I like loves game honestly...and have seen him ball a few games since I upped this post...he is a grinder down low unlike dirk and he can create points through fouls when in the post...but Tristan and frye are definately needed...love just isn't a good enough athlete to count on solely night in and night out...dirk became lethal at shooting cuz he knew rebounding wasn't his thing and he'd need to counter the weakness...I'm just waiting (and hoping) to see what is going to become his lethal weapon to counter his weakness (athletic ability/speed/hops) cuz we'll need it in the playoffs.
True I also think that the mavericks always put rebounders and defenders on the floor because that was Dirk's weakness. So Dirk could focus on scoring.
With the Cavs they need Love for rebounding, scoring and spacing out to the three line.
However unlike Dirk......love struggles with confidence. That is the thing with Dirk he was a pure scorer that never lacked confidence in himself. Where as love is a all around good player (passing, rebounding and scoring) but he seems to lose confidence when things aren't going well for him.
But we will see maybe he gets his confidence back.
Another issue is that he has never been on a winning team and had to play with expectations until last year.
Folks can complain about Lebron all they want but that brotha had expectations on him since he was 15 and he reached every expectation that folks had of him.