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At pre game and they already look cold. Clanging threes, missing free throws ...

There's this guy out west.....

The Cavs have more overall talent than GS. GS is a better team with great team chemistry.

On a side note, Kyrie doesn't even try on D. That has to drive Lue and LeBron crazy. It drives me crazy to watch it.

I never thought I'd go here, but I agree with lead...put Chris Paul on this team, and I think it's a coin flip between the Cavs and GS.

What a shame too because there's nobody, Curry included, who's prettier to watch on O than Kyrie.

Kobe is playing this game like its the playoffs for him. Seems like we should be up big, but we keep going into big scoring droughts.

I want us to win.... but I love seeing the old Kobe come out and play

Kobe plays hard every game and wants to kill you while lebron wants to be your friend. Totally different mind sets. Kobe destroying lebron tonight. And holy schnieckies hello Channing frye. He's doing everything we thought love would do

I take it you're not a big believer in what GS is doing? They're changing basketball in a way Babe Ruth did in Baseball.

I'm not sure what you mean.

Kobe plays hard every game [except for when he doesn't play any defense at all, like for the last several years] and wants to kill you while lebron wants to be your friend.

I refuse to go there, though it's tempting being a Cleveland sports fan. In the Cavs we have a Cleveland team that wins most nights, are very entertaining to watch and are going to make it to the finals. I've been watching almost all of the games and enjoying most of them. A lot of people here are absolutely miserable with this team, complaining every game, win or lose. Hey, it's a Cleveland team having a winning season, we don't get those too often and we might as well enjoy it.

We're in first place, we're probably going to the finals, enjoy the ride. Hell, we might even win it all.

I did not say guy. I said TEAM. I even said probably.

I think you and Rocket are trying to deflect that the Cavs' players haven't embraced teamwork the way that GS and SA have.

Talent isn't the problem for the Cavs. It's selfishness.

Nah, I've seen Kobe be less than 100% on some nights too. Tonight though, you could see that he wanted to show up Lebron one last time. Lebron looked more like it was game 64 of the season and needed to save everything for the playoffs. Most of the Cavs looked like they were in cruise control though. You could tell they were just the much more talented team.

And Channing Frye, my goodness. Why has he been on the bench this whole time? He provided everything we've been looking for out of Kevin Love all season. Crisp three point shooting, respectable defense and the happiness to not have the offense flow through him.

I didn't see Love at the game. Did they show him on the broadcast? I guess he sprained his knee or something? I didn't see him on the bench or anything.

yeah i think Lue kinda looks like a fool right now not playing frye more..he had another good game last time he got minutes..and damn he's got a fast release for big guy. Hopefully we see alot more of him...we need his scoring off bench..Shumpert is worthless. I didn't see love on the bench either, they said he banged knees with delly but said it was precautionary only

Shump almost looks like he has a mental block. He was having issues, even in the pre-game. They were doing dunks in the warm-up lines and he kept getting stuffed by the rim, every single time.

And I think you're trying to deflect from the reality that it doesn't matter how well the Cavs play. Sometimes in life it does t matter how hard you try it might simply not be good enough and there's somebody better than you.

Channing Frye, imo, is already helping our team as an off the bench player than Andy was. The transaction seems to be of a positive side, not use to that with a Cleveland sports team lol.

GS has 6 losses. SA has 10.

Philly has 9 wins.

Wow.

Warriors and Spurs home records (combined): 60-0

and people try to tell me the cavs can beat either team in a series

man i wish we had CP3 on this team.

Cavs went on a monster 30-6 run

He would run into the same problem as Kyrie Irving (LeBron wanting to run the point, which he should wan to do), only LeBron respects Chris Paul and would do what he said.

jordan's career FT percentage is 42? omg....ewww..

Frye is draining every three! That one, he was even fouled. Can't believe the refs didn't call that.

Cavs have destroyed the Clippers and Thunder since we've had Kyrie.

What's the point of Jeff Green?

really mosgov?

Props to the Clippers. It's extremely difficult staying in front of Lebron when he's attacking.

Just put a blindfold on JR Smith. He might turn into Steph Curry.

Cavs have played insanely good. They're putting on a damn clinic passing and shooting.

omg...we are murdering the 3 ball today. can not be stopped.

It's a shooting clinic from behind the line.

Really love how JR has played this year. He hasn't been a headache. He's given good effort every night.

So this is why we traded for Frye.

Guarantee if we faced the Raptors we'd treat them the same way as the Clippers. Stick Lebron on Lowry and let Derozan shot chuck them out of the series.

+1

I liked the trade a lot.

j/c:

The Cavs were awesome today. I think this would put to rest [but I doubt it] the illogical argument that the Cavs don't have enough talent to win. They are freaking loaded.

Now, if they can just agree to play as a team rather than as selfish individuals............

Something about that Sacramento game seems to have turned on the light (for now anyway). Kevin Love hit that fouled-three pointer after struggling all night, and the team really rallied around him. Since then, they seem like they are all getting along much better.

I'm beginning to really like it. This dude displayed his quick release ability at the 3 line.

I like seeing the increased PT for Frye too. Then again, everyone seemed on fire. Raining three balls like no other and we grabbed that lead late in the second quarter and never let up!

Wish we could play that kind of ball all the time.

The three-ball is sort of our blessing and curse. When we are hitting it, everything works. We flip the ball around, get open looks and generally look like a well-oiled machine. When we aren't hitting it though, we completely lose confidence. That's when we tend to revert back into ISO-ball and stop moving the ball, because guys are afraid of passing to teammates who miss their open looks.