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

[The Human Q-Tip]

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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Kempton was awful. The only saving grace was that he played for three teams the only season we had him, and we had him for the fewest games. My God have mercy on those other 2 teams, though.

 

[The Human Q-Tip]

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

Somewhere inside that massive body, there was a good basketball player.

But I think Powe ate him for breakfast.

 

[Randolphkeys]

Somewhere inside that massive body, there was a good basketball player.

But I think Powe ate him for breakfast.

When LeBron was in like 10th grade or so, Leon Powe was supposed to be the best player of his age class, and the Powe family had LeBron stay with them for AAU ball one summer. Powe had a lot of knee injuries, but he was evidently a big influence and great friend for LBJ in the formative years. That's why he was on the Cavs after his knee was totally shredded.

 

[inliner311]

I think Earl Clark and Ryan Hollins were the two players that were the most fustrating to watch for me. I still don't know how Hollins stayed in the league so long. For some reason it feels like I had to watch Earl Clark for multiple season with the cavs yet he was only with us for half a season.

 

[The Human Q-Tip]

We're light on PG's, so I'm going to toss out a couple of names.

Jeremy Pargo? He was stanky with us, then left us to play in 1) Philly, 2) Russia, 3) Israel, 4) Italy, 5) China, 6) China again, 7) back to Israel, then...8) GSW. Huh?

Also, Lester Hudson. Never met a shot he didn't like. Despite not starting a single game, playing the 10th most mpg, shooting only .391 from the field, and 24.6% from 3, he was third on the team with 11.6 FGA/G. For Hudson, his offense was the other team's defense.

Then there was Milt Palacio. If you absolutely, positively must lose as many games as possible - then he's the guy you want handling the rock. If we're looking for the General Patton of tank commanders for our All-Stiff team, I think he's our guy.

Palacio started 46 games in 2002-2003, meaning that he was the primary ball handler for the Cavs team that sucked so badly it brought us LeBron James. As our starting point guard for 46 games -- and he played in 80 games that seasn - he made exactly 8 three point shots all season. 8.

He shot under 42% from the field overall, averaged 3.2 APG, and 5.0 ppg, and he was our starting PG. And he didn't just suck with us. He managed to spend 7 years in the league, and had a negative OBPM, DPBM, and VORP every single season.

 

[The Human Q-Tip]

I think Earl Clark and Ryan Hollins were the two players that were the most fustrating to watch for me. I still don't know how Hollins stayed in the league so long. For some reason it feels like I had to watch Earl Clark for multiple season with the cavs yet he was only with us for half a season.

According to Basketball Reference, Ryan Hollins nickname was "The Booty Call".

It sure as hell wasn't his rebounding. 7ft tall and he averaged 5.7 per 36. It was like he was allergic to the damn thing.

 

[Seiklis]

*cough*

You guys wake up hard dreaming of knee braces that thick

 

[catfish]

Its amazing that one team could have collected so many awful players in my lifetime and somehow still have had multiple eras of relatively competitive basketball and even collected a ship.

 

[The Human Q-Tip]

One thought on coaches....doesn't Beilein need to be mentioned? It's one thing for an interim coach to only coach for part of a season, but Beilein was pretty much overmatched from day one.

Also...Randy Wittman.

 

[catfish]

One thought on coaches....doesn't Beilein need to be mentioned?

CAVS seem to want to outsmart the competition by picking coaches who absolutely have no business coaching an NBA team. A casual fan could have figured out that Beilein had no business coaching an NBA as soon as the Utah summer league.

 

[The Human Q-Tip]

*cough*

You guys wake up hard dreaming of knee braces that thick

Great choice. I was thinking of going Paul Mokeski, just because he had one of the worst player photos ever, but the guy actually played well in that critical Boston series that ushered in the Daugherty/Price era.

 

[wildfan]

nominated Carlos Boozer. Stiffed the owner and the Cavs.

 

[BigErieCavsFan]

PG: Eric Snow. Never liked him. So just because.

 

[Phills14]

*cough*

You guys wake up hard dreaming of knee braces that thick

In the early days of EBay I found a “game worn” pair of cavs warm up pants (the dark blue button rip away kind). I had to buy them. To say they are big is an understatement. I’m 6’3 so I’m not short, these pants extend WAY beyond my pointed toe! Given the time frame, I believe I have a pair of rip away warm up pants that were worn by Jay Guidinger.

 

[FrontPageNews]

I nominate the 2011 cavs