Jake

It would be way too soon to can Emery, IMO. You can't evaluate GMs this quickly. I'd also say this is rather quick to pull the plug on a head coach, too. You put yourself in a position where suddenly you have to fire another coach immediately if he goes sub-.500 . . . shortly thereafter, you're the Raiders. Or something.

Frontload the contract while you can afford it. You won't hate yourself as much later on and it might make him tradeable if things don't work out so well.

We spent a lot of time coasting in this game

And if you're using the provided router functionality within the modem, I'd suggest not doing that and just getting your own router.

Turns out he actually sprained both of his ankles, lol. To sustain a minor injury like this and bounce back will probably be a big mental hurdle for him to clear, though. He hasn't had many benign injuries on the basketball court for a while.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Oct 31, 2014 -> 10:55 PM) Yep. Thibs sucked tonight. Use that depth on the bench. The depth that scores points. Taj - 28 minutes, 10 points Snell - 23 minutes, 10 points Brooks - 20 minutes, 11 points The only place where he screwed up personnel-wise was it turned out that he probably should have found more minutes for Mirotic, especially since we went to OT

Main thoughts: -Game 2, already, but D Rose has to be healthy -Pau Gasol is not fit for Thibodeau's defense. Lazy, slow. We'll see if he improves unlike Boozer. He does have size which helps his defense when they run right at him. -Taj played very badly down the stretch run. Just hurt? Hopefully. -Having Jimmy back will help on both ends. Since CLE doesn't have a Wade-like guy on O, we don't have the problem of picking who he guards. -Snell had a couple stinkers but overall looked pretty good and might have earned him a place in the rotation, at least when we need a long defender on the wing. -Cavs don't really look that good. We match up well with Love, Kyrie sucks. LBJ is LBJ. Thompson killed us tonight and exposed a general weakness that Pau can't box out but I don't expect him to play that well all the time. Varejao had several lucky buckets as well.

What a f***ing stupid call. Officials never wanted us to have this one

Hope Taj playing like horses*** down the stretch is just a remnant of the ankle injury

Taj again.

Both guys off their feet

This Cleveland team doesn't scare me at all. They're good, but no juggernaut.

I'd prognosticate that we'll see Pau in the Boozer role until he shows some ability to move his feet and hustle defensively

Pau caught being lazy on defense again

Taj has been the single worst player on the floor for the past 3-5 minutes

Overall, officiating wasn't too bad but sticking that call in there to ensure the game got tied is just awful

Now, you have to get the last shot. No chucking it up early like last possession, which very well may have cost us the game

That call is unforgivably bad. This is the s*** that makes you not believe in the integrity of the game. How do you call that?

Kirk is our healthy point guard.

KIRK!!!!!! DERRICK WHO?!?!?!?

And then a good no-call between Noah and Love.

A couple bad calls in a row there...

Only Thibs would leave Rose on the bench like that and have it really work out well

Snell playing well. Refs haven't been giving LBJ everything like I'm accustomed to either

QUOTE (chw42 @ Oct 31, 2014 -> 09:47 PM) Thompson has hurt us more in this game than Love and Kyrie combined. Pau has racked some blocks, but has otherwise been horrid on D. Getting murdered on the boards