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44 Comments
Definitely did not expect this coming into the series
Things are just not going right for this team. Knicks are the better team cause they played like it. Out hustled, more physical than us and with a better bench. Even if we do win game 5, there's no way we're gonna steal game 6 in The Garden. All I can say is, this will be a good learning experience for the guys like Garland, Mobley, Allen if he can find that edge and Donovan Mitchell will come back stronger than ever. All I can say is the future is bright with this team and even though it will be disappointing to have it end in the first round, all they can do is make the most of this experience and learn from it, bottle it up, make some strides in the offseason with Ev getting stronger and making that leap. I can promise you next season, nobody in the East and in the league wanna see us including the Knicks.
I'm SO TIRED OF THE I NEED TO BE BETTER SPEECHES FROM CLEVELAND TEAMS!!!!!
Cavs in 7. Cedi Osman.
HELL YEAH! LET'S GO TRUMP!!!!
The lack of effort, especially Allen, has been pathetic. No hustle for rebounds and that has to fall on JB. He keeps babying them. “ guys are learning “ he doesn’t fire them up. Coach Lue would be pushing them to be better. What he told the Cavs? “if you think we can’t win don’t get on the plane”. The softness of this team come from the coach.
knicks in 5
🤮🤮🤮
I'm a Jazz fan, and I love Donovan Mitchell. When Donovan was on the Jazz and people said he was inefficient, I had an emotional response and obviously pushed back on those comments. However, watching him with emotions removed from the equation, I can honestly say he really is inefficient. I want him to win a championship, but when he's the number one option, I don't think it will happen unfortunately. I'm still cheering for y'all Cavs, but I'm worried for your season. Defend the Land!
After game 3 I kinda knew this team would fall apart. They've had this string of bad games throughout the season wherein they just flat out suck, especially offensively. It takes them a few games before they regain their composure. Unfortunately for them, they're about to get knocked off and they don't have the luxury of time to find themselves. 3-1 isn't impossible, and they have shown they can reach a level where they dominate… but the mindset and poise isn't there yet sadly. They're getting out played so bad in every position they look like lost children out there.
If the Cavs want to make a bigger push next season, they need to get rid of a lot of dead weight. Okoro, Lavert, Osman, Rubio, Wade and Stevens should all be tradeable. Get a better wing that can space the floor and a backup PG that can either score or direct the offense. I'm still 50-50 with Rubio since he hasn't had a off season to get his legs back. But this season has been about the bench and how unreliable the pieces are.
Mitchell will probably carry them next game, but I see them bowing out in game 6. They have been a terrible road team all season long.
Okoro not guarding Brunson was dumbest decision by Bickerstaff. Also Okoro needs to just shoot corner 3s and drive in.
I’m a Knicks fan and found your channel via Knicks content pregames.
Exactly what I was worried about facing the Knicks is happening. I know the regular season results against a team doesn't necessarily mean that the same outcome would take place but against the Knicks I felt that it would. All season long we were not a good rebounding team we ranked 24th out of 30 teams and the Knicks ranked 3rd. Every time we played them even the regular season games we were out rebounded with the exception of game 2. I like Mobley but he isn't strong enough yet to play in the post plus it's hard for him and Allen to box out and rebound cleanly. Darius and Donovan were going to have to be key to this series and out play their guards and limit the turnovers and they aren't. I was concerned about Rebounding and turnovers that's all heading into this series. The Knicks ranked 3rd in the entire NBA in least amount of turnovers per game. Even if you aren't a fan of the Knicks they are good at those 2 categories protecting the ball and rebounding. That's the story of this series Rebounding and turnovers. Let's go Cavs! Let's go Cavs! Ain't Over till it's Over
Made up nonsense about Randle, but whatever makes you feel good.
Jarrett Allen is too small against Mitchell, Knicks have superior bench, Cavs are not good on the road, Knicks have that extra incentive to play well against Donovan Mitchell. Knicks in 6.
It is only basketball. The best team will win the championship. Who cares. Crying over a gm.
Biggest takeaway from this: JB Bickerstaff simply isn’t built for playoff basketball. He was a good coach for the last few years during the rebuild when there weren’t any expectations or any anticipation of the Cavs becoming this good as fast as they did ahead of schedule (beginning with last season). If the Cavs want to take the next step from playoff team to championship contender, they need a competent coach to get them over the hump, and JB ain’t it. JB is David Blatt/Mark Jackson, now it’s time to go and get our Ty Lue/Steve Kerr
It’s over go knickss
Donovan Mitchell doesn't belong in Cleveland. Yall need to trade him home to New York where his heart (❤) is at. Get what you can from the Knicks. He is going to leave anyway.
The Cavs play at a very slow pace to be a young team. I understand that we play with 2 so called bigs I'll just say that they are just tall because big seems to imply that they are strong and tall. J.B. has no creativity to his offense.I understand making that trade for Donovan Mitchell but I was concerned about it because our backcourt was going to be small and we gave up a lot of depth and height for him. I would've been fine keeping Sexton,Lauri and Abajii I might have spelled his name wrong but you know how who I'm talking about. After last season I just felt that all we needed to do was get healthy and draft a small forward/ 2 guard that was around 6-5,6-6 that can shoot and play defense and when the kid from Kansas fell to us in the draft I was happy because he had just came off of winning the National Championship. So I was ready to see us grow in the regular season. I was just waiting to see the regular season games with that team before we made the trade. When we made the trade I wasn't happy about it because like I said earlier if we were going to go small in our backcourt I felt we should've just kept young bull. We gave up on what made us unique last season when all we needed was a viable player at the 3. Too late what I was concerned with is playing out right in front of all of us Cavs fans.Still Let's go Cavs!
The moment was to hart for D Mitch
Let go Knicks !!!!!! 😉👨🏾🍳👨🏾🍳👨🏾🍳
Donovan Mitchell is the reason Cleveland had the season they had where were they last year ; the play in ? that doesn't count. He wanted to go to the New York Knicks and was traded there. Good players don't grow on trees Cleveland is not a place where Free Agents go; LeBron left twice.. He happy.
Last comment on the Cavs. How much better or worse would the Cavs record or defense had of been this season in the regular season if we would've just kept the same lineup from last year and just drafted the kid from Kansas to play either the 3/2 spot? I believe we would've still been a top 10 defense and offense l. I can't prove it obviously but I'm just thinking hypothetically.
Y’all trash 🚮 let’s goooooo NY 🗽🟧♿️🔶🟦
I'm here to tell you the Knicks better than a record shows. They were up and down before the Josh heart rate and they lost a couple of things to the Charlotte so the world Cleveland could have easily been 5 and us for 4. This is not the Knicks of old.
ANYBODY with a mic and a recording device can react to WHAT we saw today, ESPECIALLY emotionally (as you all seem to be doing)—BUT can you tell me WHY it happened, and with any specificity, detail, or granularity? Based on this episode, that’s a definite ‘no’. This comes off like 2 fan blowhards without a scintilla of BASKETBALL expertise—just overwrought season-long narrative-followers who deal in character-questioning instead of cold, hard, unemotional basketball analysis. Your Bball ‘breakdowns’, as currently constituted, are basically tantamount—no joke!—to reading the full boxscore with occasional editorial parentheticals thrown in for good measure—which ANYONE with a functioning pre-frontal cortex can do…so, way to break ground, guys!! Really blazing a new trail and not at all falling prey to lazy blowhard tropes wherein strong opinions can be rendered while never being backed by SPECIFIC, concrete evidence. In drama, the maxim is “show, don’t tell”. In math, it’s “show your work”. Shouldn’t podcasts who cover specific teams try to honor a similar edict when they speak on the team they cover? C’mon now!
Cleveland got spoiled since 2003 getting number one overall picks (the most I've seen in my lifetime.) Or convenient superteam trades; that's not happening anymore. The LeBron era is wrapping up ; its going back to the 90s two stars per team.
KNICKS IN 5. YALL DEAD IN THE WATER. VIBES ARE IMMACULATEEEEEE ON THIS SIDE 😅😂🎉🎉
Bro, Jarrett Allen is a 6'9" center (lol), who doesn't even have the skillset to play the 4 (power-forward) if called upon. How do you think a 6'9" center is going to do against the Giannis Antetokounmpos, the Brook Lopezs, the Joel Embiids, and the Robert Williams and Al Horfords in the playoffs? A 6'9" center will always be manhandled by other teams 7 feet and heavier centers. Jarrett Allen has the body of a modern SF and PF, but lacks that skillset, so with his limited skillset he plays out of position at center. He's being exposed.
Anyway, it’s obvious that he only looks taller than he is because of the huge afro hairstyle he sports. But Mitchell Robinson and Isiah Hartenstein of the Knicks have been embarrassingly manhandling Jarrett Allen as if he were as tall as Mugsy Bogues. 🤷🏽♂️
As a Knicks fan the Knicks must end this series on Wednesday. Cannot get complacent and cannot take anything for granted. Time to smell blood in the water. Hoping Randle will have a big game with less pressure.
The Cavs should be interviewing Nick Nurse Thursday morning.
Randle is mad about him playing like shit, not about being benched 😂. No bad vibes here, he was cheering the team on the bench. A little banged up due to that goon Jarrett Allen
Y’all complaint about okoro in the first few games… sees him hit few layups and now like… why isn’t he playing 😂
Bickerstaff had been terrible this series. Outside of Game 2, he has provided nothing but weak platitudes, common sense analysis, and false hype going into all these games. Poor rotations, adjusting too hardcore from game to game in the WRONG areas, and getting cooked because of it. Why the HELL did Darius Garland guard Brunson majority of the night?? you legit HAVE to put Okoro on him at this point
the knicks gross advantage in the paint was definitely not something i expected going into the series – i thought it would be a warzone but robinson/hartenstein have had their way inside.
Why did this became a blame donavan mitchell game. Problem with cavs fans is they're expecting too much from 1 guy. Danny Ainge robbed you of depth, and releasing Kevin Love was a dumb move. He could have been useful in the series. Blame your gm. Knicks in 5!!!
Haha. Overrated michell
Brunson > Mitchell
Let’s go Knicks !! Knicks in 5!!
Knicks in 5 😤🗽🧡💙
If Jarrett Allen is struggling now, how is he going to play against Brook Lopez or Joel Embiid? He's too passive and doesn't show any aggression at all. I wouldn't be suprised if they traded him in the offseason.
Also, i get crazy when i see Rubio on the floor, how is Bickerstaff still playing him when he hasn't done anything???
After game 1 & 2 it was all about you can’t play okoro and cedi needs the mins, now it’s cedi is getting too many mins and we don’t know why okoro isn’t playing? 😂
Knicks fan here. I come in peace ✌🏿 Knicks > Cavs. Discuss.
Wouldn’t be a fan of udoka? Yeah let’s not get a head coach that took team to finals his first year as a coach
Julius Randle has been so so bad. He is someone you Cavs fan have to worry about. Once he gets going, you are done.
Cavs gave up too much for 1 player. This was us when we got Melo. Our depth is the reason we are up 3-1. Respect to Cleveland though