If you want a window into my thought process on a game day when I’m contemplating what to toss up for a Live Thread theme… it often correlates to some decades past musical deep cut that sticks in my brain and provides me with an odd but fitting subtitle. Even on the verge of a winner-goes-to-the-Finals Game 7 on the road in the most hostile of territories, this is still the case. Thus, an obscure early 80s track by the new wave group, New Order, gets some unexpected exposure on a website that covers the Cavs.
I had a sneaking suspicion… okay let’s call it overwhelming sense of dread… that once Kevin Love had been officially placed into concussion protocol from the hit he took on Friday night, Ty Lue would invariably turn to his own personal human security blanket to start in Love’s place.