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2021-2022 Cavaliers General Discussion: Trade Deadline Edition

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Who Should the Cavs Trade For?

  • Murray

    Votes: 18 37.5%

  • Lavert

    Votes: 17 35.4%

  • White

    Votes: 1 2.1%

  • Seth Curry

    Votes: 1 2.1%

  • Schroeder

    Votes: 7 14.6%

  • Tatum

    Votes: 3 6.3%

  • Hart

    Votes: 3 6.3%

  • Ingram

    Votes: 1 2.1%

  • Brown

    Votes: 2 4.2%

  • Jim Chones

    Votes: 9 18.8%
  • Total voters
    48
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Blazie said:
Yknow, I hate to be this guy, but I think I'm seeing really good teams do what really good teams do against bad teams: coast for 3.75 quarters and then turn it on when they need to.

Don't get me wrong, the talent difference in previous years was so lopsided that teams were blowing us out even when they were coasting, and never needed to turn it on at all. So I guess that's progress. I'm just a little wary of the narrative that this team is super close to anything...

The defense has improved, it's good to see some guys playing with some gumption, and I'm intrigued by Markkanen. But unless this team stays healthy and Garland turns into 1986 Isaiah Thomas, I think we miss the play-in.

Still, I hope I'm wrong. Curious to see what happens later on when other teams really start jockeying for position in the standings. Don't buy that our schedule has de facto been all that tough at a point in the year when nobody's playing for anything.
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If you watch the Suns and Warriors, they aren’t usually carrying deficits into the 4th quarter against mediocre teams. We had leads in the fourth quarter against both as I recall. AND this was without major pieces to the team.
 
wnorman51 said:
If you watch the Suns and Warriors, they aren’t usually carrying deficits into the 4th quarter against mediocre teams. We had leads in the fourth quarter against both as I recall. AND this was without major pieces to the team.
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Now that we’re healthy I want a rematch with all those good teams that caught us limping.

Not saying I love to see good teams on the schedule. We all want the team to win as much as possible. But let’s just say I enjoy seeing elite teams on the schedule more than I have, without LeBron, in a very long time.
 
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Jscc said:
Hard pass. He is at the point in his career where being an undersized SG is starting to show up in his stats as he gets older (like McCollum) and the contract he will want is going to nuke that team's salary cap for the foreseeable future.
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Here's a game. Put these three-point shooting percentages for Beal in chronological order:

.404
.375
.351
.353
.349
.262

Oh, wait, I already did. (I never said it would be a good game.) That's what Beal has averaged the past six seasons. Not really trending in the direction we'd want to see.

BTW: this season's .262 is the second-worst three-point percentage in the league among all qualifiers (only Jalen Suggs is lower).

Not saying this to criticize Beal, but rather to reinforce your point that I'd think twice about dealing for him.
 
Is Valentines contract for next season team option or guaranteed?
 
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