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Well, as has been the way of things so far, the Cavaliers lost to a crap team (the Raptors) last night.
They’ve got four losses on the year – all against losing teams; two of which are arguably the worst in the entire NBA.
Sorry to have our sole Thanksgiving post be somewhat of an angry rant, but enough is enough. They didn’t show up for four quarters (again) last night, and we pin it on Head Coach Mike Brown.
Credit him for playing rookie Daniel Gibson decent minutes – as we suspected, the kid can play, and he was very active in getting the Cavaliers back in during a second quarter rally.
Execution down the stretch was pitiful – no fourth quarter free throws. Zero. Just a bunch of three-point attempts and the allowance of greasy foreign guards to get layups.
Coach Brown weighs in.
“[As a coaching staff] we just have to present the facts because I don’t have a magic potion,” said Brown. “We have to watch tape and see what we did on tape and see if we gave it our all on both ends of the floor and go from there.”
Umm…yes and no.
Your job is to present the facts, and then to pair the application of those facts alongside motivation.
That means that when they’re doing the thing where they come out flat and not trying, and go down by 18 to the freaking Raptors in the first quarter, you yank your starters.
It also means that when they’re doing that thing where they’re taking endless 3-pointers for no reason, you call a time-out and say something like, “The next one of you a-holes who takes a three-pointer is sitting down for the rest of the game!!” and then you follow through on that.
It means you take LeBron, sit him down, and figure out why the hell he’s been so distracted all season. Hard to argue with his stats, but anyone who’s watched him enough to know when he’s “there” and “not there” can tell you he’s been on the latter setting for 11 out of the 12 games so far.
Yeah, they’re 8-4, but they could and possibly should be 11-1. The good thing is they have yet to lose to an actual good team – they seem to execute against them.
NOTE: Andrea Bargnani looks like he’ll be a player one day for sure, but the double chin has gotta go. Unacceptable.
HOLIDAY NOTE: We love nearly 87% of you and thank you for continuing to read. JOY to thee!
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Winning against sub .500 teams is bourgeois
the cavs are a lousy team w/out lbj.
their guards are old ‘ snow & a rockets discard and can’t shoot – gibson .
their big men ‘cept varejao can’t jump .
the raps whupped their behinds real good !
Cavs better draft Bobby Brown…
http://www.nbadraft.net/admincp/profiles/bobbybrown.html
http://www.draftexpress.com/viewarticle.php?a=1326
LeBron got himself a Playstation 3 weeks before they were available to mortals who stand in lines outside of Circuit City. What do you want from the guy? He’s playing Gears of War or someshit and shooting at metal spiders and taking naps and watching college football and filming commercials and wearing shoes and putting cash in cheap townhomes in Akron and being on humongous billboards and rapping with Jay-Z over champagne (not Cristal!) and driving Hummers and bailing Moms out of jail and getting new tattoos daily and then you want him to play basketball? Well?
Jeez, dude- priorities.
I love you too.
Happy Turkey Day to all.
And to all, hopefully a Nets win in the next few days…..
87 percent? I hate about 96 percent of you. That includes all Cav fans. Cause, you know, they suck arse.
Amen.
Brown just seems so apathetic and I question whether he can learn to be more aggressive. He’s unfailingly deferntial to LeBron, I wonder whether he can regain the kid’s respect. Short of Brown undergoing at least an occassional change in philosophy, the team needs one of its veterans to help it stay focused.
The Cavs make me cry. I think we’ve only seen angry LeBron once this year (San Antonio). The rest of the time he’s, “can’t help but be good” LeBron.
You seem to have attracted a lot of Cavs haters in the off-season. I hope they’re giving you free shit.
Here’s to Gibson eating away at E Snow’s minutes . . .
go mavs!
There’s also a guy by the name of Monta Ellis that will be a free agent in the off season. The Cavs might want to consider picking him up…
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