The Gauntlet: The Pickup - Wolves at Cavs GDT

[Q-is-here]

Man, Mitchell slamming the door shut with all these mid-range moonshots. Those aren't easy shots and he's made four in a row! Crazy. Bring the kids back in....

[60WinTim]

Yup, the Cavs are super good. At least we won’t have to worry about how to beat them until the Finals….

[Q-is-here]

C'mon Finch, sit the vets here. Silly.

[60WinTim]

C'mon Finch, sit the vets here. Silly.

I was thinking the same thing. He called an early timeout, so hopefully the subs are coming.

[Q-is-here]

Clark has come a long ways in only two weeks. He's sitting with the vets now instead of being out there for garbage time. But there's Minott and Miller!

[Coolbreeze44]

Unacceptable performance after the most recent feel good outing. Yeah Cleveland is good, so what? We are supposed to be good too. We are more than capable of giving that team a good run on anyone's court. We just didn't play well and there should be no excuses.

[KiwiMatt]

Game was lost in the first 6 minutes. NBA tying worst 0 - 14 fg to start a game. Another record to add to the Hall of Shame.

Gotta give props to the Cavs. What a beautiful brand of basketball they play, and if they continue to play like that I’d have to call them favourites to win it all.

[AbeVigodaLive]

Abe's late late night dvr review:

- I felt bad for Luka Garza. He's scuffling. It's been a rough watch. I felt like I was watching a guy's career come to a close. The defense. The ariball. There was even a play where he rolled up the much smaller Merrill and couldn't hold it and NAW's pass was stolen.

- Edwards went crazy... and it was amusing to see how long Finch would leave him in for his quest to 50.

[Sundog]

Part of the Wolves problem this year is that Naz, NAW, Jaden all are too volatile, and seem to move in tandem. One night they can’t miss as a group, the next they can’t seem to hit anything. These are the nights the team misses Julius and Dante.

[FNG]

I didn't learn much from this game. I already knew that Cleveland is MUCH better than us when we are missing Mike, Randle and Donte. But are they much better than us if we are healthy? I'm not sure. I've been quite impressed by our squad since the insertion of Clark into the mix, although he was not very effective last night. His addition to the rotation has done wonders for Jaden as both a scorer and a rebounder. It's exhausting to have to always defend the point of attack offensive star on the opponent, and I think it showed in Jaden's game. If you're tired from playing defense, you are going to settle for 3-pointers from the corner rather than driving to the hoop, and you're not going to have the energy to crash the boards. But with Clark (or NAW) now drawing the toughest assignment, Jaden seems to have much more in the tank to do the things we have seen him do recently. His resurgence has really raised the ceiling on this team I think, as has Ant taking his game to a new level, and I'm eager to see what we can do when we get our three key rotation guys back.

All that said, the game was kind of background entertainment for us last night as we scrolled our emails...it was over in the first few minutes.