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Anderson Varejao

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I'm in an odd place with Andy. I do think it would be wise to get value for him, but then I have no idea what we're gonna do in the front-court if we don't get someone back that can play C. Bynum isn't gonna go 35 minutes a night, and that means one thing...Zeller. No one wants to see Zeller.
 
Did anyone notice how every time he went down, he grabbed his left knee in pain??

as much as i love andy
We have to trade him before its to late

I'm with you, but I think it's already too late. He's playing well off the bench and has been valuable for us this season, but I don't think any team will pay more than 25 cents on the dollar for him. Would you want your team to give up anything for someone who only played 81 games the last 3 seasons and already looks slower/injury prone again this year? I wouldn't.

I don't see us getting a good draft pick or a starting caliber player unless they have a terrible contract.
 
[video=youtube;fg2_bVEH7tU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fg2_bVEH7tU#t=46[/video]

For those who didn't see the play.

Just watched this again... what a fuckin bitch move. I wish Dion would have decked him in the face.
 
Game 25 for Varejao. Big resistance here.
 
[video=youtube;fg2_bVEH7tU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fg2_bVEH7tU#t=46[/video]

For those who didn't see the play.

Varejao sure knows how to exact revenge on a team.

I am a big proponent of trading Varejao, but have to give him his props. The gameball goes to him. A game to remember; possible season saving effort.

Some contender has to have a starting small forward to give up for this dude!

[Quick, before he gets hurt]
 
FROM ESPN:

Varejao Ties Cavs Rebound Record

From Elias: Anderson Varejao tied the Cavaliers' single-game record with 25 rebounds in Cleveland's 87-81 overtime win over Orlando. The only other Cavs player to grab that many boards in a game is Rick Roberson, who did it in a 130-123 win at Houston on March 4, 1972, Cleveland's second season in the NBA. Only three other franchises have never had a player record more than 25 rebounds in a game. Larry Johnson and Tyson Chandler share the Hornets/Pelicans single-game record with 23 boards (franchise began play in 1988). Donyell Marshall holds the Raptors (started in 1995) record with 24. And Emeka Okafor set the Bobcats (since 2004) record with 25 rebounds.
 
I'm nervous about the beatings Andy gets in some of these games. He's consistently been in our top 3 players this year, but I'd be shocked if he goes through the rest of the season without suffering an injury of some sort.
 
I'm going to make a statue for Andy some day. Cast it out of Bronze, this dude needs to have a statue of himself in the arena some day. Not that he's the greatest player or anything, but he really epitomizes what the organization is striving to do.

He's gotten progressively better every year, we've really seen this dude grow. Varejao in the San Antonio finals was not this capable of a player. Anderson has steadily improved himself, and his understanding of the game while keeping his energy constant. His energy has always been a constant. He's firey in bursts, but not to a fault. Dion is capable of torching you too if you get him in the right mood, Russell Westbrook is another one who is just so emotional, to a fault? Varejao provides you that edge, but without the unnecessary emotional stuff. He doesn't let that stuff get to his focus, he'll just keep playing.

He's added things to his game I'd never imagined he would, and I think part of that is because James is no longer here to spoon feed him easy looks. I think the three man game between this version of Varejao, James and Irving would be fucking lethal. If we could add Marc Gasol somehow some way to that........... holy shit, that might be an instant title contender.
 
For all the kudos going to Delly and Dion, Andy just put up 18 pts, 18 boards, and 6 pts. Personally, I think he's the single most valuable player on the team, other than Deng.
 
Incredible effort from Andy tonight, Love the guy.

Now that we have Deng I'm starting to really notice the lack of shooting in our 4/5 when its a TT AV combo. Between Kyrie and Deng tonight we had at least 12-15 plays that would result in solid penetration / ball rotation, only to end up in a wide open shot for a strong shooter. Instead it lands with TT or Andy, and the ball would stop with TT, or end in one of those pump fake drives for Andy.

If we had a shooter at the 4 or 5 our offense would really open up.
 
Incredible effort from Andy tonight, Love the guy.

Now that we have Deng I'm starting to really notice the lack of shooting in our 4/5 when its a TT AV combo. Between Kyrie and Deng tonight we had at least 12-15 plays that would result in solid penetration / ball rotation, only to end up in a wide open shot for a strong shooter. Instead it lands with TT or Andy, and the ball would stop with TT, or end in one of those pump fake drives for Andy.

If we had a shooter at the 4 or 5 our offense would really open up.

I think there was a play where I think Kyrie and Dion thought they had found an open shooter at the 3 point line by swinging the ball and the team realized it was Tristan and then they reset the offense. It would have been a wide open 3 if we had a big with 3 point range there.
 
I love Andy. I seriously hope we never trade him & he retires a Cavalier.
 
Incredible effort from Andy tonight, Love the guy.

Now that we have Deng I'm starting to really notice the lack of shooting in our 4/5 when its a TT AV combo. Between Kyrie and Deng tonight we had at least 12-15 plays that would result in solid penetration / ball rotation, only to end up in a wide open shot for a strong shooter. Instead it lands with TT or Andy, and the ball would stop with TT, or end in one of those pump fake drives for Andy.

If we had a shooter at the 4 or 5 our offense would really open up.

That's really more of a problem with TT than Andy, who has decent range for a center. I have some hope for TT given the unprecedented change of shooting hand. The normal "his shooting probably won't improve much" that might apply to many 3rd year guys really doesn't apply to him. It's really uncharted territory. Still, I think it's pretty safe to say that he's unlikely ever to become a legit 3 pt. option.
 
No doubt about the insufficient shooting from the bigs. Andy or Tristan either needs to take more and make them or we need to make a change to the bench, even if it sacrifices the quality of our starters. Zeller has the best shot but I could see us eventually going small ball with Deng at the 4, even if only for 8 minutes a night. The best thing to do would be to trade or sign a floor spacer or a legitimate threat to take pressure off them.

Question is: What will happen first to start the chain.
 
There is no excuse to ever play Earl Clark. Those can be the minutes we go small with Irving/Waiters/Miles (if he's hot) or Delly (if Miles isn't hot)/Deng/Varejao. That is going to be our most productive line up.
 

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