Game 9: Cavs @ Timberwolves, Wednesday, November 13, 2013, 8:00 PM EST

[Tornicade]

Cavs shot 44% in this game which is the league average. Minnesota is the number 1 offense in the NBA. and even better at home.

Lakers, Knicks, Philly and Brooklyn have all lost multiple games by 20 or more . 2 of those teams in the east look to turn things around and have a winning record at some point. Philly isnt currently the 3rd best team recordwise in the east and the lakers have a 4-6 record.

 

[D-WAIT3]

We have one of the best young back courts in the NBA in Kyrie and Dion. We have a guy called Andrew Bynum who is our starting center and many people thought would not even play a game this year. We have Tristan Thompson who is improving all of the time and is a double double player. We have a lot of different young players such as Bennett and Karasev. They may or may not turn into good players but that's thing thing with young players, it takes a lot of time. We have a surfeit of cap space and draft picks to continue to improve this team in the upcoming years.

With young, developing teams such as ours, patience is the most important thing for the fans, the GM, the coach, and the players. Very few teams become great over night. Usually it is an incremental process of bad, to mediocre to good to excellence. This team is still gelling but we should be approaching the mediocre level this season.

Young yes but right now they look like one of the most inexperienced back courts and continue to bump heads out there.it's not looking good early. But I agree that everyone needs to have patience but that still doesn't change that we are 3-6 and if it wasn't for jj playing out of his mind game one along with andy hitting a big jumper, Love missing a game winner after blowing a 21 point lead, and Kyrie having a 3rd time is a charm game winner away from being 0-9!

 

[AvonCavsFan]

Common denominator

Even though I really don't like the way Mike Brown coaches, blaming him for Jack's awful play is just not right. Jarrett does not do the simple, easy plays. I can count the vast number of times he did not pass to a WIDE OPEN teammate to take a terrible contested long two point shot. Now if that teammate were Earl Clark, that is fine, but it was on many occasions CJ, our best shooter. Even in street-ball, you kick that ball back for the wide open shot, instead of the guarded long two.

Just think with the money we wasted on Jack and Clark we could have signed Millsap and kept Livingston. Draft Dipo instead of Bennett, much better fitting pieces--and with Dipo we could have run some three guard sets-knowing our third guard would at least play decent defense on the SF. Just think about this: We already had two ball dominant little guards. So what do we do? We add a third. Brilliant.

Now on to Browns coaching. It is mind numbing that he thinks running out these three guards would work--having ANY of the three trying to guard a 6'8"+ small forward is a recipe for disaster. Bringing back flashes of the brilliant idea to have Delonte guard Turk. It absolutely killed us in the Chicago game-letting Dunleavy (why didn't we bring a guy like this in? We desperately need shooting) have wide open threes. And our defense is awful, the scheme itself. Having the bigs running out so high just leave's everyone scrambling--and it leads to an open shot so many times. And the worst part is it leaves us out of position to rebound. Andy is a perfect example of this. Last year he was a rebounding machine. Why? Because he wasn't 30 feet from the fucking basket. This defense only worked because we had really good defensive players for the most part, AV at PF, Ben Wallace, Big Z (he was a presence), Lebron, Delonte. All plus defenders.

Also can someone show these picture's to our genius coach:

He keeps playing less and less (and he actually has played decent D, so what the F?)--you know so we can put this guy in more:

So the benefit of playing Jack more:

• Less time for our "star" to handle the ball
• More chances for offensive rebounds for our bigs
• Awful defense-so we get the ball back faster
• Veteran mentor to teach our guys to shoot as many long contested two's that they can