[nascarnation]

Gordon Hayward

Nice local kid, figured he was too "white" for the NBA, I was wrong....

[wideawake]

He went on a low carb diet and lost about forty or fifty pounds.

Unless you are very careful with that kind of regimen, you lose muscle as well as fat.

Most of your muscle mass is in your legs - that's what makes a fast sprinter fast and gives a high jumper air.

[discostu]

Really? People are confused as to why this is happening? He dropped a bunch of weight, given that he didn’t really have any body fat most of it had to be muscle. He’s deliberately moving away from being a power forward, good for the long term of his career, but it’s a dramatic change of both body and game style. He’ll relearn his new position fine, the core skills are still there but it’s a big change and will take time. He’s not going to be a dunking machine anymore, he’s not going to be hanging around the rim, but by the all-star break he will have relearned and he’ll be stacking up the points.

[Dick Vomer]

C'mon fellas really? Let's see. He moved away from Miami and all the nice little clinics that provide a pharmacy of testosterone, HgH, clomid, Provigil, insulin and all the rest of the pharmacopia that is needed to run/sprint/jump and fight over 6-7 miles a night...then reload and do it again in 24-48 hours, all while traveling around the country.

He just needs to find a new supplier and recycle back onto the roids. He'll be ok.

Do you guys ever wonder about all the "male pattern baldness" among professional athletes, pronounced jaw lines(even the use of braces by men in their late 20's and early 30's) and emotional lability. Then you've got the exponential increase in tendon injuries because the muscle may get bigger but the ligaments attached to the muscles don't get stronger.

It's not natural to be 6'9" with 5% body fat. Look at wide receivers today and compare them with guys in the 60's and 70's. Nobody wants to pull the curtain back on PEDs in basketball and the joke called the NFL testing. Because they make money and the only ones getting hurt are the athletes that want to do it anyway.

Of course that's my opinion and I might be wrong..... but I doubt it.

[BenLurkin]

He’s washed up. That’s the only reason he came back to Cleveland.

[driftless2]

Well, basically James is trying to fit in. He finds himself on a team with a couple of incorrigible gunners (Kyrie Irving, Dion Waiters) who are used to having their way and are reluctant to give up the ball to the best player in the world. Especially the highly overrated Irving who can score points but has no idea of how to run an offense or fit in with other great players. His last game he played 45 minutes, scored 34 pts., and registered ZERO!!! assists with James and Kevin Love on the floor with him. And he's regarded as one of the best pgs in the league.

I saw James in previous games, and if he wants to score he scores. He's already publicly upbraided his teammates for selfish play (meaning Irving) and got himself in a little trouble. James should be running the offense, but we'll see how Irving, who was the Big Man on the team before James and Love arrrived, reacts.

My own feeling is Cleveland has too much firepower to continue losing even if some of their players are selfish. But it will hurt their chances for a title.

[Jack Hammer]

The aliens took him and left a substitute.