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BTW, it's pretty clear to most Cavs fans and any non-fans that Kyrie's "poor" year last year was not really on him. Could he have worked harder? Sure. Hard to motivate yourself when you're playing for a terrible team.

BUT the real problem was Mike Brown's abortion of an offense. The team might have been poor under Byron Scott, but at least he ran an offense that catered to Kyrie's strengths. It's not a coincidence that Kyrie has looked like an offensive phenom at every point when he wasn't playing for Mike Brown.
 
Could you imagine Duke fans, as a collective, rampaging against Okafor as the featured post and saying things like "We need to run this offense through Amile."
 
That's better.

I won't be arguing for Amile over Okafor, but I will probably be raging every moment they don't play together. Our small ball lineup may result in even better offense, but our lineup with two bigs will be our best defensive lineup and will be absolutely dominant on the glass.
 
Sometimes I forget how efficient Amile is and how inefficient Waiters is. Amile probably will thrive in that high post role though I contend he's better on the low block.
 
I wouldn't want Amile posting up trying to Hansbrough on offense, but I wouldn't want Okafor doing that either. Okafor will be doing that, though. Amile will keep getting his easy layups and abusing slow defenders going to the basket from a few feet out. Everything should be Tyus pick and roll. I don't see why the first 25 seconds of every possession wouldn't be Tyus trying to use picks. Sulaimon will probably be good for this too if he has learned how to finish.
 
I believe the Cavs' new coach is going to open things up quite a bit offensively. Not full D'antoni, but pretty much the opposite of Coach Brown.
 



Lesson: If you run onto the court in the middle of a game to make contact with a player, you might just get exactly what you want with no lasting negative consequences!

I'll be the first to post the story of the crazed Wizards fan who makes a run at Durant...
 
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Eric Bledsoe at 5 years, $70 million for the Suns. Figured it would be much worse, not as bad as I was expecting for Phoenix.
 



Another 6 million in unguaranteed salary. Combine that with Haywood, and that's 16 million.




PG: K. Irving
SG: D. Waiters
SF: L. James
PF: K. Love
C: M.Gasol


That knocks on the door of 70 wins.
 
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Realistically though, Clippers are not gonna burn a max contract on DeAndre Jordan. Dan Gilbert could just say "fuck it" to the luxary tax for a few years and hope the increased casino traffic next door to the arena from a mini dynasty in a city with nothing to do will make up for it.
 
Would DeAndre Jordan actually be better for the Cavs than Marc Gasol? How good is Gasol's defense? They need a rim protector. Scoring from that position doesn't really matter.

They should sign Brian Zoubek for the league minimum.
 
rome8180 said:
Would DeAndre Jordan actually be better for the Cavs than Marc Gasol? How good is Gasol's defense? They need a rim protector. Scoring from that position doesn't really matter.

They should sign Brian Zoubek for the league minimum.
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Gasol is a recent DPOY. Him or Jordan or even Hibbert would pretty much solve all their problems.
 
Jordan could at least keep up. I'm not sure Gasol could run with the Cavs, and no way Hibbert could.
 
rhfarmer said:
Jordan could at least keep up. I'm not sure Gasol could run with the Cavs, and no way Hibbert could.
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Yep. Jordan is younger, too. Plus:

 
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