Richard Bogielski

@ByJasonLloyd Thanks Kenny.

I have never, and I mean never, heard as many opposing teams’ fans in this arena for a game as tonight

@SportsBoyTony Wasn’t “gas.” All we needed was the right substitutions when Knicks got hot. Atkinson sat in his self induced stupor with bewilderment. The unspeakable unceasing (no time outs) run happened against us and we never recovered.

You’ll never hear me say that Game 1 was a sliding doors moment. They ran out of gas in that game and it only got worse after. Even the bench players looked stuck in mud. Literally every metric for fatigue pointed to a team that spent far too much energy getting here

@SportsBoyTony “they?”

I said it was the best they could do given the bottoming out of Garland’s trade value and I also thought he’d help them make a deeper run. Never thought they’d play him the most minutes and depend on them the way they did.

@SportsBoyTony They had game one in hand. The coach blew it. The team quit.

As I said during the deadline there’s not a move Cavs could do that would seriously make them title contenders unless BIGTIME luck was on their side. Now that OKC and Wemby are obviously on another level, some will say rebuild. But Dan is in his 60’s and does he look like he wants to wait 5 years to be relevant again? They will 100% be big game hunting.

@tophattimtums @WillErazo440 @SportsBoyTony They got rid of Bickerstaff bc he was good on defense but couldn’t improve the offense (plus certain players hated him). We got Atkinson because he did know something about offense, but he completely ignored developing the defense. We haven’t had a complete coach.

@WillErazo440 @RBogielski @SportsBoyTony I don’t get this. They traded for Mitchell bc roster wasn’t enough, they changed coaches. The swapped out garland for harden. IMO Koby has made all these moves a year late but I don’t think they’ve been one to stand pat.

Oddly enough I think everyone is getting what they wanted. The Cavs/Mitchell superfans saw them get past the 2nd round hump The non-believers saw the worst of every player on the roster magnified times 10 with everyone watching And your biggest trade chip (Mobley) played promising enough to draw major trade interest but clearly isn’t close enough as a two-way star to make him the center of a relevant Eastern Conference team

@1Tyvis Who is responsible for establishing culture?

The Cavs problem is once you show you have quit in you, you’ll never be able to win a championship. You have to blow it up. The culture is bad now.

@RuiterWrongFAN How many plays has this team run in the Knicks series?

Dan Gilbert can not run this back. Koby Altman assembled a team that has been absolutely dismantled in the playoffs in four consecutive seasons. 5 game 1st round loss to #Knicks followed by 5 game second round losses to the #Celtics & #Pacers and now a sweep by #Knicks.

@REFLOG18 The team always quits in the coach first.

Embarrassing 💀

@HammerNation19 @ESPNCleveland That’s who you’re critical of, the guy putting in a defensive effort?

If fouling 90 feet from the basket for no reason was an Olympic sport, Max Strus would win gold, silver, and bronze.

@Gbush91 Some coaching job, eh?

I’ll catch yall in 2027, im turning this shit off. MVP chants for Brunson in your own building is Nasty 🤢 Take the team off the court and play the backups and turn out the lights. Humiliating at the highest levels! #Cavs

@JordanZirm Great coaching, eh?

the Cavs do not believe in the philosophy of getting back on defense

@AndrewH19165599 @HiddenHistoryYT The Brits could have begun an offensive which divided Hitler’s forces. Hitler waited two weeks, when he sensed that the British promise to Poland was a lie, he sent his entire forces to the Polish front, his west practically unguarded. Despite this, the “allies” did nothing.

@RBogielski @HiddenHistoryYT Not sure that the Royal Navy would be able to sail up the Wisła even if it wanted to.

85 years ago today, in the freezing grey water between Iceland and Greenland, the most famous warship in the world died in under three minutes. HMS Hood. 48,000 tons. The pride of the Royal Navy for twenty years. The ship British schoolchildren drew in their notebooks. "The Mighty Hood." She was hunting the Bismarck. At 05:52 on 24 May 1941, Vice Admiral Lancelot Holland gave the order to open fire at 26,500 yards. He was closing the range hard on purpose, because Hood's weak deck armor could not survive shells falling from above at long range. He needed flat trajectories, and he needed them fast. He was three minutes too slow. Bismarck's fifth salvo straddled Hood as she turned to bring her rear guns to bear. A single 15-inch shell punched through her thin armored deck and detonated her aft magazines. Witnesses on Prince of Wales described a column of flame that rose higher than the mainmast, eerily silent at first, the sound arriving a moment later. Hood broke in two. Her stern rose vertically out of the sea, guns still pointed at the sky, and slid under. Her bow followed. Of 1,418 men aboard, three survived. Signalman Ted Briggs, Able Seaman Bob Tilburn, Midshipman Bill Dundas. They floated on a raft of debris in near-freezing water, watching their ship's oil burn around them, until the destroyer Electra found them two hours later. Briggs was 18 years old. He lived until 2008, the last man who had stood on the Mighty Hood. The Bismarck won the battle. But Prince of Wales, only just commissioned with shipyard workers still aboard fixing her main guns, had landed three hits before retreating. One ruptured a forward fuel tank. Bismarck began trailing oil across the Atlantic like a wounded animal. Churchill's order to the fleet was simple. Sink the Bismarck. Every available British warship turned to the chase. Three days later, at the edge of the Bay of Biscay, a Swordfish biplane from HMS Ark Royal, flying through a gale at near sea level, dropped a torpedo that jammed Bismarck's rudder hard to port. She could only steam in a slow circle, straight back into the Royal Navy. King George V and Rodney closed at dawn on 27 May. They fired on her for ninety minutes. Bismarck absorbed over 400 shells and at least a dozen torpedoes before she rolled over and went down with roughly 2,200 of her crew. The Royal Navy answered for Hood in 72 hours.

@MattFontana83 Well. We have a coach unconcerned by how many open look threes we surrender.

I hope the Cavs win just to spite the Knicks fans in town Like thanks for coming and spending money in our city but you gotta go home for one more

@SportsBoyTony Before we go trading players, I want to see what they can do with a genuine coach. We still don’t know our capability as Atkinson was a liability.

If you were team pivot on the core this couldn’t have gone better for you. Cavs will be unified on needing a player better than Donovan to compete this deep in the postseason.

@SportsBoyTony I detect a note a sarcasm

Just really thought master motivator Kenny Atkinson would have them ready for a backs-against-the-wall game.

@SirFranksnBacon Before we trade anyone I want to see this team with a coach that’s not inebriated.

Atkinson getting outcoached! Mobley might have a couple of games left before he’s traded! It’s really hard to like this team!

@racjac24 Strus is the only one busting his ass on defense.

Strus can't dribble His drives are a disaster His D is below average His shot is a rollercoaster But that guy leaves it all on the floor. Hard to complain too much about him

@egoldie80 Kenny has them prepared

Donovan, James, and Evan all with 4 turnovers so far tonight.