Links To The Present: December 13, 2010
2010-12-13
Another quotestravaganza today, y’all. Sorry, it’s finals week and your loyal links editor is swamped. I should be out of the woods by Tuesday afternoon.
“Following the Cavaliers 106-77 loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder, head coach Byron Scott called out his recently depleted reserve unit (“slaughtered” was his exact term) for a 19-1 third-quarter run that would be the proverbial dagger in the evening for the Wine and Gold. After the starting unit brought the game back to within 10, the second unit could provide little in terms of a roadblock as the Thunder never looked back.” [Scott Sargent]
“Scott repeatedly said this was the best team he had taken over, much better than his teams at New Jersey and New Orleans. But with the Cavs lugging a seven-game losing streak into Sunday’s game, they haven’t looked that way.” [Mary Schmitt Boyer]
“As soon as one leak is plugged in the Cavs’ quickly sinking ship, another sprouts on the other side. Now the season is taking on water — fast — and Scott is running out of answers.” [Jason Lloyd]
“At some point, the Cavs need to designate a scorer for nights like Sunday, where nothing the offense is doing is going right and someone needs to create something! in order to get the defense to adjust. That guy has to be Mo Williams, because he’s the guy who doesn’t have to wait for Mo Williams to pass it to him. Which is why he can’t have an 8-point, 3-for-9 night like he did on Sunday. Mo’s unwillingness to go down swinging when the team is slipping is just the latest proof that he’s an ideal 6th man, nothing more. ” [Michael Curry]
On The Twitters
“Fan just hit half court shot for 20 grand. #Cavs could use someone with that range” [Jason Lloyd]
“#Cavs fans frustrated with play, note that with patience and lots of losing, the OKC business model is attainable.” [Scott Sargent]
“JJ didn’t like [Scott’s criticism of the bench]: ‘Oh so he’s blaming it on the bench? If he feels that way then, that’s the way he feels. That’s his opinion.'” [Jason Lloyd]
Players like Gasol or Love are probably untouchable, unless we give too much away. If it was as ‘simple’ as saying here is JJ and we’ll take Marc/Kevin, then I’d do it in a second. However, we would have to give way too much for either of thoughs guys (e.g. Andy, trade exception, multiple picks, boobie AND JJ). Yes, we really didn’t want to include JJ in a trade for Amare. Amare’s eyes and legs made/makes him questionable for the long-term and most people in the league see/saw a lot of upside potential in JJ. That’s why they wanted him… Read more »
No Memphis is not dumb enough to give us Marc Gasol for him. Someone clear this rumor up. Did we really not trade for Amare because they wanted Hickson?
Also, Byron Scott should take a lot of blame. His timeout speeches are ridiculous: “We gotta get some stops, we gotta get a couple stops in a row. 2 or 3 times to get back in this!” Really? Maybe some actually strategy would be helpful.
we should trick Minnesota to have them give us kevin love for jj and maybe some other random dude we got…david kahn will prolly do it since he’s dumb enough to do such things…have love and andy grabbing boards left and right getting double doubles every night hahaha
but yah i actually agree with Rich about cleaning house…we made some moves this off season that will questionable…like joey graham and keeping parker and moon….i thought sessions would turn out better but he’s outta control…sigh
I’m up for trading Hickson and everyone else pretty much. Get our top 5 pick, and then make a run at Marc Gasol with our newly found cap space next summer.
We should ship JJ out if keeps this crap up. We’re not going to be very good for the forseeable futuer, and apparently, neither is he. Is Memphis dumb enough to package Marc Gasol to us, or maybe Terrance Williams from NJ or something?
JJ needs to get his shit together. He’s doing an awful lot of whining for someone who pretty much sucks right now.