Cleveland Cavaliers 26 game losing streak, The Cavaliers have won the right to pick first in the lottery, perhaps for Kentucky freshman center Nerlens Noel, who is rehabbing a torn ACL, has no offensive game and will not play for a head coach here who can teach it to him.
Oh, yeah. He's also too skinny to play his position in the NBA.
Noel might not debut on the floor until nearly Christmas, serving until then as a very tall sugar plum dancing in fans' heads.
Defiant Dan Gilbert, the Cavs owner, went to Twitter to explain what he expected to gain in the draft lottery:Twitter, a social medium, can be used for many things, including as a mouthpiece for team officials to put their "spin" on developments without all those intrusive questions by the media.
Given Gilbert's record as Nostradamus, it's best not to take that "last lottery" thing as an absolute. The nearly annual celebration of pure, dumb luck in the lottery has been as good as it gets for his team lately.
As a seer, Gilbert guaranteed that his team would win an NBA championship before the defector LeBron James won one. That crowd-pleasing chirp of defiance occurred three seasons ago, after "The Decision." Since James left, the Cavs' records have been 19-63, 21-45 and 24-58. James and the Heat are seeking a second straight championship, after losing in the NBA Finals in the other season.
Apparently, however, the record 26 straight losses in the first year after James left is like Adam Rosales' home run for Oakland off Chris Perez. It never happened. Umpire Angel Hernandez said so on the homer and Defiant Dan said so on rebuilding by using creative counting.Twitter, a social medium, can be used for many things, including as a mouthpiece for team officials to put their "spin" on developments without all those intrusive questions by the media.
Given Gilbert's record as Nostradamus, it's best not to take that "last lottery" thing as an absolute. The nearly annual celebration of pure, dumb luck in the lottery has been as good as it gets for his team lately.
As a seer, Gilbert guaranteed that his team would win an NBA championship before the defector LeBron James won one. That crowd-pleasing chirp of defiance occurred three seasons ago, after "The Decision." Since James left, the Cavs' records have been 19-63, 21-45 and 24-58. James and the Heat are seeking a second straight championship, after losing in the NBA Finals in the other season.
Apparently, however, the record 26 straight losses in the first year after James left is like Adam Rosales' home run for Oakland off Chris Perez. It never happened. Umpire Angel Hernandez said so on the homer and Defiant Dan said so on rebuilding by using creative counting.
Don't the Cavs already have a "project" big man in Tyler Zeller, anyway?
The Cavs need a shooting guard/small forward who doesn't shoot 42.1 percent for his career. In other words, someone other than Alonzo Gee.
Don't expect "schematic advantages" -- the strength former Notre Dame coach Charlie Weis claimed to possess before he became "former" -- to enhance Noel's game. The new boss is the same as the old boss with the Cavs. Mike Brown's offense bogged down into predictable sets when the Cavs had the best scorer and facilitator in the game in James.
Every option is being considered by Chris Grant, the general manager, who actually has done well with lottery picks Tristan Thompson, Dion Waiters and Irving. The options include using the No. 1 pick; trading down for a player they like at a lower pick; or packaging the pick with some of their other picks or players for a veteran who can help now.
This is a draft in which all of the first six or eight players are almost interchangeable. For what it's worth, I like Indiana's Victor Oladipo. It's not just the Big Ten thing. He will play tough defense and has enough explosiveness around the rim to ignite the crowd and his team.
For the Cavs to make the playoffs, Irving has to stay healthy for the season, which he has not come close to doing in his first two seasons.
By Gilbert's math or mine, the rebuild slogs on. Radical transformation is unlikely for any franchise in this draft.
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
Cleveland Cavaliers 26 game losing streak
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