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@Chris Parker , do you think that Kevin Love's usage, while not ideal for his game personally, is the best way for him to play for this team? We play far better offensively with him on the floor than without.

Most around the country think that Chris Bosh's game was not fully utilized in Miami, and I agree. But for a strong-shooting Big in the NBA playing with 2 dominant ball handlers, is this what it has to look like?

Damien O'Connel said:

@Chris Parker , do you think that Kevin Love's usage, while not ideal for his game personally, is the best way for him to play for this team? We play far better offensively with him on the floor than without.

Most around the country think that Chris Bosh's game was not fully utilized in Miami, and I agree. But for a strong-shooting Big in the NBA playing with 2 dominant ball handlers, is this what it has to look like?

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you see that's a great point. You could be writing for the Plain Dealer. All you have to do is draw "Polly" send in one semi-literate question with $50 for processing.

This is why RCF is the best Cavaliers forum on the internet.

Chris Parker said:

you see that's a great point. You could be writing for the Plain Dealer. All you have to do is draw "Polly" send in one semi-literate question with $50 for processing.

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I'm in college, $50 is out of the question

If this is really Chris Parker...

Can you let Fedor know we all hate him?

@Chris Parker - To what extent do you feel that LeBron's respect level of Blatt has grown throughout the season? Do you feel there was ever a moment that the front office wavered and thought maybe they had made a mistake with Blatt before the turnaround?

Do you think that part of the cavs problems with Love is that there are only a few guys who can/will pass into the post? Irving especially seems to struggle at this.

Damien O'Connel said:

@Chris Parker , do you think that Kevin Love's usage, while not ideal for his game personally, is the best way for him to play for this team? We play far better offensively with him on the floor than without.

Most around the country think that Chris Bosh's game was not fully utilized in Miami, and I agree. But for a strong-shooting Big in the NBA playing with 2 dominant ball handlers, is this what it has to look like?

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I think everyone would like to see Love used more but it's a balance. Usage for most people means shooting the ball but it's even more complicated than that. Love has plenty of three opportunities but in order to be fully utilized he has to put the ball on the deck on close-outs, but that means he's going to the hole which = what 76-80% of the time will end in him shooting the ball, which closes off opportunities for others. If he initiates someone has to take a break.

if you look closely you might notice that's James. It seems to me, and I haven't looked closely but my gut says that LeBron has scored less pts in the first half the last 10 games than he did the 10 before that. he's deferring more, though a lot of those opps seem to be finding Smith and Shumpert not Love.

The Cavs prob. need to post love up to utilize him but he's just not as dynamic with the ball in his hands as the other two or really LeBron. (I'm still of the opinion Ky needs to pass more.)

so I agree. I think he's adjusted and has put his effort into playing D and rebounding, particularly on the defensive boards where the Cavs are weak when he's not in. The problem is that those qualities are somewhat replaceable, making him easier to sit when that's what he's giving you.

But there will be matchups where teams will try to take away the penetration. Indeed we just saw one. Last night Smith's first half overshadowed everything. But in the second half he and kyrie were 3-17. It was Love at 3-6 that kind of helped (along w/T-Mo) while everyone else sucked.

The big diff with Bosh is that Bosh was always a laterally quick player which made it easier for him to adjust to being a defensive player. If you don't remember he wasn't anything amazing defensively in Toronto. he became that sharpening his game to play with LeBron. thats a kind of decision I suspect Love will make not this summer but a summer from now.

Jscc said:

This is why RCF is the best Cavaliers forum on the internet.

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Best Cleveland sports forum, and it's not close.

Hi Chris,

How big of a penis do you think Fedor routinely takes, and do you think his limiting factor is length or girth?

Thanks!

brownsbuck6 said:

@Chris Parker - To what extent do you feel that LeBron's respect level of Blatt has grown throughout the season? Do you feel there was ever a moment that the front office wavered and thought maybe they had made a mistake with Blatt before the turnaround?

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I am going to ask LeBron a similar question if I get the chance. It's kind of like yelling requests at the band from the crowd at the rock show, and I'm usually not near the front.

I have talked to some people close to LeBron who told me that he was indeed concerned about Blatt. Is that surprising? I think that it's a question of trust and LeBron need to sort of make that leap on his own.

After these conversations, I think that it's possible someone in LeBron's circle talked to M-Jax and/or floated the rumors that made Windy look like a troublemaker.

But what was intimated to me was that LeBron had to decide whether he was going to fully buy in and give his full effort in all things. I think we saw when he came back what the verdict was.

I think since then it's gotten better. They're both obviously great basketball minds, but if you can imagine two great songwriters trying to figure out how to write a song. For the first while the one or the other is taking he lead - like a dance, but after a while they start to dance together. I think that began to happen after the streak got going and it's not waned. When they saw how they could win so easily, that instilled a lot more faith LOL

Chris Parker said:

I am going to ask LeBron a similar question if I get the chance. It's kind of like yelling requests at the band from the crowd at the rock show, and I'm usually not near the front.

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Another Q if that's ok: who actually decides who sits where in the Media Scrums after the game? Is it whoever gets there first or is it tightly controlled by the team/PR person?

brownsbuck6 said:

@Chris Parker - Do you feel there was ever a moment that the front office wavered and thought maybe they had made a mistake with Blatt before the turnaround?

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didn't reply to this part -- I don 't think the front office ever wavered. I think that was just bullshit from natl media writers (not just Windy) who didn't have any real good contacts other than maybe people who were somehow associated with LeBron and I wonder how tenuous that relation was because I honestly can't believe Maverick or someone tight would've floated that stuff. I think that's why Griffin came out so hard because he wanted to really call out the natl press that had fed into this faux narrative.

Now I was told by one of the other older PD guys that's not on the beat that some in the front office thought the pressure was beginning ot make Blatt sweat and he was getting combative and surly as a result which worried them, but I dont' know how much I buy that.

enigmatic said:

Another Q if that's ok: who actually decides who sits where in the Media Scrums after the game? Is it whoever gets there first or is it tightly controlled by the team/PR person?

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In the press room it's first in first served, in the locker, the cameras go in first if i'm not mistaken, and then others file in quickly after I don't crowd or run. but even when I get in quick it seems like there's 10 ppl there already waiting around LeBron. Some of it is me too, since I sometimes don't book immediately out after the presser but stay to have a couple words with Blatt. He's a lot looser w/o the cameras on.