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Kevin Love - Miami Ground Machine

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Is Kevin Love a Hero for Saving a Dog?

  • Yes

    Votes: 28 48.3%

  • Too Right!

    Votes: 2 3.4%

  • Hotter than Jimmy G

    Votes: 15 25.9%

  • Jim Chones

    Votes: 13 22.4%
  • Total voters
    58
Ryan Gladish said:
Next season we gotta do a better job of getting QUALITY role players. Not has beens like marion, miller and jones. Trade love if you have to. Our lack of depth is really killing us.
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Our injuries to Andy and Love are killing us. Post trade, our depth would have been fine(Andy, TT, Shump, Delly off the bench)

But I do agree we need more live players and developing players off the bench instead of 4-5 corpses(Marion, Miller, Jones, Haywood, Perk). We can bring back 2-3 of those guys, but not all 4-5. Also, hopefully Joe Harris is ready for a more meaningful role in year two.
 
I'm just glad he's alive
 
Windy is wrong a lot, I don't know if I'd trust what he's saying just yet.
 
Wait, Love just had his arm popped out of his socket and people are somehow using that as a sign that he might be more likely to leave this offseason?

It's not that hard to see: ALL the guys who spout off about Love being unhappy(Woj, Jalen, Windy,etc) are relying on second hand info they got from non direct sources in December and January. it couldn't have been more obvious in Woj's story yesterday where he basically hedged on his premise that Love could leave by saying that maybe NOW this playoff taste and support from his teammates will result in him staying.

None of these dudes are getting info from Kevin Love, Stan Love, or Kevin Love's agent. They're building mountains of click bait stories around the fact that technically like any player who reaches FA, Kevin Love COULD choose to leave and that in Dec. and Jan. rival execs whispered to them in the midsts of the Cavs 19-20 start, "look for Love to bolt"

It's about the most transparent thing we've seen all year and yet we continue to fall for it.
 
Mozgov on Love's injury:

"If he dies, he dies.

Oh, I thought we were talking about Olynyk. Kevin will be just fine."
 
MirORich said:
Our injuries to Andy and Love are killing us. Post trade, our depth would have been fine(Andy, TT, Shump, Delly off the bench)
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Right - this is the issue, every one has injuries but we have had some multiple major significant ones to the front court.

It would be like taking out Noah and Gasol from the Bulls or Draymond Green and Bogut from the Warriors and still expecting them to compete for a title. It's hard to cover two top rotation players going down with injury with depth, especially given we have 3 max contract guys.
 
Then you have articles like this, by Livingston:

http://www.cleveland.com/livingston/index.ssf/2015/04/kevin_loves_absence_from_caval.html

What separates a severe dislocation from a milder one?

Said Gobezie: "Was there bone injury or ligament damage only? Plus personal injury history. Those are the things that distinguish between two weeks and eight weeks and even surgery. Surgery would be (out) for the playoffs. That's unlikely as an option."

Told Cavs fans would be happy to hear that, Gobezie said, "I want the Cavs to go all the way too."
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I'd probably seek the opinion of a non-Cavs fan too, just be certain.

Leave it up to the ESPN/Yahoo Sports spin machine to inject a "Love is leaving Cleveland in FA" in the middle of the playoffs any opportunity they can.
 
MirORich said:
Wait, Love just had his arm popped out of his socket and people are somehow using that as a sign that he might be more likely to leave this offseason?

It's not that hard to see: ALL the guys who spout off about Love being unhappy(Woj, Jalen, Windy,etc) are relying on second hand info they got from non direct sources in December and January. it couldn't have been more obvious in Woj's story yesterday where he basically hedged on his premise that Love could leave by saying that maybe NOW this playoff taste and support from his teammates will result in him staying.

None of these dudes are getting info from Kevin Love, Stan Love, or Kevin Love's agent. They're building mountains of click bait stories around the fact that technically like any player who reaches FA, Kevin Love COULD choose to leave and that in Dec. and Jan. rival execs whispered to them in the midsts of the Cavs 19-20 start, "look for Love to bolt"

It's about the most transparent thing we've seen all year and yet we continue to fall for it.
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Injury-prone player getting injured makes it more like he'd opt out and sign the 5-yr max here than opt-out and give up Bird Rights to go play somewhere else.
 
Benedict_Boozer said:
Right - this is the issue, every one has injuries but we have had some multiple major significant ones to the front court.

It would be like taking out Noah and Gasol from the Bulls or Draymond Green and Bogut from the Warriors and still expecting them to compete for a title. It's hard to cover two top rotation players going down with injury with depth, especially given we have 3 max contract guys.
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Oh agreed, but at the same time, we still have had more depth this year than Miami had in Year One.

Injuries are the great equalizers. To all teams. I would love to see us deeper with players who can still physically play active on both ends next tear, but given the circumstances this year, I don't think we were woefully thin. We've just been knocked down a notch or two by two hugely significant injuries.
 
This sounds more like good news than bad news but everyone is just trying to read the tea leaves. If he has a fracture dislocation or a torn labrum I think he would be classified as out by the CAVS and then there would be some looking at options rather than waiting to announce a time table.
 
Like Tom Petty says the waiting is the hardest part.
I'd get a non team 2nd opinion if it was my shoulder also.

Do what is best long term for Kevin and the team.

I was born and raised in Cleveland, I'm used to this stuff.
 
catfish said:
This sounds more like good news than bad news but everyone is just trying to read the tea leaves. If he has a fracture dislocation or a torn labrum I think he would be classified as out by the CAVS and then there would be some looking at options rather than waiting to announce a time table.
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I like your optimism, but im holding my breath. Has there ever been a player thats got a 2nd opinion and not had it be bad news?
 
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