Podcast 201: Who’s In Charge?
2019-04-18It’s a strangely unfamiliar time right now for Cavs fans. With the regular season behind us, the draft ahead, and maybe only passing interest in this year’s first round playoff matchups, it’s time to wonder who exactly is in charge? The wine & gold don’t seem to be in any hurry to hire their next leader, now that they’ve parted ways with Larry Drew… though, maybe it could be a former leader of the Charge? Meanwhile, over in Lakerland… is anyone calling the shots now that the Magic is gone? Or, are they just going to make the inevitable Ty Lue hire and hand the reins to LeBron? Full disclosure… we spend waaaaay too much time discussing the purple & gold. Who’s in charge here anyway?!
To decipher those things, Nate, Mike and EG hopped into the podcast booth tonight for a spell. We prod through the rumors and purported truths of coaching searches, impending free agency moves, organizational directions, the already weird post season and much much more. Oh, and Nate finally gets to share a few more of his girls basketball coaching stories. We promise there will be nothing redacted…
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25 points for Lillard in the third…lol…Thunder up 4…
Blazers-Thunder getting good…Lillard going supernova…
Amazing block by Westbrook on a driving Lillard…and the jawing commences…
14 turnovers at half for the Blazers…woof…49-39 Thunder.
They are doing a better job controlling Lillard…
Blazers-Thunder is brutal…so many bricks and turnovers…Pacers are right with Celtics in 4th…
Dennis Schroeder is not someone I really want on the court, ever, if I think I have a contending team…
Even these supposedly lousy East playoff teams are hyper competitive. Magic have hung right with Toronto, looks like it won’t be enough, but still…
Kind of amazing how good Siakam is already. Not just good at one thing, just really good at almost everything. Hope the Cavs can snag that kind of steal.
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I was thinking the same thing as EG…I think there was a significant chance the Lakers were going to sign Boogie (say 50% or so) before that injury. And that would have been amazing, because IMO he doesn’t do much to add to a winning team. He gets a lot of counting stats on crummy teams. Perfect fit for the Lakers.
Take best player available, I don’t think fit matters all that much this early in rebuild.
Yeah I am leaning that way. Still someone mentioned if we got #2 and sun’s got #3 seeing if we could trade down to 3 if they seem to really want Morant. Then taking Barrett at three and having a protected first rounder that loses its protections and likely conveys in 2022. Because I think they will still be a lotto team by that point. That would be a dream scenario I think. I don’t think the suns do that, but who knows? Of course in my mind, Morant is really the only other sure thing star in this draft,… Read more »
Ja Morant is an athletic freak, a very good finisher, a great ball handler, a pretty decent shooter with range, and has tremendous vision. You can’t teach vision like that. You have it or you don’t. Can you get a little better as a playmaker? Sure, but you aren’t going to turn guys who don’t have great vision into elite playmakers. Collin Sexton will never have the playmaking that Morant does. He just isn’t wired or see the floor like that. Morant averaged 6.3 assists as a freshmen. That is no small feat, small school or not. He had great… Read more »
That said I am still torn on defensive fit with Sexton. Morant is 6’3″ and looks it to me. That is just fine for a modern NBA point, but having a barely 6’2″ guy and 6’3″ guy in a backcourt….I just don’t know.
I think the cavs need to minimally contact Messina to do due diligence. Is he going to want to coach an early stage rebuilding team with his pedigree? No probably not. Is he the crown prince of the spurs organization? Almost certainly. When Pop retires, he is almost certainly going to have the option to take over. Still he is 59. I’d imagine he won’t want to wait too much longer for an HC job in the nba. I sort of don’t see Pop going for much longer, but who knows? I mean he has 5 years as the lead… Read more »