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I predict another blowout Sunday

They need to move him in the off season. For the money he's getting we could get a bunch of bench warmers that will fill his role during the regular season.

Don't know why he just disappears come the post season.

What else is new? You've predicted us to lose every playoff series since 2015.

Lebron basically even admitted Love is really letting us down

That was about as fine and thorough bedcrapping as I have seen. Refs broke us early. When we went stupid, we were all in. Love is part of it, but we got outworked and outhustled. There are losses and then there are beatings; this was not the former. Saw a lot of quit. But thank goodness we worried so about resting and rotations. Who gets to carry Love Sunday? And Loo?

First time I ever turned off a playoff game early. Disastrous performance. We need help around LeBron. I think we need to get bigger (more TT) to counter all the bigs Indiana is using.

TT might play more again; he did in game 5 IIRC

Playoffs are where coaching can make an impact, either positive or negative. I think we know what the garden gnomes impact is

Run the floor and contest each ball. Any defense would be appreciated. Get more paint on you, run harder, and pray. We haven't finished at all. I still think I saw some real quit.

Boston looks like they'll advance

I stopped watching the game just before halftime when I went to the Padres game. I guess it was a good thing. Checking my phone on the way to the game, it just kept getting worse and worse.

We really need to come out strong tomorrow. Would be nice to see Kevin Love show up.

The Warriors look good as ever.

I really can't see any team other than the Rockets or Warriors winning the title this year.

This should be LBJ swan song today, rebuild starts at 4pm today

Cavs always seem to lay an egg on Sunday afternoons. Hope today is different.

Thunder already laid their egg, so, GO CAVS!

Sorry about the thunder bro. Sucks.

All this talk about Lebron ... but really, it's on Love. The dude has to show up

It's pretty sad that the Cavs have been so bad since LeBron has came that most of our games revolve around his broken body.

Sam Amico
Random dribbles prior to the Cavaliers’ Game 7 showdown with the Indiana Pacers on Sunday at Quicken Loans Arena.

1. LeBron James was right — Kevin Love needs to step up. “We can’t make the shots for him,” James said after Love struggled to a 3-of-10 shooting performance for a mere seven points in the Cavs’ embarrassing Game 6 loss.

2. The previous three games for Love have been a nightmare. He went 2-of-10 shooting in Game 4, followed by a 2-of-11 clunker in Game 5. Throw in Game 6 and Love is a combined 7-of-31 from the field. He’s averaging a paltry 7.7 points and 9.3 rebounds during those three games. Yuck, yuck and double yuck.

3. This from the guy who’s supposed to be the second option behind LeBron. Now, Love did injure his thumb on his left (non-shooting) hand in Game 2. While the Cavs have released nothing official, he reportedly suffered some ligament damage. Maybe it’s bothering him more than he’s letting on. But somehow, someway Love must come to life.

4. LeBron wasn’t picking on Love. He was merely speaking the truth. “He’s a huge part of our success or our non-success,” James said of Love. “We try to go to him, we want to go to him. He has to step up and knock those down.”

5. Translation: No more sissy ball. It’s time for Love and the rest of the Cavs to show some real guts and produce. Otherwise, we can go ahead and fire up all those offseason rumors.

6. It’s hard to think about a LeBron-led team losing Game 7 at home or getting bounced in the first round. But in order to avoid that, the Cavs will need to go back to making Pacers star Victor Oladipo miserable — or at least really work for his points. Game 6 came much too easily for him. Not surprisingly, the Cavs were run out of the gym.

7. The Cavs are a soft team and have to be coaxed into really getting after it defensively. Tyronn Lue has done a poor job of handling the rotation in his first season without Kyrie Irving, and the defense is too often shaky at best. Sometimes, it’s downright porous. The Cavs turned over the roster in February. Yet many of the same issues remain. The only person left to blame is the coach.

8. I do believe the Cavs will win. I have considerably more confidence in that statement than I did for their last Game 7 — against the Golden State Warriors in the 2016 Finals. That one came on the road on a much bigger stage, yet the Cavs won, anyway. This team isn’t as good as that one, but at least it still has LeBron. And Love if he ever pulls it together.

9. Someone else will really need to spring to life, too. Maybe it can be Rodney Hood or Jordan Clarkson, or even J.R. Smith, who also has plenty of experience at winning time. Or how about Kyle Korver? He’s reached double figures in scoring in this series three times, and the Cavs have won them all.

10. All I know is if the Cavs lose, and I’m general manager Koby Altman, I’m finding out what that lottery pick (via the Brooklyn Nets) and Love can get me in return on draft night.

11. Prediction: If the Cavs fail to make it back to the Finals, Lue will be fired. Perhaps quickly. LeBron will stay with the Cavs, but only if they move that pick in a deal for some real veteran help. (San Antonio Spurs star Kawhi Leonard, anyone?)

12. Prediction II: The Cavs will beat the Pacers, but I suspect a close one. They will then move on to face the Toronto Raptors in the East semifinals — without homecourt advantage, no less. But I predict the Cavs will win that series in six. I know, it sounds preposterous. But this is LeBron we’re talking about, and if these guys can get things even slightly corrected, they could again be going places. But first, they have to take care of business in the biggest game of the season.

http://amicohoops.net/nba-analysis-nba-p...e-lebron-james/

good idea about packaging Love and the top pick to keep Lebron

Trading Love and the first pick to try to keep LeBron is a peak Cavs move.

Who needs a lot of talent in two years when you can have a little talent this year?

I guess my point would be: either we do that, or LBJ is gone and we are basically irrelevant forever.

Paul pierce and Chauncey billips were just roasting Kevin Love.

We're irrelevant this year because we had to get a little better three years ago. You cannot be in buy now mode for 2+ years and have anything of worth. We've seen this now with three LeBron teams.

TT is starting

A bit nervous. It's hard not to be when we need Love to start making some baskets.

man, love is just ont good right now

Get Love off the floor.

Omfg an air ball

Terrible. Choking.

Finally love

We're lucky Indy has been missing just about everything.

finally

JR!

Uh oh! Are we getting old school TT back?

nice job TT

TT again

THREEEEEE

Korver for 3

Yes!

That’s ok! We’re in the bonus!