He made a number of comments here that weren’t exactly the most encouraging, too. The winning and Brad seemed to keep him on course most of the time, fortunately.
Isaiah is not going to get a lot of money from anyone IMO. One, the money isn't out there. Two, what money is out there isn't going to go to a miniature PG who can't defend a chair, lost his explosiveness, and is about to turn 30 which is the age when diminutive guards tend to nosedive.
http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/22246427/as-cleveland-cavaliers-coach-tyronn-lue-adjusts-rotations-isaiah-thomas-sits-fourth-quarter-vs-detroit-pistons
Not that I disagree with your conclusion, but who's in the sample for truly diminutive guards who have a career past 30 to measure? Iverson, Chris Paul, and...? Jameer Nelson? JJ Barea?
Here's the list of guys 5'11 and under who averaged more than 12 points per game (arbitrary cut-off, sure, but you can play around with it) at age 30 or older, sorted by BPB. Not an encouraging list for the vertically challenged.
If Love misses 8 weeks with a broken 5th metacarpal on his non-shooting hand he's an enormous pussy. That is a 6-weeks at the most injury and possibly closer to 5 with it being his left hand. Didn't Love already break his hand earlier in his career?
It is his off hand and won't affect his shooting whereas if it were his right there would be a longer return due to needing full range of motion to return prior to begin shooting.
True, but why would his off-hand heal any more quickly than it did the first time around? If anything, he's a little older now and would be slower to mend. Six to eight weeks doesn't sound like an outrageous amount of time for a fracture to heal, just a fraction of a Jacoby.
The healing time would be the same on his right and left hand. Love is right handed and only uses his left (injured) hand as a guide in shooting, he'll be able to shoot prior to his left hand being fully healed. If this were his right hand he wouldn't be able to begin shooting until fully healed and would need additional time to regain full strength and range of motion. I had this same non-displaced injury to my right (shooting) 5th metacarpal when I was 23. Exactly 5 weeks in a cast, another week of constant tennis ball work for strength along with range of motion exercises, and ready to begin shooting and playing in week 7. If this were to my left hand I would have been ready a week sooner.
And went from at a minimum a 3 year, $90M type deal to potentially having to take a 1 year make-good type contract.
Thank you for sharing that.
Yeah, I'm in the same boat. I wanted him to be old IT, but lose in game 7 of the ECF because of LeBron or something like that.
Pretty sure no one said it did. HRB was saying this should be a 6-8 week thing, and maybe less since it's his off hand. Then, in a different sentence, asked if this was hand he broke before. He didn't insinuate that it would heal quicker because it had been broken before, he was saying that Love should be able to get back quicker because it's his off hand.
It's only 11 games, but IT's DRPM is considerably better this year than last. Are we sure that his defense has been that much worse than last year, or is that just anecdotal evidence from the dysfunctional clubhouse looking for a scapegoat?
File this under "Standard Life Variance." Things are never as good as they are or as bad as they feel. In the end, the kid will have ended up making over $30m in his career and a couple All-Star games.......not bad for a 60th pick.
Totally agree. Just want to add that it's also a testimony to Lue's coaching ability.
Did he break it throwing his warmup jacket at Jeff Green or bowing down to hand IT the ball?
I don't think it's just his defense but his offense is horrendous - which would be expected trying to come back from what he suffered - and the Cavs appear not to have a plan to get him into game shape other than throwing him to the Wolves. (Isn't that what the G-League is for?).
I was thinking about this too.
Putting the Stevens splooge aside for a moment it also magnifies the difference in having Kevin Love and JR Smith as your team defenders as opposed to Horford and Avery Bradley/Smart. Coaches coach but it is the players who must execute.
Always! His knows how to assemble a roster to fit what he wants to do and has a track record of doing so.
