People going off on Drummond are nuts. Without his production and defense, we lose this game by 25+ easy. Complain about his decision-making all you want, but if he wasn’t on the floor, this isn’t even a game.
I have been saying this FOREVER! When the big guys grab a rebound the guards should up to them, clap their hands and say give me the ball! My HS and college coaches would cuss me when I ran up court leaving the bigs to handle the ball. I used to watch Magic and Zeke run and basically TAKE the ball of the big men’s hands after they grabbed a rebound.People complaining about bigs pushing the ball up court but when they grab rebounds our guards need to stay back and come get the ball. If they start running out the bigs are going to take the ball across half court to avoid an 8 second violation.
Sexton does this a lot. The big will grab a rebound and he will run up court asking for the ball. Come back to the ball so that the big doesn't even have to dribble.
Need Garland to be more assertive. If he's not scoring, there isn't enough from the rest of the team. No one is going to let Sexton go off again until they have someone else to worry about.
On defense, they really miss Nance. His rebounding if nothing else. They could even throw him on LeBron for a while, but that wouldn't matter. He does this against everyone whenever he feels like it.
Yeah I'm a Drummond hater but he totally took Anthony freaking Davis basically out of the game. Could really care less if he stays a Cav after this year but give him his due this gamePeople going off on Drummond are nuts. Without his production and defense, we lose this game by 25+ easy. Complain about his decision-making all you want, but if he wasn’t on the floor, this isn’t even a game.
I guess I will have to take your guys' word for it since I missed most of the 1st half but on the offensive end, just because Drummond is scoring doesn't mean he's keeping us in the game. Every three foot shot that Drummond makes at a 50% clip has an opportunity cost. I don't know if he was contributing fantastically on defense, but rarely do I get the feeling of "Man we need to get this guy more shots"
Missed the game! What was up with Nance? A carry over from that wrist injury the other night?Great post.
You really think they can play Garland Sexton against a team like the Lakers if this was the playoffs and the Lakers actually gameplanned?
That would be a nightmare with Lebron hunting them out just like he did as a Cav against guys like Curry. Cavs have nice pieces with Nancy Okoro Sexton etc but SexLand I'm not sure about at all. You can hide maybe one but two of these guys who both play small on defense?
It's probably why they have put the ball into Sexton's hands more. Unless they stumble into tall point guard to pair with Sexton, Sexton will have to play PG so they aren't a defensive liability night in night out. Garland and Sexton will have to take up all 48 of the PG minutes for this team to be successful.
I think we will be back tanking soon. Just not enough top tier talent on this team.
I expect him to not inexplicably run under that screen. There was no reason to do that.