For the first 8:00 minutes Windy talks about how Kyrie should have been practicing his jumper in the secret gym located atop the quicken loans arena. It's a seldom used location, but Windy is convinced that there was something calculated about Kyrie doing it on the main court in front of people. Then he mentions how Kobe did this back in Miami, he was pissed the Lakers got trounced by Miami, so he ripped his ice packs off, went back onto the court for another hour and shot jumpers to make a point to his teammates (had to take practice off next morning because he burned himself out lol). Windy doesn't believe Kyrie was having his Kobe moment, instead it was Bron was coaching him out there, watching Kyrie shoot jumpers. Brian believes that they are undercutting the coaching staff? He mentions this several times.
He then goes on to compare Kyrie's injury to Jabari's season ending, difference is Jabari has more mass, and had more speed on the play so the injury was worse. Windy thinks that jarred Kyrie, and he's resorted back to bad habits on defense.
95% of his speech is passionately about how weird he thought that scene was with Bron and Kyrie. I'm not putting too much into that.
Bron and Kyrie were a dazzling duo a week or two ago. I think this is LeBron the mentor, seeing what's up with his jumper. Think about Irving's reaction to Fedor's question; "I'm the player, you're the media don't get into breaking down my jumper."
At the same time Bron lashed out at Kenny Roda; "do you only ask negative questions?"
So clearly there was some tension going on last night. I really believe this is a case of the highly driven LeBron James impacting his will to win on the franchise. Bron's hurt too right now, are any of these guys injured? No, so if you can play, you have to go 100%. I think Windy is correct that Kyrie might be a little gun shy right now, and he's got to shake that off because it's impacting his jumper too. If Bron wants to talk to Kyrie, and get his confidence right; I have no problem with that. I don't see that as subverting the coaching staff, that's ridiculous.
Love was definitely ill, he didn't look good or sound good at all. Nonetheless, LeBron has got to pay a visit to Kevin Love next. The defense thing has to change. For as physical as Love gets in the post, as scrappy as he can be on offense, you never see it on defense. He's Antawn Jamison soft on defense and that's just the cold truth. If he could transfer that energy to wrapping guys up, committing hard fouls our team's score differential would go +5 right there. We easily give up 2-3 of those a game.
Back to Windy:
Cavaliers are proud to have the highest paid coaching staff, but Windy feels they are not on the same page at all. Hiring Tyronn Lue was destabilizing to Blatt right off the bat. Tyronn Lue and Damon Jones are great friends, LeBron is also great friends with both guys. That's a weird triangle, and Blatt seems isolated. Larry Drew and Boylan are great basketball people, but this staff doesn't feel like a unit. I fucking hated the moment I saw that clown Damon Jones wandering the sidelines, Damon's a good dude, but he's a distraction to LeBron IMO.
Cavaliers need to make 3 defensive acquisitions. Love isn't that big. Surprised we're getting out rebounded. Thinks the Cavaliers look shorter than the opponent. People jump over us to grab rebounds.
We need a true 7 footer, that probably will not come until this next offseason. Brian thinks the Cavaliers could use Haywood to get Greg Monroe next summer? Weird guy to add.
Thinks Brewer will ultimately go to Houston because of a 2nd round pick that's contingent on how bad the Knicks are. That pick will likely be 32 in the draft; Cavaliers don't have that type of asset on Brewer, even though he fits into the TPE, Houston has a TPE too.
That's about it.
