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Cavs were -300 on the court without LeBron, and they won less than 5 games without him last year where Kyrie had his chance to be the man. 

I don't like this trade at all...This don't put Boston ahead of Cleveland whatsoever...Kyrie is not going to be the same without LeBron, cause he surely proved he couldn't do nothing without him the last few years. Cleveland's numbers were horrible in the negatives without LeBron on the court. 

I read somewhere on the Cavs forum that Kyrie didn't want to go there. He wanted to go some place where he could be 'the man'. 

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We will see by the end of next season how it all looks. Since I long believed IT too was a product of the Brad Stevens development system and a lot of gifted calls in Boston. Playing with Lebron is huge, but IT won't be happy either if he feels deep down Lebron might be leaving next summer. IT will be second fiddle now while in Boston he was "the man". Kyrie now took the role IT had........he has to embrace this in Cleveland too and realize he won't be getting the 24 hour glory.

That's going to be kinda hard to do since Kyrie won't have LeBron there to set him up, and I saw IT often is really useful with fakes and isolation. Boston used him so well to force the defense to focus on him and then he would toss the ball to someone wide open for a 3. 

Kyrie won't do that...He wants to be Kobe, which that mentality is being a ball hog and a volume shooter. 

I feel bad for IT, the Celtics totally screwed him here. He wanted to stay there. Kinda reminds me of when the Saints totally screwed over Jimmy Graham who absolutely wanted to stay here too, and has been unhappy in Seattle from day 1. But with IT, I can actually see him getting along perfect with LeBron, whereas Jimmy Graham went from a Hall of Fame quarterback to an average one and his production dramatically dropped to the floor. 

Celtics are still 2-3 years away from making a serious run but this move was so risky I can see it backfiring big time and screwing them. Kyrie is a volume shooting isolation player. A Kobe clone, and these ball hog types are very hard to deal with...If Brad Stevens can turn him into a player that distributes the ball, then he might be a genius coach. I can't see it happening though, and I just have a very bad feeling about this that it's not going to end well at all. 

I don't think this trade was good at all after having a night to think it over....

Kyrie without LeBron is not that good and we have all the statistics to prove it. Cleveland actually came out better with this trade...I saw somewhere that IT's percentages are much better at shooting too. Boston got a ball hog out of this trade and if that pick from Brooklyn ends up being a #1, then Cleveland has a chance right there to add someone else (but they may screw that up since their drafting is so bad). 

They just sent IT to the Finals, even if it's to get stomped by Golden State again. 

That Cavs forum is a real crazy place to read.  They're obsessed with Golden State so much and notice how they don't even appreciate LeBron? They're STILL complaining about him going to Miami. 

This is kinda funny cause they treated Kyrie like their messiah and now he's gone. I'm sure they'll blame it on LeBron, they always do. 

UNBELIEVABLE. 

I just hope LeBron really does stay in Cleveland cause I'm scared if he does end up in L.A. I'll get on that bandwagon. 

I'm hoping BOTH our teams can win our crappy divisions this year so we have something to enjoy...It's rough when you have to watch a mediocre team stumble to a 7-9 or 8-8 record.

I live on the gulf coast and we have no baseball at all down here. The closest team to me is the Atlanta Braves and I just don't have it in me to root for an Atlanta team...Hank Aaron is from Mobile though and is a local legend down here. I covered a few of his charity events in town back when I still worked, he's a very nice man...We have a minor league down here (The Bay Bears) but they don't get talked about often. Everything is about BAMA BAMA BAMA. 

The Saints fans I've noticed who are into baseball often root for the Houston team, which is the closest they would have in their area. 

I've felt a lot better so far this weekend now that I have those shots out of my system. I've had to take antibiotics for my allergy problems this past summer that hit me hard and I'm beginning to think those shots I got at the doctor this past week had caused my problems. 

Dak had an awesome drive in that preseason game.  I don't know what I'm going to do with myself if the Saints go 7-9 again. I can just hope and pray Dak keeps tearing it up. 

Thank you Jules, you rock! You beat my entire family to telling me so far since it's still midnight and I'm luckily awake after taking a long nap. 

19 days old, I have to put them outside eventually. I didn't get much sleep the other day cause they're so LOUD. They might be tiny but they're loud as hell. 

The white one has escaped multiple times. I had to go out and buy a set of cardboard boxes and I built them a box that they can't climb out of. 

The mother cat gets on my nerves though...I don't think she has proper maternal instincts cause she has to be forced to tend to the kittens. It's difficult to explain without witnessing it. She ignores them, she'll clean them but I have to take her and put her in the box and make her feed them. That's the main reason I brought them inside. If they were still outside, she probably would've abandoned them by now. 

Love old Dokken. George Lynch was a phenomenal guitar player. One could totally argue that he probably was the best guitar player in the whole genre of Metal by the mid 80's. 

Damn, that sucks. I remember you being excited on that pick with the Center....Max Unger, the Saints big All Pro center just got hurt too and is out for a bit. 

I'm kinda dreading this year's start....I can definitely see the Saints losing to Minnesota in the opener. The Colts SHOULD win cause you are playing Jared Goff who I seriously think could be the biggest bust we've seen since Jamarcus Russell. Omg, seriously...You can't lose to Goff, he is really, really bad...

Last year Dallas was my fun team to watch since Dak was playing out of his mind but they're sadly probably doomed now and I can already see them losing some games and people going nuts to blame Dak like they were doing last year. I want this kid to succeed so bad, but I just don't trust Jerry Jones....

If I could video tape them, they would really look small. I might do that some day. I swear, they are half the size of full grown normal cats. 

The bob tail looks odd too but I've gotten used to it over the years. Sadly, that's the ones I have the worst luck with. Monkey is the last full grown bob tail I had who has lived. 

Hey 2006 if you like Vince Neil, you should check out his solo album 'Exposed' from 1993

Steve Stevens played guitar on this record...You might remember him from his guitar leads and solo on Michael Jackson's Dirty Diana from the 'Bad' album. He was a hot shot studio guitar player from the 80's, very skilled player. 

Vince's solo effort was better than Crue's 1994 album they released without him. 

Lennon and McCartney were a great song writing duo. Especially love their work on Abbey Road, one of my favorite albums ever. It ages like fine wine, still sounds great in 2017. 

Rubber Soul is a fantastic record...I love 'Drive My Car' just for all the cowbell.

If you enjoy Crue, i think you might like Dokken. 

This video is hilariously cheesy but this was one of their best songs in their prime. 

This cat I think was too small for kittens and it's amazing that she had this many and didn't suffer health problems. It took a toll on her when she gave birth back in April, and now again...I can't believe she had 5. It's really a shocker given how small she is. These pictures might not make her look really small but she is smaller than Minnie. 

They all survived this time though. Back in April, I had a very difficult time when I had 4 who died, and only 1 kitten survived out of 3 liters, and it's still alive and kicking butt. That little stripped one I showed you a few weeks ago. 

One of these black cats is a bob tail with just a nub in the back like my Monkey boy. 

Is he the one you got from Bama in the last draft? 

This is pretty much what Dallas has done since 2013....and they got lucky and hit on most of those O-line picks. 

I agree with you Bloody Champ but I also lean towards Jules' take on this...I'm somewhat biased cause I grew up watching heavy defensive teams, so I believe you absolutely go defense in the first and second round and build up a decent line on the defensive side.