PG Cavs - Loss

[Plossum]

Fire prunty. Who’s next?

[randy84]

Fire prunty. Who’s next?

I heard the equipment manager doesn't use Downy on the uniforms.

[mediocrityrules]

Some awful takes in here. Until Doc actually takes the reins and we have several games to analyze to see what he is doing, we're still in caretaker mode, which is kind of 'nowhere's-ville'.

The main takeaways from this game are that individually, Midds is looking slower by the game, and Dame has zero shooting touch at the moment. We need defensive wings badly.

[MissKhriddleton]

Run, Griffin out of town absolutely, but way too early to be out on Dame too. He’s maybe lost a step but they clearly don’t run anything on offense and Giannis still doesn’t know how to play with another superstar.

And you could never not make that trade. Jrue is washed himself and only seems okay because he’s the 5th option lol.

[yb90]

Lopez and Portis should be traded. Portis is too much of a black hole and Lopez is not making his 3s and is too slow when paired with the players around him.

[FrieAaron]

Not nearly as down on this one as others. Always tough to win two in a row against a team, doubly so when it's a team that's been playing as well as the Cavs. Huge struggles on offense but aside from way too many FTs actually loomed average on defense out there for the most part.

[mediocrityrules]

Ball security on this one was as bad as ever.

There's no one that I really trust on our team to handle the ball all the time. We have situational guys, but there's no one to just hand it to each time down the court and they can create (other than Giannis it seems, but we can't have him doing that all the time, especially when the wall is up. He needs to be off-ball).

[fan230]

I am very happy that Dame is an All Star Starter. But I wish he improves his play. Occasional lighting up of Dame Time is not good enough for the team; need him to be consistently good on offense, as we know he can be.

[tedbrogen]

Assuming Doc eventually becomes coach, Prunty can leave. That was some brutally bad ISO ball and even with numerous droughts he couldn’t come up with one decent play to break any of the droughts.

[tedbrogen]

Figure out if Dame wants to be here. If not ship him. Massive disappointment

Not sure why they can’t figure out that he’s better when he gets a rhythm. Having him stand and watch Giannis and Midds take turn ISOing kills his rhythm.

[Chad34]

Figure out if Dame wants to be here. If not ship him. Massive disappointment

Not sure why they can’t figure out that he’s better when he gets a rhythm. Having him stand and watch Giannis and Midds take turn ISOing kills his rhythm.

he was very iso ball dominant and is/was not more effective than giannis. khris and giannis two man game was the best thing going tonight. i could care less about whether he gets his numbers, he' needs to fit his game in the flow of what is best for the team. he'll never be as efficient or a better option. if not he can see himself out. dame time has been over=rated or maybe it's just over

[nagawicka]

So we played Beasley as our lock down defender tonight?

Dame, Middleton and Lopez destroyed us and Giannis' back is just about set to break from carrying these bums all year.

You can't carry a team on your back when you walk back on defense.

Energy & effort my friend.

Let's not put the cart before the horse; he was walking back on defence BECAUSE his back was ready to break for carrying our team this year.

No.

[RiotPunch]

Obviously a terrible showing, but the remnants of Grief fingerprints remain all over what we're trying to do out there.

I will say, though, Prunty seems like a goddamn basketball savant after listening to Grief blabber about absolutely nothing every night.

[paulpressey25]

Live by the Middleton, die by the Middleton. This is one of those games where you could have used a younger athletic guy like Dejounte.

[RiotPunch]

Live by the Middleton, die by he Middleton. This is one of those games where you could have used a younger athletic guy like Dejounte.

Aside from his multiple alley-oops to Giannis, he was awful. Could not stay in front of anyone and was not getting anything cooking on offense.

Sad fact is Khris likely holds neutral value, at best, on the trade market. Live or die by Middleton, indeed. We don't have the horses for Dejounte, IMO. I am optimistic, though. Doc needs to button up the initiator pecking order. Khris should never be pushing a break, but can be savvy in the halfcourt-- very real synergy with Giannis. Defensively is hugely matchup-dependent.

[MiltownHawkeye]

Considering how few of our losses have been the result of guys just not hitting shots + still not having Doc in here yet I can't be too bothered about this one. Can't imagine we stand pat at the deadline though.

[yannisk]

Figure out if Dame wants to be here. If not ship him. Massive disappointment

Not sure why they can’t figure out that he’s better when he gets a rhythm. Having him stand and watch Giannis and Midds take turn ISOing kills his rhythm.

He ISOed more than both of them and he did not look to pass at all

[Daver]

Hopefully Doc has the gravitas to get Dame and Gianni in a room together and begin the process of really unleashing the two of them. The "your turn, my turn" stuff has run its course.

May want to include Middleton and Bobby too.

I agree people raging on dame midds sire as hell sucked last night to bucks lose by 12 with brook dsmn near going 0fer midds n dame n lets not forget beas getting only 1 shot wtf was that.

[Daver]

I legit don't know how any of you watch Middleton and think he's fine. I've never seen him this limited physically.

Middleton was getting cooked by Sam Merrill one on one. That tells you everything you need to know.

Merrill scored like what 8 points what am i missing when you say he cooked midds ....why would midds even have to cover a quicker smaller player

[Daver]

Run, Griffin out of town absolutely, but way too early to be out on Dame too. He’s maybe lost a step but they clearly don’t run anything on offense and Giannis still doesn’t know how to play with another superstar.

And you could never not make that trade. Jrue is washed himself and only seems okay because he’s the 5th option lol.

Agree with the lack of O cohesion its brutalzero scheme on O other than taking turns bringing ball up the court(should be dame 90%)and whst seems like people just taking turns shooting hogging the ball instead of running anything.
Hope doc watched this last night n said yikes wtf thry doing with dame