2015-16 NBA Thread (feat. the Wives)

I guess Blatt's kids are too old for him to want to resign to be with them.

 

Cavs could 've saved money and made their superstar happy by ending all pretense and naming King James player-coach.

 

The smartest move Red Auerbach ever made was kicking himself upstairs and making Bill Russell coach. It's not such a crazy idea.

 

Meanwhile, Kerr returns to Warriors' bench tonight.

 

GM Lebron isn't really proving to be any better at it than the guy who took a bunch of the flack for the "win now" trades Cleveland made toward the end of his first Cleveland tenure. Maybe Lue has a great idea for how to use all of the Cavs very good to mediocre options at PF/C in a league that has been pivoting hard away from that in the past few years.

 

Maybe everyone was right last spring and they are better without Love.

Players might be in agreement, anyway.

Cavs players thought team meeting was to announce Kevin Love trade

 

"Can't have a bunch of proud educated black men working for a goddamn Jew " [/StephenASmith]

 

They probably are better without Love, but I've always thought it's more of a function of how the rest of the team is constructed, and how the NBA is shifting in general. Lebron and Kyrie are the #1 and #2 options on offense, for legitimate reasons, which leaves Love as the #3 or spot-up sort of shooter. I don't think he's horrible on defense, since he's a strong rebounder, but he's not quick enough to handle smallball lineups unless he's playing the 5. The Cavs have spent a lot of money on players who can't stay on the floor together if they play Golden State or San Antonio.

 

I'm pretty sure Love is regarded as a terrible defender.

 

Pretty sure if Doc Rivers was fired after going 83-40 and making an NBA Final in his first year the NAACP and Al Sharptom would be picketing and boycotting the NBA, but LeBron goes anti-Semitic and no one bats an eye. When does Jada Smith have a press conference ?

 

Defensive Real Plus-Minus has him at 16th among power forwards. Not great, but kind of average to me. He doesn't really accumulate blocks or steals, but he's a very good defensive rebounder, and he pretty much never fouls (2.0 or less the past four years; fouled out of 2 games in his career).