HA! So the Big Aristotle has finally followed me to Cleveland, hilaaarious. I have to say I'm pretty excited about seeing his lumbering ass saunter up and down the court once again. The desperation of the Cavalier's management is obvious and I don't think anyone here sees this as anything but a reactionary try and contain Dwight Howard type of move. Shaq is way passed the time where he can come through on his imminent title guarantee and is simply not a solution for the Cavalier roster woes that we have detailed on this blog. It will be fun to watch him use his typical script of trying way harder than normal on his new team until he can't keep it up and then move on to blaming everyone around him. I wonder what they will do with Z, they obviously can't start two old ass 7-footers so they will presumably move him to the bench, even though they don't have a power forward? Weird. All this being said the deal does probably make Cleveland a bit better considering they had nothing in the front court before, and all it cost them was salary: Ben Wallace and Sasha Pavlovic. Best Cleveland based Shaq nicknames I've seen so far: Zone Thugz in Harmony, Shaquillbasa, and Shaqer Heights.
So much fail. Cavs management strategy of picking up specific player to counter the team that beat them in last year's playoffs continues, let's see how bad it works out this year.
ReplyDeleteYet, Steve Kerr has topped them on fail, what a disaster, time to head back to the booth Steve, please take shark-jump-ariffic Marc "Mama There Goes that Man Down Carrying All the Marbles" Jackson and Jeff "Bootleg Larry David" Van Gundy's spots, and remove one of the chairs so neither one can come back. Thank you.
Fail indeed.
ReplyDeleteThis is not the voice of a confident GM:
"They both badly want to win," Ferry said. "Our team and organization want to win. With that leading it, everything else is going to work out."
Right.