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28 Comments
If they run it back, Koby Altman should be fired. It would show that Koby is being delusional as to why the Cavs got ran thru in the playoffs. The signs were there all damn year too. Koby has basically put yes men around him in JB and the team, people who are just like him who will fail you every damn time when tikes get rough. Those 51 wins were fools gold too…all we did is beat chump teams after we got those early wins before other teams figured us out.
Garland, Mobley, Allen will get stronger. Mobley needs to explode onto the scene offensively.
Both Mobley and Allen can live in the gym this summer and become stretch bigs.
We need a backup center and look for another wing.
Big theme needs to be vastly better rebounding. Number one defense rating is only because of a slow pace. Too many times rebounding position is sacrificed by Jarrett and Evan in order to attempt a block. Cavaliers need to pay for a top assistant for the big guys in order to get past round one.
Kevin Love would've helped us beat the Knicks.
Defensive rebounding position,
being a stretch big.
Taking charges.
I miss Kevin Love…..
Biggest f up ever was not keeping Love. Can Altman find a top assistant coach for the big men?
Mitchell absolutely shriveled under the bright lights. Great athlete but he can't get it done when it counts the most.
Love the pod but Chris buddy s l o w d o w n there sometimes youi talk so fast the sentence sound mashed into a giant mouthful of a word.
"We didn't want it bad enough" is always such a dumb, meaningless take and it offers no path for improvement. You gonna spend all summer in the gym, practicing "wanting it more"? Give me a break. This team needs to watch film and understand why they lost so they can actually figure out how to improve. Spending the offseason thinking you could have won by "wanting it more" is delusional and unproductive. I hope they're smarter than that and are just speaking from their feelings right now.
In a league where you can't "skip steps" on the road to The Finals, of course you run it back with one of the youngest and most talented rosters in the league. Would it have been great to see Garland and Mobley blossom in the playoffs, of course, but expecting that is unrealistic, therefore disappointment that it didn't happen, is misplaced. Disappointment in Mitchell is absolutely deserved. He is experienced and has demonstrated better. Next year, there must be a deep run, but give this team a chance to grow.
We need an offensive coordinator.
Just disappointed in coaching/front office more than any player, though JA is getting close. Hope everyone grows and improves here on out.
No KLove or Carmelo Anthony was wack though.. should’ve been a better series. Needed a veteran big. JA a kid still.
Vibe year, cashed in for this and the asset limitations… oof
Use vets to supplement, to retain assets .. Levert trade was a mistake too!(Lance Stephenson for year tryout/fill in on the cheap) Discover talent and develop it on the side while getting golden years out of guys.. IT4 (vibe year all star break K.Pangos!?)& Carmelo(this year SF/PF/C) can’t help like they could’ve just a year ago or even week ago.. very plausible these kinda moves get us to the playoffs a year sooner and a series won this year. We gotta get lucky on a SF, I suggest our Aussie Luke Travers. Poor man’s Scottie Pippen, believe he’ll be perfect with the starters. Kinda our best chance imo with our circumstances. Should’ve put him on the roster out of summer league! Him and Mobley are disruptive and that’ll make Allen even more Impactful on the defensive end. Good passer and rebounder, put back dunk guy. Good all around offensive game. Hope he gets a shot
The Cavs of last season with the lineup of Allen, Lauri, and a rookie Mobley plus Garland having a breakout year didn't make the playoffs. The reason was injuries but they were exciting because of drafting Mobley last season and drafting Garland and Sexton. We added Allen along with Lauri and even though the backcourt was small the frontcourt wasn't.
Injuries didn't allow us to get the chance to see what the Cavs could be but Garland by himself at the end of the season wasn't enough and we needed to do something at the 3 spot and get healthy and see if Sexton was good enough this season at the 2.
koby Altman never said he was going to "run it back." he said no whole sale changes, meaning JB Bickerstaff wasn't being fired. this doesn't mean he's done with the cavs' roster. cavs had a weak bench all year, this is nothing new, and Altman is well aware of this. expect the cavs to acquire some rebounders, shooters & a true 3&D wing. there is a ton of dead wood that just won't be back next year… windler, Lopez, Neto, dean wade, none of them will be back.
Id be good with runnin it back if our roster was better constructed. Not going to win in playoffs with two non shooting bigs. Nothing i can do but watch i guess
Will be happy when allen and jb are traded. Those two are fools gold to the max. Otherwise we are Setting ourselves up for first round exits
Is it just me or was Mitchell playing like an MVP for the first like 3 months and then majorly cooled off. Curious if he would say that about himself…
Here’s the thing about our reg season we had a lot of wins but every game with a playoff feel we lost it felt like. Philly multiple times Denver, GS, New York
When ever we brighten up and understand the stud Luke Travers at SF is and get healthy Dean Wade at PF move Mobley to Center and Allen as a backup, we’ll be a contender then. Could still play double big, at times, with Travers/Wade at SF with DG SPIDA RUBIO OKORO LEVERT, PG/SG combination and be great. Okoro is a backcourt defender!!! Mitchell prevents him starting period! And Allen without two other 7 footers doesn’t look like an All star!! He’s gotta grow or go to the bench and spark defense from there, maybe not enough motor to play starter minutes.
Kevin Love smh … of course he’d be ready for the playoffs, why weren’t we telling him to get ready when we were struggling with him. Big picture, just stupid for us! We paid him big let’s get that value!!! Didn’t trade him .. for nothing.. just don’t value vets smh we needed Love’s leadership!!!!
Run what back? We found out exactly how real this Cavs team is within 5 games. What did the other 51 wins signify exactly?
Wow, Love has been so good for the Heat these playoffs 🥹
Evan was feeling himself this episode and I’m here for it
Kevin Love is horrible on defense and wouldn’t have played with us to be real
"You can do anything, but not everything." _
Hey guys I’m a fan of the show and I wanted to share my opinion. I think the Cavs should definitely hit free agency with some vets and toughness, with 7 rosters open because of free agency I think they should hold signing Mobley and go after some decent roll players with experience. Names I was thinking is Seth curry, Trent jr. From Toronto, montrezl Harrell, D Howard. I also know this might sound crazy but maybe we should trade Allen for Ben Simmons. The guy can push the rock get rebounds and would have caused problems for RJ if we had him against the knicks. Don’t think we need bigs that can score as much as we need bigs that’s not scared to do a little dirty work. Anyway what’s your thoughts.
Love played like ass for us for a chunk of this yr but he should have been given a chance to redeem himself once his injury healed and imo that's on Bickerstaff and obviously love was pissed about that and wanted out and ya can't blame him Basically Bickerstaff blew it.
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