Grif went in on LeBron https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/27302340/griffin-building-lebron-was-miserable
Pretty interesting article I thought. Not what any of weren't already saying, but a solid look that the overlap and differences between Sexton and Garland. The thing the article really highlights toward the end is that the backcourt is a defensive nightmare. They cite an advanced metric that said Sexton was the second worst defensive guard in the league last year, now he's probably going to have to take on a lot of 6'6"+ SGs with Garland in the back court. Makes me feel this is totally unsustainable and they either view Sexton as a trading piece or a third guard already. https://www.theringer.com/nba/2019/...ius-garland-cleveland-cavaliers-collin-sexton
Powder blue jerseys are and always will be dogshit like the product that played in them. Very appropriate for this team.
Pretty important year even if our ceiling is like 32 wins. Hoping Love's trade value increases and we find a good deal with young talent/picks for him, we find out that Garland and Sexton CAN co-exist, and we find a very solid role player or two to take the next step (Porter or Windler please). If we accomplish that and hold onto our top 10 pick, we can be a fringe playoff contender next year potentially.
hopefully we suck again and get better lottery luck next year. getting someone like wiseman would be a lot of fun. interested in seeing how garland does. I thought he was the most intriguing prospect outside of the top 3 last summer
Somehow I still get Columbus channels with PlayStation Vue so I get to watch this group of piss pants
I thought we'd lose a lot of games like 120-113 this year, surprised we're probably gonna score like 92 today
Just came across this article on 538 that mentions that Sexton might have had the worst season OF ALL TIME last year. I didn't know he was that bad, Jesus https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-best-nba-players-of-the-last-6-seasons/ We’d be remiss if we didn’t also touch on the worst seasons of the tracking-data era. On a rate basis (minimum 500 minutes), then-Memphis Grizzlies point guard Kobi Simmons checked in with the worst modern RAPTOR rating for his 2017-18 performance, which was 9.8 points worse than average. Simmons was mediocre-to-bad in basically every statistical category, except free-throw shooting (he made all 25 attempts!), and his team was outscored by more than 17 points per 100 possessions he was on the court. Enough said. But in terms of total value, the battle for the worst campaign of the modern era was staged last season between the Knicks’ Kevin Knox and the Cavaliers’ Collin Sexton. Knox put in a good effort — he was worth -6.0 WAR, so bad that we had to change our chart scale on his player forecast page to accommodate the value. But Sexton was worth a staggering 7.4 wins below replacement, easily the worst season not just since 2013, but in the entire post-merger period. Sexton was a rookie, and he did improve some as the year went on, so we should cut him some slack. But on a terrible Cavs team that lacked much in the way of alternatives, Sexton played more than 2,600 minutes at a -8.3 RAPTOR plus/minus rate, a recipe for possibly the worst season in NBA history.
we'll probably end up losing 55+ which is fine, because we need more talent, but this team is at least watchable. i'm also happy and slightly irritated that we're finally utilizing kevin love's passing ability. he's one of the best passing bigs in the league, and outside of the long outlets to lebron, we never really took advantage of it when we actually had a team here
Retire his jersey in a few years, give him all the cool tribute stuff but let him try go win another one