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Cavs Rewind + The Week Ahead

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Cavs Rewind + The Week Ahead

By Will 

 

Looking back at last week

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 Pelicans, Celtics, Hawks

 

Cavs this week –

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 Nuggets, Spurs, Wizards, and Raptors

 

The Cavs finally looked like the sexy basketball machine we all expected last week. They finished the week 3-0 with wins over the Pelicans, Celtics, and Hawks.

Pelicans:

Ryan Anderson came out shooting like Reggie Miller from NBA Hangtime, straight fire, on the way to 21 points in the first half and the Cavs trailed by 5 at the break.  LeBron and Kyrie did LeBron and Kyrie things in the 3rd quarter and the Cavs finished strong with some Kevin Love three balls to win 118-111.

LeBron finished the game with a triple double but then the NBA stats guys went all Danny Ocean and stole an assist. Is 32-11-9 still good?

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Side bar: Anthony Davis is basically the human version of the movie Avatar – dude is straight from planet Pandora.  And his unibrow is like Sampson’s hair.  When LeBron passes the torch of league’s best player it’s getting handed to the ‘Brow.

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Celtics:

I was so pissed off for 75% of this game (the first three quarters).  We got down by 18 to Tyler Zeller’s Boston Celtics. Pathetic.  Then Kyrie got pissed too and scored 13 points in what seemed like 45 seconds to start the 4th.  LeBron scored 10 in the last six minutes and Rondo looked like a fat guy in a vegan restaurant (scared and uncomfortable) when he bricked the final shot to secure the W for the good guys. Love added 12 and 15 boards.

 

Hawks:

Total domination by the Cavs.  We set a new NBA record for most made threes without a miss in a quarter (9 for 9) and actually made 11 straight before missing.  We led by 28 at halftime and won by 33.  Bron-Love-Kyrie combined for 65.  Smokin’ Joe Harris – we’re making that a thing – had 12 big ones.

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Yesterday we played like ass against the Nuggets.  Zero defense. Zero offense aside from four players. Zero intensity. Zero sense of urgency. I think we got cocky after the win streak and walked out expecting to roll without any effort.  It’s still the NBA, guys. Gotta bring it every night. (I’m blaming this loss 100% on LeBron’s sniffles)

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(Cavs defense this season)

 

UPCOMING:

San Antonio comes to town Wednesday night.  There is no way we come out flat against the defending champs.  LeBron won’t let it happen after the way he got rolled in the finals.  The Spurs have already started resting starters less than 10 games so they’ll be ready to play everyone vs. us.  Kind of sucks knowing you get everyone’s best shot every night.

We go to Washington on Friday.  I’d like to see this rivalry get renewed this year. It was always fun playing the Gilbert Arenas-Caron Butler-Antawn Jamison Wizards back in LeBron’s first stint.  I think we knocked them out of the playoffs like 4 straight years.  Paul Pierce and LeBron is always worth watching even if Paul Pierce has one foot in the grave at this point. I expect Dion to talk a lot of shit this game after Bradley Beal called him out in the offseason. Kyrie vs. John Wall is a matchup of 2 of the brightest young point guards in the league. I imagine John Wall will come out with something to prove because he was cut from the Team USA team (which Kyrie made)

The Cavs round out the week back home against the Raptors who are actually really good.  I feel like it’s tough to be less intimidating than being from Canada AND having this guy as your #1 fan:

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But the guys from up North can play.

If we finish the week 2-2 to stay above .500 I’ll be relatively happy.

 

We’ll usually post these every Monday. Just a quick review and preview of the Cavs previous week and upcoming week. 

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Here’s the new Cavs intro video. Whoa.

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I was sitting in the second highest row at the Q last night so I couldn’t really hear the talking in the video but whoa. That was pretty good. The narrator at the beginning reminded me of the guy from the movie 300. Kinda of a shitty game though, huh? If LeBron just has an average game and not literally one of the worst games of his career, we probably win by about 15. Whatever. Here’s some advice- please don’t be the guy complaining about this game. We’re not going 0-82. Wait until this team starts to gel, it’s gonna be funnnn. Oh, and if you told me beforehand the Cavs would end up losing I’d still go to that game 100 out of 100 times. That atmosphere was unlike anything I’ve ever seen.

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Bottlegate’s Cleveland Cavaliers Season Preview Pt. 3- Predictions and Gambling

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Part 3 in our Cavs season preview. You can find part 1 Here and part 2 Here

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Quick Hitters:

This team has 3 former three point shooting champions: Kyrie Irving, Kevin Love, James Jones. (4 if Ray Allen signs)

Kevin Love’s current playing weight is listed at 243lbs.  When he came into the league he was listed at 270.

I’m not gonna sugarcoat this, he was tubby

Quicken Loans Arena will have a new sound system, jumbotron, and projection system this season.  All three got installed in the two months between the Arena Bowl and season opener.  Dan Gilbert got the King’s castle in order in a hurry.

I’m counting down the days until the Cavs redesign their uniforms.  The current one’s were fine for the past four years because they SCREAM mediocrity. They are rolling out new blue ones for the opening so I’m hoping that is a sign of more change to come.

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The Cavs are one of 13 current NBA teams to have never won an NBA championship.

Kyrie bought former Cavalier Daniel Gibson’s house in Westlake.

Kevin Love has endorsement deals with Starter (okay, old school I can respect it) and 361 degrees (???) apparently it’s some Chinese shoe company.  C’mon Kev, you’re better than that.  They better be paying you a boatload of Yen.

Dion led the team in shots in 5 of the Cavs 7 preseason games.  He talked about wanting to be known as the Big 4 but Ball Hard better learn his role in a hurry once the games start to count.

Kyrie (3), Tristan (10), and Dion (15) were all top 15 players in ESPNs Class of 2010 Top 100.

 

Vegas, baby, Vegas

Cavs win total: Over/Under 58 ½

Are you serious Vegas? OVER. OVER. OVER.  I might just work until the day before the season, put my lifetime earnings on the over and take a sabbatical.

NBA MVP: Kevin Love 20/1

He’s not the favorite in Vegas (8th) but if you’re looking for a dark horse this has to be your guy.  Huge stats, great team is the recipe for MVP since day one.  LeBron already has four and should have six, but voters like to change it up.  Look for them to find another non-LeBron this year.

 

Season Predictions:

Record: 64-18 (#1 Seed in East)

I want to be a homer SO bad here and say fuck MJ’s Bulls we’re going 74-8 and we’ll be the greatest team of all time. But that won’t happen…. this year.  As good as the talent is we need time to mesh and you never know with the injury histories of these guys. We’ll still win more than 60 games with relative ease.  Let’s say Love has a high ankle sprain and misses 4 weeks.  Ok, we have Kyrie and LeBron… LeBron’s back acts up and he’s out for 6 games.  Ok, we still have Kyrie and Love.  You get the idea.

Bold prediction 1.): The Cavs will lose a game to the Heat this year.

This sucks but I think it’s true. I think the Cavs will lose to Miami on Christmas. Whatevs.  These games vs. the Heat will mean way more to Bosh and Wade than they will to LeBron.  Miami will play their asses off and steal one from us in the first half of the season.  The positives here are that Wade will miss the next 4-5 games after his arthritis flares up, Bosh will cry in the locker room because that’s what Bosh does, and if the game is in Miami only like 8,000 people will know the Heat won.

Bold prediction 2.): David Blatt is going to be fine.

Ok I don’t know how bold of a prediction this is considering my dog could wear a suit on the sideline and coach this team to 50 wins but bear with me.  Blatt is the first coach in NBA history to jump straight from Europe to a head coaching job in the NBA.  He’s also one of the most winning coaches in European basketball history and has won at every level he’s coached.  I kept hearing summer interviews and Blatt kept saying, and I paraphrase, “The biggest adjustment might be the number of timeouts.”  If this guy’s biggest issue is learning to use his timeouts the right way, let’s just plan the parade downtown right now.

Bold prediction 3.): The Cavs end Cleveland’s championship drought and win the NBA Finals.

Yes we’re the favorites on paper.  But we’re really not.  Cleveland has never not been the underdog.  I don’t care if we’re the ’92 dream team, if you’ve lived here you know you’ve got that little voice in the back of your head whispering scenarios where we don’t win anything. Injuries. Turmoil. Delonte bangs Gloria before game 7.  I know it’s ridiculous but OIC will haunt even the most optimist fans like myself.  Now I’m going to immediately contradict myself….  Plan. The. Fucking. Parade.  Call off work for all of June right now.  The drought it over(weezy).  Guys, this is the team.  This is going to happen.  Yell at me for jinxing it.  Knock on wood.  Do whatever makes you feel ok.  We are winning the NBA championship this year.  Game 5, in Cleveland, over…. the LA Clippers. I’ll be the guy crying tears of joy.

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