Comments on: Breakdown of China game 2

By: alan t.

alan t. — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 22:26:25 +0000

I’m far more disgusted by the fact that Ferry cut Hassan Adams. I’ve always wanted to root for a guy named “Hassan.”

By: doc

doc — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 10:57:41 +0000

Has anyone been watching these preseason games? Is anyone worried yet? Frankly, last nights performance was appalling. Same desultory offense, only this year, instead of scrapping and clawing on defense, they stand around and watch. Check out the early schedule; we could be staring at a 1-7 start to the season. So what’s the deal? Is it simply due to Sasha and AV not being in the country? Really? But I thought Shannon Brown was supposed to step up and be a solid rotation guy. That’s what I keep reading on this blog from all the eminent Ferry apologists. Well, he played five minutes last night. Brown doesnt seem to trust him. I guess we have to get ready for more of the Ira Newble Experience. Have the players started to tune the Potato Head out? How many new offenses are you allowed to implement before the team starts to question if you know what the hell youre doing? Apparently this year’s concept was picked up from a coach in Outer Siberia or some such place. It makes great use of that revolutionary idea called “driving and kicking”. Wow. You mean the same offense that you see in pick up games all across the country? How are NBA defenses going to be able to defend that? But let’s get to the real culprit. Boatshoes’ performance this summer has to rank up there all time next to the Billy Kings and Kevin McHales of the GM world. First, he shaves his head and then neglects to renew his prescription-strength Clearisil. Then he decides to play hardball with AV and Sasha. Fine. But time elapses. No one is signed. No contingency plan is implemented. Training camp rolls around and his solution is to fly down to Brazil, begging Sideshow to please come to his senses. Yeah, very professional. He scrambles to pickup BlueHeron Simmons and Devin Brown off the scrap heap. Now I hear that the inactivity this summer is related to a plan to achieve “getter salary cap flexibility”. Oh, you mean those shackling, ridiculous contracts that he himself signed the likes of Bongyell, Hughes, and Z to? Those salary restraints? Oh I see. So the plan is to suck it up and struggle this year. Then next year go after Gilbert Arenas. Brilliant. Tank the season after you get to the Finals. That’s some strategy. The fans are going to love it. Lebron is going to just love it. What a disaster. At least it was warm well into autumn, thus allowing Ferry to stay sockless and boatshoed while outside longer than usual.

By: alan t.

alan t. — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 03:38:50 +0000

Pal, I wasn’t talking about Davis being on the Cavs. I’m talking about everybody else trying to become better, and Ferry is in his basement doing yoga and having tantric sex, or something. Or whatever he’s doing that takes an awfully long time and takes all of his attention off of his job.

With that said, Davis is going to be a damn good player and a damn good guy to have in Miami, because he’ll be playing for a new contract with whoever next year. The same way that Hughes used his contract year to fool the bejesus out of that bumpkin Ferry. If Davis is a cancer, then Davis is a cancer in total remission.

Mark Blount is a good guy to have, too. Basically an Ilgauskas-type player. Soft, doesn’t like the paint, but has a nice 15-foot offensive game.

Ferry tried to lowball Luis Scola’s agent, but maybe he’s learned his lesson and can trade for somebody like Juwan Howard, or somebody else’s excess. McHale has about 30 spare parts he has to unload, I presume at least one of them could possibly contribute more than Ira Newble. A move like that would get Varejao signed.

By: rekcut nala

rekcut nala — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 02:18:10 +0000

How many rebounds of his own shot at the wrong basket are needed to constitute “playing like a demon”? Seriously, have you guys forgotten what it was like with Ricky Davis on the team? They invented the term “clubhouse cancer” specifically for Ricky Davis. Again, no thanks. I would want no part of him on this team, not even for one lousy season. Why let him corrupt the psyche of the team?

By: alan t.

alan t. — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 22:26:00 +0000

Actually, larry, Davis is in his contract year. Which means he’s going to play like a demon. But I wasn’t talking about Miami or Davis, per se, nor the fact that Miami has now set itself up to be $21 million under the cap next summer.

By: reverend

reverend — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 22:20:07 +0000

the cavs will suck this year

By: larry d.

larry d. — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 18:39:55 +0000

How long is Ricky Davis’ current contract? Maybe it expires two years down the road, like Z’s and some others, I think. He has probably matured some.

If so, I’d take him over Hughes, hands down. The most disturbing thing about Hughes is no longer his injury history. It’s his playing.

The Cavs could also use a big man. Any big man. Even Pollard.

It looks like they should also bring in one of those motivational speakers, and maybe a mourning counselor.

What a mess!

By: reckut nala

reckut nala — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 13:57:44 +0000

Hah….you wanted the Cavs to make a deal for Ricky Davis? No thank you. We need to accept that in order to make this team better, it has to get worse now. Any moves we make are just jeopardizing the cap room we’re going to have in 2 years. That’s why Ferry can’t give Varejao $60 million. Forget that….Let Varejao go and give $60 million to a real player next year or the year after (I still think Agent Zero would look awesome in a Cavs uniform).

By: alan t.

alan t. — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 03:40:31 +0000

Pluto is writing strictly on reputation. The man peaked about 12 years ago, shortly before he went all Popemobile on us. Reading Pluto today is the sportswriting equivalent of trying to watch Pat Ewing play basketball today. It ain’t pretty. Really, who in their right mind writes a column in the sports section and tells the subject of his column to pray. I repeat, in the sports section. As larry said, I too am sometimes embarrassed for him.

But enough of this Pluto nonsense … let’s talk about something serious. Like why is Miami making moves, and Ferry continues to contemplate his navel.

By: McFly

McFly — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 20:16:46 +0000

Pluto’s the best sports writer around Cleveland, (no disrepect to BW) and he knows it. He can write about whatever he wants to and he’ll still have a job in this town. At this point in his career, he happens to enjoy writing about his religion, so that’s what he does. He probably knows that it will turn a lot of readers away, but writes about religion anyhow because it is obviously important to him.

So, he’s using his talents to promote what he personally believes is important, to a large audience. I don’t find anything embarassing about that, but on the other hand, I actually do read movie reviews from a religious perspective.