There are even more young players I can name but the bottom line is take the extensive game time and find out what you don’t know.
We and the rest of the league know what Love can do. He doesn’t need to show anything or get his timing down or game day legs back during regular season contests that are meaningless to an established veteran.
Love, with the many injuries he’s sustained during his time in Cleveland, would be better suited to just sit it out for the rest of the year and come back next season fully healthy and ready to be a part of a much improved Cavalier squad.
At 13-46, Love’s contributions really doesn’t matter, with the obvious exception of just playing so the franchise won’t be dubbed as a division “cellar dweller.”
And if that’s why you’re playing a veteran, just to win a couple of games and stay out of last place, than you’ve already lost.
The right combination for the Cavs, as this writer sees it, is to keep Love, and possibly Tristan Thompson (who may or may not be back with the club next year) on the sideline and provide a path for some of the younger, unproven players on this team to get better.
Then, you add those pieces, along with Love and whatever the draft produces, and you start to build this franchise back to a level Cleveland professional basketball fans have grown accustomed to seeing.
Stay the course, and get back to the championship ways. Now, that’s something Northeast Ohio basketball fans will fall in “love” with.
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