Kyrie Irving Thread

[Dupp]

He played fine this game. The whole team was rubbish in the fourth.

[ThirdEyeSharp]

Did the Monstars steal Kyrie's talent?

Honestly, it's like someone said "Stop being kyrie irving"

I love the effort he's giving in other areas, hopefully he adjusts to being an explosive scorer. Someone else has to step up and be consistent though, they're gonna put more pressure on Kyrie than anyone else.

[B Mac]

15 points 8 rebounds 6 assists.

Lots of players would kill for those numbers. Not to mention his defense has actually been.... *gasp* above average.

[jbk1234]

15 points 8 rebounds 6 assists.

Lots of players would kill for those numbers. Not to mention his defense has actually been.... *gasp* above average.

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If those players had nine turnovers, they wouldn't get the minutes to get those stats. I'm not being critical solely for the sake of being critical. But I think Scott would have reigned him in. Brown seems to have difficultly forcing his stars to adjust (or perhaps Brown is the one with the problem adjusting).

Berea got in Kyrie's head tonight. Hopefully, he takes a step back and realizes that he has to start passing out of double or triple teams.

[Shem]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzTWHaG-oAY[/youtube]

[B-easy]

One possible theory is that he is actually trying on defense now which is making him struggle on the offensive end.

[ThirdEyeSharp]

I've thought that as well.

i'm not concerned with kyrie's play as much as i am with the rumors of his attitude being detrimental to the team. i wanna know more.

[Brenice]

I've noticed that unless Kyrie is in full-throttle score mode, he is not doing much of anything. Looks like he coasts early and takes over late in games. During the early part of games, who is actually running an offense for Cleveland? Kyrie is really a small shooting guard. He needs to play next to a big point guard. Carter-Williams would have been perfect for the Cavs. (Waiters is a small shooting guard too).

[Dupp]

If we need Irving off the ball waiters is fine as a distributor. In fact I believe waiters is a better distributor than kyrie.

[ThirdEyeSharp]

I think we just need better off ball players around Kyrie.

No one on this team moves as Kyrie moves, and it doesn't matter who is dribbling or how much they are dribbling, moving without the ball as the ball moves is high school fundamentals, and we don't do it.

I want a big shooting guard who can shoot and defend, same at SF until we get a more capable player there.

[gflem]

What bothers me most is that last year before Andy got hurt the pick and roll with him and Kyrie worked very well. Where is that this year? I just cant believe that they forgot how to play offense together. It looks like they don't believe in what they are being told to do, on both ends of the court.