>Cavs have lost 3 of the Last 5 games >Korver has 4 points in 2 games >We talkin bout practice
Love: 'Practice time would be great for us' |
Cavs players say they need more practice time -- After falling last night in Portland to the Trail Blazers, the Cleveland Cavaliers have lost two in a row -- just their second losing streak of the season. Cleveland lost three in a row shortly after Thanksgiving, but righted the ship and was rolling until this recent slump, which players are attributing to a lack of practice time. ESPN.com's Dave McMenamin has more:
The Blazers loss marked two weeks to the day since Cleveland's last practice on Dec. 28. Since then, the Cavaliers have been upended by a series of events -- a hamstring injury for Kyrie Irving, food poisoning for Kevin Love, a roster-shuffling trade to acquire Kyle Korver and a wild travel day to get to Portland -- that has left the team pining for a sharpening session on the practice court.
franchise looses money every year, even when theyre good hes too invested all ego
Owen Allen
>lebeta >goat lelnaw there's levels to this shit
Aiden Parker
nuggets should trade murray, nurkic, mudiay and a 1st round pick for jimmy butler
Hunter Cook
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Nathaniel Carter
>this nobody supporting a fraud
really makse you think
Jordan Morales
lmao btfo
westshook fags on suicide prevention hotline
Ethan Watson
>rick berry has more 50 point games than lebron let that sink in a little bit
Robert Diaz
>they both went to shit the same year kek
Ryder Garcia
who is this?
Brandon Young
how do we fix the Cavs?
Christian Rodriguez
>Kevin Love out 4 to 6 weeks with a knee contusion I guess it was worse than they first thought.
Isaac Lopez
In a way he's right. Especially with the list of referees that were employed for a decade and never made the playoffs.
Those people should've been fired.
All this means is Cuban is the only one with the balls to call out the refs and the retarded system behind them. So the referee association is just being pussies because they've felt threatened by Cuban's criticism. If they can't take that level of criticism it only proves Cuban right that the refs are a fucking joke.
Glad I watched that Grizzlies OKC game. That was some early 90's tier shit.
Parker Howard
Kobe is incredibly underrated imo, yeah his fg% is under average and his clutch factor is overrated, but the fact that MJ endorses him as being closest to him in terms of talent and attitude means a lot. His crossover @ 3:42 (which he stopped using around 2010-2011) was underrated too imo.
Lincoln Reyes
i wish we could go back to 1999 desu and experience Kobe's uprising all again
Juan Brooks
Come on guys, we got to get Embiid in, he's so fucking close, votes close on Monday I think
Isaiah Ward
>His crossover @ 3:42 (which he stopped using around 2010-2011) was underrated too imo
It's because that's carrying and refs started calling that by the late 2000s. Grant Hill made a living out of doing that and it was his signature move.
Dominic Moore
That may be true, but people (especially Kyrie and Curry) still do carry overs and they don't call that, and aesthetically, those crossovers were fun as fuck to watch
Now we just get the boring regular crossover or maybe the Shammgod (which they aren't calling right now either)
Logan Diaz
Kyrie and Curry do not carry. The key is looking to see if their palms are facing upwards or downwards, and they keep it just downward enough to not be a carry.
Christopher Peterson
Guys tell me who you think deserves to be a starter and a reserve in the east
Kevin Sullivan
Yes they do?
Jaxon Flores
Curry carries for sure..
Caleb Collins
Embiid should be starting over Love
Kyrie, Curry, IT, even Exum all carry, palm the ball, whatever you wanna call it. Kyrie is so fast he gets away with it
Chase Cox
everyone carries in the nba, the refs dont call it
Aiden Gomez
Embiid is gonna start over love cuz love is injured
Liam Turner
Is it that bad?
Oliver Jenkins
Yes, embiid is shit
Aaron Price
Love is injured for 5 to six weeks Fuck off texas
Cameron Garcia
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Xavier Torres
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Zachary Bennett
Not on a crossover.
Those get called.
If you do it on a regular dribble or a set up on the post they won't call it.
Brody Nelson
Wasn't this picture taken in the year the Cavs lost? I swear I saw this picture in 2015.
Xavier Martin
Reminder I was permabanned for posting j cole
Jaxon Edwards
obradovic will turn him into a decent frontcourt player
Elijah Torres
Damn I forget Rodman was on all these Dynasty teams.
Asher Clark
/moo/ crew btfo
Benjamin Wright
Rodman was unique in his own way
David Parker
Starter
Lebron, Butler, Giannis, DerRozan, Lowry, Isaiah Thomas
Bench
Embiid, Kemba, John Wall, Whiteside, PG13
Tyler Morales
BLOOD 4 MODA
Jordan Howard
is this the Warrior game bread?
Jacob Martin
Another Brooklyn loss
Jason Hill
Remember when he was good?
Christopher Cruz
Having the worst doesn't guarantee the top pick. Missing out on Fultz and drafting Ball is gonna suck for you.
Lincoln Garcia
it feels so weird to no longer be the laughing stock of the NBA.
>they don't even have their 1st round pick
How do the nets still have fans??
Sebastian Kelly
>commercial about draymond getting a massage from a white bitch >your mom sees it >gets wet
Samuel Moore
>How do the nets still have fans??
Because we are true loyal sports fans.
Benjamin Cook
>selling MCW at the absolute peak of his value based hinkie
Logan Rogers
i thought /nba/ told me lebron was good? who do i root for now???
Nolan Cooper
god that draft class was embarrassing
how did Giannis not win ROTY that season??
Wyatt Allen
>tfw thought the Laker game was at 7:30pm pst >tfw check in and it's almost over
fuck me
also it's clear we're not making the playoffs, time to trade swaggy and lou, deng if we can.
let Russell, Clarkson, Ingram, Bully and Mozgov finish the season off
Give Zubac 14-16 minutes a game, bring back LNJ slow
ACTIVATE THE TANK
we need a bottom 3 pick
Aaron Ross
>kenny and chuck just gave the title to the warriors lmao /nba/ btfo
Xavier James
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Angel Ramirez
is drose the best ISO player in the nba?
Landon Ramirez
is this the part of the night we dance?
Jose Stewart
>time to trade swaggy and lou, deng if we can
Honest question, pls no delusion
What the fuck value do you think these players have, with the possible exception of Lou?
Isaiah Wright
you'll get the 3rd worst record (at best) and you will fucking like it.
no matter how much they may try, they ain't out-tanking the Nets or Heat this year.
Cooper Garcia
Nintendo Switch event starting. RIP John Wall.
Isaiah Davis
Cavs could lose 20 in a row and they'd still win the East. STAY MAD FAGGOTS lolololololololol
Jaxon Ortiz
John Wall's career ends tonight
Luke Rogers
We screwed this up royally. Signing Wade and Rondo, the Doug McDerrmott trade, Firing Thibs, Failure in the Draft since Jimmy, and Gar Forman's antics. But no amount of whining will change the fact that we are here.
And the place we are at right now sucks.
So what do we do? My fear is that we compound mistakes by making panic trades at the deadline. That to me is not the answer. I really hope that we are smart about this Having over committed to the win now approach means that by bottoming out, we are throwing a lot of assets away, but without any legitimate star potential besides Butler in our lineup we are kidding ourselves to think we can become anything more than an 8th seed at absolute best.
Its time to accept that this rebuild has failed miserably.
Trust me, I'm usually one of the more pro Hoiberg fanboys and one of the more optimistic people when it comes to the futures of Niko, Dougie, and Grant, but things are starting to get clearer and its not looking how I'd hope it to look at this point in time.
We are at a crossroads. The upside is no longer there. The ceiling has fallen. To me, its a choice between digging the hole deeper, or accepting that we are fighting a losing battle and begin the process of digging ourselves out. I don't want to end up on the treadmill of mediocrity, or even worse, like the Brooklyn Nets, with a team that is full of middle of the road veterans and no picks that can help build for the future.
Trade Butler. Blow it all up. Even the Front Office. Hell ESPECIALLY the front office Its the best option we have. Maybe the only option we have.
Nolan Davis
>pope btfo trying to cover curry hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah thank you based zaza you are my greatest allstar
Michael Brown
Career ending shookness. I feel kinda bad desu. The guy had a lot of potential.
Adam Anderson
Lakeys realize their pick was a B U S T
Carter Rodriguez
How is a 40 year old Wade the Bulls best player?
Noah Gutierrez
Nuclear Powell for butler
Nathan Nelson
which one tho
Samuel Martin
All of them
Robert Jones
>steph already has 12 points pistons are proper fucked
Jeremiah Harris
>silky caramel white top
Henry Martinez
i just checked out the lelkers' statlines this game
>Moscow >Black >zubat
jesus christ why didn't you guys just draft Okafor like you were supposed to??
Christopher Johnson
why yes!
Ethan Peterson
Swaggy could fetch a first round pick in the 20s. His contract is friendly and he has a player option which, after this year, he will certainly opt out of. Thus, the teams willing to trade for him would be contenders who could use another shooter to make a run this season. Cavs, perhaps. Maybe Celtics. It's very much a 4 month rental.
Lou Williams would be a similar situation but his contract makes it unlikely he gets moved. He's a great 6th man but he stagnates the offense
Deng we would have to trade at a huge loss but it opens minutes for Ingram. One of the worst signings in Lakers history imo.
If i had to keep one playstyle wise, Young fits in the best. I'd trade Lou, and I honestly dont know what to do with Deng.
4th or 5th is more likely, you are right. I think we are losing the pick regardless this year, knowing that Jimmy Buss wants to push for the playoffs because his job is on the line this season
Lincoln Nguyen
>he gets away with it
Anthony Parker
Bruh switch is 300. More bang for your buck. John wall is fucked
Grayson Robinson
>lakers lose to the best team in the league >/nba/ panics like they even stood a chance to make the playoffs
