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Cavs 09-10 Season (official thread)

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Not sure if this is worthy enough to start the Cavs '10-11 Season Thread, I'll leave that up to someone else. Though, I'd really like to put this season to rest. :(

Cavaliers: Cavaliers Exercise Team Option on Leon Powe

Cavaliers Exercise Team Option on Leon Powe

CLEVELAND, OH - May 17, 2010 - The Cleveland Cavaliers have exercised the team option on forward Leon Powe, Cavaliers General Manager Danny Ferry announced today from Cleveland Clinic Courts. Per league and team policy, terms of the contract were not announced.

In returning from a knee-injury that kept him out of action for the first half of the 2009-10 season, Powe returned to the court and played in 20 games (two starts), averaging 4.0 points on .429 shooting and 3.1 rebounds in 11.8 minutes per game. In 209 career games (16 starts), Powe has averaged 6.3 points on .517 shooting and 4.1 rebounds in 14.4 minutes per game.

?Leon has worked hard to rehab and get himself back on the court this past season. Now he has a full summer to continue working, play more basketball and come back to start next season better than ever,? said Cavaliers General Manager Danny Ferry.

The 6-foot-8 forward was selected by the Denver Nuggets with the 49th overall draft pick in the 2006 NBA Draft and traded for by Boston on draft night. He signed with the Cavaliers as a free agent on August 11, 2009. In 2005-06, Powe led the PAC-10 in scoring (20.5 points per game) and rebounding (10.1 rebounds per game) at California, becoming only the sixth player in conference history to accomplish the feat while earning All-PAC-10 honors.
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Dude's only 26, still. :yow1:
 
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OHSportsFan9;1705865; said:
Not sure if this is worthy enough to start the Cavs '10-11 Season Thread, I'll leave that up to someone else. Though, I'd really like to put this season to rest. :(

Cavaliers: Cavaliers Exercise Team Option on Leon Powe

Dude's only 26, still. :yow1:
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He should be able to get closer to 100% next season. Could be a key big off the bench depending what happens with the roster.
 
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exhawg;1705875; said:
He should be able to get closer to 100% next season. Could be a key big off the bench depending what happens with the roster.
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I'd say no matter what happens to the roster. Shaq isn't going to be on the roster, and Z might not be either. If they find a way to add anybody in the post you're probably looking at three guys (Powe, Varejao, Hickson) rotating through the 4 and 5 positions.
 
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jlb1705;1705876; said:
I'd say no matter what happens to the roster. Shaq isn't going to be on the roster, and Z might not be either. If they find a way to add anybody in the post you're probably looking at three guys (Powe, Varejao, Hickson) rotating through the 4 and 5 positions.
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I've heard bringing Sasha Kaun over from Russia is an option. He'd be another near 7 foot body to throw at Dwight Howard. I think the Celtics series showed that you can't setup a roster just for Howard, but they need enough size on the bench and hopefully at least one guy that can cover him one on one. I would also get Jawad and JJ in the gym this summer and try to put 10-20 lbs. on both of them so they can be more of a force in the paint.
 
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http://www.cleveland.com/cavs/index.ssf/2010/05/brian_windhorst_talks_lebrons.html

another great listen to from windhorst

- cavs have alot of expendable peices next year as far as expiring contracts go

this was mainly what i wanted to hear the most...comes at 24:20 of the conversation....says we will be more flexible salarywise then in years past...this makes me feel better now because i thought we were stuck with alot of our players besides Z and shaq...but of course we still would have to land lebron
 
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So . . . Best record in the NBA for the last two seasons has to make a franchise GM salivate over Mike Brown.
But is MB damaged goods?
Does a team wanting to get into the LBJ sweepstakes pass on Brown because of perceived dissonance?
 
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gracelhink;1707690; said:
So . . . Best record in the NBA for the last two seasons has to make a franchise GM salivate over Mike Brown.
But is MB damaged goods?
Does a team wanting to get into the LBJ sweepstakes pass on Brown because of perceived dissonance?
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No team that wants Lebron would hire Mike Brown. I don't think he'll have trouble getting a job, but it will be at a lesser team where he'll need to prove he can win without Lebron. He really needs to find a young team with good offense and no defense so that he can do what he does best.
 
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exhawg;1707699; said:
No team that wants Lebron would hire Mike Brown. I don't think he'll have trouble getting a job, but it will be at a lesser team where he'll need to prove he can win without Lebron. He really needs to find a young team with good offense and no defense so that he can do what he does best.
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Mike Brown's defense was vastly overrated. He's inflexible and incapable of making necessary adjustments. LeBron carried this team to two consecutive top finishes in the NBA, but regular season basketball is a completely different animal. He may get some looks as an NBA coach elsewhere, but I have a hard time seeing a GM giving him another head-coaching job after the train-wrecks in the last 2 playoffs.
 
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Now the fun begins. $20M a year for Phil, Gilbert would make that back in a heartbeat if they win a title, which seems to be the only thing he can do, take good players and make them win titles. And if Gilbert doesn't seriously consider this given that there are rumors Phil will have to take a pay cut, he should be checked in to the nearest loony bin.
 
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gracelhink;1707690; said:
So . . . Best record in the NBA for the last two seasons has to make a franchise GM salivate over Mike Brown.
But is MB damaged goods?
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Sarcasm? Anybody with a recordable basketball IQ can see what an incompetent nincompoop Brown is. If he coaches again, he'll be exposed without the best basketball player on the planet. If he was the coach of, say, the Atlanta Hawks, they're a .500 team because of his blunders.
 
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I don't expect a quick hire to be made. Even if Gilbert is willing to drop 10 mil on a coach he will need an assurance that Lebron will resign. I'm sure any coach like that will want to know that they will be coaching Lebron if they come here.
 
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NFBuck;1707751; said:
Sarcasm? Anybody with a recordable basketball IQ can see what an incompetent nincompoop Brown is. If he coaches again, he'll be exposed without the best basketball player on the planet. If he was the coach of, say, the Atlanta Hawks, they're a .500 team because of his blunders.
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I can't help but wonder just how much overlap there is between that group and those who make the hiring decisions around the NBA. :biggrin:
 
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