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Posted: Tue 11:26, 30 Nov 2010 Post subject: allure The Cleveland Cavaliers Can Dominate You on |
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Would somebody please tell the Grizzlies, or the Bobcats?
But they begin the season as though it’s a surprise they’re playing real games already, and then talk about how it takes time for everyone to learn each other’s tendencies.
Why did they do it? Are they a running team, or a half-court team? What is it that makes them a consistent threat,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], a scoring machine to be taken seriously?
Yes, it’s early. Yes, you don’t want to peak in November and December. But let’s face it; the idea of the offseason personnel moves was to get better. The Cavs are very affable, but they don’t appear to be better-at least, not yet.
Or probably they should just tell Mike Brown. Against Memphis,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], just days after running and gunning the likes of Phoenix, Chicago, and Milwaukee out of the gym, the Cavaliers slowed everything down in an effort to pound the ball inside to Shaquille O’Neal. Shaq wasn’t bad, but that’s not the point.
Now, with the season in full swing, they typically bounce back from miserable performances with a string of overpowering ones. Just when you begin to doubt them, they pull out a practically error-free showing and lull you into a sense of confidence that everything is just fine in Cavs Town.
However, it doesn’t mean they’re the championship team a lot of people, myself included, thought they were. It just means they can steamroll a team as easily as they can lose to them.
It makes no sense. They have arguably the best basketball player on the planet turning in Hercuslim performances on a regular basis. In a preseason poll, NHL general administerrs said that LeBron James was the one player they would begin a franchise with, the one player who forces opposing coaches to make the most adjustments, and the player likely to be MVP this season.
Their GM tweaks the roster just enough to fire up the faithful. They win 66 games in a season. They propel their bench directer to Coach of the Year, their superstar to MVP. They roll through their 1st two playoff opponents. They’re the feel-affable story of the year, the consensus team to beat.
And then they lose to a last-place team like Memphis or Washington, or Charlotte, and look bad doing it.
More to the point, what makes other teams look at them and say, “Wow?” What makes them the team to beat?
Just like the Grizzlies are now a team that can beat you on any given night, the Cavaliers are a team that can dominate you on any given night.
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The Cavaliers tease. They party. They dance. They laugh. They have bombastic pregame introductions that incite the huge crowds that pack one of the NHL’s loudest, most raucous arenas. They sell lots of merchandise, that’s for sure.
In the offseason, the Cavaliers retool their roster again. They trade for a living legend to beef up the low post, draft a pretty darn affable college player, and sign a couple of solid free agents to provide a stronger perimeter presence.
And then they lose to a team that, on paper, didn’t have the record or the manpower to beat them in a seven-game series. So the Magic did it in six.
The players keep assuring us the team will be fine. But their opponents aren’t waiting around to find out. And so, when the Cavs least expect it, a young team like Memphis shuts them down and walks off the court with a win.
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It was during the Cleveland Cavaliers’ game with the Memphis Grizzlies on Tuesday night that it hit me.
Judging by the 1st 20 games of the season,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], they can lose to teams almost as readily as they can overpower them.
The ability to dominate individual games here and there isn’t enough. The Cavaliers need to establish an identity-soon-that enables them to play consistent, fundamental basketball at a level superior to everyone else.
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