Farewell, Timofey Mozgov

[Frank Reynolds]

Windy told a great story about the day the Cavaliers traded for Timo.

Bron was already confiding to people that the Cavs didn't have the personnel to win a ship.

The Cavs are at a hotel waiting around, Bron is leaning up against a post displaying terrible body language.

In rolls Timofey to the hotel for the first time. Windhorst said LeBron stood straight up as he looked out the window in disbelief when Timofey first stepped out of the limousine.

LeBron's body language changed from that moment on,

LeBron was genuinely in awe of how big Timofey was.

Cavs haven't lost a home game since.

One last funny aside: someone calls into heywindy and asks,

"Is Timofey playing so well because of coach Blatt? Or because Cleveland is so similar to Russia?"

 

[Frank Reynolds]

And with that, I'll leave you with this.


I cannot even believe that we flipped Dion and a draft pick for all of that, seasoned. God frank don't go off on a tangent, but.........

Waiters was never going to be as good as Iman on defense, and he was never going to shoot like J.R.

One player cannot easily master both facets of the game at once. We divided that task into two player's duties.

Both JR and Iman specialize at something, and they're acceptable on the other end.

In order to master both sides of the ball at once; you need MJ or Kobe's mental capacity, or LeBron's sheer talent.


Dion sulks at the first missed jumper.


Remember that.

 

[All4One1ForAll]

LeBron was genuinely in awe of how big Timofey was.

Oh...

 

[Kypus]

&%(!(&^ that video gave me the chills. And seriously, God bless this Alexander Shalygin trainer guy for all the strength training and stretching he has put Timo thru. One thing I had noticed about Mozzy is how good he is at protecting himself from injury through excellent footwork and hanging on the rim for a half-second after a play to avoid coming down on someone's ankle. This shit is critical for us who used to cringe and hold our breath every time Z stepped wrong or fell on the floor.

Alright, I'm going to go work out now. Well, in 10 minutes. Maybe I'll try some of those double suicide pushups (hands & feet in air at same time)

 

[tocov]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6K3IvJzJRg

 

[JFT]

I can't wait to see this pitch.

View: https://twitter.com/Indians/status/587952606355427328

 

[Simon]

Good read on Mozgov....

 

[Cayman13]

Good article.

Sounds like Mozzy is throwing out the first pitch at the Tribe game tonight!

 

[tristan+kyrie=$]

Can Moz even grip a baseball??

 

[Otsego Mar]

I gave the Moz trade a 'B' and for now I'm sticking to it. I still think there are some glaring holes in his game that he needs to work on:

• pushing the outlet pass
• keeping the ball up high after rebounds
• going stronger to the hoop [AC consistently mentions throwing the defender into the hoop]
• rounding off the stone hands, etc.

I will be watching his play closely in the playoffs.

 

[AuxiliaryPie]

I gave the Moz trade a 'B' and for now I'm sticking to it. I still think there are some glaring holes in his game that he needs to work on:

• pushing the outlet pass
• keeping the ball up high after rebounds
• going stronger to the hoop [AC consistently mentions throwing the defender into the hoop]
• rounding off the stone hands, etc.

I will be watching his play closely in the playoffs.

the stone hands are brutal, lots of wasted touches from the ball bricking off his hands

 

[Jscc]

What do you want? He has never played with passers like LeBron or Kyrie that throw you 90 MPH fastballs.

 

[Otsego Mar]

What do you want? He has never played with passers like LeBron or Kyrie that throw you 90 MPH fastballs.

It's not that. He loses the ball very easily once he has it. For example, he lost the ball before he got the foul call last night when Monroe challenged him.

 

[Jscc]

It's not that. He loses the ball very easily once he has it. For example, he lost the ball before he got the foul call last night when Monroe challenged him.

I'd have to see that play to have an opinion. Can't remember it.

 

[Kypus]

rounding off the stone hands, etc.

I was skeptical of this as yeah, I know he bobbles stuff a few times a game (more often when he's tired at ends of stints), but it seems like 3/4 of the time he touches the ball something good happens...

But he does seem to be playing with more adrenaline/less concentration so he's turning the ball over more often lately:
Jan 1.1
Feb 1.5
Mar 1.6
Apr 2.2
(This with no rise in assists-about 1 per game)
http://espn.go.com/nba/player/gamelog/_/id/4298/timofey-mozgov

going stronger to the hoop-AC consistently mentions throwing the defender into the hoop-

AC is never going to be satisfied with anything except a prime-Shaq jam over 3 defenders. I'm fine with what he's doing- going up with his natural strength advantage, getting the shot or foul, and protecting himself on the way down. Lately he's been getting really into it, twisting around and shit while hanging on the rim trying to get into the defender's head. Which is fine once a game or so, but we simply can't afford to have him come down on someone's foot. His ankles are worth their weight in gold 10x over.

pushing the outlet pass

Not really wanting him to push outlet passes except straight to the main ballhandler close to him. If he would start trying to be Love with his outlets it would take his concentration off landing safely, and it's just not worth it. You're right tho, it does seem to take him a little while to find his target (it takes him longer to step into a 2-handed pass because his gait is so long). I just don't trust a 7'1 guy trying to run a track meet- maybe it's the last 15 yrs of seeing the repercussions of Z's foot problems. If he can make some 15-20 foot mini-outlets efficiently tho- great!