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Kevin Love - Miami Ground Machine

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Is Kevin Love a Hero for Saving a Dog?

  • Yes

    Votes: 28 48.3%
  • Too Right!

    Votes: 2 3.4%
  • Hotter than Jimmy G

    Votes: 15 25.9%
  • Jim Chones

    Votes: 13 22.4%

  • Total voters
    58
Kevin Love is a player that needs to be involved. He is a 20-10 guy, every game, if the coach knows how to use him. And for those of you who want to argue: Timberwolves. Yes different situation. No shit. But same skill set, same talent. Kevin Love is NOT the problem with this team. Get the fuck over yourselves and your hate for the trade that brought him here. Without him we DO NOT WIN A TITLE IN 2016.

I think Kevin Love is an asset against most teams. But his contributions to the 2016 Finals have been absurdly overblown on this forum.
 
People still making excuses for this scrub after blaming Blatt and Kyrie for his mediocrity. They're both gone so either blame LeBron for his decline or just accept he isnt as good as you thought

Love is good. Especially in a small ball lineup. But he isnt a legit Center. Teams like Knicks, Pelicans or Hornets with their Big Guys does know this and will use it.

He is a Pf not a Center! Lue is the goofy who refuses to use Zizic...
 
Kevin Love is a player that needs to be involved. He is a 20-10 guy, every game, if the coach knows how to use him. And for those of you who want to argue: Timberwolves. Yes different situation. No shit. But same skill set, same talent. Kevin Love is NOT the problem with this team. Get the fuck over yourselves and your hate for the trade that brought him here. Without him we DO NOT WIN A TITLE IN 2016.
He averaged 8pts 6rebs and shot 36% from the field / 26% from 3. Don't tell me the "defensive stop" he had against Curry won us the game or the Finals. Steph had him on skates and took a deep three and missed. Kevin did nothing special...We win the Finals with or without him that year. He was probably our 6th best player that series behind LeBron, Kyrie, JR, Tristan and RJ.

He's played okay so far this year besides a few duds. I wish he would always be assertive. Sometimes he gets into attack mode and sometimes he just seems like he plays soft. Maybe saving his body? Either way I'm not giving much credit to him for the Championship.
 
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2.5 years ago, but that defense was inexcusable back then. Look at the team on the floor, pathetic cast.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMjrhsYAdao
Those aren't all bad. Some of it was actually really good D (esp that sequence against the pistons). You can give him a pass for not being quick enough to close out 3pt shots or not being long enough to really bother shots when he does contest. That's effort at least

He doesn't get a pass in the plays he refuses to jump, contest under the rim or when he sags off his man to camp for rebounds.
 
If somebody has a statistically bad stretch of postseason games, does that mean they did not contribute to the winning season at all?

Love was on the team for a full two seasons at that time, so he had to have some impact on the team dynamic for the 2016 championship season.

If one series defined a guy's season or career, then we should have traded LeBron after the 2007 finals when he shot a horrendous .356/.200/.690 with 23 turnovers in 4 games.
 
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If somebody has a statistically bad stretch of postseason games, does that mean they did not contribute to the winning season at all?

Love was on the team for a full two seasons at that time, so he had to have some impact on the team dynamic for the 2016 championship season.

If one series defined a guy's season or career, then we should have traded LeBron after the 2007 finals when he shot a horrendous .356/.200/.690 with 23 turnovers in 4 games.
Love has had more than one playoff dud. He's not a 22 year old who put an entire franchise on his back and carried the worst Finals team in NBA history through the East. Please lets not compare anything in Love's career to LeBron.
 
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Love has had more than one playoff dud. He's not a 22 year old who put an entire franchise on his back and carried the worst Finals team in NBA history through the East. Please lets not compare anything in Love's career to LeBron.

Yeah, I dug too deep on the LeBron comparison.

From your previous posts it is clear that Love is your least favorite role player. Do you think we can trade him by the deadline for an impact player. If so, who do you have in mind?
 
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Yeah, I dug too deep on the LeBron comparison.

From your previous posts it is clear that Love is your least favorite role player. Do you think we can trade him by the deadline for an impact player. If so, who do you have in mind?

No, he’s not my least favorite “role player”. He’s supposed to be a All-Star and 2nd option on this team right? 3rd option in the 2016 Finals, he sure didn’t play like it.

I have no idea who we could trade him for, from what it sounds his value is shot.
 
He averaged 8pts 6rebs and shot 36% from the field / 26% from 3.

Well, there's the whole "suffered a concussion in Game 2" factor you overlooked. Game 1 (in which Kyrie was horroble), Love had 17 pts/13 boards. That being said, he did get the concussion, and did not have a very good series overall.

Steph had him on skates and took a deep three and missed. Kevin did nothing special.

Did Kevin Love murder your dog or something?

Whatever else Love did or didn't do during that series, that was a very special bit of defense by a power forward switched against the unanimous MVP. You dismissing that as "nothing special" proves nothing except that you, as a fan, are unable to see Love objectively.

 
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Well, there's the whole "suffered a concussion in Game 2" factor you overlooked. That being said, regardless of the reason, he did not have a very good series.



Did Kevin Love murder your dog or something?

Whatever else Love did or didn't do during that series, that was a very special bit of defense by a power forward switched against the unanimous MVP. You dismissing that as "nothing special" proves nothing except that you, as a fan, are unable to see Love objectively.

If "Curry had him on skates" it was ------ at least this one time Olympic Gold!!!!!!!
 
Well, there's the whole "suffered a concussion in Game 2" factor you overlooked. That being said, regardless of the reason, he did not have a very good series.



Did Kevin Love murder your dog or something?

Whatever else Love did or didn't do during that series, that was a very special bit of defense by a power forward switched against the unanimous MVP. You dismissing that as "nothing special" proves nothing except that you, as a fan, are unable to see Love objectively.



Yeah, that defense was great. Luckily Curry was tired af and it showed in his quickness.

Nevertheless, that aws awesome.
 
If you watch that sequence, you can tell how terrified Curry is of trying to drive around Love with LeBron roaming...he was quickly calculating in his head the likelihood of him making a tightly-contested shot vs. getting a layup attempt blocked for the umpteenth time.

He chose the former and it just didn't pan out for him like it had the majority of time the preceding 2 seasons.
 
If you watch that sequence, you can tell how terrified Curry is of trying to drive around Love with LeBron roaming...he was quickly calculating in his head the likelihood of him making a tightly-contested shot vs. getting a layup attempt blocked for the umpteenth time.

He chose the former and it just didn't pan out for him like it had the majority of time the preceding 2 seasons.

I thought that whole play was designed to get Curry one on one with Love, get Love to bite hard on a fake, and then take an open 3. Curry said post-game that's what he was trying to do.

But if you just watch Love's feet alone, he was constantly moving. Burns up a ton of energy defending that way, but it let him respond very quickly to each move Curry made.

Curry eventually passes out, resets, and damned if Love didn't do it again. Curry ended uphaving to take an off-balance three with a hand in his face, and it clanked.

That's probably the best 12 seconds of defense Love will ever play, and it was fantastic.

Should also be noted that in a game we won by 4, Kevin Love was a team high plus 19 while playing 30 minutes.

Again, that's plus 19. He did not have a good series before that (again, the concussion...), but he came up absolutely huge in the biggest game in Cavs history.

@SanduskyCav
 
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