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vic_orthdox
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Wiggins suit Cleveland now better than Love does?
andruid
Cricketer Of The Year
Tempting to say, but his 3 pointer is not quite there yet, and aside from scoring he has not quite developed any other aspect of his game to fit in the win now mode of the Cavs. Maybe Trevor Ariza? Nicloas Batum? heck even Courtney Lee?
dontcloseyoureyes
BARNES OUT
There aren't enough 3 and D guys in the league to get a "bunch" of them for Love. Especially as his value is as low as it's ever been, though he has a pretty good contract. Maybe the Celtics would give up two wing guys for him, but honestly, unless they offered you Crowder+Bradley (which they obviously wouldn't) I wouldn't take an offer from them.
vic_orthdox
Global Moderator
Obviously Wiggins wouldn't have had the chance to develop as much on a team hunting the title straight away either.
There's also been a heap of changes to the Cleveland roster since the original Love trade, but does Wiggins need to shoot the three if you have him with James/Irving/Smith on the floor? (yeah, probs...)
There's also been a heap of changes to the Cleveland roster since the original Love trade, but does Wiggins need to shoot the three if you have him with James/Irving/Smith on the floor? (yeah, probs...)
dontcloseyoureyes
BARNES OUT
Yes, if you have someone on the court that can't shoot the three at a decent rate then you can help off them. It basically collapses the whole offence.
In related news, I actually think Wiggins is vastly overrated, especially in mainstream media. He literally does nothing well other than score the ball, and he doesn't even do it efficiently. He was awful on defence this year as well. He has a massive ceiling on his potential but he hasn't been as good as made out. After the late season stretch Jabari had this year I think those two are a hell of a lot closer than people think.
vic_orthdox
Global Moderator
Yeah, as I was running through it in the post, was thinking that he could only really play minutes in small ball line-up with Thompson off and/or taking Shumpert's minutes but you then lose out on D. Hence the (yeah probs...)
dontcloseyoureyes
BARNES OUT
He was pretty good in game 2. 18 points in 24 minutes at an extremely high efficiency. But yeah, would largely agree with your point.
right...he was efficient in game 2 but it was still not anything close to a typical curry game...neither he nor thompson has scored 20 points in a game so far...have a feeling that will change in game 4 though, he is due for an explosive outing with an avalanche of 3s...and they need him and klay to do that if they want to win one on the road...else cleveland will go back to oakland with significant momentum...regarding last night's performance...looks like they have lost game 3s in their last 5 playoff series!
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andruid
Cricketer Of The Year
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RossTaylorsBox
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Was hoping Lebron would give Green a pile driver there.
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nightprowler10
Global Moderator
So the Cavs game plan to beat the dubs is running iso for 10 minutes in the fourth. Got it.
