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weepinwillow said:
I wonder just how much help there is out there. I mean, Paul George is great, but does he flip the script on Golden State and Durant? Maybe, maybe not.
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PG3+Melo would make a huge difference on this team, change our complexion significantly. PG3 would give us the second defender we need in the starting lineup. Melo would ensure our bench lineups have enough punch not to lose 20 point leads in like three minutes flat.
 
weepinwillow said:
Nobody is taking anything away from LeBron (except Skip Bayless who's a jackwagon, so who cares). But as usual we are in a "LeBron needs help" place in the story-arc of "the Return." (along with the never ending "Lebron is going to leave" arc which has been there since he was drafted)

I wonder just how much help there is out there. I mean, Paul George is great, but does he flip the script on Golden State and Durant? Maybe, maybe not. I think there are a few places the Cavs could go to improve here:

1. Lebron could commit longer term with the Cavs. This would help the team take a long view about winning, and how to use assets. It would also give players who might be interested in coming better assurances that they won't be stuck in Cleveland w/o Lebron in a season. (won't happen, I know)

2. The front office gets stabilized. (sigh)

3. If you can move Kev for George, do it. If not, keep Love, look to bring up the bench. Add Beverly or someone who can be dogged defensively on opposing ball-handlers, without totally being a net negative on the other end. Add someone who can do the same thing on the wing. (we are talking "stay in your lane" role players who can knock down open looks)

4. Use the regular season as practice. Amp it up defensively but for fewer minutes. If you lose a February game to the Bucks w/Lebron and Irving playing less than 34 minutes, so be it. But avoid "chill mode" and get the bench and other guys used to handling the load from time to time. I get that you don't want to kill yourself for every W over 82. What you do want is to be in a place where you know what you can give on both ends.

Honestly, my (somewhat sizable) gut says Lebron leaves with the team feeling in turmoil after an 0-4/1-4 Finals loss to GS again and we move into trading Irving and Love in the offseason for 50 cents on the dollar. (and for that matter any and everyone else)
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I agree, no more chill mode. Play hard from 30-35 minutes and let the bench PLAY and get experience together. If it isn't enough we still finish 2nd or 3rd in the East. We already know it doesn't matter.
 
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Anybody find it fucking frustrating that the NBA Awards didn't even give an honorable mention to this guy or this team?
 
Andrew said:
Anybody find it fucking frustrating that the NBA Awards didn't even give an honorable mention to this guy or this team?
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Nope.
If I was a betting man, and I had to bet, I'd say that the NBA does NOT like the Cavs. And if I had to guess, it probably has to do the fact that the Cavs's stars take days off and have made the regular season into a joke. They disrespect the entire process.

On the flip side of that, you have the Warriors, where they play hard all year long, try to win as many games as possible. The common man loves Curry. People tune in and watch this "new style of basketball." Companies that buy ads with networks prefer this over the Cavs who half the time don't show up.

Now if you were the NBA comish...would you like the way the Cavs operate?
 
RuanuLaw said:
Nope.
If I was a betting man, and I had to bet, I'd say that the NBA does NOT like the Cavs. And if I had to guess, it probably has to do the fact that the Cavs's stars take days off and have made the regular season into a joke. They disrespect the entire process.

On the flip side of that, you have the Warriors, where they play hard all year long, try to win as many games as possible. The common man loves Curry. People tune in and watch this "new style of basketball." Companies that buy ads with networks prefer this over the Cavs who half the time don't show up.

Now if you were the NBA comish...would you like the way the Cavs operate?
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Meh. Who gives a fuck if they mention LBJ or the Cavs on some stupid award show? Some of you guys care more about the media narrative than the results.
 
cavsfever said:
PG3+Melo would make a huge difference on this team, change our complexion significantly. PG3 would give us the second defender we need in the starting lineup. Melo would ensure our bench lineups have enough punch not to lose 20 point leads in like three minutes flat.
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Shit id start Melo if he were here. PG13 or LeBron can play the 4.

Starting lineups don't matter in todays NBA anyway. Its all about rotations and matchups. As long as the bench has help from either LeBron or any pair of either PG13, Kyrie or Melo we would be ok.

I was embarrassed to be a Cavs fan that game LeBron sat for literally like 1 minute and we gave up 10 points tho.

Like that cant EVER happen and that's bad coaching. That is a true sign that the inmates run the asylum. Dude sat literally for like a minute and we f**** up the game
 
TitleTown said:
Meh. Who gives a fuck if they mention LBJ or the Cavs on some stupid award show? Some of you guys care more about the media narrative than the results.
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The narrative DID match the results, for the most part. Did u watch the finals?
 
RuanuLaw said:
The narrative DID match the results, for the most part. Did u watch the finals?
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When did my post mention the finals? I'm talking about the current narrative.

Also, your defensiveness just outed you as one of the people who suckle at the media narrative. Bravo.
 
TitleTown said:
When did my post mention the finals? I'm talking about the current narrative.

Also, your defensiveness just outed you as one of the people who suckle at the media narrative. Bravo.
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LOLz.
 
You gotta realize that LeBron is the first basketball GOAT candidate to exist in the social media era.


Then when you add in that the media just says shit just to say it you really come to not give a shit about the media.

The biggest contradicting argument I heard this finals was that if LeBron beat this superteam he was automatically GOAT. First take said this, Fox Sports 1 said it, basically everyone I talked to said it.

So we lost


And now those same exact people say shit like LeBron losing this series made it so he can never catch MJ. Or they said today that KD is singlehandly ruining LeBron's legacy.


Like what? If the team was so good that if he magically beat them he was GOAT how can that same team harm his legacy that much in a loss?


That's like saying im the new bad ass on the streets if I get a lucky punch in and beat Conor McGregor in a fight but if I lose to him Ill NEVER be a badass.





When you see shit like that it makes you see the media for what it is. People who say shit just to say shit and are never held accountable.

My main use of the media is trade rumors and injury reports. I cannot stand the media's analysis of players or teams or coaches. Like it is so stupid I cant deal. If you listened to the medi all your life youd think that KD was a playoff choker until this finals. Dude KD been killing teams in the playoffs for years
 
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