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TheKingofSting · Post #1661 » by **TheKingofSting** » Thu Oct 16, 2014 1:13 am

Love had a Great game last night.

catch20two · Post #1662 » by **catch20two** » Thu Oct 16, 2014 1:51 am

TheKingofSting wrote:Love had a Great game last night.

And a Bad game tonight.

Anyway, the Cavs are looking legit. AJ Price done won like the last 3 preseason games for them down the stretch but they get a 20 point lead every game with their starters.

Post #1663 » by **JDR720** » Thu Oct 16, 2014 1:53 am

I still think its crazy they went from lotto to Championship favs in one offseason. I wonder how different it would've turned out if they didn't get the #1 pick

HornetJail · Post #1664 » by **HornetJail** » Thu Oct 16, 2014 1:57 am

JDR720 wrote:I still think its crazy they went from lotto to Championship favs in one offseason. I wonder how different it would've turned out if they didn't get the #1 pick

100% Lebron effect. The current team minus Lebron is so weak defensively they'd probably miss the playoffs.

TheKingofSting · Post #1665 » by **TheKingofSting** » Thu Oct 16, 2014 1:58 am

JDR720 wrote:I still think its crazy they went from lotto to Championship favs in one offseason. I wonder how different it would've turned out if they didn't get the #1 pick

I think the #1 pick def helped in getting LeBron back.

HornetJail · Post #1666 » by **HornetJail** » Thu Oct 16, 2014 1:59 am

TheKingofSting wrote:
JDR720 wrote:I still think its crazy they went from lotto to Championship favs in one offseason. I wonder how different it would've turned out if they didn't get the #1 pick

I think the #1 pick def helped in getting LeBron back.

I maintain that they should've kept Wiggins and instead moved Waiters, Bennett, Thompson, and picks for a big man. They could've theoretically built a big 4.

Post #1667 » by **JDR720** » Thu Oct 16, 2014 2:02 am

That teams problems are defense and injury prone players

Kyrie- Bad defense and already hurt
LeBron- Man of steel
Love-Bad defense and kinda injury prone
Anderson-average defense and injury prone
Thompson-average defense

everyone else is either old (Marion,Haywood,Miller) or bad besides Waiters who is probably their #2 defender

HornetJail · Post #1668 » by **HornetJail** » Thu Oct 16, 2014 2:06 am

JDR720 wrote:That teams problems are defense and injury prone players

Kyrie- Bad defense and already hurt
LeBron- Man of steel
Love-Bad defense and kinda injury prone
Anderson-average defense and injury prone
Thompson-average defense

everyone else is either old (Marion,Haywood,Miller) or bad besides Waiters who is probably their #2 defender

You are giving Thompson a LOT of credit by calling him average defensively. Waiters isn't good defensively either. Other than Lebron they don't have a single rotation player that isn't ancient, isn't injury prone, or doesn't suck on defense. Lebron's old Cavaliers teams weren't anywhere as talented, but at least they had a little balance.

Liver_Pooty · Post #1669 » by **Liver_Pooty** » Thu Oct 16, 2014 2:06 am

You could trade away MKG, Zeller, Biyombo, Williams, and Stephenson and just land Lebron with a bunch of scrubs on this team with Walker and Jefferson and we would be a top 2-3 seed, maybe even challenge for the first seed.

Hes that damn good.

Post #1670 » by **JDR720** » Thu Oct 16, 2014 2:08 am

How does Charlotte match up with them?

Kemba vs Kyrie?
Lance vs Waiters?
MKG vs LBJ?
Marvin vs Love?
Al vs Anderson

our bench is better i think

PG- Roberts/Pargo vs Delle/Price?
SG-Neal/Hairston vs Miller/Harris?
SF-Hendo/Jeff vs Marion/Jones?
PF-Zeller/Vonleh vs Thompson/Amundson
C-Biz/Maxiell vs Haywood/Kirk

HornetJail · Post #1671 » by **HornetJail** » Thu Oct 16, 2014 2:08 am

Liver_Pooty wrote:You could trade away MKG, Zeller, Biyombo, Williams, and Stephenson and just land Lebron with a bunch of scrubs on this team with Walker and Jefferson and we would be a top 2-3 seed, maybe even challenge for the first seed.

Hes that damn good.

Do we still have Steve Clifford, who built a top 5 defense around Al Jefferson and MKG? Put some three-point shooters on the wings, some random bigs that can bang, and that's an Eastern Conference championship.

TheKingofSting · Post #1672 » by **TheKingofSting** » Thu Oct 16, 2014 2:10 am

Oh those scenarios are awesome!

HornetJail · Post #1673 » by **HornetJail** » Thu Oct 16, 2014 2:13 am

JDR720 wrote:How does Charlotte match up with them?

Kemba vs Kyrie? Kemba can hang with Kyrie. We'll see what kind of effect Lebron has on Kyrie though.
Lance vs Waiters? Lance wins beyond a shadow of a doubt
MKG vs LBJ? we're as well-equipped as any team to slow Lebron, but we're not stopping him
Marvin vs Love? ****
Al vs Anderson Al wrecks Varejao. If Varejao is even healthy, otherwise Al will just wreck Haywood

our bench is better i think

PG- Roberts/Pargo vs Delle/Price? I'd take either of our backups over either of theirs
SG-Neal/Hairston vs Miller/Harris? Miller's ancient, don't know who Harris is. Advantage us.
SF-Hendo/Jeff vs Marion/Jones? They have have Marion, but Hendo will be all over the place with the bench
PF-Zeller/Vonleh vs Thompson/Amundson no idea
C-Biz/Maxiell vs Haywood/Kirk biz got this

Post #1674 » by **JDR720** » Thu Oct 16, 2014 2:42 am

http://espn.go.com/espn/feature/story/_ ... r-rankings

Post #1675 » by **JDR720** » Fri Oct 17, 2014 1:28 am

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2234 ... g-national

some rule changes

Post #1676 » by **fatlever** » Fri Oct 17, 2014 1:56 am

the least shocking news of the day - brook lopez hurt his foot, out 2 weeks.

TheKingofSting · Post #1677 » by **TheKingofSting** » Fri Oct 17, 2014 2:20 am

Poor Brook is made of glass.

mrknowitall215 · Post #1678 » by **mrknowitall215** » Fri Oct 17, 2014 3:41 pm

[tweet]https://twitter.com/LangGreene/status/522968147272691712[/tweet]

LamarMatic7 · Post #1679 » by **LamarMatic7** » Fri Oct 17, 2014 4:29 pm

mrknowitall215 wrote:[tweet]https://twitter.com/LangGreene/status/522968147272691712[/tweet]

while his field goal attempts and usage rate has increased every year.

Post #1680 » by **fatlever** » Fri Oct 17, 2014 10:43 pm