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do they have draft picks this year?
Sczerzbiak played as if it would be November. House showed him, how is got to be played in Game 7 of PO.
do they have draft picks this year?
Worse than the team is the coach.
They need to push the tempo more and have LeBron play off the ball - setting up in the midpost and he'll find the game easier for him.
Best players out of their big deal were the throw-ins - West and Joe Smith.
They would have been better getting West for nothing, pushing tempo and going with West, Hughes (who could create his own points), James, Gooden, and Z.
I actually like Dolente West, he is better than I thought. Even if he is re ed. If they can pick up a good free agent and do a great job in the draft, I think it is possible that Lebron would stay.
Danny Ferry needs to be fired. Year after year we see how Lebron needs another guy on the floor who can create and setup other players. Seeing that Low 1-4 with Lebron ISOing is just terrible bball to watch....get lebron a legit 1 or SG that can create. stop getting lebron spot up shooters who cant create like Wally, Gibson, Sasha and Damon Jones
lebrons supporting cast is highly underrated. the reason it seems so bad it because their run a sh!tty offense. they don't get the most out of the talent they do have. big Z, wallace, and wally, were all all-stars at one point, far from scrubs. then they still have west, gibson, smith, and pavlovic. if they picked up the tempo a little and got some easier baskets they would be a much better team. their defense is already good enough to keep them in any game.
Z only has that midrange jumper. if that isn't falling, he doesn't do much of anything.
Wallace has NO offensive ability.
Wally is good, but had no time to really get used to the (very crappy) system. The best player Lebron has had alongside him so far, but clearly was out of sync.
I agree that if their offensive system was better it would help quite a bit though. They need someone also to discipline the team more, because guys like West, Pavolvic, etc... often tries to do too much, and ends up making some very dumb plays and passes which kills the team's offensive momentum. If they simply had a more efficient offense, their defense would increase tremendously, which is hard to imagine considering how solid it already is. but if they can put more pressure on their opponents to score it will often lead to more turnovers and bad shots which equates to even more easy opportunities on offense. Efficiency is something they lack on offense, and it kills them massively in so many ways. Perhaps a better coach is about all they really need, but one guy who is a capable scorer/leader when Lebron is out of the game would help quite a bit as well.
Their problem is that nobody on that team is capable of attacking the basket except for LeBron. It's LeBron and 4 spot-up shooters. And then if Varejao or Wallace is in, it's 3 shooters and 1 rebounder.
While it's tough to stop LeBron, the defensive gameplan is always simple - double LeBron and close out on shooters. Not a lot to it.
The only time LeBron had someone else who could handle the ball & drive was Larry Hughes, and he was an abortion.
The jury is still out on Ferry. He inherited a bad situation created by Jim Paxson- no draft picks in 2005 or 2007, and no Carlos Boozer. He had to overpay in FA in the summer of 2005 to get Hughes, Donyell Marshall and Damon Jones- it's easy to second-guess those signings, but at the time Ferry was on the clock w/LeBron's rookie contract up in 2006 and he had to get SOMEONE in here to help get this team into the playoffs.
The next two seasons are the acid test for this entire organization, including Ferry. They will make him or break him as an NBA GM.
BTW, just my opinion, but I don't think Boozer was ever going to stay in Cleveland any longer than he had to. He didn't want to be anyone's "Robin", and he had serious issues w/the coaching staff wanting him to be the third scoring option behind LBJ and Z. The coaches here didn't even see him as a Pippen: they saw him as a Horace Grant. If he didn't leave in 2004, he would have left in '05 IMO.
LeBron is for sure going to Brooklyn for their first season in 2010. They have tons of cap room, and James has an opt-out.
i still dont know about that...
born and raised in Ohio... I see him staying home and bringing les and glory to Ohio.
I see him going to play with his boy Jay-Z and getting fat Nike contracts for playing in the biggest market in the country. It would be one thing if the Cavs could field a decent team, but their cap situation is almost as bad as the Knicks' for the next two years. The teams they put around him make the supporting casts the Spurs threw around Robinson after Strickland walked look like the 96 Bulls.
I could see him goin to Brooklyn or staying in Cle, but the way he blows his chode over playing in Madison Square Garden, I think he's going to New York.
Yesterday during that Cavs-Celtics game I kept cursing out Lebron's teammates, the thing that infuriated me the most was that jump ball near the end of the game, it was 7'3 Ilgauskas and 6'6 James posey, Posey mistimed his jump and the ball was right there for Big Z to take, instead of him to grab the ball like a man he tapped it with 2 fingers like a little girl and it ended up with paul pierce.
God I'm so angry at that play, Big Z is soft as , last year in the finals Tony parker went at him time and time again for easy layups. Its time for this guy to go, Cavs should look at getting Dirk imo, Dirk and Lebron are in the same situation, and together I think they would win championships.
If Lebron is anything like Kobe or MJ in terms of compe iveness he will go where he has the best chance of winning a ring.
That play was all on LBJ. He failed to box Pierce out in the first place, the tap was right where it needed to be. LBJ ed up.
Garnett hooking Pavlovic's arm and keeping him from moving didn't help either, as the ball was tipped right at Sasha. But Lebron not hustling there sucked also.
What was ed up on that play was that the ball went straight to Pavlovic, who couldn't move an inch because KG had his arm locked up, which was what allowed Pierce to get to the ball. LBJ didn't box out great, but Pierce should not have been able to get the ball in the first place, and only did cuz KG got away with murder once again. I can't ing stand that guy anymore.
lol you beat me to it.
Nah, this series just proves that SpursDynasty is right...LeBron is a fluke and shouldn't even be on the all-star team...
They should trade for Brand.
lebron james a fluke?
he scored 45 points u idiot basically 50% of his teams points he doesn't have a duncan parker or ginobli to help his ass.
2Cleva is Duncan warning Manu that he's on TV while picking his nose in your sig???
Agree. Winning a ring >>>>> straight cash to LBJ. He knows that in this league, it's the ring that matters.
I know this is going to sound silly to some of you, but he has an opportunity to pull off one of the greatest achievements in sports, and that's bringing a le to Cleveland. Doing that would be the equivalent to winning a WS with the Cubs. Cleveland is the Cubs of sports.
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