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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
The wrapping on his back and some other iffy situations are what gives me a concern. Some of it was prevention but bigs are always suspicious.
Because otherwise I think we need him to win anything and I really really like him as a player.
 
Last night was where the Love criticism comes from. He was downright awful, and was as big of a reason as anyone that the deficit got so out of control.

When Love missed all of his shots early, his effort everywhere else evaporated. He stopped rebounding, he stopped boxing out, his defense went back to being abysmal, and everything looked to be about him finding ways to score.

That was simply unacceptable.

If you need proof, go back to that thunderous Turner dunk in the second quarter. Love is haphazardly guarding him, then a shot goes up, and Love, from 12 feet away, leaves MYLES TURNER to start leaking down the court.
 
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Cassity14 said:
Last night was where the Love criticism comes from. He was downright awful, and was as big of a reason as anyone that the deficit got so out of control.
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The only thing that bothers me about the criticism he takes is go venture in to the Kyrie thread. In all honesty, you could replace Love in the above with Kyrie and it would read the same to me. And yet, go in to the Kyrie thread and see how many excuses are being made for Irving.

Love is always the lightening rod. I'm not saying he should not be criticized because frankly, he deserves it SOME times. But there's a large cross section of our fan base that seemingly just cheers against him and the moment he has a sub par game is in here saying "SEE, THIS IS WHY". Has one off game "TRADE HIM!".....or speculates that he needs to get fat so he can be good again.

This isn't directed solely at you, I have just always found it very strange. Case in point....Love's post season averages through 3 games:

19 PPG, 7 REB, 8-17 3 PT (47%), 15-28 FG (64.3%).

I mean, I'm not sure what else a 3rd option is expected to do. Because even though he has those numbers, there are plenty of people who rag on him for very unreasonable things. Does he need to be better? Sure but a 19 point 3rd option is ******* incredible. He has his short comings every now and then but the rest of the league would kill to have him as a 1 or 2 option, let alone a 3.
 
I'mWithDan said:
The only thing that bothers me about the criticism he takes is go venture in to the Kyrie thread. In all honesty, you could replace Love in the above with Kyrie and it would read the same to me. And yet, go in to the Kyrie thread and see how many excuses are being made for Irving.

Love is always the lightening rod. I'm not saying he should not be criticized because frankly, he deserves it SOME times. But there's a large cross section of our fan base that seemingly just cheers against him and the moment he has a sub par game is in here saying "SEE, THIS IS WHY". Has one off game "TRADE HIM!".....or speculates that he needs to get fat so he can be good again.

This isn't directed solely at you, I have just always found it very strange. Case in point....Love's post season averages through 3 games:

19 PPG, 7 REB, 8-17 3 PT (47%), 15-28 FG (64.3%).

I mean, I'm not sure what else a 3rd option is expected to do. Because even though he has those numbers, there are plenty of people who rag on him for very unreasonable things. Does he need to be better? Sure but a 19 point 3rd option is ******* incredible. He has his short comings every now and then but the rest of the league would kill to have him as a 1 or 2 option, let alone a 3.
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Yeah I get that. Trust me, I put them both in the same boat last night. I feel the exact same way about Irving; he played selfish loser basketball in last night's game.

His thread is what it is. He gets a lot of die hard support. I think a lot of that has to do with the fact that he was drafted by the Cavs and we've seen him grow and mature as a player. Love has never really lived up to the Cleveland hype in the sense of what he was before the Cavs acquired him. It's all worked out because Kyrie has taken his game up a notch since LeBron's return, however, it was thought by many that Kyrie would actually be more of a third option, at least initially, than Love.

Not saying I agree with the massive difference in attitude and expectations surrounding the two, just looking for a cause. I have definitely not been afraid to criticize Kyrie though.
 
I'm not sure how Love gets so much blame. He was a +/- +3 and he wasn't in the game for all of the comeback. Meaning the team played well enough with him in the game earlier that he didn't need to be in for the entire comeback to get back in the positive. Kyrie on the other hand...

Love played some solid D all game long, too. Contested in the paint about as well as you could expect out of him given the way guys were letting their man have free reign to the hoop.
 
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I'm not sure how Love gets so much blame. He was a +/- +3 and he wasn't in the game for all of the comeback. Meaning the team played well enough with him in the game earlier that he didn't need to be in for the entire comeback to get back in the positive. Kyrie on the other hand...

Love played some solid D all game long, too. Contested in the paint about as well as you could expect out of him given the way guys were letting their man have free reign to the hoop.
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I'm with you here. His D looked solid. For whatever reason when things don't work people come and zero in on bad plays and ignore the rest.

Every player has break downs over the course of a game. There is no such thing as perfection. We could zero in on any player with that mentality.

Every player is entitled to an off night but the problem with this criticism is Love played well and takes unfair blame.

Kyrie was -17 Love was +3 and yet you don't see me in the kyrie forum bashing him. It happens but to put them in the same boat when the stats clearly show otherwise is just silly
 
MrX said:
I'm with you here. His D looked solid. For whatever reason when things don't work people come and zero in on bad plays and ignore the rest.

Every player has break downs over the course of a game. There is no such thing as perfection. We could zero in on any player with that mentality.

Every player is entitled to an off night but the problem with this criticism is Love played well and takes unfair blame.

Kyrie was -17 Love was +3 and yet you don't see me in the kyrie forum bashing him. It happens but to put them in the same boat when the stats clearly show otherwise is just silly
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Great post. I feel people are becoming to stuck up instead of enjoying the ride. I guess this is what winning does to people. Lets just wait when LeBron makes history again and leads a 2 seed to another ring on a back to back title.
 
Didn't get to see the game today....wow. Was the game as bad as his box score indicates to be?
 
TheProdigy said:
Didn't get to see the game today....wow. Was the game as bad as his box score indicates to be?
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his rebounding was good and he had a key stop switched out on paul george in crunch time but yes he missed nearly everything and was poor with the ball in his hands
 
Omar The Horse said:
Outside of rebounds and his defense he was junior varsity girls basketball bad.
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Dude struggles against lengthy, physical defenders. If he's having trouble now, what's gonna happen when he deals with Durant, Draymond, and even McGee? Lmao okay maybe not that last one but it's possible
 
If we needed a rebounder who can't score in big games we should have just saved our money and signed Reggie Evans.
 
Love's rebounding in the fourth was key to slowing down Indiana's final last gap run as the majority of them were contested.

This series was a playoff duel between Paul George and Lebron James.

If Love and Kyrie were going to go through a poor shooting streak this was the best time to have it happen.
 
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