Farewell Kyle Korver

[brownsbuck6]

Hard to argue. Korver is being totally wasted and underutilized. I was massively in favor of this trade but Lue must figure out how to use him better.

 

[fujikuro]

Right now it's hard to feel like Lue is earning his pay. We've got some personnel issues, and we have some coaching issues. Both need to be addressed.

 

[JMoneyYourHoney]

Lue got paid and went full retard.

 

[TitleTown]

The reactionary thinking across every thread in this forum is just mind boggling.

Stop losing the forest for the trees.

Stop ignoring the 3 season pattern for how LBJ teams meander through the regular season.

 

[Thunder]

I'm sure Korver is getting frustrated with how he's being used and not having chemistry with the team...but time should help...

 

[The Wizard of Moz]

One big thing is we've been trying to work Korver off of constant screens

We are one of the worst screen setting teams in the league

Of fucking course that isn't working people can easily just run right around the half assed screen attempts

 

[Cavatt]

One big thing is we've been trying to work Korver off of constant screens

We are one of the worst screen setting teams in the league

Of fucking course that isn't working people can easily just run right around the half assed screen attempts

Agreed this is a problem. TT is really the only good screener there is on the team and he can't set them all.

This team needs more practice time. The chemistry they were showing earlier in the year has been messed up badly. JR probably has a lot to do with it. Korver is a system guy, and right now with no system he looks bad.

 

[ACisKING]

One big thing is we've been trying to work Korver off of constant screens

We are one of the worst screen setting teams in the league

Of fucking course that isn't working people can easily just run right around the half assed screen attempts

I don't understand why Love and Frye are so bad at setting screens. Love in particular has the girth you would think would make him a good screen setter. Maybe a solution would be to have LeBron set more screens for Korver but that would require someone else to be the ball handler while that was happening.

 

[Efficiency]

I don't understand why Love and Frye are so bad at setting screens. Love in particular has the girth you would think would make him a good screen setter. Maybe a solution would be to have LeBron set more screens for Korver but that would require someone else to be the ball handler while that was happening.

They act like they are afraid of contact.

 

[Real Deal]

It's starting to dawn on me that the 1st round pick sent out could be more valuable than Korver.

Now if Korver has a Mike Miller esque performance in the finals, come back at me with this. But right now, Hawks maybe knew Korver seemed to decline and got rid of him just in time, and Tim Hardaway Jr is playing better in the Korver role.

Atlanta definitely won the trade because they replaced Korver with Dunleavy, Hardaway emerged, and a 1st.

 

[Kbiz]

I don't understand why Love and Frye are so bad at setting screens. Love in particular has the girth you would think would make him a good screen setter. Maybe a solution would be to have LeBron set more screens for Korver but that would require someone else to be the ball handler while that was happening.

Setting a screen seems to be a lost art in the NBA. Not sure it's necessarily a Love / Frye issue. We've just never really been a team that sets screens off the ball regularly and perhaps some basic fundamentals are simply being disregarded.

It doesn't help that those guys are used to setting screens for their own offense a la pick-n-pop. Regardless, coaching can cure all. I think its more a matter of chemistry vs. inability to set the right screen for Korver.

 

[bleedwineandgold03]

7 games played
24.1mpg
7.6ppg
.39% 3pt%
.42 fg%

And he is terrible im sorry but he is providing more than whatever dunleavy was doing and is only 7 games. Korver will get better as the season progresses. Korver will be a better frye and you know frye goes bunkers from three.

 

[Otsego Mar]

He should be inserted into the starting line-up (beating a dead horse but the horse is still alive actually).

I don't really like having Korver our there with Frye.

 

[buzzdog]

Write this down, bookmark it, whatever...

Sometime between now and the playoffs the Cavs will figure out ways to use Korver's skillset and it will be awesome. He will provide perpetual motion, he'll knock down open shots, he'll open up the floor, he'll play passable defense. Lue hasn't even scratched the surface with how they need to use Korver to inject yet another threat, to shoot lights out when others are cold.

And all the people shitting all over the Korver trade will look like the dumb-asses that they are.

 

[JMoneyYourHoney]

How badly does he wish he wasn't traded?