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Kevin Love - Miami Ground Machine

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Is Kevin Love a Hero for Saving a Dog?

  • Yes

    Votes: 28 48.3%
  • Too Right!

    Votes: 2 3.4%
  • Hotter than Jimmy G

    Votes: 15 25.9%
  • Jim Chones

    Votes: 13 22.4%

  • Total voters
    58
This is it. He's a good complementary piece now that his defense has picked up, but he's not living up to expectations. You can say those expectations are unfair, but guess what -- those expectations are the only reason we would have traded Wiggins for him and promised him a max contract.

This is it. We sold the farm for him. We want some value. The real guys moving the goal posts are the ones saying he is good enough with career low efficiency.

Calculate his elite defense all you want, everyone know Mozgov is making Love look good on that end. Love has been giving better effort. I'll give him that.

I don't know of another superstar that had so many caveats to play well ever.

Can't play well without the other 2, can't play well without a true 7 footer, unless he has specific plays drawn up for him in the post, gets tired after the first quarter, guys with length are a bad matchup, he has been hurt all year? More and more excuses.

No one complains when we are beating teams by 15? No kidding. When we hide all his deficiencies he plays great.
 
Not sure what the issue here is. It's obviously alright to criticize love. Some people who disagree will respond with a disagreement. That's the nature of a forum.

I think there's something wrong with Love. Again, I'm in absolute support of the Love Wiggins trade, because i think what Love is giving this team is ridiculously valuable. Like others have said, though, he isn't taking over games very often. Sure, it has happened, but it isn't happening as often, or with the ease we're used to seeing. Love should be able to dominate teams like the Pacers with relative ease.

He has been playing real well lately though, in my opinion. I don't see where all the controversy is. This is a fucking mirror image of Bosh in his first season on the Heat. Even when Love doesn't dominate, he helps us win.

Either he isnt as good as we thought, we aren't using him well at all, or he isn't healthy. Perhaps a combination of those?
 
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We need to remember something important, Love is building by our coaching staff to be able to play a lot of minutes in the playoffs. Playing a lot in the playoffs means you first of all have to be good enough defender before we using your offensive skills as the 3'rd option. In this aspect of the team needs Love is going on the right direction. I really can't judge his performances while he playing near to so dominating players as Bron and Ky or while he's been feeding by problematic PG as Delly.

Also I always mention to myself the team is in a process and so is Love in a new system with totally different requirements. I feel grateful we have him in the team and actually I feel full confidence about his shooting abilities. His shooting technic is near to perfect and in the end of the day he will be more stable at the offensive end. He just need to keep growing with this team in the winning mentally and the toughness aspects.
 
This is it. We sold the farm for him. We want some value. The real guys moving the goal posts are the ones saying he is good enough with career low efficiency.

Calculate his elite defense all you want, everyone know Mozgov is making Love look good on that end. Love has been giving better effort. I'll give him that.

OK, since you're not concerned with his stats/progress and are making up ways to poke at him for poking's sake, i'll give you a Blatt answer: the Cleveland Cavaliers are 37-23 with Kevin Love. The Minnesota Timberwolves are 13-44 with Andrew Wiggins. Value achieved.
 
While I do think the positives and negatives posted in this thread the last day or so have been relatively fair regarding Love's play, I do think it needs to be pointed out that he was the only starter aside from JR to play a lot of minutes yesterday.

And yesterday's game was the roughest of the roughest when it comes to playing back to backs in the NBA. Missed flight, no sleep, up early. Coming off a big emotional win. Playing against a team that plays intense defense, and has a lot of strong tough interior players. (No counting Scola)

Love had A LOT working against him yesterday. (HI DELLY!)

*fwiw, I've been fairly critical of Love this year, especially defensively.
 
There are some WHINY BITCHES wetting themselves in this thread. Can't wait to revisit it in a few months.
 
People criticizing Love tonight need to understand two things.

1. Blatt didn't put the ball in Love's hands. Yes, Love got more shots but so did Smith, Shumpert, and Dellavedova. Those three guards combined for 52 total shots. This was an experiment in ball-handling duties. Kevin bought into the plan and played his role.

2. In spite of that, Kevin's numbers were par for the course vs. David West, averaging 18.4 points and 11.8 rebounds. Kevin had 17 points and 10 rebounds. I don't know what it is about West but Kevin doesn't consistently put up big numbers against him.

Onto Houston.

He's a power forward, how do you "put" the ball in his hands? Kevin still has to get open, if he doesn't, guys are going to move the ball elsewhere.

Do people really think David Blatt is stupid? You can question his rotations, his offensive scheme, etc, but I think David Blatt understands in a game without LeBron and Kyrie, he fully understands Kevin has to be a pivotal part of the offense.

Going into this game, I knew we'd lose, but I thought Kevin would score 30 points. Because he's Kevin Love! Whether he shot the ball well, or not, I don't care. To me, it's very telling in a game like this, he could only get 17, and he had to fight and claw just to get those 17 points.

I am not mad at Kevin, I don't think he's not trying out there. I see him fighting to get rebounds and working his tail off on defense.

To me, it's sad more than anything. When you see Louis Scola pushing and abusing him, that's when you must say "damn, this guy is just not right".

Bashing him shouldn't be done. You should bash a player if he clearly is not playing hard, or playing selfishly.

But people should be very concern about Kevin. Here's to hoping he proves me wrong, and starts tearing it up.
 
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Shall I call everyone instead?

I think you get my drift.. No matter what disagreements we might have, calling someone a "bitch" over the internet is well, kind of a bitch move.

It's like, you wouldn't say that to someone face to face over a disagreement about Kevin Love being 17/10 or 26/12, so why say it here? I'm just not of the mind of saying things to people on the internet that I wouldn't say to them standing right in front of them.

So with that, let's have a civil discussion, and not refer to people with dissenting opinions as "bitches."
 
So....

Now the question becomes.. Is Kevin Love today worth a max contract to the Cavaliers.

My opinion on this is actually a yes, simply because we're in too deep at this point - we can't replace Kevin Love; but I'd be interested to hear others on this.
 

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