The Cleveland Cavaliers have had a wild offseason, and social media has not helped their quest to reunite for another championship run.
Kyrie Irving viral videos with Steph Curry, LeBron James subtweets, J.R. Smith liking posts bashing Kyrie on Instagram– it seems like every day social media has a bigger impact on the Cleveland Cavaliers.
All we can wonder is how this team would prosper if social media didn’t exist. While we may not know how much they communicate personally, we can see what they blast on social media, and it does have significance. If anything else, social media has distanced the Cavaliers inner core.
Each of these players can make a headline with what they put on social media. The headlines the Cavaliers make should be centered around how to rebuild a cohesive unit, not what LeBron James is listening to that could relate to Irving.
The Cavaliers did have some chemistry issues last season. Along with injuries, the team could not find a good pattern defensive, which undoubtedly caused frustration after losing the No. 1 seed in the East. They finished with the NBA’s 22nd worst defensive rating of 108.0. With solid defensive members on that team, there is no reason that the Cavaliers shouldn’t have been a top defensive team. Defensive is about communication and chemistry, one reason the Spurs and Warriors were No. 1 and 2 respectively.
Offensively, the Cavaliers had the third most effective offense, but they played isolation basketball at a high rate. With only a 56.7% assist rate, the Cavaliers depended on James and Irving drives more than anything this past season.
While social media might not have anything to directly relate to this past season, if this continues, it might have something to do with this upcoming season. Players let what they really feel come out on social media, and we might be seeing more frustration along with communication problems this upcoming season due to how they act behind their phone screens. The numbers weren’t to say that the Cavaliers were awful, but to point out that the team has holes that commutation could fix, and social media has not helped them thus far.
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What we do/say behind a screen, can, at times, speak volumes of who are, and even NBA players should realize that and understand they are watched with a keen eye at all times.
Hopefully what has already been said and posted does not impact the core of the team and their long-lasting relationship.