Why do you think they didnt realize it then? They seemed well aware this was a work in progress and acquired certain assets with making future moves in mind.moly99 said:
2014-5 Cavs: Greatest offense ever?
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This is a decent trade for Cleveland. Mozgov had a decent season last year but he has fallen off this season in terms of net rating and blocks. The good news is that his rebounding is up. In any event, he fills a need for the Cavs and since he played for Blatt on the Russian National team there is some familiarity.
Down 20 to Sacramento and about to be a .500 team. Only 4 games ahead of Boston in the loss column.
Coming off a 25/10 night, David Blatt decided to tell everyone that Kevin Love isn't a max (contract) player yet. I'm sure the locker room will love that.
Sinistas said:
Blatt will claim that is not what he meant, and from this website, he has a case: http://www.sbnation.com/nba/2015/1/12/7531205/david-blatt-kevin-love-not-max-player.
If there was actually ever any doubt about who's running the team, I think this should end it:
https://vine.co/v/ODjKdzzDMnO
https://vine.co/v/ODjKdzzDMnO
Just saw this:
RT @CBSSportsNBA: Report: Cavs assistant Tyronn Lue called timeouts behind Blatt’s back
http://cbsprt.co/1FVTcLf
League scouts, executives and rival players] see players appearing to run different plays than the bench calls, see assistant coach Tyronn Lue calling timeouts literally behind Blatt's back during games, and hear Cavs players openly talking about coaching issues with opposing players and personnel. Not once, not twice, but frequently over the past several months.
For weeks now, the small talk when league personnel run into each other at college games, airports or pregame meals has frequently started with: "What the hell is going on in Cleveland?"
RT @CBSSportsNBA: Report: Cavs assistant Tyronn Lue called timeouts behind Blatt’s back
http://cbsprt.co/1FVTcLf
League scouts, executives and rival players] see players appearing to run different plays than the bench calls, see assistant coach Tyronn Lue calling timeouts literally behind Blatt's back during games, and hear Cavs players openly talking about coaching issues with opposing players and personnel. Not once, not twice, but frequently over the past several months.
For weeks now, the small talk when league personnel run into each other at college games, airports or pregame meals has frequently started with: "What the hell is going on in Cleveland?"
Anytime you bring in J.R. Smith and he's the 10th most dysfunctional part of your team, you may have a problem.
oumbi said:
Here's the original Windhorst article: http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/12165081/nba-reeling-cleveland-cavaliers-way-course. It contains this gem as well.
James Jones played for Kevin Love in the fourth quarter last night apparently for defensive reasons. Have the words "defensive replacement" and "James Jones" ever been used in the same sentence before?
DukeSox said:
Blatt was hired before James decided to return to Cleveland. And I get the sense that you're wrong about the second point, but I don't know enough about basketball to tell you why.
Spolestra was an excellent coach, got three franchise players to embrace playing together and rolled all the way to four straight appearances in the finals. I think something that was overlooked in the summer was how valuable the stable management of Miami was to make the Big Three work. Spoelstra had been apart of the organization for a long time, and new what he wanted to run and what he needed to do to run it. He had the backing of one of the most respected basketball minds ever, and stable ownership with Mickey Arison. Cleveland doesn't have any of those three things, and you can tell how it is effecting them. That Windhorst story was full of weird things like "LeBron just announces he is going to play point guard whenever he wants too," and "Blatt will call one play on the sideline, and LeBron will call a different one on the floor." You didn't hear that kind of stuff coming from Miami.
bosox4283 said:
Pretty tough to say right now. They're integrating the new pieces well, but I don't think they even have their crunch time lineup settled right now. The Mozgov-Love-LeBron chunk of it is in place and works well together, but it's tough to say who'll stick at the 2 out of Shumpert/JR Smith, and how Kyrie adjusts to being a clear 3rd option. That said, they're clearly one of the 2 most talented teams in the East, and for all of the talk about how disappointing they've been their record when LeBron is healthy is pretty damn good and they have plenty of time to sort out rotation issues before the playoffs. I expect them to be right there in the East when all is said and done.
Mosgov is definitely having an impact. as is shumpert and JR Smith. they actually have some depth now and Lebron looks, um, "rejuvenated."
I won't raise my hand saying he would be the key however many felt getting him the hell out of NY into a winning situation again would rejuvenate this player. He now has a specific role which is what his game is built upon.Devizier said: