Kevin Love hitting open shots.

mcfly1204 · Post #2 » by **mcfly1204** » Sun Mar 1, 2015 3:38 pm

I am little concerned with our ability to bring the ball up with Irving out. Beverly is menace on the defensive end, and will give guys like Dellavedova and Shumpert a lot of issues.

BallLikeYao · Post #3 » by **BallLikeYao** » Sun Mar 1, 2015 3:46 pm

Go Rockets!!

Sports Fellow · Post #4 » by **Sports Fellow** » Sun Mar 1, 2015 10:21 pm

Watching Delly makes me want to puke. Not an NBA level player we need kyrie.

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Post #5 » by **B Mac** » Sun Mar 1, 2015 10:24 pm

Brutal game from the refs. If you are going to give Harden all of that garbage make sure you give it to LeBron too.

Sports Fellow · Post #6 » by **Sports Fellow** » Sun Mar 1, 2015 10:41 pm

Blatt needs to learn how to coach. Delly getting too many minutes, he refuses to play Mozgov in 4th quarters for whatever reason.

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Sports Fellow · Post #7 » by **Sports Fellow** » Sun Mar 1, 2015 11:42 pm

Mozgov- 18 min
Delly- 41 min
Lebron- 42 min

Fire Blatt

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BallLikeYao · Post #8 » by **BallLikeYao** » Sun Mar 1, 2015 11:56 pm

Wow supported you guys all up until this game.

LeBron and Mozgov are dirty bullies. Real classy for Bron to hold down a 6"0 little man just because he took a charge.. THEN Mozgov to intently hard foul James Harden and then give a light kick as he's on the ground.. pathetic. I'll give you guys the kick to the nuts but it was funny and well deserved.
I saw a comment how Harden was getting garbage calls and not LeBron. Straight up LOL it's not his fault Cavs can't guard him. LeBron got the GOAT treatment right on national TV. He got so many ghost calls I can't even remember them all, refs also saved him from 2 Techs. Rigged officiating failed and couldn't save your team. What a joke, very pathetic to play like that on national TV.

Dupp · Post #9 » by **Dupp** » Mon Mar 2, 2015 12:11 am

LeKobe

Post #10 » by **B Mac** » Mon Mar 2, 2015 2:20 am

BallLikeYao wrote:Wow supported you guys all up until this game.

LeBron and Mozgov are dirty bullies. Real classy for Bron to hold down a 6"0 little man just because he took a charge.. THEN Mozgov to intently hard foul James Harden and then give a light kick as he's on the ground.. pathetic. I'll give you guys the kick to the nuts but it was funny and well deserved.
I saw a comment how Harden was getting garbage calls and not LeBron. Straight up LOL it's not his fault Cavs can't guard him. LeBron got the GOAT treatment right on national TV. He got so many ghost calls I can't even remember them all, refs also saved him from 2 Techs. Rigged officiating failed and couldn't save your team. What a joke, very pathetic to play like that on national TV.

Not sure you watched the same game as the rest of the world.

BallLikeYao · Post #11 » by **BallLikeYao** » Mon Mar 2, 2015 2:24 am

B Mac wrote:
BallLikeYao wrote:Wow supported you guys all up until this game.

LeBron and Mozgov are dirty bullies. Real classy for Bron to hold down a 6"0 little man just because he took a charge.. THEN Mozgov to intently hard foul James Harden and then give a light kick as he's on the ground.. pathetic. I'll give you guys the kick to the nuts but it was funny and well deserved.
I saw a comment how Harden was getting garbage calls and not LeBron. Straight up LOL it's not his fault Cavs can't guard him. LeBron got the GOAT treatment right on national TV. He got so many ghost calls I can't even remember them all, refs also saved him from 2 Techs. Rigged officiating failed and couldn't save your team. What a joke, very pathetic to play like that on national TV.

Not sure you watched the same game as the rest of the world.

Rest of the world is pissed at Cavs. Homer much?

Post #12 » by **B Mac** » Mon Mar 2, 2015 2:39 am

BallLikeYao wrote:
B Mac wrote:
BallLikeYao wrote:Wow supported you guys all up until this game.

LeBron and Mozgov are dirty bullies. Real classy for Bron to hold down a 6"0 little man just because he took a charge.. THEN Mozgov to intently hard foul James Harden and then give a light kick as he's on the ground.. pathetic. I'll give you guys the kick to the nuts but it was funny and well deserved.
I saw a comment how Harden was getting garbage calls and not LeBron. Straight up LOL it's not his fault Cavs can't guard him. LeBron got the GOAT treatment right on national TV. He got so many ghost calls I can't even remember them all, refs also saved him from 2 Techs. Rigged officiating failed and couldn't save your team. What a joke, very pathetic to play like that on national TV.

Not sure you watched the same game as the rest of the world.

Rest of the world is pissed at Cavs. Homer much?

Were you following along on the General NBA board throughout the game? Go back and read the game thread. People were appalled by all of the calls Harden was getting and were disgusted by him kicking another man in the groin.

It was blatantly obvious that the refs were extremely pro Houston today but I guess I shouldn't attempt to reason with someone who thought it was funny and well deserved for another man to get kicked in the groin. I guess we'll see how funny it is in a couple of days when Harden gets fined for that punk move.

ndnow · Post #13 » by **ndnow** » Mon Mar 2, 2015 2:43 am

BallLikeYao wrote:
B Mac wrote:
BallLikeYao wrote:Wow supported you guys all up until this game.

LeBron and Mozgov are dirty bullies. Real classy for Bron to hold down a 6"0 little man just because he took a charge.. THEN Mozgov to intently hard foul James Harden and then give a light kick as he's on the ground.. pathetic. I'll give you guys the kick to the nuts but it was funny and well deserved.
I saw a comment how Harden was getting garbage calls and not LeBron. Straight up LOL it's not his fault Cavs can't guard him. LeBron got the GOAT treatment right on national TV. He got so many ghost calls I can't even remember them all, refs also saved him from 2 Techs. Rigged officiating failed and couldn't save your team. What a joke, very pathetic to play like that on national TV.

Not sure you watched the same game as the rest of the world.

Rest of the world is pissed at Cavs. Homer much?

Houston fan or not, I don't understand how anyone can support Harden. He might be the dirtiest, ref exploiting/cheat of all time in the NBA. Watching him play is like watching professional wrestling.

BallLikeYao · Post #14 » by **BallLikeYao** » Mon Mar 2, 2015 2:50 am

ndnow wrote:
BallLikeYao wrote:
B Mac wrote:

Not sure you watched the same game as the rest of the world.

Rest of the world is pissed at Cavs. Homer much?

Houston fan or not, I don't understand how anyone can support Harden. He might be the dirtiest, ref exploiting/cheat of all time in the NBA. Watching him play is like watching professional wrestling.

Harden is dirty? How so? Does Harden flop? NO. Does Harden wrestle 6'0 guys for no reason? NO. Does Harden call out his own teammate on Twitter? NO. Is Harden a ball hog? NO. Does Harden force contact on drives to the basket? YES.

That's why Harden is the MVP of the league. He leads his team, creates for others, most unselfish superstar in the NBA, true born leader, never gets Tech's, respectable, he's the best guard in the league quoted by Kevin Durant. AND Harden has a ggggreat hairline!

Sports Fellow · Post #15 » by **Sports Fellow** » Mon Mar 2, 2015 3:11 am

Harden does flop. His entire style of play is predicated around drawing the foul as well. Hes mastered how to contort his body when driving to make it look like he was fouled. Not real basketball.

Also when he didn't get a call he grabs lebrons arm and stands there looking at the ref like an ahole, causing a shot clock violation with less than a minute left?

He kicks lebron in the balls?

He sucked ass in the finals against the Heat?

He sucked ass and got knocked out in the first round last year?

We should all hate on James harden

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TheKingofSting · Post #16 » by **TheKingofSting** » Mon Mar 2, 2015 3:51 am

It's hard to get too discouraged with these kind of losses. We won't catch Atlanta anyway so just get healthy for the playoffs.

Dupp · Post #17 » by **Dupp** » Mon Mar 2, 2015 5:41 am

"Does harden flop? No" Is a pretty lol worthy statement. No ones gonna take you seriously if you say stuff like that.

ohio · Post #18 » by **ohio** » Mon Mar 2, 2015 7:16 am

meh, deserved loss...

we didn't lose because of "calls", we lost because LeBron didn't make free throws, this could have been sealed in regulation.

Superbasketball · Post #19 » by **Superbasketball** » Mon Mar 2, 2015 3:52 pm

BallLikeYao wrote:Wow supported you guys all up until this game.

LeBron and Mozgov are dirty bullies. Real classy for Bron to hold down a 6"0 little man just because he took a charge.. THEN Mozgov to intently hard foul James Harden and then give a light kick as he's on the ground.. pathetic. I'll give you guys the kick to the nuts but it was funny and well deserved.
I saw a comment how Harden was getting garbage calls and not LeBron. Straight up LOL it's not his fault Cavs can't guard him. LeBron got the GOAT treatment right on national TV. He got so many ghost calls I can't even remember them all, refs also saved him from 2 Techs. Rigged officiating failed and couldn't save your team. What a joke, very pathetic to play like that on national TV.

Pat is a dirty player, he tried to get in front of a running player.

ohio · Post #20 » by **ohio** » Mon Mar 2, 2015 4:20 pm

Pat's a known dirty player, this is nothing new.

Harden is known to do magic with FT drawing, this is nothing new.

so why are we appalled? or do you guys not watch other teams in the nba?