Re: Kyrie Irving: 2014 All Star Game MVP
I think we've been over this in other threads but you have to be one dense mutha to equate a fan selected all star game to actual level of performance. Not only is he not getting better, he's been inconsistent at best, and a total liability on defense.
I'm with you bro.. Totally agree. But that's the new CBA, and Irving's price is set by the market. If we won't pay him the max, someone else will. So it's hard to say he's not "worth" the max, but rather we'd just not paying him the max.
Then you add on the fact that his camp has been saying he wants out,
I would want out of Cleveland too. Deng apparently wants out, as does Jack, as does Waiters. This doesn't make them bad people. They are rejecting the dysfunctional franchise we have. That falls on Gilbert, Grant, and Mike Brown; not the players.
his family hates Mike Brown,
I hate Mike Brown. He's widely regarded as one of the worst coaches in the NBA. For a player like Irving, Brown is the last person you want coaching him as he doesn't play to his strengths and even made the mind-boggling decision to have Irving playing to what amounts to a shooting guard.
Our team is a joke. Like, literally.
a GM that is at odds with his head coaches philosophy,
Brown is an idiot, he's just as bad as D'Antoni. And if Griffin is a D'Antoni fan, it tells you everything you need to know.
and now you have a recipe for disaster.
Totally agree.
As far as I'm concerned, he should have been traded this last deadline to save the headache of what is about to occur and that is his impending desire to have an opt out clause, a clause Dan Gilbert has no interest in taking on.
Don't think Irving will ask for anything but a standard contract, except that it would almost assuredly be based on the Rose Rule max contract. Outside of that, it should be pretty straight-forward. Gilbert won't hesitate to meet Irving's terms, because they are fair and codified in the CBA.
Not only that but we are well on our way to missing the playoffs only to have our main guys back within a week or two which will then push us to a mid first round pick with every win. We've wasted assets to acquire guys that are free agents to help us get to the playoffs we aren't going to make. You don't want to waste cap space resigning them for hefty contracts so who will fill those roles?
There are dark clouds on the horizon but everybody wants to deny it.
Agree.. People still want to win games this season.. I find that mind boggling with the draft coming up. We really need to reassess. This was a totally lost year. Every move we made has so far failed miserably. The jury is still out on Deng, but the only way I think he stays is if we fire Mike Brown and give him the large contract he's asking for.
