2/27/26 7:00PM Cavs 37-23 @Pistons 43-14

[Tigeraholic1]

Little Caesars Arena - Detroit, MI

Watch: ESPN/FD Det

[buddha]

if the other team ia going to rest half their players every time they play detroit, we might get to 60 wins this year!

[Sports_Freak]

Not that I'm scoreboard watching but Cleveland and Boston both lost last night. Yeah...the scoreboard is being watched. 😆😆

[Sports_Freak]

2 hours ago, buddha said:

if the other team ia going to rest half their players every time they play detroit, we might get to 60 wins this year!

Detroit had several players out eatlier in the year, we still won most of the games. Sometimes it's not who you play but when you play them.

[Deleterious]

Cavs are odd  Their last 3 games they have lost to OKC with all of their injuries and Milwaukee.  In-between those games they beat the Knicks.

[Deleterious]

I hope they have a plan to get Cade some rest down the stretch.  Home court is very overrated.  If they can secure it naturally, cool.  But it's not worth fighting the Thunder/Spurs for it if it burns Cade out.  He plays heavy minutes and has a heavy workload during those minutes.  Plus, he doesn't use the defensive side of the ball to rest like a lot of other stars do.  

[gehringer_2]

16 minutes ago, Deleterious said:

I hope they have a plan to get Cade some rest down the stretch.  Home court is very overrated.  If they can secure it naturally, cool.  But it's not worth fighting the Thunder/Spurs for it if it burns Cade out.  He plays heavy minutes and has a heavy workload during those minutes.  Plus, he doesn't use the defensive side of the ball to rest like a lot of other stars do.  

Great. They'll rest Cade and watch the league decide the Pistons are the team they are going to hammer for it to make an example...

[Deleterious]

1 hour ago, gehringer_2 said:

Great. They'll rest Cade and watch the league decide the Pistons are the team they are going to hammer for it to make an example...

Joking aside.  All they really have to be careful with are the national televised games.  That seems to be all the league really cares about.  Those of us who spend $20 a month on FD and hundreds a year on League Pass can kick rocks.  

[buddha]

1 minute ago, Deleterious said:

Joking aside.  All they really have to be careful with are the national televised games.  That seems to be all the league really cares about.  Those of us who spend $20 a month on FD and hundreds a year on League Pass can kick rocks.  

then they should fine the thunder for last night.

[Deleterious]

1 hour ago, buddha said:

then they should fine the thunder for last night.

They might look at them for Hartenstein and Chet sitting.  But SGA and Williams have been out since before the all star game, so they won't get in trouble for them.

[Deleterious]

Harden, Schroeder and Ellis are questionable.

Mitchell is out.  

[NYLion]

11 hours ago, Sports_Freak said:

Detroit had several players out eatlier in the year, we still won most of the games. Sometimes it's not who you play but when you play them.

Buddha is our resident curmudgeon; he'll find any way to downplay the Pistons and also find any excuse to **** on the Bulls so that's fun at least.

Edited yesterday at 02:37 AM by NYLion

[NYLion]

1 hour ago, Deleterious said:

Harden, Schroeder and Ellis are questionable.

Mitchell is out.  

Who can take the NBA regular season seriously anymore when teams rarely play full rosters. It's ridiculous

[Betrayer]

I just want to point out that Cade is averaging 1 block and 1.5 steals per game.

[buddha]

I am quite the crumudgeon.

Although so is Del!  he's worse than me!

[Deleterious]

Ellis, Mitchell, Harden, Strus, and Wade all out tonight for Cleveland.  Schroeder will play.

[Betrayer]

First Ivey, now Jenkins, it doesn’t matter - they’re all better when Lavert is out with injury. 

[Betrayer]

At this point I’d be giving Lanier some run. Gotta find someone who doesn’t mind playing defense that can hit a shot.

[Betrayer]

And now Careless fouls a 3 point shooter. Ausar would’ve been benched for the rest of the game.

[Betrayer]

Wanting to score all your points in the paint against a team with a good defensive front line makes it rough. We can’t shoot, so you need to double down on defense to get into transition and get offensive rebounds. It’s really the only chance. It’s not like we’re going to get calls from the refs no matter how many times we take it to the paint. 

[Betrayer]

Cade’s shooting over a road cone whenever Schroeder is in there. Keep going to it. 

[Betrayer]

So many moving screens from their bigs. 

[Betrayer]

Why is Lavert still on the court? Please make it stop. The pictures he’s holding over your heads can’t be that bad. 

[buddha]

5 minutes ago, Betrayer said:

Wanting to score all your points in the paint against a team with a good defensive front line makes it rough. We can’t shoot, so you need to double down on defense to get into transition and get offensive rebounds. It’s really the only chance. It’s not like we’re going to get calls from the refs no matter how many times we take it to the paint. 

careful or they'll call you a crumudgeon too....

[Sports_Freak]

Why is LaVert in the rotation? He's killing this team. Sit him...