MarkyCavs88
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Kevin love is great for the regular season and makes any team better, however unfortunately he is a borderline liabilty against this warriors teamn, cannot defend any one of curry,cupcake,thomson or green
I'm here to give credit where credit is due, and Love has played pretty damn well during the win streak. I think it has much to do with our renewed energy and effort on defense.
I've heard some discussion on here about Lue switching up the way we defend pick and rolls. Something about how we used to freeze them and now we're trapping everything. I could be completely off base, but if someone could enlighten me as to what the difference is now on defense in terms of strategy, I would appreciate it.
Why does Lue only play Love 29 mins a game? Surely can push him up to 33-34. Even when his jumper is white hot he still gets benched.
His per 36 numbers are crazy.
20 points in 26 mins tonight.
Benched the whole 4th quarter when the team can't score at all..
Great work Lue!
That's not what happened.
He sat because Oladipo was torching him on PnR switches. Green came in and played solid D as he has all seasonYes it is. Kevin checked in with 3.07 mins left in the 4th quarter, was immediately subbed back out at 2.38 left after assisting a smith three pointer and was checked back in with 1.30 to go when the game was pretty much over.
So he had 2mins TOTAL playing time in the 4th. So maybe I should've said nearly the whole 4th quarter...semantics. The other 10mins went to Jeff Green who is a solid role player but he's no Kevin Love and does not offer the 3pt shooting or rebounding. Very bad decision making by the coach.
He sat because Oladipo was torching him on PnR switches. Green came in and played solid D as he has all season
JR failed miserably at staying in front of Oladipo, like he wasn't even trying although I think he was trying.We needed Love in the game.
The decision to switch was the issue... Cavs should have trapped Oladipo without thinking too much about it. Oladipo is the exactly the guy you want to trap since he struggles with passing out of double teams and is often to slow to react. You leave Young open from 3 and try your best to contest his shot.
The fact that we had to switch against Oladipo also shows you how weak defensively JR has been so far.
JR failed miserably at staying in front of Oladipo, like he wasn't even trying although I think he was trying.
Just looking at the PER of the role playing starters.Couldn't do a thing... blew right past him and he didn't even make a slight effort going over screens. Again, this is concerning. We are very very weak at the SG position... SG position is the least important position as far as impact go, but both Crowder and JR are currently sitting at less than 9 PER and that just can't happen on a contender if you have championship aspirations.
Now that IT is coming back, we are going to need strong perimeter defense, especially from the 2 guard position to cover for IT and players that he can't defend... We don't have a bradley here, but we are going to need a player that is going to cover his own position at the very least.