Thrill should be excited!

[Moses Scurry]

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/page/b ... -narrative

3. The Cavs get big and funky
It felt like a fluke when a triple-big lineup of Larry Nance Jr., Kevin Love, and Tristan Thompson led the Cavaliers to a massive fourth-quarter comeback against Miami on Feb. 24. J.B. Bickerstaff tried something nutty before garbage time, and stumbled into a win. We'd never see it again.

Wrong! Bickerstaff kept busting it out with both Darius Garland and Kevin Porter Jr. injured. It worked! The Nance/Love/Thompson and Nance/Love/Andre Drummond trios are a combined plus-44 over 70 total minutes!

Nance is the nominal small forward, and he's quick enough to defend some wings; he guarded DeMar DeRozan for much of Cleveland's March 8 overtime win against San Antonio. Both Drummond and Thompson can hang with power forwards if Bickerstaff wants Love on slower opposing centers.

Nance is shooting 35% from deep, and has canned more 3s this season -- 56 -- than he did in his entire prior career. Between Love and this remade Nance, Cleveland's gigantour lineups have (had? How are we doing this?) enough shooting to get by.

What really makes them go is canny interior passing. If you like old-school big-to-big passing -- quick-hitting, short-distance wraparounds -- the triple-big Cavs were (are?) a delight.

Nance and Love are good, clever passers. Thompson and Drummond are underrated in that regard; Drummond averaged about four dimes per game in 2017-18 before the Pistons acquired Blake Griffin, a much better passer who usurped Drummond's role as elbow hub.

This isn't genius, against-the-grain coaching. Given recent injuries, it's really just Bickerstaff playing as many of his best players together as possible. But it's humming, and it's a cool wrinkle -- one reason the Cavs went a good-for-them 4-6 after the All-Star break.

[somuchyummy]

you can still get results in the league with size.

[jodaman01]

you can still get results in the league with size.

BLASPHEMY!!!!!

GO WOLVES!!

[flexbuffchest]

[Thrillkill]

you can still get results in the league with size.

BLASPHEMY!!!!!

GO WOLVES!!

Somewhere right now the idiot is measuring his dick and telling himself it's how you use it.

[jodaman01]

you can still get results in the league with size.

BLASPHEMY!!!!!

GO WOLVES!!

Somewhere right now the idiot is measuring his dick and telling himself it's how you use it.

Chanting: It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog!!!!!

Then plays “Rudy” for the 500th time on demand.

[somuchyummy]

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