Game Thread 10/11/13: Cleveland Cavaliers @ Orlando Magic

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Cleveland Cavaliers
C - Anderson Varejao
PF - Tristan Thompson
SF - Earl Clark
SG - Dion Waiters
PG - Kyrie Irving

Orlando Magic
C - Nikola Vucevic
PF - Kyle O'Quinn
SF - Maurice Harkless
SG - Aron Affalo
PG - Jameer Nelson

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So far the Cavs have great ball movement. Thompson gave up a pass to Waiters for the open shot. Irving so far as light outs on the jumper. Magic have scored almost every time down the court though.

P.S. - I don't like Varejao taking 19 foot jumpers.

[DuMa]

Nik Vucevic is a monster. definitely gonna pick him for Fantasy

[CanYouDigIt]

Wow, Harris and Oladipo not starting. I thought the big 3 in ORL was Harris, Vucevic, and Oladipo.

[Jameerthefear]

get that outta here

[Jameerthefear]

I love seeing Jameer back in action.

[TheReal Kendall]

So far the Cavs have great ball movement. Thompson gave up a pass to Waiters for the open shot. Irving so far as light outs on the jumper. Magic have scored almost every time down the court though.

P.S. - I don't like Varejao taking 19 foot jumpers.

Is Thompson ambidextrous?

I heard the commentary say he switched from playing lefty to righty

[Meticode]

Earl Clark is 6'10" and long and he's gotten his sh!t swatted twice now.

[Meticode]

Is Thompson ambidextrous?

I heard the commentary say he switched from playing lefty to righty
He is nearly, not fully, but even then when he shot freethrows joking around in the off-season Irving and other players mentioned he had much better form than his left hand. So he decided to switch fully to the right to hopefully help on his percentages.

[Jameerthefear]

Orlandipo at the point :D

[Meticode]

Waiters with a great finish around the rim. Cavs need to tighten up defense a bit.

[Meticode]

Orlandipo at the point :D
I was hoping he'd start so I could see him and Irving go at it a bit.

[Jameerthefear]

Victor for 3!

[josh99]

Earl Clark is 6'10" and long and he's gotten his sh!t swatted twice now.
Weird... for some reason I always thought he was 6'8.

Kyrie and Waiters are sure going to make a flashy duo.

[Jameerthefear]

Hopefully we do.
@ Meti ^^^

[PleezeBelieve]

Orlando shooting 11/15 and up 9.

Not good for them

[PleezeBelieve]

Weird... for some reason I always thought he was 6'8.

Kyrie and Waiters are sure going to make a flashy duo.
Yes they are. They look electric out there.

[PleezeBelieve]

Woah!!

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Big Bennett checked in. He's the widest person on the floor. Let's so how fast he gets gased.

[Jameerthefear]

VICTOR!!!! woooo

[Tking714]

Oladipo damn....

[Meticode]

OO looks really confident.

[Jameerthefear]

37 in the 1st :D

[PleezeBelieve]

Oladipo shittin on us

Lol

[Meticode]

Damn, Magic couldn't miss. 37 points in on f*cking quarter. Rookie is like oh look 3, bang, another three bang, full court heave shot, almost bang. :oldlol:

[PleezeBehave]

Oladipo not really looking like a rookie out there

[josh99]

37 in the 1st :D
:cheers:

Jarett Jack still amazes me at how automatic his pull-up free throw line jumper is.

[Uncle Drew]

Gave up 37 points in a quarter, 75% (6-8) for 3. That can't be good.

[Meticode]

ESPN Score board is all f*cked up. It doesn't shot OO on the roster, it shows the Magic scoring 37 points, but almost 29 from all the Magic players.

[PleezeBehave]

Bennett looks out of shape, but he was injured, right? Don't know much about AB.

[JimmyMcAdocious]

Dipo and Kyrie would have been a ridiculous backcourt.

[PleezeBelieve]

Waiters and Kyrie are a ridiculous backcourt.
Fixed

[josh99]

Dipo and Kyrie would have been a ridiculous backcourt.
I think they made the right choice by going after a big guy.. not sure if they made the right choice by choosing Bennett.

[PleezeBelieve]

Bennett is a hammer. Plays tough on O and D

[Jameerthefear]

come on vuc no need for that

[PleezeBelieve]

Stop trying to play couch GM two games into the preseason.

Fukk...

[Uncle Drew]

Does Vucevic know this is preseason and not play offs?

[Trollsmasher]

Vucevic should've left him go. I wanted to laugh at him for not even touching the rim with the ball.

[PleezeBelieve]

Flagrant 1s in the preseason...

We off that

[TylerOO]

Bennett is fat

[PleezeBelieve]

Kadji is a bum... no offense

[PleezeBehave]

I missed it. What happened?

[josh99]

I missed it. What happened?
Fast break dunk attempt by Bennett and got a little shove in the back by Vucevic. Just made him go off balance in the air and hit the ground.

[TylerOO]

Get that weak shit outta here Bennett

[DuMa]

I know Bennett iscoming off shoulder surgery and is seeing virtually his first action in many months but still he looks awful.

[josh99]

Magic defense is looking solid, everyone's crowding the lane and making it hard to get a shot off inside.

[Tking714]

Annoying when Kyrie goes into that And-1 dribble mode. I know its only preseason but he's way more effective just picking a direction

[PleezeBelieve]

Waiters makes a great play.

ISH says nothing.

Okay, gotcha

[HeyIt'sMe]

I liked Bennett coming out of the draft, and I still do, but what is he so far this preseason? 2-15? Oladipo looks exactly as I thought he would, like the best player in the draft.

[HylianNightmare]

great game so far, like what i am seeing from waiters, not so much andrew nicholson.

moore is gonna let those few makes go to his head

[Jameerthefear]

I liked Bennett coming out of the draft, and I still do, but what is he so far this preseason? 2-15? Oladipo looks exactly as I thought he would, like the best player in the draft.
Oladipo is going to be good :D

[Tking714]

Dipo and Irving matching up right now

[PleezeBelieve]

Earl Clark looks like a fukkin bum

[HylianNightmare]

earl clark is trash

[PleezeBelieve]

Varejao and Bennett are not anywhere close to game shape.

[HylianNightmare]

Great Take

[Jameerthefear]

Dipo :applause:

[PleezeBelieve]

Oladipo looks like he's worthy of a strong scouting report.

That's saying something for a rook two games into the pre-season

[Tking714]

Oladipo looks like he's worthy of a strong scouting report.

That's saying something for a rook two games into the pre-season

I wanted to say it earlier but I held my tongue for a bit. Oladipo looks to be a notch above Waiters and Irving athletically.

[HylianNightmare]

all ball doe, love seeing oladipo getting into it

[HylianNightmare]

well that was maybe a charge

[DuMa]

Kyrie's defense is still terrible.

It will take a while for the Cavs to mesh into Brown's defensive philosophy

[JimmyMcAdocious]

That's one homely looking sideline reporter. She must be really talented.

[Tking714]

That's one homely looking sideline reporter. She must be really talented.

:roll:

[Jameerthefear]

I wanted to say it earlier but I held my tongue for a bit. Oladipo looks to be a notch above Waiters and Irving athletically.
duh

[Twiens]

earl clark is trash

He can score in transition or on wide open spot-up 3s. Cav fans shouldn't expect anything else.

[Meticode]

Cavs are going offensive rebound crazy, but they can't do shit with it.

[PleezeBelieve]

Varejao looking like he's diminished a bit.

I never thought he should start but I think that's becoming even more clear now.

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So far in the game...

Cavs 29.8% FG%
Magic 61% FG%

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Varejao looking like he's diminished a bit.

I never thought he should start but I think that's becoming even more clear now.
He's not even in full shape yet. You understand he was cleared to play less than 1 month ago?

[PleezeBelieve]

He's not even in full shape yet. You understand he was cleared to play less than 1 month ago?
With Tristan's ascent, Varejao is redundancy. And he doesn't protect the rim.

[Meticode]

:eek: at that fullcourt pass by Irving to Waiters, a tip pass in mid-air from Waiters to Thompons for the easy dunk :eek:

[Jameerthefear]

Great post move Nikola

[PleezeBelieve]

The Cavs showing who's the better young team here.

[Meticode]

Nice to see Thompson shove under the basket and get the put back and foul. Cavs scrapped their way back into it Karasev freethrows put us up by 2.

[Jameerthefear]

victor!

[HomieWeMajor]

Oladipo is a beast

[Jameerthefear]

Bennet looks... not good.

[Jameerthefear]

Bennet another moving screen...

[Meticode]

Bennett has cost the Cavs like 5+ points at least. He got offensive fouls for setting retarded screens. Dude has a lot of learning to do.

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Ever since it's been 90-92 Magic it's been like watching which team is the dumber one. :oldlol: Throwing the ball away on stupid passes. Setting a retarded screen and getting a offensive foul for it...twice within 2 minutes.

[Jameerthefear]

The rookies battling!

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HOLY F*CK IT'S A MIRACLE. SOMEONE SCORED A POINT AFTER EACH TEAM TOOK LIKE 10 SHOTS EACH AND KEPT MISSING ALL OF THEM!

AND WHO SCORES OUT OF EVERYONE, THE WORST PERSON ON THE FLOOR? BENNETT :roll:

[Jameerthefear]

Ever since it's been 90-92 Magic it's been like watching which team is the dumber one. :oldlol: Throwing the ball away on stupid passes. Setting a retarded screen and getting a offensive foul for it...twice within 2 minutes.
yep. both teams are leaning :D

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Wtf Then Bennett Comes Down The Court And Bangs In A Three. Wtf

[Jameerthefear]

Bennet :eek: :eek:

[Meticode]

This game is so weird. Bennett missed like 5-6 shots in a row and hadn't came close to hitting anything. Then in the last 90 seconds he's hit 3 jumpers like he's Kevin Garnett or some sh!t.

[Jameerthefear]

Then he gets a T :roll:

[PleezeBelieve]

Bennett is a horse. Love his attitude

[Johnny Jones]

Bennet is taking over

[Meticode]

Nicholson battling Bennett and he couldn't budge him off the block. Great to see Bennett get his confidence back mid-game.

[Jameerthefear]

Bennett doing some KG shit :roll:

[Twiens]

The talent is definitely there :applause:

[HomieWeMajor]

Bennett the 4th quarter killer

[B-Low]

Wow Bennett developing an offensive ego and I love it. Don't ask if you can take a shot. Take it.

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Bennett doing some KG shit :roll:
I know, WTF. I said exactly the same thing in my previous post. He's like...

jumper, bang, jumper, bang, fadeaway...bang. it makes no damn sense.

[B-Low]

:eek:

[JimmyMcAdocious]

Damn, he's on fire. He looks like peak Big Baby out there. :eek:

[Jameerthefear]

WHAT THE HELL BENNET :roll: :roll: :roll:

[Twiens]

holy fuuuuuuuuuuuck

[Meticode]

:roll: WTF this makes no sense. Bennett penetrates, backs his man up wit his back to the basket with a spin move then does a KG fade away jupmer and swishes it. WTF!?

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OMG Bennett with another 3, 14 points in the quarter for Bennett :cheers:

[HomieWeMajor]

Ooh kill em

[Meticode]

When the timeout was called when Bennett walked the ball back up, it looks like he's about to keel over. :oldlol:

[Jameerthefear]

Oladipo's little fade in the lane is really clean.

[B-Low]

This is just amazing. I'm in awe lol. Like I said if this dude puts some muscle on its a wrap. Larry Johnson-esque

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This is just amazing. I'm in awe lol. Like I said if this dude puts some muscle on its a wrap. Larry Johnson-esque
It absolutely makes no damn sense. He played like complete garbage all game on both ends.

Completely.

Then the 4th comes and he all the sudden turns into KG. :oldlol:

[Jameerthefear]

Heh good game Cavs fans :cheers: Looks like I underestimated this Bennett guy. Either he's got a good future ahead of him or we let a morbidly obese forward/center go off on us...

[HomieWeMajor]

This Cavs team has 60 win potential in 2017

[Meticode]

Bennett's straight up jumper reminds me of Chris Webber's. At least the release.

[Meticode]

This is the type of game that Bennett needed. He stunk all game, then suddenly in the fourth quarter he played decent defense both couldn't miss on offense.

If anyone is curious he started 0-5, then finished the game 6-6 and made a couple of big 3s.

It's nice to see him get his confidence. Now he just has to keep learning and lose the chubbiness.

[JimmyMcAdocious]

I don't see those KG and Webber heat of the moment comparisons. Perhaps because he's so short and so wide that I can't connect the dots.

I was only partly joking. He seriously looked like Glen Davis. :oldlol: And I don't mean that in disrespect either, just aesthetically that was the first comparison I thought of. Maybe because he was facing the Magic...

[DropStep]

Bennet needs a haircut

[Meticode]

Oladipo's little fade in the lane is really clean.
I notice. That little right of the corner fader.

[Meticode]

I don't see those KG and Webber heat of the moment comparisons. Perhaps because he's so short and so wide that I can't connect the dots.

I was only partly joking. He seriously looked like Glen Davis. :oldlol: And I don't mean that in disrespect either, just aesthetically that was the first comparison I thought of. Maybe because he was facing the Magic...
In no way am I saying he's in the league of those guys talent wise. I'm just saying he played like KG for a short period of time on the offense with the shots he was taking.

His release looks like Chris Webber to me, but his jumper isn't anywhere near as reliable.

[DukeDelonte13]

just got done watching the dvr and the game cuts out with 3 mins left to go in the fourth.

Dipo looks great, and the scary thing about Bennett is this guy didn't shoot a basketball all summer and is fat as f*ck at the moment.

[Meticode]

just got done watching the dvr and the game cuts out with 3 mins left to go in the fourth.

Dipo looks great, and the scary thing about Bennett is this guy didn't shoot a basketball all summer and is fat as f*ck at the moment.
In short at the end of the game the Cavs made their shots and Karasev played great as well.

[Uncle Drew]

I fell asleep in the 3rd, didn't see this Bennett takeover coming. :oldlol: