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Cleveland Cavs (2016 NBA Champions)

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LordJeffBuck said:
How can a team go 5+ minutes without scoring in crunch time?

Warriors in four.
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It's hard when your best player is exhausted, your second best player is hurt, and your third best player is done for the year. Shumpert, Thompson, and Mosgov aren't scorers, and Dellavedova, Jones, and Smith were absolutely useless tonight. It's hard to win in the NBA with 8 guys. Especially when the Warriors have a seemingly endless bench.
 
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buckeyemania11 said:
They need to let love go......adios jones miller and perkins. And build a better bench next year.
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You lost me at let Love go. How exactly are they supposed to retool the bench when they have no money to spend and they let their 3rd best player walk? Perk, Marion, Haywood, and maybe Jones will be gone. Miller has a player option for next year so they would need him to retire to open up his spot (doubtful). They could technically trade Haywood to a team that is trying to dump salary, but they are already so far over the cap they might just have to cut him walk and use their draft pick the best they can. They need a backup PG more than anything to bump Delly down to 3rd string PG/defensive bulldog and see if they can sign a minimum contract vet that will hopefully bring more than Marion, Jones, and Miller did this year.

The biggest problem for the Cavs compared to a team like the Warriors is how they were built. The Cavs drafts were so shitty besides, Kyrie, TT, and Wiggins that none of them stuck on the roster. The Warriors built through the draft so their roster is stuffed with high value picks and a few guys they've signed over the years. Hell their highest paid player doesn't even see the court because they have young cheap guys that are better. Maybe Griffin can do better than Grant and find diamonds in the rough at the bottom of the draft, but even then it will take a year or two for any draft picks to develop. Best case for the Cavs is Joe Harris develops over the summer and is able to fill in on the second unit for 15-20 a game.

Needless to say they Cavs will be capped out for the foreseeable future so they can't let anyone walk for nothing. They have to make wise use of their draft picks and hope they can find a couple title chasers to fill out the bench.

If JR had given us a quarter of good JR last night we would be having different conversations now. Let's hope Kyrie isn't as banged up as it looked and more than Lebron, TT, and Mozzy show up Sunday.
 
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exhawg said:
How about 80's style NBA?
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I get what you're saying....but the whole Cavs fanbase cried for a few weeks straight over how they had to play the big mean Celtics and Bulls. People on here cried about the Bulls before a game was even played. Now it's, "Let's go rough up their best player." When it ended Love's season, Kleenex's stock went up 20 points just from users on this site alone.
 
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exhawg said:
The biggest problem for the Cavs compared to a team like the Warriors is how they were built. The Cavs drafts were so [Mark May]ty besides, Kyrie, TT, and Wiggins that none of them stuck on the roster. The Warriors built through the draft so their roster is stuffed with high value picks and a few guys they've signed over the years. Hell their highest paid player doesn't even see the court because they have young cheap guys that are better. Maybe Griffin can do better than Grant and find diamonds in the rough at the bottom of the draft, but even then it will take a year or two for any draft picks to develop. Best case for the Cavs is Joe Harris develops over the summer and is able to fill in on the second unit for 15-20 a game.
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Bingo. As one example, I remember thinking Draymond Green was an absolute steal to fall to the second round. He was looked at as a tweener and fell in the draft, yet I always saw a guy who had a ton of skill and could play a number of different positions. He's turned into a star. And he gets it done on the defensive end as well--as a quick example, he forced LBJ into a horrible shot at the end of regulation.
 
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