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Looks like LeBron is staying in Cleveland (gonna announce his decision Thursday)
LooN3y:
--- Quote from: 7even on July 07, 2010, 04:00:52 AM ---It fucking kills me that he's staying in shitty ass Cleveland... together with Bosh in Chicago or with Bosh and Wade in Miami he could fucking humiliate the league for years to come... in shitty ass Cleveland he is just going to get humiliated by borderline contenders like the Magic...
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lebron better learn some more post moves or drastically improve his j before father time gets him
7even:
--- Quote from: LooN3y on July 07, 2010, 04:02:22 AM ---
--- Quote from: 7even on July 07, 2010, 04:00:52 AM ---It fucking kills me that he's staying in shitty ass Cleveland... together with Bosh in Chicago or with Bosh and Wade in Miami he could fucking humiliate the league for years to come... in shitty ass Cleveland he is just going to get humiliated by borderline contenders like the Magic...
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lebron better learn some more post moves or drastically improve his j before father time gets him
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He could three-peat without any of this if he set his mind to it and signs according to it. But if his best teammates remain to be Mo "I choke" Williams, Anderson "I lack offensive skills" Varejao and Zydrunas "I'm old and slow as shit" Ilgauskas, it is curtains regardless of how much he improves his game.
And the point is the Cavs can't really improve the roster all that much. They have no attractive pieces to trade, too many long term contracts, will never have cap space and have no high first round picks. All they can do is that trade with Toronto for Bosh, which would bring even more bad contracts in (Hedo, Jack) and send them into oblivion if Bosh and LeBron don't get it kickin.
LooN3y:
--- Quote from: 7even on July 07, 2010, 04:20:09 AM ---
--- Quote from: LooN3y on July 07, 2010, 04:02:22 AM ---
--- Quote from: 7even on July 07, 2010, 04:00:52 AM ---It fucking kills me that he's staying in shitty ass Cleveland... together with Bosh in Chicago or with Bosh and Wade in Miami he could fucking humiliate the league for years to come... in shitty ass Cleveland he is just going to get humiliated by borderline contenders like the Magic...
--- End quote ---
lebron better learn some more post moves or drastically improve his j before father time gets him
--- End quote ---
He could three-peat without any of this if he set his mind to it and signs according to it. But if his best teammates remain to be Mo "I choke" Williams, Anderson "I lack offensive skills" Varejao and Zydrunas "I'm old and slow as shit" Ilgauskas, it is curtains regardless of how much he improves his game.
And the point is the Cavs can't really improve the roster all that much. They have no attractive pieces to trade, too many long term contracts, will never have cap space and have no high first round picks. All they can do is that trade with Toronto for Bosh, which would bring even more bad contracts in (Hedo, Jack) and send them into oblivion if Bosh and LeBron don't get it kickin.
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but his team still got the best record in the NBA, i dont see why lebron isnt able to will himself to get a ring when he obviously wills himself to the best record in the NBA during the season.
i forget but who did they trade jamison for?
7even:
--- Quote from: LooN3y on July 07, 2010, 04:23:47 AM ---
--- Quote from: 7even on July 07, 2010, 04:20:09 AM ---
--- Quote from: LooN3y on July 07, 2010, 04:02:22 AM ---
--- Quote from: 7even on July 07, 2010, 04:00:52 AM ---It fucking kills me that he's staying in shitty ass Cleveland... together with Bosh in Chicago or with Bosh and Wade in Miami he could fucking humiliate the league for years to come... in shitty ass Cleveland he is just going to get humiliated by borderline contenders like the Magic...
--- End quote ---
lebron better learn some more post moves or drastically improve his j before father time gets him
--- End quote ---
He could three-peat without any of this if he set his mind to it and signs according to it. But if his best teammates remain to be Mo "I choke" Williams, Anderson "I lack offensive skills" Varejao and Zydrunas "I'm old and slow as shit" Ilgauskas, it is curtains regardless of how much he improves his game.
And the point is the Cavs can't really improve the roster all that much. They have no attractive pieces to trade, too many long term contracts, will never have cap space and have no high first round picks. All they can do is that trade with Toronto for Bosh, which would bring even more bad contracts in (Hedo, Jack) and send them into oblivion if Bosh and LeBron don't get it kickin.
--- End quote ---
but his team still got the best record in the NBA, i dont see why lebron isnt able to will himself to get a ring when he obviously wills himself to the best record in the NBA during the season.
i forget but who did they trade jamison for?
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It was a complex 3-way deal and it basically was that the Cavs traded Z (who they re-signed later after the Wizards bought him out lmao) and got Jamison and Telfair. Basically the Wizards just wanted to get rid of Jamison's contract, because Z had a rather big expiring contract.
Halu Sination:
--- Quote from: LooN3y on July 07, 2010, 04:23:47 AM ---
--- Quote from: 7even on July 07, 2010, 04:20:09 AM ---
--- Quote from: LooN3y on July 07, 2010, 04:02:22 AM ---
--- Quote from: 7even on July 07, 2010, 04:00:52 AM ---It fucking kills me that he's staying in shitty ass Cleveland... together with Bosh in Chicago or with Bosh and Wade in Miami he could fucking humiliate the league for years to come... in shitty ass Cleveland he is just going to get humiliated by borderline contenders like the Magic...
--- End quote ---
lebron better learn some more post moves or drastically improve his j before father time gets him
--- End quote ---
He could three-peat without any of this if he set his mind to it and signs according to it. But if his best teammates remain to be Mo "I choke" Williams, Anderson "I lack offensive skills" Varejao and Zydrunas "I'm old and slow as shit" Ilgauskas, it is curtains regardless of how much he improves his game.
And the point is the Cavs can't really improve the roster all that much. They have no attractive pieces to trade, too many long term contracts, will never have cap space and have no high first round picks. All they can do is that trade with Toronto for Bosh, which would bring even more bad contracts in (Hedo, Jack) and send them into oblivion if Bosh and LeBron don't get it kickin.
--- End quote ---
but his team still got the best record in the NBA, i dont see why lebron isnt able to will himself to get a ring when he obviously wills himself to the best record in the NBA during the season.
i forget but who did they trade jamison for?
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Exactly. They got the best record in the league two years in a row with that squad, the problem wasn't the team. The problem was both his playing style and the fact that Mike Brown's incompetent ass wouldn't run a play other than "give the ball to LeBron and let him just run into the paint." It might work in the regular season, but any time you play the same team 7 games in a row, the opposing team is going to catch on. And then the supporting cast is expected to step up and carry the load, except that's obviously not going to happen because they've never had to do that in the 82 games prior to the postseason.
Antawn Jamison was a damn good player. But obviously his strengths lie on the offensive end. What is the point of an offensive player who doesn't offer much on defense, when LeBron has the ball 99% of the time? LeBron's playing style forced Jamison into being a pure shooter, despite the fact that Jamison has an array of post-moves, he didn't need help creating his own shot. Similar issue went with Shaq. He's a player that obviously has to be in the paint, but that clogs things up and means LeBron has to stay on the perimeter, which is not LeBron's strongest area. Pairing LeBron with a bunch of offensive players who aren't worth much on defense is the wrong way to handle things, especially when they're not a good fit with LeBron on the offensive end to begin with.
It's not that LeBron needs a better supporting cast, he just needs a better fit. Troy Murphy, for example, is never even really considered as good as Jamison is, and yet he probably would have helped the team far more because he would have comfortably taken on the role as an outside shooter while doing his job grabbing boards on defense, accompanying LeBron very well.
And all of this would be a moot point if Cavs had a competent coach to begin with. One who actually ran offensive plays, forcing LeBron to expand his moveset and learning to play off the ball, thus allowing his otherwise teammates to actually do something in the game instead of being useless and chucking up shitty shots. Let's see if Byron Scott does just that.
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