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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
If his shot doesn't return, why especially would the Cavs want him back?

Fuck him.
Bench presence and the chance it may come back after the off-season.

When your employer basically puts your ass on the bench and tells you to stay there, you would want to seek other employment too? I feel like I am missing something here? Why are so many people irritated by him wanting a buyout? He's going to have his jersey retired here one day and was a major contributor for two separate eras of Cavs basketball.

I understand why people may have sour grapes about someone like Lebron, but Kevin... he's washed now. Let it go.
 
I think he may just want another contract before hanging it up. K-Love without his jumper would be lucky to get vet minimum offers. Sometimes these older guys cannot cope with being near the end of their career and will seek out opportunities to prove they are better on the court than being a veteran presence on the bench.

I honestly would not be surprised if he were to come back on a vet minimum deal in free agency if his shot does not come back this season. He can attempt to get it right during the off-season and then maybe we can see if he can give 10-15 minutes or fill in when there is injuries.
Yeah, he clearly thought he had something left in the tank and wanted to show it so he could get one final contract.

Alas, he is possibly even more cooked than we all thought he was, if that's even possible.

There's a better chance he's out of the NBA next season than there is of him signing another contract with the Heat.

Meanwhile, he passed up the inevitable opportunity to provide us a spark in a playoff game, nailing a couple threes and taking a charge to swing a series in our favor.

Hindsight is 20/20, but it was a stupid and illogical decision for him to ask out at the time as well. Frankly, he's an idiot for what he did and he will probably regret it for the rest of his life.
 
He really and mean really should not have fucked around with his form because that injury. His mechanics are so off now, he literally looks like a shell of his former self. What could have been ...
 
Bench presence and the chance it may come back after the off-season.

When your employer basically puts your ass on the bench and tells you to stay there, you would want to seek other employment too? I feel like I am missing something here? Why are so many people irritated by him wanting a buyout? He's going to have his jersey retired here one day and was a major contributor for two separate eras of Cavs basketball.

I understand why people may have sour grapes about someone like Lebron, but Kevin... he's washed now. Let it go.

He was asked to sacrifice his pride for the good of the team and said, "Nah." All the good will he built up last season went out the window with his selfishness. He's earned all those missed shots and failed rebounds in Miami.
 
Kevin Love already won a ring here.
Are you guys forgetting he was not playable?
JBB was not using Love. At all. No minutes.

Leaving wont haunt Love.

Why stay here and ride the bench until we lose in the second round?
Cavs weren't going to resign him next year. Love had one final chance to earn a contract by going to Miami.

Honestly, he did the Cavs a favor.
We now know, he's done.
 
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He really and mean really should not have fucked around with his form because that injury. His mechanics are so off now, he literally looks like a shell of his former self. What could have been ...

It is wild to watch, every shot is coming out differently, like a golfer who has tweaked his swing and is just lost. Then you have the total loss of confidence, from a guy who has been a really good shooter for a long time but now has no conviction at all. I don't think it is an age thing, legs gone, put it almost entirely down to stupidly trying to play through an injury when he should have just sat out. Good shooters can have periods when they are shooting badly numbers wise but the mechanics are still solid, only a matter of time until it changes, looks a different case with Love.

He needs an off season to work on his shot, but he is stuck in this position now where he looks done and might have no contract offers, so he is hoping it clicks. Miami are going to have to make a call on this, he is not helping them.
 
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It is wild to watch, every shot is coming out differently, like a golfer who has tweaked his swing and is just lost. Then you have the total loss of confidence, from a guy who has been a really good shooter for a long time but now has no conviction at all. I don't think it is an age thing, legs gone, put it almost entirely down to stupidly trying to play through an injury when he should have just sat out. Good shooters can have periods when they are shooting badly numbers wise but the mechanics are still solid, only a matter of time until it changes, looks a different case with Love.

He needs an off season to work on his shot, but he is stuck in this position now where he looks done and might have no contract offers, so he is hoping it clicks. Miami are going to have to make a call on this, he is not helping them.
Completely agree with everything you said but I also put the blame on JB and the medical staff. If they had just made the obvious decision and told Kevin to take the month off and heal he would still be a Cavalier book that. Also do we not have shooting coach. He should had been screaming at Kevin to not fuck around with his form which was pure. I watched him the other day because I needed Miami to cover in a parley and looks like he has the yips out there . Truly some shit that completely could have been avoided with sound decision making.
 
Completely agree with everything you said but I also put the blame on JB and the medical staff. If they had just made the obvious decision and told Kevin to take the month off and heal he would still be a Cavalier book that. Also do we not have shooting coach. He should had been screaming at Kevin to not fuck around with his form which was pure. I watched him the other day because I needed Miami to cover in a parley and looks like he has the yips out there . Truly some shit that completely could have been avoided with sound decision making.

JBB asked him to sit and he quit on the team. How can you guarantee he'd be on the Cavaliers when it played out differently? A shooting coach cant be out there litwrally holding a guys hand. If the player doesn't follow instruction/coaching, thats on them, not the coach. Isaac has consistently improved, but stubborn Love can't? How is that the coaches fault?
 
JBB asked him to sit and he quit on the team. How can you guarantee he'd be on the Cavaliers when it played out differently? A shooting coach cant be out there litwrally holding a guys hand. If the player doesn't follow instruction/coaching, thats on them, not the coach. Isaac has consistently improved, but stubborn Love can't? How is that the coaches fault?
I was talking about when he intially got injured to sit and heal not the fake back spasms then sequencing DNP sitting. Kevin earned the right to have his add parked on the bench with his poor play no agrueing about that.
 
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Remember these days?

2015-16 was a heck of a season.

I look back on it fondly.

Now in 2023...they're all annoying asses.

Sigh.

I have confidence that the current Cavs crew will remain much more likable in 7-8 years!
 
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Remember these days?

2015-16 was a heck of a season.

I look back on it fondly.

Now in 2023...they're all annoying asses.

Sigh.

I have confidence that the current Cavs crew will remain much more likable in 7-8 years!
Such halcyon days.
 
From that pic I can understand why LeBron would fondly refer to Kyrie as "kid."
 
Blake Griffin is an example of what many hoped Kevin Love would be during his twilight years...
 
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Remember these days?

2015-16 was a heck of a season.

I look back on it fondly.

Now in 2023...they're all annoying asses.

Sigh.

I have confidence that the current Cavs crew will remain much more likable in 7-8 years!

I really enjoyed those years too. Four straight Finals is a hell of a run, historic.

But KLove was always kind of disappointing. Never really the star he was advertised to be. Solid stretch four, a couple of good playoff series, that’s about it. I remember the endless debates about whether he was “misused”, how no one could believe he couldn’t make layups in traffic, etc.
 

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