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Matthew Dellavedova

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Delly certainly has a place on the team, but David Griffin himself expressed the need for a backup point guard on multiple occasions.

He either failed to land one in trade, or he did not want to sacrifice Joe Harris in order to create a roster spot to perhaps sign a Will Bynum or comparble player.

Either way, I'm sure its a failure he now regrets and will be sure to rectify in the offseason.
 
Randolphkeys said:
*Looks at what Manziel has done the last six months, looks at what the great Bryce Petty achieved the past six months. Looks at what Delly has achieved in the last six months*

So, it seems some of you are just lucky I've voiced strong opinions in a handful of threads. :celb (7):
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Randolfkeys, as someone who has followed Delly for the past 6 years I want to thank you (sincerely) for your support of him. You have at times made it bearable to keep following him as he learns how to play in this league.

Delly has delivered more than anyone could have expected and shouldered more of the burden than he should have.
 
If only BB was as simple as a single stat line. In regular season play Kyrie is a high minute player, he will demand as such and will be unhappy with less. In addition the regular rotation includes LBJ who wants the ball in his hands the majority of the time. In play with these players the needs is to compliment and not replace. With different rotations there is the need to include and motivate the combinations on the floor. In this regards Delly has been superb with JR and TT.
Look at the backup roles in history, look at the run of play over the last three series ... what backup PG has done more over 3 series?
 
Delly is a fine back-up PG. The Cavs not being able to win a title with him starting is hardly the test. No team can construct itself in such a way that it can lose two of its three highest paid players and still win a title. You can get guys that can keep the team afloat and win a playoff series or two...but you actually need your star players to play to win a championship.

The fact that we've it this far with Delly playing so many minutes should be looked at in favor of Delly, not as a knock against him. I don't think we're getting here with Will Bynum playing these minutes.
 
CommD said:
Delly certainly has a place on the team, but David Griffin himself expressed the need for a backup point guard on multiple occasions.

He either failed to land one in trade, or he did not want to sacrifice Joe Harris in order to create a roster spot to perhaps sign a Will Bynum or comparble player.

Either way, I'm sure its a failure he now regrets and will be sure to rectify in the offseason.
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No, they wanted to get Perkins instead so the cavs can have an enforcer that never plays and another one of lebrons over the hill buddies on the team to placate lebron
 
I mean, we definitely need a more capable backup PG or combo guard to slot in ahead of Delly.

But as far am concerned, he earned a roster spot for his play in the ATL & CHI series. The question is, will we have one available with the LJ mafia on board.
 
Mo Williams is a UFA. He'd be a nice "offensive" b/u PG to balance with Delly's defense. Don't know whether he'd be willing to (potentially) be the third PG, but he'd look damn good in a Cavs uniform right about now.
 
The Human Q-Tip said:
Mo Williams is a UFA. He'd be a nice "offensive" b/u PG to balance with Delly's defense. Don't know whether he'd be willing to (potentially) be the third PG, but he'd look damn good in a Cavs uniform right about now.
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Go check out Mo's playoff stats with Portland in the 2014 playoffs. They are almost identical to Delly's this playoffs (actually shot worse from three than Delly), and you get subpar defense with them. I like Mo, but he's never been a good playoff performer and I don't see how he'd be anything other than just a healthy body on this team right now.
 
Mo wouldn't have gotten as good looks with Portland as he'd get with the Cavs. And he's still a better ball handler/distributor than is Delly.

That being said, I agree that he's no savior and has holes, but we're going to get that with any 3d PG we'd pick up anyway.

And he does offer a contrasting/complementary skill set to Delly's, which would give us more flexibility for matchups.

As a third PG, he'd be able to give us competent minutes at the position if one of the other guys goes down. Right now, that would look pretty swetlet because we really are out of bodies.
 
I'd take a lot of these older vets that were named over Delly any day. Be nice to even see Norris Cole come to the Cavs and take Delly's spot next season.
 
I think Delly's performance in the last couple of games is blurring some people's view of his value to this team.

To me, he's gone above and beyond what I expected of him after Kyrie started hobbling in the playoffs.

He's young too, this experience will hopefully propel him into an offseason of more improvement. There's no reason he can't be our backup PG for a long time.
 
Great playoff run by Delly.
For those of you using this finals as a gauge for his value, you are being delusional. Having Dellys energy for 12-15 minutes a game as a change up backing up Kyrie is just fine.

Delly play 35 minutes in the finals is not. Great Cinderella story, unfortunately for us, the clock struck midnight.
 
He is still a situational back up PG. Need to find an offensive minded back up to share time with him based on match ups. He had moments, but it was excruciating watching him try to get us into anything resembling an offense when LeBron sat.
 
He better be gone after this year. We need someone who can score off the bench, smith is too inconsistent, a PG who can run and offense and score is ideal and Delly cant do either.
 
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