Re: Game Day: Cavaliers (25-15) @ Suns (20-20), Sun 1/8/23
Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2023 10:08 pm
by Split T
Is 12 minutes not part of the rotation? Would you say that Torrey Craig and Dario Saric were apart of the 2021 playoff rotation? They averaged 12 and 10 minutes respectively.
I think you want to have 7 guys you can trust to play big minutes and close a game if need be. Lee is not that, but if he needs to play 8-10 minutes, I’d feel perfectly fine with him handling that in the playoffs. He’s a guy you need to be able to scale back if need be.
Re: Game Day: Cavaliers (25-15) @ Suns (20-20), Sun 1/8/23
Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2023 10:40 pm
by Superbone
Masterful fourth quarter…by the Cavs.
Re: Game Day: Cavaliers (25-15) @ Suns (20-20), Sun 1/8/23
I have never actually been angry at Monty until tonight.
He waited until the game was basically already over (down 16 at 6:25 left in the 4th quarter) to bring back our best player--and frankly our best point guard tonight also--Deandre Ayton. He was probably going to have his first triple-double of his career. Especially the way he was playing in the third quarter and was starting to hit his shots, he could very well have ended up with a 20/15/10 game or close to it if Monty brought him back with 10 or 11 minutes left when we were still in the game and we may have had a chance at the end. Instead, we get a couple minutes of DA after the game has already gotten out of hand and then he sprains his left ankle again. So frustrating.
Ayton had a team-high 6 assists tonight, nobody else had more than 3. Yeah, he missed a bunch of shots (mainly in the first half), but he had a couple of great moves into the paint off the dribble (he just missed the shots), and he did a great job of not turning the ball over even in difficult situations (0 turnovers, 16 for the rest of the team).
I had written a whole response to this post, but at this point I give up.
Apparently Jeremy plays chess while we play checkers as he sees thing none of the rest of us do.
Re: Game Day: Cavaliers (25-15) @ Suns (20-20), Sun 1/8/23
Re: Game Day: Cavaliers (25-15) @ Suns (20-20), Sun 1/8/23
Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2023 11:01 pm
by djy2j
Not sure we can fault Damion Lee. He was/is the top 3 point shooter. He's a hell of a pick up for league minimum and he wasn't expected to have to pick up such a heavy amount of scoring slack.
Re: Game Day: Cavaliers (25-15) @ Suns (20-20), Sun 1/8/23
Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2023 11:13 pm
by Drewsprocket
Lol. May we all be loved and adored by someone the way Jeremy loves Ayton. You go hard dude. Ride or die.
Re: Game Day: Cavaliers (25-15) @ Suns (20-20), Sun 1/8/23
Re: Game Day: Cavaliers (25-15) @ Suns (20-20), Sun 1/8/23
Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2023 2:00 pm
by Drewsprocket
CP3 need to take Duane Washington under his little wing. If we’re tanking through our injuries, let’s get this dude a chance and developing some playmaking ability with Ayton and learn to get up his own shots. I hate watching Shamet run point.
Re: Game Day: Cavaliers (25-15) @ Suns (20-20), Sun 1/8/23
Is 12 minutes not part of the rotation? Would you say that Torrey Craig and Dario Saric were apart of the 2021 playoff rotation? They averaged 12 and 10 minutes respectively.
I think you want to have 7 guys you can trust to play big minutes and close a game if need be. Lee is not that, but if he needs to play 8-10 minutes, I’d feel perfectly fine with him handling that in the playoffs. He’s a guy you need to be able to scale back if need be.
In support of this, Lee averaged almost 20 minutes per game in the regular season last year, but Kerr scaled him back to just under 8 in the playoffs. I actually really like DLee, but I'm not going to pretend that we would win it all with him playing a major role.
Re: Game Day: Cavaliers (25-15) @ Suns (20-20), Sun 1/8/23
Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2023 2:13 pm
by Split T
Ya you’re in trouble if he’s in your top 7, but he’s fine if he just plays 10 minutes and takes a few catch and shoot 3s.
Re: Game Day: Cavaliers (25-15) @ Suns (20-20), Sun 1/8/23
Not sure we can fault Damion Lee. He was/is the top 3 point shooter. He's a hell of a pick up for league minimum and he wasn't expected to have to pick up such a heavy amount of scoring slack.
This exactly. He may have been the only good pick up but he was definitely a good pick up.
Re: Game Day: Cavaliers (25-15) @ Suns (20-20), Sun 1/8/23
I was disappointed by this comment. Yeah, several posters have been criticizing Ayton, but I don't think anybody here actually WANTS him to fail. Nobody cheers if he screws up. But here you are saying it's "marvelous" when Twitter users trash our coach. Even if Monty isn't your guy, I wish you would at least want him to succeed and want the team to succeed.
Re: Game Day: Cavaliers (25-15) @ Suns (20-20), Sun 1/8/23
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2023 8:06 am
by ShelC
Suns Twitter has become increasingly toxic over the past few weeks. It's turning into Knicks Twitter.
Re: Game Day: Cavaliers (25-15) @ Suns (20-20), Sun 1/8/23
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2023 8:13 am
by Split T
I don’t get deep into it on Twitter…I have a few people I follow but I don’t generally read the comments haha.
Re: Game Day: Cavaliers (25-15) @ Suns (20-20), Sun 1/8/23
I have to disagree with EJ - you're not looking to sign a player to replace Booker or Paul, you're looking to sign a player who can help you more than the stiffs they're running out there every night.
EXACTLY. I can't believe some of the "logic" being used to explain why the final roster isn't being used.
We have had multiple games when we are relying on DWJ to be our best offensive player. When you get to that point, yeah, a 10-day contract player can make a difference.
Re: Game Day: Cavaliers (25-15) @ Suns (20-20), Sun 1/8/23
I have to disagree with EJ - you're not looking to sign a player to replace Booker or Paul, you're looking to sign a player who can help you more than the stiffs they're running out there every night.
EXACTLY. I can't believe some of the "logic" being used to explain why the final roster isn't being used.
We have had multiple games when we are relying on DWJ to be our best offensive player. When you get to that point, yeah, a 10-day contract player can make a difference.
Hey, you don't break what's working.
Re: Game Day: Cavaliers (25-15) @ Suns (20-20), Sun 1/8/23
