Cavs Want Kyrie Irving To Be Quick With Attacks, Not Excessively Dribble

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Cavs Want Kyrie Irving To Be Quick With Attacks, Not Excessively Dribble 

Post#1 » by RealGM Wiretap » Sun Jun 5, 2016 8:43 pm

Kyrie Irving was aggressive for the Cleveland Cavaliers in Game 1 but Tyronn Lue wants him to be quicker and not excessively dribble the ball.


"Well, we talked about it, and we want Kyrie to be aggressive, but it has to be sharp, quick attacks," said Lue. "You can't dribble for eight or nine seconds. We had that discussion, and he understands that.


"But we need him to score the basketball. We need him to be aggressive. If there's one guy that can go one-on-one on the perimeter, it is Kyrie, because he's very special. Outside, taking advantage of mismatches in the post with Kevin and LeBron, Kyrie is the one guy that we have that can break guys down off the dribble. So it's going to be a fine line, but he has to be quicker on the attack rather than letting him load up and trying to go four, five, six seconds and then they're loading up their defense and he's trying to attack. So it has to be a little faster."

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Re: Cavs Want Kyrie Irving To Be Quick With Attacks, Not Excessively Dribble 

Post#2 » by Grumpy Heat Fan » Mon Jun 6, 2016 5:27 am

Here we go with throwing teammates under the bus. Classic James teams.
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Re: Cavs Want Kyrie Irving To Be Quick With Attacks, Not Excessively Dribble 

Post#3 » by FormerCavsFan » Mon Jun 6, 2016 9:28 am

Grumpy Heat Fan wrote:Here we go with throwing teammates under the bus. Classic James teams.


Bingo!

And for the record, Kyrie was the best version of himself playing for David Blatt.

Now the Cavs are telling him when to shoot and dribble.

What a waste.
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Re: Cavs Want Kyrie Irving To Be Quick With Attacks, Not Excessively Dribble 

Post#4 » by contract » Mon Jun 6, 2016 1:28 pm

You can't teach an old dog new tricks, but you can't teach a dumb dog anything. Kyrie is a dumb dog. Fortunately he's a young attractive trade piece on a very affordable contract.
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Re: Cavs Want Kyrie Irving To Be Quick With Attacks, Not Excessively Dribble 

Post#5 » by GaaBaaBoo » Mon Jun 6, 2016 3:08 pm

He apparently did great in game 2
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Re: Cavs Want Kyrie Irving To Be Quick With Attacks, Not Excessively Dribble 

Post#6 » by EddieJonesFan » Mon Jun 6, 2016 4:38 pm

So they want Kyrie Irving not to be Kyrie Irving? Makes sense.

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