Cavs (and the Sixers) bid farewell to Earl Clark

[Ohio]

Funny as hell that Philly cut him.

 

[Jack Brickman]

Funny as hell that Philly cut him.

Why? They didn't trade for him for his basketball skills (insert joke here) and he wouldn't have wanted to play there anyway. Cutting him makes the most sense for both parties.

 

[Nathan S]

Why? They didn't trade for him for his basketball skills (insert joke here) and he wouldn't have wanted to play there anyway. Cutting him makes the most sense for both parties.

Wrong. He would have been an excellent tank driver for them...they're missing out big time :chuckles:

 

[Jack Brickman]

Wrong. He would have been an excellent tank driver for them...they're missing out big time :chuckles:

This is Philly we're talking about. He would have been like the third-best player on their team. :chuckles:

 

[stick]

I'll miss Earl Clark. One of the greatest free agent signings I have ever seen. So sad to see him go.


Thank you for the stretch of games in January where you shot 16 percent from three.
Thank you for stepping on the baseline when we had a chance to tie the game against Indiana.
Thank you for holding the same expression on your face in the best and worst of times.
Thank you for playing your way until Brown had no choice but to give minutes to Bennett.
Thank you for getting lost on defense, moving your head side to side looking for your (wide open) man.
Thank you for the occasional dunks. They were pretty cool.
Thank you for contributing during that one overtime game against Washington in November. The only Cavs game I've been to.
Thanks for the memories!

(Goodbye Earl headaches)

 

[Nathan S]

This is Philly we're talking about. He would have been like the third-best player on their team. :chuckles:

A good tank needs that kind of veteran leadership. Jamison was (at least) the third-best player on the mythical Cavs tank squad of 2010-11, and it was his steady hand that guided us to the #1 pick and Kyrie Irving. On a young team like Philly you need that guy in the huddle to keep the team focused and hungry for the loss every night. If there are guys who are giving effort out there you need a veteran who can get up in their face and say "Hey, what the fuck are you trying to do? Are you with us or against us? We're trying to accomplish something here and your attitude is holding us back."

 

[Jack Brickman]

A good tank needs that kind of veteran leadership. Jamison was (at least) the third-best player on the mythical Cavs tank squad of 2010-11, and it was his steady hand that guided us to the #1 pick and Kyrie Irving. On a young team like Philly you need that guy in the huddle to keep the team focused and hungry for the loss every night. If there are guys who are giving effort out there you need a veteran who can get up in their face and say "Hey, what the fuck are you trying to do? Are you with us or against us? We're trying to accomplish something here and your attitude is holding us back."

No, it was the Clippers Curse that guided us to the #1 pick and Kyrie Irving. Jamison's shittiness led us the #4 pick and Tristan Thompson.

Get your facts right. You're slipping, Nathan.

 

[Nathan S]

No, it was the Clippers Curse that guided us to the #1 pick and Kyrie Irving. Jamison's shittiness led us the #4 pick and Tristan Thompson.

Get your facts right. You're slipping, Nathan.

Brainwashed by Tank God, blame him

 

[Ohio]

Why? They didn't trade for him for his basketball skills (insert joke here) and he wouldn't have wanted to play there anyway. Cutting him makes the most sense for both parties.

Last season he was playing great for the Lakers. And today he gets cut by the worst team in the NBA

Just funny to me

 

[Randolphkeys]

I began writing about my dislike for Clark sometime in the first preseason game and never looked back. I know the team was desperate for small forward help but I've rarely seen a decision look so bad so quickly.

It seems to me he lived his life like a candle in the wind.

 

[oasis05]

Demeaning Clark is a damnation of the cavs management that considered him a starting nba small forward as brown sold him in the press conference, and continued to tote him out there religiously just as the settlers stood in lines and took fire from the Indians standing behind trees.

 

[Henry Tuttle]

Demeaning Clark is a damnation of the cavs management that considered him a starting nba small forward as brown sold him in the press conference, and continued to tote him out there religiously just as the settlers stood in lines and took fire from the Indians standing behind trees.

So, in this scenario...the Cavs management are a group of English settlers (c.~1600?) who are just meandering about in an open field adjacent to some sort of wooded area which is populated by many manifestations of Earl Clark's sneaky incompetence and these manifestations are all battle savvy enough to take cover behind trees as they perform ranged attacks on the unsuspecting NBA management/colonists.

 

[Nathan S]

I began writing about my dislike for Clark sometime in the first preseason game and never looked back. I know the team was desperate for small forward help but I've rarely seen a decision look so bad so quickly.

It seems to me he lived his life like a candle in the wind.

Signings like Clark are the kind of things that we could avoid with a more stats-savvy front office. Not all decisions have to be stat based, but stats can at least red-flag guys like Clark who have been major outliers (in a bad way) for their whole careers.

 

[Walter White]

I remember how optimistic we were when we signed him. Ah, good times.