Links to the Present
2013-03-08
Kyrie Irving is out doubtful tonight with the flu “flu like symptoms” that have been sweeping through the team. In the mean time, enjoy the GIF. Get well, soon, Kyrie.
If Waiters reaches his potential, he is someone who will be dynamic off the dribble, attacking relentlessly and earning six-plus free throws a game, at minimum. His explosion step is impressive and his body can play through contact on his way to the rim, like Wade.
Kirk, from WFNY breaks down the Cavs’ improving crunch time defense that led to a win the other night over the Jazz. Link, here.
Tom Sunnergren of TrueHoop explores how NBA teams are using a new software called, Krossover to train players’ brains for pattern recognition…
How do you imbue a young player with years of experience, and the consequent judgment, without ruining his legs in the process? How do you fine-tune the head while sparing the body? How do you train a brain to be like Mike’s?
Kyrie Irving is the Guinea pig in this article, as the Cavs certainly seem to be believers…
Yesterday, we neglected to comment on the ongoing worries over Kyrie Irving’s knee. The Plain Dealer’s Jodie Valade has the article that hints at the apparent lack of communication on the issue between coach Scott and trainer, Max Benton. Someone find me an image database for tanks, please.
The Lakers/Rockets deal way worse for the Hornets. New Orleans would have been just good enough to be the 10th worst team in the league.
At the very least they got bad enough to land Anthony Davis with the Clippers deal. They got to rebuild and strike lottery magic. I still don’t think the lottery is rigged. Multiple journalists including Mary Kay Cabot are in the room. They will write about anything, and the lottery being fixed would be a major story. If the lottery was rigged, than the Knicks wouldn’t have been utter dog shat for a decade.
Mallory, just asked the clippers how it worked out when they traded a first round pick for the “sure thing” starting point guard in mo williams. That pick was supposed to be an eighth pick. What are the chances you get a better player than that at the eighth pick? Sure am glad the Cavs traded away the “sure thing.” Ypu can find an anecdote for anything. There’s no sure thing. And trading for cp3 is a lot different than traDing for Andre igoudala. Would I throw a bunch of young players and picks away for Kevin Durant? Oh yeah.… Read more »
@Steve. I agree about Simmons he’s often entertaining, but not often insightful (he’s intelligent, but more at repackaging than ideas than forming his own). I always feel that Chris Paul being described as a ‘sure thing’ is a bit like calling people’s trip on the Carnival Triumph ‘a bad vacation’. Paul was/is the best pg in basketball and New Orleans was in no man’s land trying to unload him to start over. Directly they got a bad deal, indirectly it created the opportunity for them to win the lotto and cleared space to get Ryan Anderson. If Lilliard fell to… Read more »
Simmons saw one example and made a sweeping judgment? What a complete shocker. I bet within two years he’ll see the opposite happen, pass another sweeping judgment and act like he never said the first thing. He’ll throw in some bad movie or gambling reference, pass it all off as if it HAS to be a fact, and people will eat it up. I get that somehow hes entertaining, but his analysis should be taken as seriously as the drunk guy at the end of the bar who overreacts to every basket, even when you’re up 12 in the middle… Read more »
Could we have beaten Memphis?
One stat that jumped out at me because of our discussions here:
Every Cav starter had double-digit negative +/-
the Herculoids? All had positive +/-
[the opposite was true, of course, for MEM]
p.s. are the players aware of the sobriquets y’all have coined?
I could see Dion actually liking St Weirdo
and who wouldn’t want to be dubbed the Herculoids??
From the latest Bill Simmons column: 4. Eric Gordon: four years, $58.4 million His missed games starting with his rookie year in 2008: 4, 20, 26, 57, 37 (and counting). You’d have to be doing drugs to deal for that monstrosity of a contract; I’d need to see one full healthy season from him before I considered it. Could the Chris Paul trade have worked out any worse for New Orleans? They ended up with a possible lemon (Gordon), a few months of Chris Kaman (long gone), a year and a half of Al-Farouq Aminu (leaving after this season), and… Read more »
“@JasonLloydABJ: Kyrie Irving says he’ll play… kinda feel like the ring announced in karate kid: “daniel larusso is going to fight!””
Love the film breakdown on Cavs’ D from Kirk at WFNY. Great to see the team starting to pick up the defensive intensity. Trap on Foye was textbook and Kyrie’s steal on Hayward was a beautiful thing.
Pretty cool that the Cavs are so invested in the future and are doing anything in their capabilities to make that happen.
From what I’ve heard or read, players, families and employees of the Cavs have had symptoms that include vomiting – thus, it has NOT been “the flu” that has been sweeping through the team. If you’ve ever actually had “the flu” – there is no vomiting involved – just chills, sweats, fever, body aches, lack of energy, and general feeling like you’re near death. Thus, what is sweeping through the Cavs is a nasty stomach virus. Plain and simple – but ain’t no “flu” – which is actually more serious and longer lasting (typically 2 to 3 weeks till all… Read more »