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It is shameful that our offense has devolved into the Mike Brown isolation concepts of yesteryear. I love the hell out of some LeBron James but some of this falls on his shoulders and how he plays the game. A strong and good coach might have been able to adjust the offense better but even a guy like SPO (who I think is a younger good coach) had his issues with LBJ.

To get the rumor mill a'buzzin, a have a friend of mine who knows people in James's camp to a level. There are a bunch of his folks who are going out to LA as in the Lakers. I never gave that any weight but there is concepts in play saying it is the next step he wants to make in terms of "branding".

Makes the most sense. LA Hollywood celebrities courtside. Movies. Branding. Lakers have ton of cap space to get 2-3 studs plus ball
 
Makes the most sense. LA Hollywood celebrities courtside. Movies. Branding. Lakers have ton of cap space to get 2-3 studs plus ball

Maybe the Cavs made that Lakers deal to help out Lebron just like they helped Wade. Maybe he is specifically asking for favors now and we oblige or maybe he is really the GM now. Lebron is really next level...opened up enough cap space to join along with Kawhi to the Lakers. Gotta admire his all-around greatness.
 
I hate the media. Kevin Durant goes for 37/3/1 on the most stacked team in NBA history and they all blow their loads. LeBron goes for 42/12/10 and he gets shit for it. Stupid people, man.
Its the media, had LBJ did what KD did, we wouldn't hear the end of it.
 
So may questions are gonna be answered this summer. Stay and add some good young/vet talent? Go somewhere and actually buy into a modern ball/player movement system instead of this iso Bron ball stuff? Will it even matter if Lue is still coach? What to do with the pick, etc. Gonna get crazy around here in about a month . . .
 
There really isn't a path back to contention. That is what is so hard about this year.

There really isnt so that it why it time for LBJ and the Cavs to part ways. Someone above mentioned "organizational fatigue" And I think that is an apt description.

He came back home, 3 finals appearances, one ring. Frankly for not all of the injures to Kyrie and Love the first go round we would have had two rings. That series went 6 games basically with LBJ and JR

There is no path to beating GS with LBJ staying.

We will suck for a couple years but I am very high on Cedi and Zizic. We need to nail the 8th pick. Nance is a good role player. TT is 10/10 just overpaid
Maybe a new coach can save Hood/Clarkson
Hill, Korver, JR attractive trade bait for expirings if nothing else
and Love should fetch some things

I cannot remember the names anymore, but who was on the team the year after LBJ took his talents to South Beach ?
 
There really isnt so that it why it time for LBJ and the Cavs to part ways. Someone above mentioned "organizational fatigue" And I think that is an apt description.

He came back home, 3 finals appearances, one ring. Frankly for not all of the injures to Kyrie and Love the first go round we would have had two rings. That series went 6 games basically with LBJ and JR

There is no path to beating GS with LBJ staying.

We will suck for a couple years but I am very high on Cedi and Zizic. We need to nail the 8th pick. Nance is a good role player. TT is 10/10 just overpaid
Maybe a new coach can save Hood/Clarkson
Hill, Korver, JR attractive trade bait for expirings if nothing else
and Love should fetch some things

I cannot remember the names anymore, but who was on the team the year after LBJ took his talents to South Beach ?


going to answer my own question

2011 roster
Irving, TT, Jamison, AV, Casspi, Powe, Harangody, Parker, Hickson, Gee, Boobie, Erden, Sessions, Samuel, Moon, Mo Williams

I think we will be left with a lot more this time to start with other than Irving
 
There is no path to beating GS with LBJ staying.

The problem is there is no path to beating GS with LBJ leaving either. The question is whether there is even a path to the playoffs with LBJ leaving. Our young core is....still not good. Compare Cedi, Zizic, Clarkson, and the 8th pick as a core to the young core of Phoenix or Sacramento. We have expirings and assets to trade off but this front office has repeatedly appeared unable to spot talent in both trades and draft picks.
 
If losing LeBron and being trash means we get to go back to watchin a team at least try and not cry every play after one little thing goes wrong then I’m all in


This team is hard to watch. There’s no giving your body up, there’s no communication on D there’s NOTHING. It’s 10 guys who hate each other going through the motions because they know that no one is gonna hell them


So if I’m playing D and realize LeBron is behind me, i might as well give up already because if my man gets by me, LeBron ain’t gonna step his ass up and help me....so why should i even try in the first place?

Now picture 5 dudes with that mindset
 
If losing LeBron and being trash means we get to go back to watchin a team at least try and not cry every play after one little thing goes wrong then I’m all in


This team is hard to watch. There’s no giving your body up, there’s no communication on D there’s NOTHING. It’s 10 guys who hate each other going through the motions because they know that no one is gonna hell them


So if I’m playing D and realize LeBron is behind me, i might as well give up already because if my man gets by me, LeBron ain’t gonna step his ass up and help me....so why should i even try in the first place?

Now picture 5 dudes with that mindset

They totally fell apart under adversity last night. Hard to watch for sure.
 
If losing LeBron and being trash means we get to go back to watchin a team at least try and not cry every play after one little thing goes wrong then I’m all in


This team is hard to watch. There’s no giving your body up, there’s no communication on D there’s NOTHING. It’s 10 guys who hate each other going through the motions because they know that no one is gonna hell them


So if I’m playing D and realize LeBron is behind me, i might as well give up already because if my man gets by me, LeBron ain’t gonna step his ass up and help me....so why should i even try in the first place?

Now picture 5 dudes with that mindset

FWIW I think we should go back to trapping everything so it forces people to rotate (including Bron). It might help lead to some turnovers too.

Trap Rozier, Tatum, and Brown everytime they touch it. Because they're killing us whenever they put the ball on the floor.
 
FWIW I think we should go back to trapping everything so it forces people to rotate (including Bron). It might help lead to some turnovers too.

Trap Rozier, Tatum, and Brown everytime they touch it. Because they're killing us whenever they put the ball on the floor.
You mean the defense we slapped on Curry in 2015 that turned him into a sniveling little bitch for 3 games?


We could do that but then that requires other players to come off their man and give a shit about their teammates.....so i don’t see it happening
 
Maybe the Cavs made that Lakers deal to help out Lebron just like they helped Wade. Maybe he is specifically asking for favors now and we oblige or maybe he is really the GM now. Lebron is really next level...opened up enough cap space to join along with Kawhi to the Lakers. Gotta admire his all-around greatness.
Dude I'm not gonna lie, the amount of hatred Boston as a sports town would have for LeBron if he beat their most talented squad ever in the Finals while wearing a Lakers uniform would be the funniest fucking icing on the cake I've ever seen. The absolute madman. There's no way he would do it. But maybe he will. But fuck ESPN they don't deserve those storylines.
 

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