May be interesting to see if they can get under Lebron's skin with some hard fouls and maybe some tussles but I don't see tht bothering them considering where this team has been already.
I've got them penciled in against the old man spurs.
i'm really not sure what to do if you're Cleveland
pg - Kyrie
sg - Waiters (hate him)
sf - lot of nothing
pf/c -- Thompson/Zeller/Andy V
do they draft Otto Porter who fills a need at SF? do they make a run at someone like Iggy if he is there in free agency? do they keep the SF spot warm for the return of the King? do they try to trade Andy V for another vet and take Noel?
you don't need a usage player, since you have Kyrie dominating the ball, so getting a Noel isn't the worst option. But they still struggle to score outside of Kyrie so a guy who can score off the ball would be ideal.
i'm gonna guess they shock and actually take Otto Porter.
DRiccio21 wrote:i'm really not sure what to do if you're Cleveland
pg - Kyrie
sg - Waiters (hate him)
sf - lot of nothing
pf/c -- Thompson/Zeller/Andy V
do they draft Otto Porter who fills a need at SF? do they make a run at someone like Iggy if he is there in free agency? do they keep the SF spot warm for the return of the King? do they try to trade Andy V for another vet and take Noel?
you don't need a usage player, since you have Kyrie dominating the ball, so getting a Noel isn't the worst option. But they still struggle to score outside of Kyrie so a guy who can score off the ball would be ideal.
i'm gonna guess they shock and actually take Otto Porter.
I was loving Otto Porter at 3. He's really who we NEED. I think they end up making some sort of move and try to Rotate Zeller/Andy/Noel at 4/5 and use one of the other good picks (19, 31, and 32) to try to either move back up to draft Porter or someone else that can fit the SF spot.
They very well could try to wait for the return of LeBron, but if they have too bad of a year Kyrie is gonna get pissy(er) and want to leave
i don't really have a guess as to what Lebron is gonna do, i can see both sides of it.
i think Cleveland is well on their way to a playoff birth without this #1 pick. Kyrie is that good, just a matter of him staying healthy for a full season. i don't think they need 2 or 3 more young guys tho. i think they are in a better place by packaging and trying to get an established player on the roster.
Ray Allen is as bad of a basketball player as it gets.
I don't mean that with any exaggeration and I've been saying it all season. he KILLS the Heat (as much as you can kill a team with Lebron).
he's beyond pathetic on defense, he can't dribble, he can't pass so all he does is spot shoot. if he misses those shots he is giving you below average production everywhere else.
add to that they were RUNNING PLAYS THRU HIM in crunch time and my mind is officially blown.
and again, i'm not exaggerating, not overreacting, not mad at the guy... he just flat out sucks at this point in his career and makes the Heat worse.
The last part about Barkley is good stuff, but this is awesome
Against any other team today or yesterday, the superstar is taking that last shot. Kobe Bryant. Kevin Durant. Carmelo Anthony. All of them. You can’t give up a layup, so naturally Hibbert stays in against just about any other superstar who has ever played, especially since Indiana has stayed big all season no matter the opponent. But you never know where the hell the ball is going with James because he is fundamentally hard-wired to make the smart basketball play, to bring the defense to him in search of a weakness an open teammate can also exploit, a fast-twitch calculator tallying efficiencies while up in the air and before he comes down. Funny to think that was viewed as a cowardice in some circles less than one year ago, a shrinkage, but in Game 1 it was the very thing that a fearful Vogel was guarding against, and it is ultimately what made the avalanche fall upon his defeated head.Vogel knows he has one of the best LeBron defenders in the league, if indeed there is such a thing. That’s a young extraterrestrial named Paul George, and he has an absurd wingspan that makes his standing reach 8 feet 11 inches. Vogel chose to cover the shooters James always finds and prayed that James couldn’t make a contested jumper over his All-Star to win the game. We can quibble about whether an open Bosh jumper is more desirable than a contested one from James if you are Indiana, but the Pacers leader trusted his very best player to guard Miami’s very best player at the most important time for 2.2 seconds from the top of the key. It did not occur to Vogel that James could reduce his best player to bones in the 2.2 seconds it takes piranha to feed. It might not have occurred to any of us, either, if we hadn’t just witnessed it being done so expediently, without George offering even a tenth-of-a-second’s worth of resistance.To arrive at that rim so freely, soaring as if liberated, James had to fail in
