Links to the Present: March 23, 2012
2012-03-23
“As you may or may not know, it’s Kyrie Irving’s 20th birthday. Apparently, the rookie told the team that he wanted to celebrate his birthday at Disneyworld. Therefore, the Cavaliers will travel to Orlando to have a party and such. Oh, and they’ll also play a game against Dwight Howard and the Orlando Magic.” [Conrad Kacmzarek]
“To compare and contrast LeBron James and Kyrie Irving is wholly unfair. The two couldn’t be more different in almost every way: as people, as basketball players, as ambassadors of the Cavaliers franchise. Well, we’ll get to that 3rd one in a minute. But certainly they are different men, different players, different backgrounds, different futures.” [Andrew Schnitkey]
“No team in the NBA is worse in the second quarter than the Cavs. They average the fewest points (21.8) and own the worst margin (-3.4). This isn’t a recent development and the sample size is now large enough that it cannot be dismissed.” [Tom Reed]
And Ryan Hollins is signing with the Celtics. Let’s hope Kevin Garnett doesn’t murder him.
I wish Hollins the best. I think that everytime B. Scott would talk about players who don’t know the system, he’s talking about Hollins specifically. That’s my guess for why he never played – and yes he’s not very good. But I think that in a different system and with the support of the team leaders, maybe he’ll do well in Boston. For his sake I hope so.
my grandmother has “good lift” compared to Paul Pierce…she is in a wheelchair.
Yeah I saw those comments…Paul Pierce can go fuck himself. Why throw Cleveland under the bus and talk about them “struggling” because he played a pickup game with Hollins in the summer and thinks he has good lift. Have fun getting mauled in the first round with your bitchy PG who can’t shoot and the rest of the geriatric kids.
Hey, good for him. I hope KG knocks some sense into him.
Reading the quotes about Hollins signing with the Celtics was kind of funny. Apparently he played pick-up games with Pierce and Garnett this summer. They both said something to the effect of “he’s really big and has a good vertical, so he seems like he should be good. But then again, he never played for Clevelad even though they suck, so we’ll have to see why that is.” Have fun with that.