November 20th, 2013: The Day Ohio Learned How To Spell Dellavedova
By Simon Tryzna
After picking up minutes here and there, Dellavedova burst onto the scene in Ohio big time in loss to Wizards.
Matthew Dellavedova picked up nine points in 27 minutes of play in a 97-91 loss to the visiting Wizards. What stat stands out though, is the fact that the Cavs were down 80-59 heading into the fourth quarter and were down 5 with just under three to play. In his 27 minutes, Dellavedova had a +/- of 21, tied for the highest in the game with Washington SF Martell Webster, who played 36 minutes (and his team won…).
Since I didn’t watch the game, I’m not going to blog about it. However, I’ll post what a bunch of people said about his performance on Twitter, and Cavs SB Nation site fearthesword.com
Cavs’ Mike Brown: “We didn’t compete. We had one guy who competed the entire time he was on the floor: Matthew Dellavedova.”
Dellavedova out there like its Game 7. I respect it.
Anthony Bennett, drafted number 1. Matthew Dellavedova, undrafted. Guess whos making the bigger impact for the Cavs.
This Cavs game is far from Dellavedova
We interrupt tonight’s Kyrie Irving dribbling exposition for a Matthew Dellavedova led comeback…
Matthew Dellavedova is an undrafted rookie. Matthew Dellavedova has been Cavs’ ROY so far. The Cavs had four draft picks entering the draft.
Matthew Dellavedova was just the only Cav who went all out and grabbed a rebound. Varejao, Waiters and Jack all just stood and watched.
Can this be a phrase please? RT @MikePradaSBN: Careful, Wizards. This game is far from Dellavedova.
Fantastic defense, determination by Delly denying Beal a handoff from Nene. Forced Wiz into shot clock violation. Hard not to like the kid
Whoa Delly! @matthewdelly has two 3s as the @cavs get within 13pts of the Wizards with 9mins left in 4th! Cavs have come back from 20+ down
Cavs might be losing, but at least they are coming back behind the future of the organization – Sims, Delly and Varejao.
Can Delly play 48 minutes?
“FACT: Delly is the only one giving 100%”
“From what I’ve seen from Delly this season, and I haven’t seen everything, he’s far exceeded my expectations. Would never have thought he would be playing more than 5 or 10 meaningful minutes in a game”
“haha Delly crushing it on defense.”
“I AM A DELLY FAN”
“DELLY IS MY NEW FAV PLAYER”
“Omg,. Dion is going to commit sepaku if he losses his starting spot to Delly”
“Someone buy Dellavedova some goddamn Foster’s after the game.”
“Delly is everything Aaron Craft is described as, except actually good”
“Cannot replace desire! Love the way he plays. Sets an example”
“I have the romantic vision of all the cavs coming into MB’s office to ask for Delly to start in their place”
“Obviously the answer to all of the cavs problems is to start five Australians”
and bonus:
“Trade Waiters for Patty Mills…”