Btw.. I did get to see the timeouts footage (don't ask) and I must admit it still didn't look too good.. LeBron was sitting to the side.. clipping his nails.. minding his own.. while Timo and JR seemed engaged and facing toward coach the whole time..
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It depends on the timeout. I noticed last week that when LeBron was being subbed out after the timeout of games going well, he would sit away or stand with another player not in the game and talk. When he was going into the game after the timeout, he was in the huddle. And when things got close, he was very animated in the huddle (including some games, like Portland, where he was in street clothes).
I don't know what's common practice, but it didn't strike me as terrible considering that it wasn't always 11 players gathering around the coaches and only LeBron sitting alone in a corner.
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Did you guys see the McMenamin article today? Windy talked about it this morning. Really cool stuff.
Would be pretty awesome if a simple question from a reporter has now kicked this team into an even higher gear. Craziness.
Full article here:
http://espn.go.com/blog/cleveland-cavaliers/post/_/id/412/cavs-looking-like-real-contender-to-lebron
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Following a shootaround earlier in the day, it was pointed out to him [Lebron] that Cleveland led the NBA in isolation points per game, a statistic that historically portends postseason pitfalls as opposing defenses have all the time in the world to dissect the sets you run and prepare to counter them in a seven-game series. The simpler the set -- and one-on-one clearouts are as simple as they come -- the easier it is for a defense to figure out a way to stop it.
The Cavs were about to win their 12th straight later that night, so there was nothing alarming in the moment about the fact that 12.1 of their 101.7 points per game as a team came off isos. But still, the evidence was there -- thanks to some digging by ESPN Stats & Info -- that none of the past five NBA champs ranked in the top five in that category (even James' Miami teams ranked eighth in 2012-13 and 12th in 2011-12 with all of his and Dwyane Wade's individual mastery off the dribble).
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James, however, accepted the information.
"We definitely don't want to use that," he said. "We don't want that to be a crutch. It's something that is great to go to, but you don't want that to be the main thing, for sure. In the postseason, when everyone starts to really break down the things that you like to do, the things that you do not like to do, playing one-on-one basketball is definitely not a formula for success in the postseason. I know that. So, for right now it's done some good things for us, but I think we're a much better team when everyone is involved and we're sharing the ball like we've done in some of the games this year."
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So rather than be threatened by any insinuation that everything isn't perfect with his team, as they've ridden the longest current winning streak in the league and in the process jumped from sixth to tied for third with Washington in the Eastern Conference, James merely used it as motivation.
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Against one of the better teams in the league -- a Clippers team that had won road games in San Antonio, Phoenix and Portland in recent weeks -- James went out to prove the Cavs are already capable of shedding their iso-heavy label.
"Did that answer your question?" James said after the game, referencing the conversation at shootaround.
He then admitted to relishing the team-centric performance, checking the scoreboard as the game went on to track Cleveland's assists totals.
"I thought about it all day," he said.
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Would be pretty awesome if a simple question from a reporter has now kicked this team into an even higher gear. Craziness.
Full article here:
http://espn.go.com/blog/cleveland-cavaliers/post/_/id/412/cavs-looking-like-real-contender-to-lebron
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Following a shootaround earlier in the day, it was pointed out to him [Lebron] that Cleveland led the NBA in isolation points per game, a statistic that historically portends postseason pitfalls as opposing defenses have all the time in the world to dissect the sets you run and prepare to counter them in a seven-game series. The simpler the set -- and one-on-one clearouts are as simple as they come -- the easier it is for a defense to figure out a way to stop it.
The Cavs were about to win their 12th straight later that night, so there was nothing alarming in the moment about the fact that 12.1 of their 101.7 points per game as a team came off isos. But still, the evidence was there -- thanks to some digging by ESPN Stats & Info -- that none of the past five NBA champs ranked in the top five in that category (even James' Miami teams ranked eighth in 2012-13 and 12th in 2011-12 with all of his and Dwyane Wade's individual mastery off the dribble).
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James, however, accepted the information.
"We definitely don't want to use that," he said. "We don't want that to be a crutch. It's something that is great to go to, but you don't want that to be the main thing, for sure. In the postseason, when everyone starts to really break down the things that you like to do, the things that you do not like to do, playing one-on-one basketball is definitely not a formula for success in the postseason. I know that. So, for right now it's done some good things for us, but I think we're a much better team when everyone is involved and we're sharing the ball like we've done in some of the games this year."
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So rather than be threatened by any insinuation that everything isn't perfect with his team, as they've ridden the longest current winning streak in the league and in the process jumped from sixth to tied for third with Washington in the Eastern Conference, James merely used it as motivation.
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Against one of the better teams in the league -- a Clippers team that had won road games in San Antonio, Phoenix and Portland in recent weeks -- James went out to prove the Cavs are already capable of shedding their iso-heavy label.
"Did that answer your question?" James said after the game, referencing the conversation at shootaround.
He then admitted to relishing the team-centric performance, checking the scoreboard as the game went on to track Cleveland's assists totals.
"I thought about it all day," he said.
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How come no one liked these vids? They're so sexual that they need a NSFW and +21 warning on the title.
I think it was more a matter for the DEA, because that fast break video is pure basketball crack.
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10/10 Made me spill my coffee.
I think he really was somewhat injured, but also he probably was discouraged because we didn't have the right personnel. I never believed for a minute he was 'trying to get the coach fired', because it didn't matter who coached the team without Mozgov/Smith/Shumpert, we didn't have the depth of defensive personnel or bench scoring to win a championship. He could see that as well as anyone. It was never really about coaching, but about personnel. That's what he wanted from the front office, and he got it.
It still pissed me off how people were totally trashing him though. I think some of it was residual pissed-offness from him leaving the first time. Hard to turn on a dime in your attitudes toward a player.
Yea I think thats what it is.
Gotta reduce his minutes ASAP. Blatt is running him and Kyrie to the ground. Not that this is the sole reason for his turnovers. He seems sloppy and careless on a regular basis. Many of his turnovers are unnecessary fancy passes.
But he's gotta get minutes restricted. It doesn't matter if it costs 4 or 5 games.
But he's gotta get minutes restricted. It doesn't matter if it costs 4 or 5 games.
