thedoper wrote:Blatt said last night Love is not a max player. This is getting good.
LST that is a funny comment about the Cavs being the Wolves. I remember getting into a discussion about Kyrie v Rubio and their value to wins here after they had squared of on TNT last year. It seems they have almost an identical influence on wins playing next to Love. Lebron should have just come to the Wolves to play with Love.
Why on earth would Blatt say that even if he is arguably correct??!! I'm predicting that Blatt will be terminated before the all-star break. Whether the Cavs' woes are his fault or not, the team should be performing better and Blatt will ultimately be held accountable as the head coach. Gilbert is not a patient man and any patience he has will be exhausted soon by his underachieving team.
As for Love, no one should be surprised. Kevin Love was, is and always will be a very good complementary player and nothing more. He doesn't have the game or temperament to carry his team or make others around him better. We can recall several years ago that, when Ricky went down with his knee injury, the Wolves season nose-dived even though Love remained on the floor and healthy for quite a while after Ricky's injury. Small sample size, but early this season before Ricky went down, the Wolves looked at least as good as the Cavs.
So I'm looking forward to the Wolves match-up against the Cavs the end of this month. I hope Blatt is still there by then. And as much as I'd like to see LeBron play in person, I hope he's still out. Fortunately for the Cavs, playing the Wolves means playing a team worse than they are defensively. Perhaps Flip and Blatt were both absent the day they were teaching defense in coaching class.
As for the Cavs, Blatt's days are numbered unless they get on a huge role soon after LeBron's return. That's possible since LeBron is good enough to have that sort of impact on his team. I'll go a step further and predict that the Cavs hire George Karl to replace Blatt. You heard it here first. :)
