Links To The Present: December 9, 2010
2010-12-09
(Herm Edwards voice:) WE CAN BUILD ON THIS!!! (Maybe.)
“The Cavaliers will use Wednesday’s 88-83 loss to the Chicago Bulls as a stepping stone toward securing a win that has eluded them for six games, a stretch of futility that the franchise hasn’t endured since 2007. The loss was the first time in five games that the Cavaliers have contended down the stretch, the first time they have held an opponent to less than 100 points in that same span.” [Jodie Valade]
“The Bulls played a terrible brand of basketball offensively, couldn’t hit their free throws, and threw the ball all over the court in such a fashion that the 16 turnovers doesn’t give justice to how bad it was at times.
However, in the end, we have Derrick Rose, and they no longer have LeBron James.” [Doug Thonus]
“‘We didn’t get the outcome that we were looking for, but that’s something to build on, because I thought our guys played hard for the first time in a while,’ said Cavaliers head coach Byron Scott.” [Richard Bauer]
“The Chicago Bulls did to them what the Cavs used to do to so many teams. They showed up and played defense. The smothering, suffocating type of defense that resulted in the Bulls’ 88-83 victory on Wednesday night. The Cavs have now lost six in a row, but this one didn’t sting quite as badly.” [Jason Lloyd]
On The Twitters
“Win, lose or draw if the Cavs play with this type of effort I’ll keep watching.” [realcavsfans]
“Hickson officially must have family in attendance. Now yelling that Byron Scott is a ‘hater.'” [Scott Sargent]
I wouldn’t play anyone wearing gold shoes.
Hollinger’s outlook for the Cavs is beyond bleak. I’ll quote one of his paragraphs here:
“And now, the bad news. Cleveland’s first 22 games came against one of the league’s easiest schedules, with an average winning percentage of .465 when not playing the Cavs. Now it gets harder, and the Cavs are in over their heads. Six of the next seven opponents have winning records; the one that doesn’t is Houston, which isn’t exactly chopped liver either.”
He also mentions that the Cavs don’t have a player in the top 75 in PER.
Funny how when you move your best bench players to the starting lineup, the bench does worse and the starters do better.