3 Rim Protectors Cleveland Cavaliers Should Be Pursuing

August 29th, 2014 by D.J. Foster Leave a reply »

With the addition of LeBron James and Kevin Love, the Cleveland Cavaliers won't need much. The offense should be one of the very best in the league, even when accounting for time to jell.

There's shooting at multiple positions, talented isolation players, offensive rebounding in spades with Love and Anderson Varejao and the world's best player in James.

While there isn't a whole lot that the Cavaliers don't have the potential to do, including winning an NBA title, it's important for general manager David Griffin to nitpick a bit. The Chicago Bulls still loom as a formidable foe, and if you're stacking up the Cavs with them, the defense is nowhere close to what Chicago can bring.

Here's Kurt Helin at ProBasketballTalk with more on Cleveland's needs:

Rim protection is going to be an issue against the elite teams. Chicago has it and the Cavaliers are going to need it against them in the East if Derrick Rose and his slashing game return to form. They are certainly going to need it against the ball movement in San Antonio, or the slashing of Russell Westbrook and how the Thunder get to ...

Read Full Article at Bleacher Report - NBA
Article written by

Advertisement

Comments are closed.