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2018-2019 NBA season thread

Embid playing great, hopefully the rest of the squad gets going so he isn't flying solo all year.

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It's too bad the Wolves might be an okay team with Butler. They look alright tonight against GS. He really is a primadonna.
 
Jman said:
It’s the Carmelo effect.
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And the assistant coach who was the defensive guru retired. Now Houston gets the real Mike D’antoni experience...it isn’t fun.
 
Cavs lose by 32 to hornets
 
With 1 starter in double digits
 
Early in the 2nd quarter with Kawhi Leonard not playing: Raptors 50, Lakers 21. I contend that the Cavs last year had a better roster around LeBron than the Lakers do this year.
 
arydolphin said:
Early in the 2nd quarter with Kawhi Leonard not playing: Raptors 50, Lakers 21. I contend that the Cavs last year had a better roster around LeBron than the Lakers do this year.
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I for one, am getting mega joy out of them sucking heavily.
 
arydolphin said:
Early in the 2nd quarter with Kawhi Leonard not playing: Raptors 50, Lakers 21. I contend that the Cavs last year had a better roster around LeBron than the Lakers do this year.
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I don’t think the Lakers have less talent than that team at all. The Cavs surrounded LBJ with shooters and played ISO ball. The Lakers surrounded him with ball handling slashers who supposedly would play D, all under the guise of “you can’t beat the Warriors at their own game”. I think it’s very much a work in progress for the pieces fitting together and LBJ being able to succeed with this style of play.
 
Canadan said:
I for one, am getting mega joy out of them sucking heavily.
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They are 4-5 with games against Portland (x2), Spurs (x2), Denver, Houston, Toronto, Dallas and Minnesota. That’s a lot of tough games.
 
tequila4kapp said:
I don’t think the Lakers have less talent than that team at all. The Cavs surrounded LBJ with shooters and played ISO ball. The Lakers surrounded him with ball handling slashers who supposedly would play D, all under the guise of “you can’t beat the Warriors at their own game”. I think it’s very much a work in progress for the pieces fitting together and LBJ being able to succeed with this style of play.
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tequila4kapp said:
They are 4-5 with games against Portland (x2), Spurs (x2), Denver, Houston, Toronto, Dallas and Minnesota. That’s a lot of tough games.
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Look around the Western Conference. Outside of Phoenix, Sacramento and Dallas, there are no easy games in that conference. It's not like they are going to hit a stretch of 5 games that are all easy.

I also think that the roster will look much different next year since so many guys are signed to 1-year contracts and this year is all about figuring out which of the young guys are going to be good fits with LeBron.
 
lol, good times in Cleveland

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Report: Cavaliers welched on handshake deal to trade Kyle Korver if LeBron left
Yahoo Sports Liz Roscher,Yahoo Sports 20 hours ago
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The Cleveland Cavaliers are a sad, dysfunctional mess. But according to Joe Vardon of The Athletic, it’s somehow even worse than we already know. Reportedly, the front office is going back on handshake deals with players, the locker room is divided, no one knows their role, and acting (or maybe just regular) head coach Larry Drew doesn’t seem to be doing much about any of it — which is fine, because the players don’t seem inclined to listen to him anyway.

Kyle Korver wanted a trade if LeBron left, but didn’t get it
Cavaliers veterans don’t seem too happy lately, and Kyle Korver is one of them. None of them have been getting a lot of playing time lately (which caused J.R. Smith to essentially ask the Cavs to trade him last week), but Korver reportedly has another reason to be fuming from the bench every night. According to Vardon, when GM Koby Altman signed Korver in 2017, the two struck a handshake deal: If LeBron James opted out of his contract after the 2017-2018 season, Korver would be traded or bought out before the next season.

Since Korver is still with the Cavaliers, it’s obvious that their reported “understanding” wasn’t honored.

So when LeBron left July 1 for the Lakers, Korver asked for the Cavs to move him. They refused because, they told him, they wanted him to play and for the team to try and win.
Before the team took the court this season, the Cavaliers were still saying they were in “win now” mode, and that’s what Korver was told. That seems laughable in retrospect. The Cavs are 1-8 and are sitting in last place in the East. It’s less “win now” and more “for the love of all that’s holy please win a second game.”


The Cavaliers reportedly promised Kyle Korver that he would be traded if LeBron James left, but that didn’t happen. Mandatory Copyright Notice: Copyright 2018 NBAE (Photo by David Liam Kyle/NBAE via Getty Images)
The Cavs have even more problems, somehow
The Korver stuff isn’t even the only terrible Cavs thing in Vardon’s article. There’s a lot more. Not surprisingly, there’s a divide between the older, LeBron-era players and the slew of younger guys, and acting head coach — or maybe he’s just the head coach, the two sides are still working that out — Larry Drew isn’t doing anything to bridge that. What’s worse, he’s not doing anything to address some of the Cavs’ most pressing issues on the court — namely, that no one knows their role. Here’s a quote from J.R. Smith, followed by some commentary from Vardon:

“Team is in a very weird place right now and we have to figure it out, whether it’s a players-only meeting or coaches or front office meeting or whatever it is, we have to figure it out and let everyone know what their individual role is and what to expect,” Smith said. Except, the veterans do not expect Drew to do this because, while they respect him greatly, they don’t think he’s the head coach because of his contract situation.
According to Vardon, Drew’s evolving contract status is actively hurting the locker room and the team’s performance on the court, even though the players apparently respect Drew and are backing him in his contract dispute. This probably isn’t what owner Dan Gilbert or GM Koby Altman envisioned when they fired Tyronn Lue.

The Cavs are a flaming dumpster fire
All those problems not enough? Because there’s more. Vardon also reports that Cavs veterans aren’t impressed with first-round pick Collin Sexton. Really, really not impressed.

Throughout the organization, the line on Sexton is that he does not “know how to play.” He doesn’t know how to defend the pick and roll. He doesn’t know how to set up teammates as a point guard. He’s playing 25 minutes a night, averaging 11.1 points and 2.2 assists (2.1 turnovers) and is shooting 22 percent from 3-point range. Against the Hornets, he had as many points (four) as fouls.
 
JR, TT, Lyle Borver...they can all go. Theyre just taking minutes and salary cap space up anyways
 
Cava down 11 at half....to magic
 
Cavs outscore magic 32 to 12 in 3rd...9 point lead here we go
 
I missed it
 
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