Celtics (34-19) at Cavaliers (11-42) Game #54 2/5/19

[ozgod]

Hayward and Smart were good. Wanamaker too.

Hayward looking to score more tonight - more of this please.

It helps when he plays 31 mins instead of 21. He will lapse back when Kyrie and Mook return (though I hope not)

[Fierce1]

Looking forward to beating LA again in less than a week.

[blink]

a win is a win!  they won't nitpic this when they assign the playoff seeds.  Lets play better on Thursday night!
Go C's!

[Kuberski33]

no matter what we just haven't looked sharp tonight.  messing around with a crap team like this.

I thought Cavs played well.  Sloppy at the end., but great energy and rode Burks and Sexton for as long as they could. Zizic and Nance were pretty strong inside. I thought it was a reasonably good win on the road without 2 starters (and 2 of their top 3 scorers).

It's hard to win on the road in this league - and given the C's recent hot streak, the guys sitting out and the up/down nature of some of the younger guys this season, I didn't think tonight would be easy.  Hayward scoring 18 to me was a really good sign. D and ball movement was there down the stretch too.

[Fierce1]

Philly losing big to Toronto tonight.

Celts still within striking distance of the #2 seed.

[SCeltic34]

no matter what we just haven't looked sharp tonight.  messing around with a crap team like this.

I thought Cavs played well.  Sloppy at the end., but great energy and rode Burks and Sexton for as long as they could. Zizic and Nance were pretty strong inside. I thought it was a reasonably good win on the road without 2 starters (and 2 of their top 3 scorers).

Agreed.  Some frustrating stretches during the game for the C's but overall a good win albeit a kind of ugly one.

[Fierce1]

no matter what we just haven't looked sharp tonight.  messing around with a crap team like this.

I thought Cavs played well.  Sloppy at the end., but great energy and rode Burks and Sexton for as long as they could. Zizic and Nance were pretty strong inside. I thought it was a reasonably good win on the road without 2 starters (and 2 of their top 3 scorers).

Agreed.  Some frustrating stretches during the game for the C's but overall a good win albeit a kind of ugly one.

Winning ugly is a mark of a championship team.

[ozgod]

Jayson had 12 of our 14 free throw attempts 

[Fierce1]

Jayson had 12 of our 14 free throw attempts 

The Tatumizer!

[ozgod]

Just realized that this was Gordon’s first game back at the Q since his injury. I hope his performance tonight exorcised some demons.

[slamtheking]

Jayson had 12 of our 14 free throw attempts 

The Tatumizer!

couldn't believe the calls he was getting.  it was almost like he wasn't wearing a C's jersey. 

bad premonition the league refs are preparing for him to be in NO next year

[footey]

We gutted out. We lose this game in November.

[ozgod]

We gutted out. We lose this game in November.

Gordon interviewed said that before the game he was actually quite anxious about going out on the floor tonight, all the memories came back, not so much about the event (which he has probably tried to suppress) but about the aftermath, sitting in the x-ray room and then the locker room, the people who were there with him, and him thinking if he was ever going to play again. He was ok after the first few mins but was anxious during the shoot around and pregame. Hopefully he exorcised some of his demons.

[SparzWizard]

We gutted out. We lose this game in November.

Gordon interviewed said that before the game he was actually quite anxious about going out on the floor tonight, all the memories came back, not so much about the event (which he has probably tried to suppress) but about the aftermath, sitting in the x-ray room and then the locker room, the people who were there with him, and him thinking if he was ever going to play again. He was ok after the first few mins but was anxious during the shoot around and pregame. Hopefully he exorcised some of his demons.

He'll need to start getting used to playing in Cleveland at least twice a year in Celtics green. But his performance tonight was not bad.

[CelticsPoetry]

Can't watch live. How does Jaylen have 19 shots and 0 assists?

Lots of offensive rebounds off his misses and more misses after he went right back up. He struggled close to the rim tonight.