King James adds exCs to court

[Ryan W]

I think this was a lateral move at best for the Cavs. 
They get better offensively, in terms of spot-up
shooting (West and Wally), but that's about it.  I
think their defense and low-post scoring actually
suffers a bit.  Gooden will be missed on the low-post
too.  Delonte isn't going to do squat against
Chauncey--if you watched the Cavs/Detroit series last
season it was Daniel Gibson guarding Billups and doing
a very good job.  West is a lesser version of Gibson;
smaller, weaker, and a worse shooter.  And since all
their swingman depth was exchanged for spot-up
shooters, I wonder who is going to defend on the
perimeter for them now.  No Hughes, no Newble, no
nothing.  Wally is an open door and teams with
multiple good players at the wing position (like the
C's, with Pierce, Allen, and Allen) will exploit them
mightily since LeBron, as great as he is, has yet to
show that he can guard two people at the same time.

Ryan
--- keltsfan <keltsfan at comcast.net> wrote:

> It definitely depends on what Wallace can offer.
> Will he be rejuvenated
> playing under Brown and with James like I suspect or
> is he just washed up?
> It appears that Cleveland is trying to match up with
> Detroit.  West matches
> up defensively with Billups in terms of size and a
> motivated Wallace is a
> much better defensive option against Detroit's bigs
> than the flaky Gooden.
> Defense wins in the playoffs and Cleveland just got
> a whole bunch better
> defensively assuming Wallace is healthy.
> 
> On offense, as you point out, with the offense
> running through James,
> Sczerbiak and West should find wide open looks thus
> enabling them to do what
> they do best on that end of the floor. 
> 
> Smith is a nice veteran big to bring off the bench
> in certain matchup
> situations. 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: celtics-bounces at igtc.com
> [mailto:celtics-bounces at igtc.com] On Behalf
> Of Kim
> > Malo
> > Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 2:00 PM
> > To: The Boston Celtics Mailing List
> > Subject: RE: King James adds exCs to court
> > 
> > Dunno about that, especially given Wallace's
> creaking nose dive into
> > ineffectiveness the past few years, but it's a
> nice situation for
> > Delonte I think, where KJ handles the ball so much
> that Delonte won't
> > have to be a real PG while KJ should genuinely
> appreciate the best
> > characteristic Wally and Delonte share - their
> shot. Larry Hughes
> > just never brought it, and both are good enough
> shots that they won't
> > be able to continually leave them uncovered to
> triple team KJ, which
> > is something he's been begging for.
> > Kim.
> > 
> > At 04:54 PM 2/21/2008, keltsfan wrote:
> > >My, my is right. Wow.  The Cavs have just made
> themselves one of the
> > >favorites in the East with the addition of
> Wallace, not to mention
> > >Sczcerbiak, West and Smith.
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: celtics-bounces at igtc.com
> [mailto:celtics-bounces at igtc.com] On
> Behalf
> > >Of Kim
> > > > Malo
> > > > Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 1:21 PM
> > > > To: Cs eList
> > > > Subject: King James adds exCs to court
> > > >
> > > >
> http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=3257159
> > > > Wally and Delonte along with Ben Wallace and
> Joe Smith. My my.
> > > >
> > > >
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