hey may even be able to keep LeBron from bouncing to New York in 2010.
By trading away Joe Smith, the Cavaliers jettisoned their most consistent, skilled and effective power forward, creating a gigantic hole on Cleveland’s front line that needs patching at some point during the remainder of the off season or into next year. While the Cavs still have Ben Wallace, Zydrunas Ilgauskas and Andersen Varejao on the front lines, they lack some depth and skill and the 4, which saps their versatility and ability to scheme and be creative on offense (not that creativity was ever part of their offensive game plan before…). Varejao will likely continue to improve, but without another reliable big man, Cleveland will continue to be fatally flawed.
Joe Smith
19 August 2008
6 May 2008
At best, the Cavs have Joe Smith at the 4, and at worst it's Ben "Anemic on Offense" Wallace, with Floppy McFlopperson (excuse me, Anderson Varejao) falling somewhere in the middle in a realm I like to call obnoxious game and hair land. Since none of Cleveland's power forward's can score consistently, there will be plenty of help defense on Ilgauskas and anyone else who sets foot in the paint in Boston tonight.
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