Nalod wrote:Rubio Career really never took off as the 4th overall pick. “La Pistola” had some bad injuries and while fundamentally sound he never had the elite quickness for stardom. Still a good career and fun to watch.

Always wished we’d have him land here in some form.

That said, and as a hoop fan, I hated that we lost but I took away appreciation for his game and glad to see I caught a career night from him. Fucker has the best hair of anyone in the league! LOL It never looked out of place! LOL

Yup. I had the same feeling. I really thought we were going to be able to draft him or Curry. Then Minnesota did that dumb they did picking 2 PGs.

2009 draft. Rubio stayed in Europe and Rambis tried to meke Flynn “Triangular”.
It was still a thing, Phil won his last chip in 2010. 11 years goes by quick. Steph is still great but the Triangle is old timey ball. Times change

SergioNYK wrote:I'm trying not to overreact and look at this honestly and objectively. Look, we are not title contenders. Can't expect a 55 or 60 win team. I think most of us agreed this would be a 45 win team. So there will be peaks and valley's. We'll beat some good teams and we'll lose to some mediocre and bad teams. Not that I'd categorize Cleveland as a bad team cause they are not. The kid Mobley is going to be a stud! But fact is we are 6-10 through the first ten games. You take that every single time!

But losing these home games is concerning. We are getting outworked and allowing players to have career nights. You simply cannot allow a nonscorer and shooter like Rubio to have that type of game! He is not that skilled offensively and his shot is slow! I give him credit but we could and should have a done a better job! And getting outrebounded by 16 tells me we didn't play with enough effort. That's inexcusable! The threes are not always going to fall and you cannot control that but you can control your effort on defense, which has been way too inconsistent. It cannot be that Elfrid Payton and Reggie Bullock were that important. We have enough to still play great defense. We've seen it in spurts.

We need to get back to that gritty defensively identity of last season. Even if it means sacrificing some offense and not playing the new guys who don't fit in that way.

YOur not incorrect. we double dog dared Rubio and gave it to him. He executed. Seems like opponents are getting their notable games on us. Last week it was Turner!

Mobley and Allen’s length created issues defensively. We’ll get it together or not.
I doubt we fall into the abyss in the lottery but with each game, week, and month we’ll get clarity.

I hate, hate, hate watching players have career games vs us- it's annoyed me for the past decade, thought we'd knocked that on the head last season, but maybe the lack of MSG crowd simply removed a motivating factor for opponents to come in and beast.

Rookie wrote:Holy crap Sexton tore his meniscus. I never even saw that. That sucks for him and when he becomes an RFA.

Thats so ****ed up. Cavs don't deserve that at all.