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God I love Kyrie.
KI would kill the mamba. Hes to old to keep up with the young fella. Can you say broken ankles????
yeah, but Kyrie couldn’t stop Kobe either. Whoever misses first probably loses the game.
Last year in “clutch” situations: Kobe: 33% FG, 21% 3FG 80% FT, 36 p/48, Kyrie: 54% FG, 67% 3FG, 89% FT, 56.4 p/48.
Too bad clutches would have nothing to do with this. I’d love to see this. Kyrie wouldn’t be able to challenge Kobe’s shot’s and Irving would break Kobe’s ankles
You mean the plays that are almost always iso hero ball plays have nothing to do with a 1 on 1 game? Ok.
Sorry, Tom, but it really isn’t particularly applicable. One on one without help defenders is drastically different than iso plays in a real game. Kobe would just back him down every time without worrying about a double team, and Kyrie would go around him, thus my “whoever misses first” comment. I love that Kyrie kicks Kobe’s butt in real game clutch “stats” but, that stat doesn’t demand that either player was necessarily doing from the iso, and even if it did, the dynamic is completely different.
They have more than “nothing” to do with it. Spot up 3 point percentage has nothing to do with it. Color sneakers have nothing to do with it. Scoring ability in isolation has SOMETHING to do with it. Many scoring attempts in “clutch” situations are a guy breaking down his defender from the top of the key and going from there.
Kobe will win because Kobe will play like every old guy does in a game with no refs – Dirty. He’ll make Kyrie call the fouls, and Kyrie will have too much pride to do it. But still, I effing love Kyrie Irving.
If they play 1s and 2s, then Kyrie wins. 2s and 3s, Kobe wins. When outside baskets are double it favors the shooters. When it’s 150%, it favors the old man who just backs the kid down and shoots a hook shot over the shoulder,
I just hope this leads to my long-awaited sequel to Jordan vs. Bird. Kyrie vs. Kobe, coming to a Nintendo Entertainment System near you.
They still make those, right?
Sooooo. What is this I’m hearing about a 3way trade to send D12 to Lakers and Bynum to the Cavs?!?!?!?!
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I’ve heard a proposed trade of Kyrie to LA, Bynum to Cleveland and Dwight to LA. Not a reliable source at all, however.
How about this;
Cleveland receives; Andrew Bynum.
Orlando receives; 200 Draft picks, a bag of chips.
Lakers receive; Anderson Varejao, S&T Antawn Jamison and Cleveland’s 1st rounder in 2 years.
Thoughts?
@Warren It’s probably horseshit. Twitter is the best and worst thing that ever happened to sports.
but, no. seriously. this might happen…bynum? absolutely!
I agree that outside of trading Irving, the Cavs should try to get involved. They reportedly put a claim on Scola which would make Andy more movable. What would the trade actually look like? The Cavs could take some of the Magics garbage contracts back and send out a young player and draft picks.
I don’t foresee any way in hell that trade ever comes even remotely close to happening.
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You sure have a way of putting an enthusiastic spotlight on thing all the time…..
What is up with the reports of KI having a broke hand?
Yeah the broken hand sucks. It should be better by season’s start though. He hurt it in summer league practice.
Broken hand…d’oh
“You sure have a way of putting an enthusiastic spotlight on thing all the time…..”
Hey, i’m actually one of the more optimistic people here, all things considered.
I don’t know, having read more i guess it isn’t outside the realm of possibility. I’m just not going to get worked up about it until it actually comes to fruition, if it ever does. We spent half a week debating Kris Humphries for no reason.
Holy schnikees! Andy and tristan+pick for Bynum and possibly a waver claim on Scola. WTF! Think that might put us in Win now mode?!
I seem to remember a certain small forward in Miami breaking his wrist in a tournament after we drafted him. Kyrie will be just fine.
So….that Kyrie Irving sure seems to get injured a lot, huh?
(You were right, i’m a total downer.)
On the plus side:
A. Can Waiters play point? We get to find out!
B. Kyrie takes practice seriously!
C. Kyrie doesn’t like to turn the ball over!
D. Now we can be sure Kyrie won’t do this in the playoffs, when it would be really bad!
E. Discerning how well-padded walls are is not a good predictor of NBA success!
F. Even with one hand, he has a better handle than half the Cavs summer league team
I was really looking forward to seeing these guys play together this week. Oh well, guess I can settle with seeing Waiters and Zeller.