Offseason Needs to Address

I agree with alot you say. Mo is not consistant enough on offense & lacking on defense. Another thing i just cant get is why Brown is playing Parker more than he’s played all season. He wouldnt be a starter on any team, let alone a contending team. His defense is terrible, to slow & only wants to shoot 3pt shoots. But alot of that is Browns fault cuz he doesnt know how to run a offense. West & Moon shud be getting majority of playing time, not Parker. Also Andy’s time has been almost cut in half & need him on the floor for defense & create energy as he always does. If Browns choices arent doing it, DAH, put someone else in. Hell Browns so busy screaming & running back & forth instead of thinking what needs changed. Shaq can helpbut he’s to slow on defense & why dont they let their other big men post up. They wont even try it ! If they want Lebron to stay they need better point guard & #2guard too.

as a knicks fan, your sending mo williams to the knicks because he doesn’t play defense, for David Lee… because he also doesn’t play defense….?

with your intentions, you do that trade and you would be SEVERELY disappointed.

To think otherwise is asinine. He is arguably a top5 player in the league. No matter how good Collison and Thornton are right now, that franchise will not trade CP3 a year before their terrible contracts come off their books.

Remember guys, Delonte will more than likely be missing for a good portion of next season, if not all of it. He’ll either be suspended or jailed, or both. Dumping Mo is not an option. Shaq is probably gone, unless he gives us a $19 mil discount, Z is probably gone unless he gives us a hometown discount and we get a new coach. Also, I’m pretty sure the Cavs cannot trade their 1st rounder for 2011 since they traded the 2010 1st rounder, NBA doesn’t allow that I think(someone back me up.) Get a PG and some bigs, a new coach, oh, and resign some guy named LeBron.

LeBron is Karl Malone looking for his John Stockton. So get him a couple of guys who can spearhead the fast break, and then surround him with guys who can play defense, rebound, and run. Get rid of the million short scoring guards they now have who are too small to defend and rebound. Defense and rebounding win championships, and run like greyhounds on offense…

what you guys need is a true pass first point guard, Lebron should not be the one handling the ball and making plays, someone should start the play and lebron should be the one to finish it, your offense is too stagnant if he is the one handling the ball, and i hardly see any pick and roll or screens or any kind of switching to get favorable match ups and the four other guys are well, i can say witnesses to lebron going 1 on 5. and for the record im a celtic fan and that’s just my two cents on the matter

i stand by what i said last year—cleveland needs a couple more pieces around lebron.

they have a deep bench, good. they have role players, good. however, those role players disappear during the playoffs. i didnt like last year that danny ferry surrounded lebron with a bunch of scrubs and B players (a lot of them are B+ and C) and it showed during the playoffs. shaq’s addition was okay with me—IF you knew how to play with him. unfortunately, as it showed during the all-star game, kobe is the only one who’s figured it out (and to a certain extent, wade). too bad kobe wouldnt tell lebron the secret.

so it stands that cleveland needs two things:

1. a lock-down defender: battier, raja bell, t. prince, hinrich, etc…
 - defending the best player on the opposing team need not be lebron’s job; he expends too much energy doing help-defense, running after fastbreaks for blocks, and roaming the perimeter for steals and passing lane interceptions. someone has to do that. this player must also be able to shoot the 3 when lebron draws attention.

2. a reliable post player: stoudamire, bosh, brand, j. oneil, or get someone like blake griffin (his value no doubt has gone down with the injuries; same with greg oden).

alternatively, cleveland could get some good firepower forwards to help lebron: marion, kirilenko, stojakovic, josh smith, charlie villanueva or d. west.

you can still play shaq to clog the lane and have a firepower forward launching threes so lebron can either drive/dunk or pass.

too bad that “forward launching threes” was supposed tobe jamison. hey, they can see if they can pry nowitzki off of mark cuban.

im not that sold on cleveland needing a PG; they have three or four there. Lebron is a point-forward similar to prince and odom. he can always play point (magic was a 6-9 point guard) and either defer to shooting forwards or create a play with his speed and strength.

Barring Rose and Noah of course, as management has said they are untouchable. ;)