Dion Waiters Traded

[Jordan]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0MK7qz13bU

 

[3 Da Hard Way]

I was pretty fed up with Dion. Still kinda sad to see him go, Especially for what we got for him. If we get good Shump & JR, Yeah. But what he percentage of that happening

I expected Bron to come in and fix the riff between Kyrie & Dion. Seems he went with the hands off approach for those two. Dion can't and would never put his differences with Kyrie aside and ball out the way we hoped together

 

[Lazor]

Blatt has been the scapegoat for most irrational fans

 

[CavsFan005]

Lazy, blind, blanket analysis from afar. ESPN has trained you well.

Look man, if you really thought Blatt was going to click his fingers and everyone on this roster was going to slide into a perfect role like magic even 2/3rds of the way through the season, welcome to reality I guess.

I expected this, a coach trying to find the right mix, a team trying to figure out how to play together against NBA competition (yes, even the bad teams have talent), and stars getting used to roles and playing styles they've never had to before. Injuries galore havent helped. There were going to be bumps, and there will be more.

I suggest you recalibrate your expectations and realize this was going to take time... or just re-adjust the blindfold and keep lobbing bombs at Blatt cuz it's easy. Everybody's doing it.

His substitution patterns suck. Nobody would need ESPN to see that one

 

[chongas11]

I truly wish Dion well. OKC could be a great home for him.

I think it would be interesting if Dion came out and spoke up about what the cavs locker room atmosphere is like now that he is gone. I personally don't think we've been told a great deal of truth about what happens behind closed doors with this team.

 

[Kizzle]

Hopefully this simplifies the bench for Blatt

I loved Dion but we got better as a team flat out.

 

[Los216]

 

[itsnotagame]

Just came across this on Facebook. It was...brutal.

From "The Cavs (Finally!) Traded Dion Waiters. I'm F*cking Ecstatic. Here's Why."

At the moment, Dion Waiters is not a very good NBA basketball player. This is a fact most who follow the NBA agree on. He is average to below average in pretty much every advanced metric you can name — advanced metrics were basically invented just to prove that players like Dion Waiters were ineffective — and he only passes the eye test if you rub Old Bay in your eyes. There are some who believe his current status is temporary; that he has the potential to one day be a very good NBA basketball player. I do not. Much of the talk about his potential is connected to his draft position (he was the 4th pick in the NBA draft). Basically, since the nutless monkeys employed in Cleveland’s front office then decided to pick him that high, he must be talented enough to justify their decision, so any flash of potential ends up being a sign of what he could eventually be. So, instead of being seen as a (relatively) short and (relatively) unathletic shooting guard with no single elite NBA skill — which is exactly what he is — he becomes a guy who “just needs the right situation” or “needs to mature” or “needs to stop running trains with Josh Gordon.”

There are worse things in the world than not being a very good NBA basketball player. Beets, for instance. What makes Waiters fucking Waiters is the fact that he steadfastly believes he is a very good NBA basketball player. Not “will be one day.” Or “can eventually be if I work really hard and stop running trains.” No, he believes he is a very good NBA basketball player today. Like, right now. As you’re reading this at your cubicle or on a Megabus to Baltimore, Dion Waiters is somewhere (probably Chipotle) believing that he’s a very good NBA basketball player. This belief influences everything he does on the basketball court. The contrasting reality influences the result of everything he does on the basketball court. The semi-contested 19-foot stepbacks with 18 seconds left on the shot clock; shots that are always only semi-contested because the guy guarding him is usually baiting him into shooting. The hysterical clapping of his hands and flailing of his arms whenever a teammate has the audacity to not stop everything they’re currently attempting to do and realize that Dion Fucking Waiters wants the basketball. The shrieks of “And one!!!” whenever he misses another layup (Which happens frequently because he’s an NBA shooting guard who somehow can’t shoot left-handed layups!) and hopes to get bailed out by the refs. The chest pounds, ice grills, glares, and shit talking whenever one or two of the last six or seven shots he attempts somehow limps its way into the hoop.

He’s the rare type who manages to be two of the most hated pick-up basketball archetypes: “The Guy Who Think’s He’s Much Better Than He Actually Is And Ends Up Shooting Your Team Out Of A Win” and “The Guy Who Calls Ball Every Time He Misses And Wants To Fight Every Time Someone Boxes Him Out.”

Basically, Dion Waiters is the basketball jabberwocky.

 

[GreasySpread36]

I think it would be interesting if Dion came out and spoke up about what the cavs locker room atmosphere is like now that he is gone. I personally don't think we've been told a great deal of truth about what happens behind closed doors with this team.

With all due respect, I can't think of many things I want to hear less than Dion's take on the Cavaliers' locker-room atmosphere.

 

[SteelSmack]

That guy on facebook has high blood pressure.

 

[Jack Brickman]

Nice to see him be super classy as he left, unfortunately not like our front office that badmouthed him through their mouthpiece. I obviously can't do much about it from Charlotte, but I hope you guys give him an ovation when the Thunder (or whatever team he's on) come to Cleveland. I think he deserves it. Regardless of how you feel about his play, he never said a bad thing about our city and embraced our fans even when too many of them were shitting on him. He may not have been a great fit for the team and he clearly wasn't the best draft pick for us from 2014, but he doesn't seem like he's a bad kid and I'd hate to see him booed when he comes back for petty reasons.

I'd also encourage you guys to leave him some kind words on either Instagram or Twitter. Like him or not, he left in the best way possible given the circumstances and he deserves some respect for it. He could have been a dick or said nothing, but instead he thanked us all. Give him props for it.

 

[dawgpound23]

Good riddance to that whiner. Dion is nothing but a headache. He had his chance to shine when Lebron took some time off but like always he failed to deliver when we needed him to. I personally think Lebron's "resting" was Lebron's way to tell management enough is enough we need to get rid of this cancer to our locker room. He was killing our team with his selfish antics. Adios Dion

 

[Douglar]

The expectations for him this year were that he'd turn a corner and he's regressed. Lots of people thought he'd enter into the top 5 SG discussion (some thought he might already be one....) and he's probably not top 30 at the moment.

"Probably not in the top 30?" You sir are too kind. I had high hopes going into the season but Dion's been more disappointing that Varejao's achilles. Huge drop off from last season. He's been worse that Austin Rivers. That's right. Austin "suck ass" Rivers. It's all mental with the kid too, so he could turn it around fast, but confusing Dion's performance with something close to a starting NBA SG doesn't seem fair to the top 30 shooting guards. This year Dion's been playing worse than what I'd expect from a D-league call up. Back when the team was healthy, he was costing the club wins on a regular basis, and now that the team is not healthy, they can't afford to wait it out to see how things go. He was bad on the floor this season. He was bad in the locker room too. He had to go. I'm glad that Griffin was able to get that first round pick in the deal. Hope he figures it out at his next stop.

Dion ranks 98th out of 99 shooting guards this season according to real plus minus.

http://espn.go.com/nba/statistics/rpm/_/page/3/position/2

 

[Splitz]

I gleefully proclaimed that Dion would make this a BIG 4 before the season started and now I am ashamed, mostly because I just used the word "gleefully".

 

[mhi]

Hey, at least Malcolm X and all the other Dion fans can watch a GREAT team in OKC while rooting for Dion. I'll be rooting for them to grab the 7th seed.

Sucks that Brooks is their coach tho.