Isaiah Thomas has shot poorly in his last two outings and he attributes that to his ongoing recovery from his hip injury, as he told Chris Fedor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer and other media members. Thomas scored a combined 13 points on 5-for-26 shooting from the field against the Raptors and Timberwolves after averaging 18.0 PPG in his first two games with the Cavaliers. “I knew it was going to be like this,” the point guard said. “I have no legs. So it’s going to take some time to get it back. Even when I played well those first two games I told coach [Tyronn] Lue it didn’t feel right. It was kinda fool’s gold.” Thomas sat out Friday’s game against the Pacers.
In other developments concerning the Cavaliers:
- Center Tristan Thompson is doing his best to block out trade rumors that surfaced last week, as he relayed to Joe Vardon of the Cleveland Plain Dealer and other media members. Cleveland is reportedly willing to part with Thompson in order to land DeAndre Jordan from the Clippers. “That business side, people get paid to do that stuff. I get paid to be out there on the court and compete and do my job,” Thompson said. “Guys get paid to make decisions and move pieces around. For me, seven years in the league and seeing guys get traded and just understanding the business of basketball, it doesn’t faze me at all.”
- Retirement isn’t on LeBron James‘ radar screen at the moment, as he told Jeff Zillgitt of USA Today. James is enjoying one of his best statistical season and says he feels “great.” “The game will let you know when it’s over with,” James told Zillgitt. “Retirement for me is like getting engaged. I didn’t know if I was ready or not. I just felt it was the time. Timing was right. The vibe was right. … I definitely never had nobody in my family play in the NBA and retire. So, we’ll see.”
- Some players are grumbling about Lue’s lineups, Vardon writes in a separate piece. Those team members are wondering if Thompson should be re-inserted into the lineup on a regular basis and believe power forward Channing Frye should receive more playing time, Vardon adds. The team had lost three straight entering Monday’s marquee matchup against the Warriors.
- Lue doesn’t anticipate the team making any moves before the trade deadline, Vardon relays in another notebook.
Thomas? Crowder? Zizic? The Cavaliers traded Kyrie Irving for a pile of rag tag trash.
Haha sure did
Suns offered Bledsoe and Chandler prob.
No they didn’t. It’s not as good of a deal as initially thought, but the return was perfectly fine.
Cavs should trade Shumpert, Frye, Zizic and their 2018 1st to the hawks for Bazemore and Babbitt
Lol, put the weed down as Stephen A says.
Altman won’t move that pick since LeDiva won’t commit.
The Cavs 1st not the nets lol
The only move the Cavs should do is get rid of Lue.
IF they want to trade TT, have him start and play 30mins a game. Show him off and increase his value – you never know, he may just be the piece that the Cavs need but just not utilising him in the right manner, and that all cimes down to the coach!
Hahaha! Yeah, fire the coach. That’ll fix everything for LeButthurt.
You are washed Lebron, 15 years in still have no post game and can’t even shoot a turnaround jumpshot. Without favoritism from the refs you would average 6 ppg.
You’re a joke. Started to just ignore the trolling but yeesh. Sucked back in.
27pts per with a .554/.380/.774 line dropping 8 rebounds and 8 assists per game. Hush boy.
Those stats only matter if you’re winning.
If that’s the case, then the stats matter.
And 8 turnovers a game. Cleveland news says other Cavs players say LeBron is chasing stats. That’s what Tyron Lue means when he says the players have to stop chasing agendas. Players are saying LeBron holds on to the ball too long looking for an assist, and they can’t pass it enough as a team because of it. Said LeBron could set NBA record for turnovers. Lue says quit guarding a player, the team has to help out guarding everybody.
References?
Cleveland.com-Joe Vardon(search), January 12, article title Tyron Lue talks about players agendas.
There’s nothing there about stat-chasing or turnover records or not helping out, though, he is turning it over and doesn’t help out well. I am guessing the “agenda” part is abput Smith complaining about Thomas, but Lue never said.
I did read, can’t remember where, maybe on tv, they were talking about LeBron. They were saying he holds the ball over 3 seconds per possession, and 1/2 second longer since Kyrie left. Am hoping J.R. Smith gets traded for Louis Williams. Get a lot of my info from CBSsports.com and ESPN.com.
See 247Sports, January 12. I searched LeBron James holding ball too long and found it.
Cavs are 29th in league in defense. Now they have to do something!
LeBron was in Cleveland news saying he’d rather retire sooner than later. Said it’s all up to his family. Said he’d missed 6 games in a row of his oldest son and didn’t like that.
My god just tell him to retire, that softie does not even have his head where it needs to be. Who gives a crap about his personal life we only care about what he brings to the game of basketball and that is all. Kobe and Michael put personal life aside and gave every drip and sweat to the NBA and that is why they are glorified and respected. Lebron James is the biggest sissy and most overrated star the league has ever seen lol. Tell him go be with his family and retire we are all tired of the media glorifying him when he would average 6 ppg without the referees protecting him.
After hearing that standard of appreciation (“every drip and sweat to the NBA”), I can see why the James-hate, and I approve, as that is a horrible standard nobody should meet.
And I generally hate on Kobe, except for the 2001 finals vs Iverson/Sixers. He is an empty man.