Links to the Present: California Dreamin’ Edition
2013-08-22
If you follow Dion Waiters’, and Kyrie Irving’s twitter feeds, you’re aware that the informal workouts that Sam Amico reported about last week have been going on the last couple of days. A large contingent of Cavs appears in the pic above — taken at a post workout beach football game (and yes, that concept scares me). Another pic’s here. A very brief video is available here of Boobie (still in the mix!), Kyrie, and the boys taken by Keyshia Cole (warning, some comments on these links may contain offensive language).
In cased you missed it in the last few days, Anderson Varejao narrated a “draw my life” video in Portuguese with English subtitles to help promote 2016 Olympic Games in Rio (the video’s really compelling).  Joe Gabriel of Cavs.com broke down the Cavs’ competition in the East this year. Truehoop’s David McMenamin posted an in depth interview with Anthony Bennettt. Oh, and yesterday, the Cavs announced that they’ve signed all their 2013 draft picks. I love the last bit of news, because it means Sergey Karasev will be in Cleveland, not Russia, next season. He is one of the men that has a chance to be the best player from the 2013 draft. CavsTV’s “Summer of Sergey” shows just how electric Sergey could be.
Meanwhile, Anthony Bennett’s been getting his photo taken around town. Tristan Thompson starts play today in the Tuto Marchand Continental Cup for Team Canada (games can be seen, here). And Nate Duncan of Hoopsworld posted a piece on Thompson and Waiters being the future of the Cavs — including the problems it presents, and the adjustments those players must make for the Cavs to be better.
Finally, I’ll leave you with a scintillating highlight video of Kyrie Irving from last week’s Jamal Crawford Pro-Am in Seattle. The God Shammgod-esque handles at the beginning of the vid and at the 43 second mark must be seen to be believed. In the video, Kyrie dribbles, shoots, dunks, passes, (and yes) defends like he’s one of the best players in the world.
And, oh. Nice socks, Dion.
I think people have been sleeping on Karasev already! He has far more “real-world” experience than your average rook. I think he could seriously end up being the steal of this draft in 3 years. HOWEVAH, as Stephen A. would say, will his D be good enough for Brown to give him minutes? That is the question…
I think that might be Miles with the circle on his eye. He’s in the other pic.
That “draw my life” video of Varejao was really cool.
And I think that’s Coach Mosley in the middle back and maybe Coach Tibbetts on the far left (not as sure about that one)
Gee is on the far right of the picture
I can’t tell who every body is for sure aside from Kyrie and Dion in the pic. I think I see Carrick and CJ… but other than that I can’t tell.
Right. And Kyrie looks ripped. Kevin, what are the odds that Karasev has a bigger impact for the Cavs than Bennett, this year? If Bynum and Andy are healthy, i see a lot more minutes available at the 2/3 than the 4.
Remember last summer, when everyone was like, “dion waiters is stocky… “?
Not so much of that this year.