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Rob said:
I must have been watching a different game. I saw Delly get roasted when matched up against Rose or Brooks.

And we deserved to lose after he got roasted by Hinrich at the end of regulation.


Don't get me wrong I'm a huge Delly fan and he should get quality minutes, but he has his limits. Why he was in the game the final 10 minutes and Dion wasn't, I have no idea. I hope we hear something about that.
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I think Blatt was afraid of Waiters shooting random shots in crunch time and he was counting more on Delly to play smart basketball and initiate the others..
 
Arison said:
I think Blatt was afraid of Waiters shooting random shots in crunch time and he was counting more on Delly to play smart basketball and initiate the others..
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I understand that thinking, but man. Dion has to learn how to play at the end of games. We can't have Delly out there providing zero points and getting killed on defense at the end of games.

Dion will only learn by playing. He was playing good defense on Rose in the 2nd half. Tell him to watch his shot selection and trust him.
 
Sometimes you have too many cooks in the kitchen. I'm not saying that we should play Delly instead, but Dion may not be the answer in crunch time either.
 
Love Delly. Just don't love him playing 30 minutes.

But I think this was more of nod to the poor play of Dion.
 
I dont think Delly was playing that bad of a defense, I dont know however how Hinrich was open 3 times in a row..
Delly's effort is remarkable but he's not contributing any points, not penetrating either
 
Delly shouldn't have been out there at the end. We should have won the game in regulation. Instead, he let Hinrich go wild with 8 straight pts in the 4th. He was so bad Blatt put Kryie back on Hinrich. Dion must of said something to Blatt to get benched for the rest of the game.
 
To be fair a couple of those Hinrich shot were well contested. Dellavedova certainly brings something to the table but this is two consecutive games he's been playing crunch time minutes and I don't see that as a recipe for major success just yet. He did get torched by Rose and Brooks tonight, though he did have one or two really good stands against Rose in the 3rd quarter as I recall. We'll see that a lot.
 
Dellavedova makes me angry to say the least - He was getting owned for free with cash back rebates out there.
 
The nice thing that delly brings is a true point guard mentality n the floor. As a point guard he can initiate plays on the fly and doesnt have to reset the offense, He also plays a very physical style of basketball.The Cavs exhausted what was left of Chicagos roster in ot.
 
Quoted from T. Pluto's article

5. General Manager David Griffin loves the stats behind the obvious numbers. Last season, guess who composed the combination of three players who had the best plus/minus (outscoring the other team) when on the floor together? It was Anderson Varejao, Dion Waiters and Matthew Dellavedova. In fact. Dellavedova tended to have good plus/minus numbers with most other players.


6. In the 95-90 loss to the Knicks, the Cavs were plus-6 with Dellavedova on the court during his 18 minutes. That was the best on the team. In Chicago, he didn't score in 30 minutes. Yet he was a plus-15 ... once again, the best of anyone in a Cavs uniform. That's why Coach David Blatt played the second-year guard so much.


7. It had to be hard for Dion Waiters to watch Dellavedova play in crunch time. Waiters was 3-of-10 shooting for nine points in 26 minutes. Blatt has discovered what many fans already know -- it's hard to have four players on the court who all like having the ball. With the Cavs, that's Kyrie Irving, James, Love and Waiters.

http://www.cleveland.com/pluto/index.ssf/2014/11/terrys_talkin_about_the_clevel_23.html
 
Look, there are just too many cooks in the kitchen right now. Our first goal is to see LeBron, Love, and Kyrie gel as a unit. Having to figure out Waiters right now is not a priority. Delly is going to get more burn right now because he doesn't take attention away from our big 3 with hero ball.

Is this a long term solution? No, of course not. But it's a process. And the first step is making sure our big 3 gel together as a unit. Dion is secondary to that process. Once that's figured out, then we focus on secondary issues like how Dion fits best, and how to get guys like Miller and Matrix more involved.

It's a process. You can't solve everything at once.
 
People are so worked up about Delly getting minutes I had to double check the box score and make sure the Cavaliers won. Since we did beat the other top team in the East in overtime on the road, I see no point in questioning the move.

While Dion has come a long way in the past 18 months, he is still prone to breaking off plays and over dribbling. He still has lazy moments defensively that shifts everyone else out of position. Dion certainly made it known that he didn't like Mike Brown's staff limiting his touches when he does this, but now the stakes are higher. If he isn't carrying out Blatt's vision with the starters despite all that potential and talent, he is going to find himself in a 6th man role.

Delly will set the table for others and play physical ball. Ironically, he is the guy on our roster I could see embodying Coach Thibideau's principles. Blatt gave Chicago a dose of their own medicine playing Delly.
 
Dion will earn minutes and corner/wing three attempts in crunch time if he can outplay Delly on the defensive end. If he can take that mantle on his shoulders of, "Get out of the way Kyrie, I got this guy" on the DEFENSIVE end, then we might have something. As it is, situations where Kyrie and Dellavedova are both out there down the stretch and one of them is called on to defend an upper-tier point guard or even one who is merely little and extra quick, make me a little nauseous. If Dion can make himself into that guy, and learn to pick his spots on the offensive end, then we're in business.
 
Randolphkeys said:
People are so worked up about Delly getting minutes I had to double check the box score and make sure the Cavaliers won. Since we did beat the other top team in the East in overtime on the road, I see no point in questioning the move.

While Dion has come a long way in the past 18 months, he is still prone to breaking off plays and over dribbling. He still has lazy moments defensively that shifts everyone else out of position. Dion certainly made it known that he didn't like Mike Brown's staff limiting his touches when he does this, but now the stakes are higher. If he isn't carrying out Blatt's vision with the starters despite all that potential and talent, he is going to find himself in a 6th man role.

Delly will set the table for others and play physical ball. Ironically, he is the guy on our roster I could see embodying Coach Thibideau's principles. Blatt gave Chicago a dose of their own medicine playing Delly.
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Watching Kirk hinrich play last night reminded me of the value of a guard who just doesn't quit. While I doubt delly will ever be as effective offensively as kirk has in his prime he's a good ceiling to aim for. Delly has played a lot of international competition and is used to pressure and fitting in with various teammates.

The national guys need to learn his name quick because he's going to be a feature of the rotation
 
I know it has nothing to do with this thread but with the Kirk H talk the past couple of posts, I just gotta say he is a tad dirty. Seriously, watch most of his plays, like in slo mo like with D West, it goes unnoticed but its there. A swing of an elbow, I have also seen him initially get under a shooter as they are mid jump in shot form.
 
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