2022-2023 Regular Season: A New Power Rises in the East

[BigZ94]

Trade for Bojan. Trade for Crowder.

Its a travesty that a player of his caliber is wasting the twilight of his prime on the Pistons. Would fit very nicely here

 

[BigZ94]

Here are the on/off numbers when the front line consists of some combination of Allen, Mobley, Wade, Osman and Love (24 or more possessions).

+24.5
+25.8
-7.1
-17.9
+73.1
-12.0
+41.8
+51.5

The two lineups in the negative have Mitchell and Okoro (-7.1) and Garland and Okoro (-17.9) as the other two players. Basically, any combination of Allen, Mobley, Wade, Osman, and Love on the front line is very successful as long as Okoro is not on the floor. In both negative lineups Osman was the 3, so you can't put Cedi and Isaac on the floor together.

Lineups with LeVert at the 3 have these on/off numbers:

-4.3 (212 possessions - this has been the most used lineup by far)
-16.2
-12.5

When LeVert is at the 2, the Cavs outscore their opponents by 10.2 points per 100 possessions, which is in the 85th percentile. When Caris plays the 3 the Cavs are outscored by 3.4 points. So the Cavs are 13.6 points better when Caris is the shooting guard as opposed to the small forward.

The numbers clearly indicate that playing LeVert at the 3 is not working out. It's not his natural position and it leaves us short of size and rebounding. It's unfair to LeVert and to the team to continue playing him out of position.

Do you have JBs email? If so could you forward this too him?

 

[Cement]

 

[Cement]

Was I drunk or did Lamar and Okoro play really well tonight?

 

[Wham with the Right Hand]

The Kings have won six in a row (starting with the win over us) and 9 of their last 11. I don't feel as bad about losing to them now.

 

[catfish]

The Kings have won six in a row (starting with the win over us) and 9 of their last 11. I don't feel as bad about losing to them now.

They have a good coach.

 

[Wham with the Right Hand]

The Kings now lead the NBA in scoring and are averaging 140 points over their last three games. They're 9-6.

We lost to them by 7 points on the road with Garland sick and going 1-for-9. The game was tied with 3 minutes to go.

 

[FrontPageNews]

Was I drunk or did Lamar and Okoro play really well tonight?

Probably both. But we did face a Miami team that didn’t have their best perimeter players playing.

 

[Cavatt]

Nice to see a game where they just don't let off the had and keep putting pressure on the other team

 

[Sir'Dom Pointer]

The Kings now lead the NBA in scoring and are averaging 140 points over their last three games. They're 9-6.

We lost to them by 7 points on the road with Garland sick and going 1-for-9. The game was tied with 3 minutes to go.

And? Is that supposed to be an accomplishment?

 

[BigZ94]

Was I drunk or did Lamar and Okoro play really well tonight?

Okoro tends to look good against scrubs

 

[Alec]

Okoro tends to look good against scrubs

Yeah, I'm not gonna read into Okoro's performance. If he puts together 10 of those games in a row, I'll open my heart to optimism.

 

[Dr. Claw]

The biggest takeaways besides actually getting bench production was that the Cavs actually were doing more than the usual PnR fest on offense, and utilizing the facilitation skills of players beside the guards. This was a good opportunity for the Cavs to try some different things. Credit to the Cavs for making them work, and also get the blow out win.

The continued shift of rotations trends more to the Cavs finally conceding the 3 spot rotation not including LeVert except in case of extreme emergency. Wade, Stevens, Osman, occasional Okoro. Though Cavs seem to be subbing Okoro more for Mitchell. It's a good sign.

 

[Cavatt]

The biggest takeaways besides actually getting bench production was that the Cavs actually were doing more than the usual PnR fest on offense, and utilizing the facilitation skills of players beside the guards. This was a good opportunity for the Cavs to try some different things. Credit to the Cavs for making them work, and also get the blow out win.

The continued shift of rotations trends more to the Cavs finally conceding the 3 spot rotation not including LeVert except in case of extreme emergency. Wade, Stevens, Osman, occasional Okoro. Though Cavs seem to be subbing Okoro more for Mitchell. It's a good sign.

Going small was pretty effective defensively too. Usually Love is in there with Mobley at the 5 and the defense suffers. Small lineup was defensively awesome last night.

 

[All4One1ForAll]

Honestly these once in a blue moon decent Okoro performances probably end up doing more harm than good in the long run. It takes 10 worthless nights from Okoro for JBB to keep his minutes down, but it takes just one solid performance for him to extend his leash.

It’s sad though that the standard is so low now for our #5 overall pick that a night in which he made a total of 2 wide open threes and 2 transition baskets against a decimated team is now considered some breakout game. He’s still not worth playing consistent minutes given how much of an offensive liability he is the vast majority of the time.