What Cavs fans, besides Eye Cue have you heard saying this?
And Cavs brass "cooling on him".....they offered him the MAX on the 1st day of FA breh.
I've been to the cavs board and seen them shytting on dude the entirety of last season, questioning if he's really worth a max contract and wondering out loud if they should trade him...there were multiple reports of the cleveland front office contemplating whether they should offer him the max or not..ultimately they, of course, decided to...but that was also after they knew lebron was in play and kyrie was key to him coming back...last year in the middle of the season when they were flaming out and missing the playoffs and before they knew they were improbably getting the #1 pick and getting lebron back, the fans' and the front office's faith in him as the golden child to lead the team back to prominance had began to waver from what it was even just a year prior... eye cue's sentiment wasn't some kind of singularly unique opinion
The problem with him playing with Dion is that it was under Mike Brown's non-existent offense and the fact that DION cannot play without the ball in his hands, not the other way around.
Ehhh that's kind of a chicken/egg argument, that ultimately doesn't change the fact kyrie played demonstrably worse when waiters was on the floor taking the ball out of his hands for stretches...
Irving's Stats FG% 3P% FT% PTS AST STL
Waiters In 38.6 27.2 81.9 21.2 5.8 1.0
Waiters Out
47.1 44.2 86.8 24.1 6.5 1.3
Mike Brown's offense (or lack thereof) is a valid point, so maybe Blatt can devise an offense that makes it work...but kyrie not being anywhere as effective offball as he is on it, is true without question...and with Lebron there's not gonna be any debate as to who is gonna have to make concessions
You CANT be talking bout Kyrie Irving breh with this breakdown
http://hoopshype.com/columns/david-nurse/how-to-fix-kyrie-irvings-shot
Kyrie ranks in the bottom 14 percent in spot-up catch-and-shoot situations and in the bottom 22 percent in off screen scenarios.
http://www.fearthesword.com/2014/7/26/5939649/kyrie-irving-catch-and-shoot-jumper-cavaliers
The concern surrounding Kyrie's abilities off the ball mostly centers around his spot-up shooting ability. Last season, via SportVU data, Irving shot 35.6 percent on catch-and-shoot shots, and just 32.1 percent from three on these opportunities
So there's that....are you saying that kyrie is anywhere near the disrupter on defense and as explosive in fast break scenarios as wade is?