Too many assumptions. Too much gloom and doom.
Do you have the inside scoop that this is a 4 month rental? Loyd and Brian W. were all over the radio yesterday talking about this deal and even they don't know if Deng would stay or re-sign. Also with Bird rights the Cavs can offer the most $, and trade him for maybe something better if he is not part of the future and wants to move on.
I just don't get all the negative boo hooing around here. The Cavs are better today than they were before this trade and that's not an opinion, that's a fact.
I'd rather set my sights on winning not losing like so many people around here expect.
That's what I was trying to show above. So . . . everyone complains about how our SF should be in the D league we gut a Playoff team by taking theirs (yes, even without Rose). . . . And we gave up . . .? JJ Hickson when we got Tristan, um Bynum who well I saw one game where he looked solid in the post (don't think he's adding wins). Oh and essentially Allan Crabbee? (the second rounders in two years).
But what we should've drafted Otto Porter? Then we could be happy to say he needs to get healthy, beef up and we'll get a good pick. Has anyone been on teams that just flat out lose year in and out? When you were KI's age or Waiters? If no one cares if you win, you kinda don't you look to get yours. I remember playing on a team and scoring (awhile ago) I think 52 pts one game because we were winless and played a team that had 70 at the half so just stopped playing d, so I just stopped passing it. Sure they are professionals, but they're normal people like us. Use your job office. How big of a difference does the environment make?
You've gotta stop looking at who you could get when you're bad. We buy tickets to watch good basketball. Make fun of MB, etc. I'd guess a lot of us are more educated (not 1 year in college), and I am guessing (assuming we somehow were in adequate shape), we'd still be learning a new system after having just some dude we call coach the year before.
The fact that they've played 8? one possession games says a lot. The fact that they out-played the Pacers Defensively to close out a game says a lot. I'm done writing tank. I dont think they are done. They either have to have a good idea if Lebron would come back or not. Grant plays Chess not checkers. Hickson/Bynum/Crabee - one I only enjoyed watching his slow hands let Lebron's passes bounce off of his face, another I watched once this year play a solid post/defensive game, the other I am not bored enough to look up on youtube, we turned the assets from those chumps into Cleveland being in the news again.
If you've played the game, you should realize how huge it is to go from whoever is playing 3 to a bona fide player.
We have what:
KI- IMO COULD (huge could) be an MVP if he watches games like INDY and thinks, we could make some damage, etc.
Waiters- I think he'll be an all-star - he is improving on a weekly basis
Tristan- I actually think same as above. The guy just started shooting with a hand he never did?
And now Deng. No not Gee, not Casspi, not whoever might fit there.
Why Can't we win if we play D? They are starting to (play). I don't think they are done. I do think this team is going to surprise. Dion seemed to me to have a light turn on against INDY like "fuck we are losing . . . again". I am looking forward to the next games. I hope it's Dion that gets mad. I see him as more of the heart going forward and Kyrie as the superstar.
But F losing. I don't care if we win now 35 wins and get to the playoffs. We got to the playoffs. Then we get better.
Just sick of seeing these Tank, cuz Wiggins will be so good, blah blah blah. Then you have another Rookie. How many do we give max contracts to?
That Tank thread is just annoying what can I say. I am sick of seeing a lot of guys who flash Talent and Defensive awareness lose by a basket against an elite team then hear how they suck (not that someone is a fool for standing out of bounds (or chucking a three when his teammate was absolutely invisible).
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