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How Can the Cavs and Browns Both Live In “Believeland”?

It’s called buying into a system. And “Believeland” has nothing to do with the fans. It has everything to do with the players. Two teams living in the same town. One believes. The other doesn’t.

While the overachieving Browns continue to surprise with solidarity, the more experienced Cavs seem totally removed from a year ago. “We’re not a very good team” LeBron says. Mr Moohead says: “You’re not a team at all”. The Cavs are a bunch of individuals refusing to perform together. If this were an orgy, no one would get off. No passing. No help defensively. No effort or energy. No belief. And these players are more talented than the Ethan Kelley’s of the world. But they don’t have each other’s backs.

Larry doesn’t want to be PG. He only wants to shoot. Damon Jones shoots 3’s, and does not play defense. Z gets sullen when he doesn’t get touches. Drew gazes into space during time outs. And LeBron resorts to the fadeaway 24 footer when all is lost.

Derek Anderson wants the ball. The OL plays with energy, and relishes the trench work. Jamal Lewis wants the ball at the end of the game. Mediocre players gang tackle to help each other out. Lawrence Vickers blocks and doesn’t whine about not getting the ball.

Some might say it’s coaching. Nope. It’s team balance. When veterans refuse to accept roles to make room for young guys, you end up with distractions. When Hughes refuses to handle the ball, he destroys the offensive flow. When DJ plays matador, a big man commits a foul behind him. Then rotation stops altogether.

Compare that to Ken Dorsey. He’ll never play, but he remains comimited to helping the young QB’s. Or Willie McGinest who teaches on the sideline. No whining. No hidden agendas. Soon the young guys start responding. Even the weak DL stepped up yesterday, because they are listening to the right voices.

But who can Gibson, Shannon, Sasha and AV listen to? To selfish Larry? To sometimes team leader LeBron? To the pouting Z?

The Cavs need more than a point guard. They need a VETERAN PG, like Jason Kidd. LeBron wants him because he needs help motivating a bunch of whiny veterans who refuse to part with their playing time or accept their own diminishing skills.

Believeland is a state of mind. The fans may live there, but the Cavs do not.

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25 Responses to “How Can the Cavs and Browns Both Live In “Believeland”?”

  1. Comment by: Sailor_Dawg

    Posted on December 17th, 2007 at 10:00 pm

    I was a little bored tonight, and wanted to see if my feelings were accurate about how truly atrocious the Cavs guards are . I went to CBSsports.com since they had sortable stats by position. After playing with the stats in Excel a little, here’s what I found:

    Coming into tonight’s game, out of the 132 NBA guards with at least 50 shot attempts, here’s how the Cav’s guards rank in shooting percentage:

    20th Boobie Gibson
    81st Damon Jones
    108th Shannon Brown
    120th Larry Hughes
    121st Sasha Pavlovic
    122nd Devin Brown

    So as anyone who’s seen the Cavs play this year could tell you, we’ve got one guard that’s shooting well, one that’s mediocre (poor if you consider dollars per shot), and the rest…suck. Frail Larry can’t get to the rim anymore. If he gets within 10 feet, a bone snaps, and he sure as hell can’t shoot from the outside. Brown’s right to bring him off the bench, but he needs be be clear on his role when he puts him in. He should be a defensive stopper, and a creator for others. Drive and dish, or dunk if he’s not too afraid.

    Hey Coach Brown…let Boobie shoot, and limit Hughes’ disruption to the flow by using him sparingly. There’s still hope for Sasha (I think/hope).

  2. Comment by: Sailor_Dawg

    Posted on December 18th, 2007 at 12:05 am

    , and furthermore…

    I was still bored, and thought, “hmm, now who does brittle-bricklayer-Larry remind me of?” Oh, I know, “Wrong-way Ricky”, the much villified, notorious former Cav who never met a shot he didn’t like. Well guess what, I think Larry and Ricky are related. Here’s some career stats if you don’t believe me.

    MIN FGA FG% 3P% FT FT% STL BLK TO PF OFF DEF TOT AST PTS
    Hughes 32 13.5 41.2 29 4.5 74.9 1.6 .4 2.3 2.4 1.2 3.3 4.5 3.3 15.1
    Davis 30.6 12.2 45.1 35 3.5 78.4 1.1 .3 2.3 2 0.8 2.8 3.6 3.4 14.5

    These guys are obviously not great distributors, but they’re paid well to shoot well. So who does it better? It’s almost a dead heat over their careers.

    Not that I’d really like to see either one of them taking shots away from LJ, Z, Boobie, etc, but this year Ricky has played in 13 more games, is shooting 8 percentage points better, and makes 6 million less.

    Some team out there has got to want Hughes. He has those flashes of scoring brilliance that hooked the Cavs. Can we throw in some cash to give him and his contract away? That $12M could be much better spent on extending Gibson and getting some legit help at PG.

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