Links To The Present: February 4, 2011
2011-02-04
“[A] a loss Friday at Memphis and Byron Scott will also have his named tied — twice — to the longest single-season losing streak in NBA history. He played on the Vancouver Grizzlies’ team that lost 23 in a row during their expansion season. The Cavs can tie that mark with a loss to those same Grizzlies tonight.” [Jason Lloyd]
“Scott is hinting at replacing Harris in the starting lineup in favor of veteran Anthony Parker. Harris said he has no druthers about starting or coming off the bench. ‘Like anyone in this league, they’d rather start,’ he said. ‘I know I’m just a rookie and have good guys ahead of me.'” [Bob Finnan]
“The pressure of trying to end the misery was at the forefront of Ramon Sessions’ mind at the end of the game against the Pacers, the point guard admitted Thursday. Nerves kicked in. He was rattled. His drive to the basket with 11.9 seconds left ended with a whipped pass to J.J. Hickson that bounced off the center’s hands and became a turnover.” [Jodie Valade]
Sebastian Pruiti over at NBA Playbook, which is just an excellent site, breaks down the Cavs’ atrocious perimeter defense, which killed them against the Pacers in the fourth quarter.
WFNY is giving away tickets to the Cavs/Blazers game on Saturday. You can get the details here.
On The Twitters
“Cavs now have a 3.5-game lead over Wolves for worst overall record. Cleveland puts its 22-game losing streak on the line in Memphis tonight.” [Eric Knappenberger]
“Cavaliers director of pro personnel Wes Wilcox here watching Ohio State – Michigan in person tonight” [Zac Jackson]
“Mo Williams is about a week away from playing. Boobie looked good in today’s light workout.” [realcavsfans]
Lakers fan here; visited before.
I think looking at Oden is a very good idea for the Cavs.
Artest/Jamison wouldn’t work, as noted, and would not help either squad. Sessions, Williams or Gibson could help the Lakers, but the Lakers don’t have any players except perhaps Ebanks and Caracter that would help the Cavs start the rebuild.
I hope the Cavs win a game soon.
Apparently the Grizzlies didn’t get the memo about the Cavs not being able to defend the 3-point line. They’ve taken 1 in the first half. And the Cavs are really, really bad at defending the 3. As in, the percentage gap between them and the second worst team is the same as the gap between the seventh best team and the second worst team.
Lakers don’t want someone who sucks on defense. Terrible trade scenario.
Erik,
According to ESPN.com, Artest makes $6.3 mil and Antawn makes $13.3 mil, so the Lakers would need to throw in some other contracts to even things out.
Here is a not stupid (in my mind) trade idea, responses? Cavs should try to deal for Greg Oden with their trade exception (or any player the Blazers might want). Good risk on a reclamation project, the guy has some Ohio roots, he needs a new scene, and Blazers, I imagine, would be happy to save on some luxury tax. Maybe the Cavs take some more $ back to save Blazers as well, could save Blazers like $15-20 mil between salary & luxury tax am I crazy? I hear Blazers would want to keep Oden on the off chance he… Read more »
I still kind of want to see the Cavs trade for Iggy. He plays great D and he fills the stat sheet. He’s fun to watch, if nothing else. This wouldn’t really help them go back to contending, though. So I kind of don’t want us to trade for anything but draft picks and young high upside players. Maybe flip Jamison and Mo for some young players (Roddy Buckets, Greg Monroe, Ed Davis, etc). Frankly, I kind of want Coach Brown back, but that isn’t gonna happen.
That would be a horribly misguided trade idea. Artest still has 3 years after this one at MLE money, and he’s only going to deteriorate further from here on forward. It would hurt the Cavs’ cap situation going forward and do nothing to help the team win games — by the time the Cavs have an actual team back together, Artest will be completely washed up. And for what it’s worth, the Lakers probably don’t want Jamison anyway. They need wings, not PF/Cs.
This is a random thought i had, someone please correct me if it wouldn’t work numbers-wise:
trade jamison for artest, straight up. the lakers are saying they need more scoring. jamison is averaging 20 a night while artest is only averaging 8. i realize this doesn’t really help the cavs, but i personally would like to see someone who can actually guard someone, ANYone. stupid trade, but could it work?