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The Cavs All-Stiff Team: UPDATED -- Nominations Still Open for PG (SG Closed with 10 nominations)

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I'm not sure this guy qualifies. He played less than 200 minutes in a Cavs uniform. But the Cavs did trade a first-rounder for him (and had to waive protections on another), so he definitely cost the team some assets, and accordingly came in with expectations that were soon crushed.

I give you:

Jiri Welsch - The Anti-Korver

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Time to duck for cover, fans sitting in the rows behind the basket..

The 2004-05 Cavs got off to a strong start, but were sputtering as the trade deadline neared. The franchise's first playoff spot in several years hung in the balance. GM John Paxson knew that he needed to give his team a shot in the arm. A dead-eye shooter who would help the team's poor outside shooting. A player who could get the Cavs to the postseason.

And since he couldn't find such a player, Paxson gave us Jiri Welsch.

Paxson traded a first-round pick to the Celtics for Welsch. (The Cavs also had to relinquish protections on a first-rounder that they had originally sent to Phoenix for Wesley Person sometime during the Carter Administration.) Tragically, Welsch suffered a death in his family (his outside shot) en route to Cleveland, and was lucky to find the rim, much less the bottom of the net. After a disastrous 16 games with the Cavs, Welsch was traded to Milwaukee for a second-round pick (used to select Lior Eliyahu) the following summer. Eliyahu never suited up in the NBA, yet somehow the Cavs came out the winners in that trade. But it was far too late, as the damage had been done.
 
Here are five nominees:

Richard Washington
Jerome Whitehead
Mike Bratz
Kim Hughes
Geoff Huston

OK the last guy wasn't a complete stiff, but he fit the pattern. All five of these guys were acquired in Stepien's first season. All except Hughes (a legitimate stiff in anyone's book -- shot 39.7% from the LINE, we traded Robisch for him) were selected in the EXPANSION draft by the Mavs and traded for 1st round draft picks (plus we added Bill Robinzine (just acquired for Campy) into the Washington - Whitehead deal and Chad Kinch into the Huston deal). Here's who Dallas drafted with the picks:

Detlef Schremp (Huston)
Sam Perkins (Bratz)
Derek Harper & Roy Tarpley (Washington & Whitehead)

Can't really do a Stepien starting five as SF was one position we had (Mike Mitchell, Phil Hubbard).

I will however nominate a coach from this sorry era -- Bill Musselman.

In other eras - really need to mention the late Mel Turpin.
 
If we are talking draft picks these guys are the worst value added talent given their draft slot...

C: Diop
PF: Bennett
SF: Luke Jackson
SG: Trajan Langdon
PG: Dajuan Wagner

In terms of terrible value added guys in general...

C: Andrew Bynum
PF: Danny Ferry
SF: Alonzo Gee
SG: Dan Majerle
PG: Eric Snow

Coach: Paul Silas
GM: Jim Paxson
 
There's one I'm really looking forward to writing after I get some other shit done.....
Our SG spot 07-08 was utter garbage Devin Brown, Damon Jones, Sasha Palvovic.

A trio of horribles...but pick one.
 
There's one I'm really looking forward to writing after I get some other shit done.....


A trio of horribles...but pick one.

I'll pick Damon Jones because he is the self proclaimed best "spot up jump shooter in the world".
 
I'll pick Damon Jones because he is the self proclaimed best "spot up jump shooter in the world".
I would go with one of the others, at least Damon actually was a good shooter (39% on four 3PA/game over 3 years)
 
Terry Furlow-didnt we trade like 3 first rounders for that stiff?
 
I guess it was only 2 first rounders including the 3rd pick:
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Traded • Terry Furlow to Cavaliers for • 1981 first round pick (#4-Al Wood) • 1983 first round pick (#3-Rodney McCray) on 1977-10-03

The guy died after a night of partying with our brilliant point guard the footman Clarence Footsy Walker

The CAVS were obviously dealing with antianylitics in the Bill Fitch era
And we thought Stepien was dumb.
How did this franchise survive until lucking into John Hot Rod Williams (from the prior draft) Brad DoughBoy Daugherty Ron Harper Mark Price
all on the same day
 
How about the great John Lambert Chuckie Williams or the immortal Chad Kinch?

Chad Kinch is an outstanding call. My workplace in high school summers had a lot of ex-high school / college basketball players. The older guys knicknamed one new kid "Chad Kinch" as an inside joke. It's basically saying "you suck, dude". Then Chad Kinch died unexpectedly, I think it was a drug overdose. Those early 1980s college hoops stars have a lot of tragic endings.
 

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