Kevin Love - Miami Ground Machine

[theSTEREO.]

Food for thought.

View: https://twitter.com/davidzavac/status/560080696061227008

View: https://twitter.com/nominataur/status/560080737719046144

 

[Dylan Windler's Mom]

Those are some interesting statistics but Minnesota has been battling with an injury-plagued season to their teams best veterans and is also missing key components from last year in Ricky Rubio, Kevin Martin, Nikola Pekovic and Corey Brewer all season. Rubio is one of the leagues best on-ball defenders as well so losing him along with Corey Brewer and replacing that with Mo Williams doesn't help either.

 

[Danny DiVito]

Yes, somethings still just not right with him healthwise....

Kevin Love suffered dizzy spell in Sunday's win over Oklahoma City Thunder, but says he's OK
http://bleacherreport.com/tb/dfSnc?...m=newsletter&utm_campaign=cleveland-cavaliers

"Everything was spinning there for a little bit," Love told Northeast Ohio Media Group. "It just happened. I was a little shocked. It was a scary moment, but I was good after that."

I didn't see how he got fouled but he bricked a foul shot and then was shaking his head. You could tell something wasn't right with him.

 

[brownsbuck6]

Love was so thoroughly invisible tonight, I have to wonder if he is hurt. I watched him for long stretches, he just wouldn't go down low on offense. Just floating like he's Donyell Marshall. And on top of that, his confidence was so shaken he was passing up wiiiiiide open threes more than once. So if he's going to a) float on offense and b) pass up shots... I won't ask it. I just want to know what is wrong.

 

[Chris]

....trade him for Dwight Howard?

 

[AmirT0]

This is not Minnesota. He will have a game where LBJ AND Kyrie are dominant and he just go up and down the floor. So what? Just rebound,defend and make the right basketball plays. As long as the team winning...

 

[BimboColesHair]

1st year LeBron in Miami feeling here for me...early on that year LeBron, Bosh, and Wade were struggling with their cohesion...they came to Cleveland, smacked us down, and the rest was history.

Saturday in Minnesota the entire team is going to be feeding Kevin and trying to get him to go off. Should be good for chemistry and good for the players finding new ways to get him in good spots on offense.

 

[InBoobieWeTrust]

Maybe a three game break (Sacramento, Minny, Philly) would be a good idea, give him 5-6 days off to get some treatment, rest his ailments, etc?

Or would it be better to use those games to try and establish his presence? I'm leaning more towards a little rest.

Either way, I think Love is getting over-analyzed at this point, every single possession he touches the ball is getting picked apart unless he does something amazing. I think we need to take a step back and give him some breathing room.

 

[BimboColesHair]

Maybe a three game break (Sacramento, Minny, Philly) would be a good idea, give him 5-6 days off to get some treatment, rest his ailments, etc?

Or would it be better to use those games to try and establish his presence? I'm leaning more towards a little rest.

Either way, I think Love is getting over-analyzed at this point, every single possession he touches the ball is getting picked apart unless he does something amazing. I think we need to take a step back and give him some breathing room.

Would you be willing to feel the backlash of holding him out his 1st game back in Minnesota?

 

[InBoobieWeTrust]

Would you be willing to feel the backlash of holding him out his 1st game back in Minnesota?

I mean, if Love is okay with it and would welcome the rest, I don't really care about any backlash the media would give. Means nothing to me and should mean nothing to the team. We have bigger goals.

 

[BimboColesHair]

I mean, if Love is okay with it and would welcome the rest, I don't really care about any backlash the media would give. Means nothing to me and should mean nothing to the team. We have bigger goals.

100% sure it will mean something to Love to play in that game.

Honestly, he's going to get his rest over the break. I don't think he makes the All-Star game. 8 day break should do wonders for him.

 

[InBoobieWeTrust]

100% sure it will mean something to Love to play in that game.

Honestly, he's going to get his rest over the break. I don't think he makes the All-Star game. 8 day break should do wonders for him.

It all depends on how much the injuries are really affecting him. Only Love really knows. All decisions like that are team and player collaborated. I would never advocate the team just making him sit down.

 

[I'mWithDan]

Maybe a three game break (Sacramento, Minny, Philly) would be a good idea, give him 5-6 days off to get some treatment, rest his ailments, etc?

Thankfully the extended ASB will give him that this season. He just needs to gut out a few more games.

I'd play him the next two (Sac, Minny) and then sit him against Philly. That would give him 4 days off before a home game against the Clippers. Then a week later he'll get 8 days off for the ASB.

If you sit him against Philly, he'll enter the second half only having played 5 games in 3 weeks. That should be plenty of time for him to heal up.

 

[malus]

I don't know if we have the luxury of resting Love when we're running 3 bigs out there...especially against Sac.

 

[InBoobieWeTrust]

I don't know if we have the luxury of resting Love when we're running 3 bigs out there...especially against Sac.

LBJ and Marion can both play minutes at the 4. Our small-ball line-ups would run teams, especially bad ones, off the court.