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

[The Human Q-Tip]

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)

Well, someone write something up so the rest of us have something amusing to read.

 

[The Human Q-Tip]

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.

Guys, I don't know who Chad Kinch is, but I want to, so....someone write him up!

ETA: Holy crap, I looked the guy up and he only played one season for the Cavs, and was horrible. But I wasn't living in the area, was on lockdown in school, so I don't remember him. What was his game like?

 

[The Human Q-Tip]

And I promise to catch up on some of the nominations tonight. Have to work right now....

 

[Cratylus]

Pretty sure these guys deserve spots on the team somewhere.

 

[Cratylus]

For coach, who could forget the awesome work ethic of this guy:

 

[Randolphkeys]

Guys, I don't know who Chad Kinch is, but I want to, so....someone write him up!

ETA: Holy crap, I looked the guy up and he only played one season for the Cavs, and was horrible. But I wasn't living in the area, was on lockdown in school, so I don't remember him. What was his game like?

Chad Kinch was a shooting guard drafted in the first round out of the original "Cinderella story" of the NCAA tournament: UNC Charlotte. He was a freshman sixth man who could jump out of the gym when future Celtics great Cedric "Cornbread" Maxwell led the 49ers to the NCAA championship in 1977. Kinch eventually took over as the leader for the tiny Sun Belt conference program, but after being drafted in the late first round by the Cavs, it was obvious he wasn't NBA material.

A friend of mine played for the Cavs in the Stepien Era - Kevin Restani, RIP - and I heard most of my stories from him. Basically everyone was trying to get traded out. The weather and facilities were brutal and everyone knew the franchise was inept. Players were drinking and smoking before games, at half-time, you name it.

Kinch died of AIDS in 1994. Like I said, I had co-workers in the early 90s who used his name as an inside joke that some new guy was young and terrible. After the AIDS related death, worse things were said. It was a less enlightened time. Sad the way Kinch died... but evidently he was pretty bad.

 

[Phills14]

Randolph Keys

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The 6'7 sharp shooting Keys was a 4 year player at the University of Southern Mississippi. At the 1988 trade deadline the Cavaliers sent Kevin Johnson, Mark West, Tyrone Corbin their 1988 first round pick (#14 Thunder Dan Majerle), 1988 2nd round pick (#38 Overall Dean Garrett) and 1989 2nd round pick (#52nd overall Greg Grant) for Larry Nance, Mike Sanders and Phoenix's 1988 1st round pick. With the 22nd pick of the 1988 draft the Cavaliers selected Keys. Keys played a total of 90 games including 13 of his 19 career starts over a season and a half with the Cavs. The one thing the Cavs teams of 1989 and 1990 lacked was that offensive threat from the Small Forward position. With Daughtery, Hot Rod and Nance in the front court and Price, Harper and Ehlo in the back court, the Cavaliers had the starters and depth at every position but Small Forward. Mike Sanders, an on the the ball defender, manned the small forward spot. He started and hung onto the position but the position was really screaming for someone to take it from him. Keys, was not the man for the job as the first round pick could not get off the bench, averaging 8 minutes his rookie year and 18 his sophomore season. Keys was eventually traded to Charlotte during his 2nd season where he played another year and a half in obscurity. He spent the next 3 seasons bouncing around between pro leagues in France, Italy and the CBA before returning to the league for 75 more games between the Lakers and the Bucks.

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[WUJU]

Who can forget one of the all time biggest stiffs of the 90s. At Center from Notre Dame Tim “can eat a whopper in one bite” Kempton ! When a players best attribute is how well they can eat a large hamburger that’s probably not good for the team.

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[2 For The Brew]

Speaking of stiffs --- how about the two guys we received for Charles Oakley: Keith Lee and Ennis Whately? We could've kept Charles or picked the Mailman or Dumars.

 

[The Oi]

@CBBI and I were in attendance for the historic 40 point Orlando game Larry Hughes used to play himself out of Cleveland.

 

[CBBI]

@CBBI and I were in attendance for the historic 40 point Orlando game Larry Hughes used to play himself out of Cleveland.

Larry got MVP chants.

As did Ira Newble.

 

[Murph]

PF Anthony Bennett. That guy was arguably the worst #1 pick in NBA history.

C Melvin Turpin (Dinner Bell Mel)

SF Darius Miles

SG Trajan Langdon

PG Delonte West (for nailing Lebron's mom, giving new meaning to the word stiff)

 

[cabs]

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.

Didnt even know this guy existed but it seems we went through him then Karasev to finally find our Cedi

 

[cabs]

Our SG spot 07-08 was utter garbage Devin Brown, Damon Jones, Sasha Palvovic.

I liked Devin Brown.. one of the first cavs games i saw he dropped 20 I think

 

[cabs]

I'll nominate Leon Powe, serviceable player in Boston.. turned into an absolute stiff upon arrival in Cleveland