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[QUOTE="Fireball Jr., post: 2289912, member: 404"]
IT's the least-important part of the trade. You're right, all's hunky dory as long as he's good to go by the season that matters most -- the post-season.

Crowder's potentially a great addition. And the Cavs may take that Brooklyn pick and use it this year for some blockbuster deal.

I came to love Kyrie's game -- the offensive one -- watching him play 99% of the Cavs games these past three seasons and I'm sorry to see him go, but while he has all the potential to be a great scorer and distributor, I'm not so sure the distributor part is gonna come overnight, if ever, unless, by playing with LeBron, he saw you can be the alpha dogg. a scorer and and a playmaker. Kyrie's defense is a topic for another day.

Stats being what they may, which may not be much, these are interesting numbers from Kyrie's three seasons with LBJ, Kevin Love, et al.

This from Cleveland sportswriter Terry Pluto, a pretty darn good old school newspaperman still in the biz.
    
[I]In the five games where Love played and Irving sat last season, Love averaged 23.2 points and 12.0 rebounds.

In the last three years, when James and Love have played together when Irving [URL='http://www.cleveland.com/pluto/index.ssf/2017/07/cleveland_cavaliers_have_terry_101.html']sat, the Cavs are 25-10[/URL].

It's 24-7 in the last two seasons.

This is not claiming the Cavs are a better team without Irving.

But it is to point out how James and Love blended well together.

The record in the last three seasons in games where James sat but Irving and Love played?

The Cavs were 3-13.[/I]

[I]My point is the Cavs can build a team around James and Love and still win a lot of games.[/I]

[URL='http://www.cleveland.com/pluto/index.ssf/2017/09/cleveland_cavaliers_kevin_love.html#incart_river_index']Cleveland Cavaliers: Kevin Love, Jae Crowder, Q deal, Terry's Talkin' -- Terry Pluto[/URL]
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