Love on LeBron: "We're not best friends or hanging out everyday", doesn't pick LBJ for MVP

[MJ Truth]

Love likes to whine and was infamously a loner in Minnesota. When he scores 30 in a playoff game and they win, he'll come around and smile some more. If not, LBJ will give him the boot

Wiggins could have made the Cavs a legit dynasty thoo

If Wiggins was still on the Cavs they wouldn't be a legitimate contender right now, even if everything worked out (i.e. Varejao stayed healthy), much less a dynasty. By the time Wiggins really, truly came into his own LeBron would likely be on his decline... not to mention Wiggins wouldn't have the freedom to grow in Cleveland that he's had in Minnesota.

Thinking you can just take a player and throw him into another situation and he's the exact same player is the same mistake people made when they were projecting Kevin Love in Cleveland.

 

[MJ Truth]

Meh

you take Kevin Love out...and start Tristan Thompson...how much does that team decline?
same way...put Kevin Love on a team like the Raptors or Wizards (teams needing a PF) and how much do they improve?

As skilled as he is I have never thought he was an impact player the way a Disco Dirk / Kevin Garnett used to be or even how an Anthony Davis/Blake Griffin are now.

The court isn't as spread. When Kevin Love stands at the three point line he has to be accounted for, opening the lane for two of the best penetrators (pause) in the league.

 

[Ohene]

The court isn't as spread. When Kevin Love stands at the three point line he has to be accounted for, opening the lane for two of the best penetrators (pause) in the league.

very true. that being said, what do you think the +/- for Cavs wins would be

 

[ExodusNirvana]

Athletes need to just say "That's my teammate and my friend...I'd appreciate it if the sports media would allow it to remain that way rather than try to drum up some kind of friction between us"

Or

Just make up a joke like "Me and Bron are getting matching friendship bracelets...we're just trying to decide what they're made of. Bron is a "White Gold type person but I'm more of a Platinum type of guy you know?"

Everyone laughs, sports media fukktards don't get the story they're desperately searching for.

 

[meth68]

So Love speaks the truth and catches shyt for it...

1. Curry
2. Westbrook (as long as they sneak into the playoffs)
3. Harden
4. Lebron

Yep thats my votes for MVP race in that order.

 

[Da King]

Love actually is honest and doesn't give a boring PR response and he catches shyt

This is why athletes don't say anything of note

 

[Microfracture]

He told the truth and said they aren't best friends and everyone is upset at him for NOT being fake? I figured he would get some respect for being upfront.

 

[FTBS]

He didn't get exposed. Lebron just needs the ball to be dominant and Kyrie and Lebron compliment eachother,

I keep saying. Lebron doesn't make players better, he makes teams better. Theres a difference. No one has their best season individually, playing alongside Lebron.

I keep asking if the team is better how the players that make up that team not better? Beyond that what do the individual players performances matter if the team is better? Isn't that his responsibility...making the team better? That's not enough? He's supposed to be be a personal trainer/coach or father to nikkas? I am not aware of many guys that have put up better numbers as a 3rd option than they did as a 1st option. Maybe you can help me out with that.

If you are max, superstar, top 5, 10, 15 whatever player and you are a healthy scratch in the fourth quarter of competitive games then you have been exposed.

 

[Hoganese]

If Wiggins was still on the Cavs they wouldn't be a legitimate contender right now, even if everything worked out (i.e. Varejao stayed healthy), much less a dynasty. By the time Wiggins really, truly came into his own LeBron would likely be on his decline... not to mention Wiggins wouldn't have the freedom to grow in Cleveland that he's had in Minnesota.

Thinking you can just take a player and throw him into another situation and he's the exact same player is the same mistake people made when they were projecting Kevin Love in Cleveland.

So the Cavs were fukked either way. Love would only stay for the extra money.

 

[MJ Truth]

So the Cavs were fukked either way. Love would only stay for the extra money.

They're not fukked at all. They have a great chance at winning a championship this season. Cleveland, Ohio would trade in the next 40 years at the bottom of the league in every sport to win one championship in any sport.

 

[onelastdeath]

I keep asking if the team is better how the players that make up that team not better? Beyond that what do the individual players performances matter if the team is better? Isn't that his responsibility...making the team better? That's not enough? He's supposed to be be a personal trainer/coach or father to nikkas? I am not aware of many guys that have put up better numbers as a 3rd option than they did as a 1st option.

If you are max, superstar, top 5, 10, 15 whatever player and you are a healthy scratch in the fourth quarter of competitive games then you have been exposed.

Your team is better with him, you'll win more games with Lebron leading the charge. Because he draws so much attention and needs to be doubled at times.

But the idea that he makes players better is a myth. He's no Isiah/Nash/Magic etc. he's the first of his kind

He's a ball dominant score first, pass second (very well) player.

Lebron needs the ball in his hands to be effective, and in a different way than pass first ball dominant players like Magic.

If Lebron doesn't have the ball he isn't effective. And other peoples stats will suffer (except his own) but your team will be better.

Realistically. The Cavs should be playing through Love in the post primarily followed by Bron and then Kyrie.

I thought with this team a Lebron statline of 26/3/8 on 50% shooting would have been ideal.
With Kyrie taking the initiative to be a passfirst point guard and running the offense. Averaging something like 17/8/3

And Playing Love inside out. Since he's a knockdown free throw shooter. And can bang in the post and O.R with the best of them. Averaging 23/12/2 or something along those lines.

Instead they've minimized Loves role and gave Lebron the offense instead of developing Kyrie into a better instructor and point guard.

They're not winning a ship this year. No way. The way their running that offense is not going to carry them in the offs. Instead of trying to recreate the Heat blueprint (which is what Bron is trying to do) they should have done it the right way.


No way that someone as clutch and as sure fire from the FT as Love is, should be seeing NO PLAYING TIME in the 4th.

Bullshyt

 

[FreedS[ohh]lave]

The Cavs own his bird rights, with the new TV deal coming next year, he'd be leaving an ungodly amount of money on the table to sign with another team this summer. If he leaves next summer, he could potentially lose $25-30 million, he keeps saying he's going to stay because that's where the money is.

That's true but the dude just looks miserable out there

Maybe I'm wrong but he strikes me as a guy who is happier being the no 1 option even if it leads his team nowhere then contending and being a hood ornement out there

 

[Hoganese]

They're not fukked at all. They have a great chance at winning a championship this season. Cleveland, Ohio would trade in the next 40 years at the bottom of the league in every sport to win one championship in any sport.

Damn, you being all reasonable and shyt.

 

[FTBS]

Your team is better with him, you'll win more games with Lebron leading the charge. Because he draws so much attention and needs to be doubled at times.

But the idea that he makes players better is a myth. He's no Isiah/Nash/Magic etc. he's the first of his kind

He's a ball dominant score first, pass second (very well) player.

Lebron needs the ball in his hands to be effective, and in a different way than pass first ball dominant players like Magic.

If Lebron doesn't have the ball he isn't effective. And other peoples stats will suffer (except his own) but your team will be better.

Realistically. The Cavs should be playing through Love in the post primarily followed by Bron and then Kyrie.

I thought with this team a Lebron statline of 26/3/8 on 50% shooting would have been ideal.
With Kyrie taking the initiative to be a passfirst point guard and running the offense. Averaging something like 17/8/3

And Playing Love inside out. Since he's a knockdown free throw shooter. And can bang in the post and O.R with the best of them. Averaging 23/12/2 or something along those lines.

Instead they've minimized Loves role and gave Lebron the offense instead of developing Kyrie into a better instructor and point guard.

They're not winning a ship this year. No way. The way their running that offense is not going to carry them in the offs. Instead of trying to recreate the Heat blueprint (which is what Bron is trying to do) they should have done it the right way.


No way that someone as clutch and as sure fire from the FT as Love is, should be seeing NO PLAYING TIME in the 4th.

Bullshyt

You didn't answer my questions. How are guys not better, if they are winning? What does it matter anyway if the team overall is better? What guy has ever put up better numbers as a 3rd option than he did as a 1st option?

Has it ever occurred to you that maybe the Cavs would play through Love in the post if that was a better option than having Bron or Kyrie create? We aren't talking about prime Tim Duncan here.

So basically nothing is Love's fault or responsibility? fukkin Tristan Thompson is taking his 4th quarter minutes in large part because Love is a sieve on defense but it's just gotta be somebody else's fault? It's a scheme by the man to hold him down right? There is more to the game than offensive numbers.

 

[OG_StankBrefs]

"It's fine," Love told "Mike & Mike" of his relationship with James. "You know, we're not best friends, we're not hanging out every day, but we see each other every day, whether at the practice facility, whether on the road or going to a game. I think our relationship is also evolving. I can say the same with each and every coach, Coach Blatt and each and every player on the team. But that's part of the NBA."

nikkas TMZ'n ova a whole lotta nothin as usual.