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Kevin Love - Miami Ground Machine

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Is Kevin Love a Hero for Saving a Dog?

  • Yes

    Votes: 28 48.3%

  • Too Right!

    Votes: 2 3.4%

  • Hotter than Jimmy G

    Votes: 15 25.9%

  • Jim Chones

    Votes: 13 22.4%
  • Total voters
    58
kidduck said:
Tidbit from Fedor:

From an individual standpoint, Kevin Love -- one night after failing to take a shot and not feeling like he had his legs -- poured in a season-high 25 points on 9-of-14 from the field. His best scoring night of the season -- and most productive game in over a year -- was sparked by a pregame conversation with Bickerstaff, who asked the five-time All-Star what he needed to be more effective. Love suggested a few sets that usually help and different ways to manufacture cleaner looks.
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Love has always liked set plays to get him going. The one thing I've disliked about this rebuild is not building out a playbook of set plays. It will only help Sexton distribute the ball better. All teams rely on bread and butter plays to keep a consistent offense. The Cavs, not matter who has been the coach, the last 3 season hasn't installed many plays at all.

There were alot of plays the Cavs were running in the rebuild with Kyrie and TT that still were being run when we won the championship in 2016.
 
The Cavs can score when they execute set plays or simply move the ball by passing it around the court and side to side while off ball personnel slash and cut. Also they can score when they defend and fast break.

For whatever reason, when the defenses tighten up on the pressure, any set plays or ball movement completely fall apart and the Cavs become a bunch of guys doing P&R or going one on one on every trip down the court.

Some of it has to be coaching, a lot of it is collective lack of experience and maturity. Every time our opponent decides to get serious about defending, they can shut off the Cav's water and we seem powerless to do anything about it with the current mindset where all the good habits we sometimes exhibit just completely disappear.

Love actually fits in to the ball movement and running set plays. When the offense degenerates into all P&R or one on one Love becomes a non-factor.
 
buzzdog said:
The Cavs can score when they execute set plays or simply move the ball by passing it around the court and side to side while off ball personnel slash and cut. Also they can score when they defend and fast break.

For whatever reason, when the defenses tighten up on the pressure, any set plays or ball movement completely fall apart and the Cavs become a bunch of guys doing P&R or going one on one on every trip down the court.

Some of it has to be coaching, a lot of it is collective lack of experience and maturity. Every time our opponent decides to get serious about defending, they can shut off the Cav's water and we seem powerless to do anything about it with the current mindset where all the good habits we sometimes exhibit just completely disappear.

Love actually fits in to the ball movement and running set plays. When the offense degenerates into all P&R or one on one Love becomes a non-factor.
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This group just has so little set plays that when push comes to shove they can't just call the handful of plays that they truly execute at a high level. This also is a reason why they can't exploit mismatches when they come. I also think it's a reason why there is such uneven scoring with players from game to game. Garland, Sexton, or the coaching staff can't just start calling plays for certain guys to get them going because those plays barely exist.
 
Ohioplayer00 said:
Kevin isn’t doing much this year or since LBJ left but to call him an “inconsistent third option” on a championship team is just plain stupid! No K Love on that team and we are still looking for our first sports title in over 50 plus years. Anybody that doesn’t see his importance and impact on that team doesn’t know basketball.
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in the 2016 Finals Kevin Love averaged 8 points, 7 rebounds, and 1 assist on 34% shooting (28% from 3), in 26 minutes per game
 
Cavs need to buy him out this summer. Don't let it simmer until the trade deadline like Detroit did with Griffin.
Surely Love can get 2/$10 mil on the open market and give the Cavs $10 mil back in a buyout. Clearly that would be best for both sides going forward.
 
daytripper said:
Cavs need to buy him out this summer. Don't let it simmer until the trade deadline like Detroit did with Griffin.
Surely Love can get 2/$10 mil on the open market and give the Cavs $10 mil back in a buyout. Clearly that would be best for both sides going forward.
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It's worth dead money for 5 year? Not sure about that
 
To those suggesting cutting Love to spend some of that salary in free agency... That's not how it works in Cleveland. Role players were taking the NBA vet minimum with a contender over the MLE with the Cavs last off-season, and they will do it again in 2021. Until further notice,free agency in Cleveland is for the Damyean Dotsons of the league.
 
Randolphkeys said:
To those suggesting cutting Love to spend some of that salary in free agency... That's not how it works in Cleveland. Role players were taking the NBA vet minimum with a contender over the MLE with the Cavs last off-season, and they will do it again in 2021. Until further notice,free agency in Cleveland is for the Damyean Dotsons of the league.
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It’s also a bad idea because of the stretch waive over five years. Too much dead money for too long.
 
Rich said:
The Cavs were sorta approaching middle of the road defense in the league. Like 17th or 18th in defensive rating.

It started to dive basically the moment Love came back, which is no surprise.

He still really does help the spacing but it's just not worth his paycheck. Not even close.

Imagine if we could take his salary this off-season and throw that same money at two players like TJ McConnell and Reggie Bullock...and still have money left over.

Boy wouldn't that be nice....
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Spending money on players like tj McConnell and
Bullock is how we got in this cap hell in the first place.
 
Cavatt said:
It's worth dead money for 5 year? Not sure about that
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No not suggesting an amnesty...Just ask him to give back $10 mil in a buyout so the cap hit will be $25 mil for each of the next 2 years instead of $30 mil.
 
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