[remy23]

The schedule goes as follows:

October

14 Thu @ Memphis Preseason
16 Sat Chicago Preseason
18 Mon New Jersey Preseason
20 Wed Charlotte Preseason
23 Sat @ Boston Preseason
25 Mon Boston Preseason
28 Thu Atlanta Preseason
29 Fri @ Toronto Preseason

5 home games and 3 away games.

Camp going on road for four days

The team announced Tuesday it will hold four days of workouts and a scrimmage at Capital University to start training camp next month. It is the first time the team has trained outside Gund Arena since 1997, when Mike Fratello took the team to Dayton.

The move is two-fold. Cavaliers coach Paul Silas has wanted to take his team off site since last season, when a plan to take training camp to the University of Toledo fell through. This year, with six new players, Silas wants to use the time away to build team chemistry.

From a business standpoint, the Cavaliers are eager to develop their Columbus fan base. Last season, the team saw its television ratings explode in Central Ohio, getting even higher ratings than the Columbus Blue Jackets. The team also sold more than 10,000 tickets to groups from Columbus.

This season, the Cavaliers have picked up television and radio partners that will put all 82 regular-season games on TV and over the air.

"Columbus has become a major market,'' Cavaliers/Gund Arena president Len Komoroski said. "We're the flag bearer for the NBA in Ohio.''

The Cavaliers will practice at the Capital Center from Oct. 5-9. On Oct. 8, they will hold a scrimmage at the 3,000-seat arena. Tickets will be available through a promotion offered by Columbus-area Giant Eagle stores.

"Last year I felt like we had three different teams. I want to be one team from Day One,'' Silas said. "This will give us a chance to bond and get to know each other.''

[remy23]

Cavaliers hire assistant Brendan Malone

CLEVELAND (AP) — Brendan Malone, Toronto's first head coach and an 18-year coaching veteran in the NBA, joined the Cleveland Cavaliers' staff as an assistant Wednesday.

Malone replaces Mark Osowski, who died last month at the age of 41 following complications after undergoing pancreatic surgery.

The 62-year-old Malone brings a wealth of basketball knowledge to Paul Silas' staff in Cleveland. He is the second new addition this offseason, joining Kenny Natt, who spent nine seasons with Utah.

With Brendan Malone now on board, joing the previouly hired Kenny Natt, the Cavaliers are upgrading their assistant coaching staff. With new coaches and new players, expect Cleveland's x's and o's to change a bit from last season.

[Nevus]

Originally posted by remy23!
Cavaliers hire assistant Brendan Malone



With Brendan Malone now on board, joing the previouly hired Kenny Natt, the Cavaliers are upgrading their assistant coaching staff. With new coaches and new players, expect Cleveland's x's and o's to change a bit from last season.

Yes, I hope these new guys can make a difference. The x's and 's stuff was pretty weak last year.

The additions in personnel and in the coaching staff are pretty exciting as a whole IMO. If it all comes together they could be a much improved team.

[remy23]

I hope so. With Gooden to replace Boozer and Snow to replace Ollie, I hope Cleveland will run more. Sasha and Luke have young legs, so it helps to have energetic guys in the wings.

I think Silas is more of a motivator/father/friend than pure stategist, so his assistants will be very important this upcoming season for the specifics.

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Breaking Down the Eastern Conference

6. CLEVELAND CAVALIERS

Starting five: C Zydrunas Ilgauskas, PF Drew Gooden, SF Luke Jackson, SG LeBron James, PG Eric Snow

Key bench contributors: G Jeff McInnis, F-G Aleksandar Pavlovic

What Cleveland lost in seeing Carlos Boozer sign with the Utah Jazz, they almost made up for by trading for a great control point guard in Eric Snow. Snow will create offense for his teammates, control the pace of the game, and play great defense. Jeff McInnis, with his potent scoring abilities, should create a change of pace after substitutions that could really throw opposing defenses off. Luke Jackson will be a good player to put next to LeBron James. He can hit outside shots, something Cleveland has sorely lacked, but he’s also pretty athletic, enabling Cleveland’s backcourt to get out and run as long as Ilgauskas and Drew Gooden can take care of the defensive glass. LeBron James’ play this season should improve a lot, not only because of a year of NBA experience and natural (or in James’ case, unnatural) development, but because of the players he has around him in Snow and Jackson. Drew Gooden won’t clean up the offensive glass and get the garbage buckets Carlos Boozer did, but he shouldn’t be as big a downgrade as people think. He doesn’t have another power forward to put pressure on him now, and he should get some results. Ilgauskas is reliable in the post, but he hinders the pace of game Cleveland could be running with a more mobile center.

The list is very debatable but at least you can get a picture of where some sites rank the Cavaliers.

[remy23]

I was thinking of making a new thread for Drew Gooden but I figured this brief news clip is not worthy of an entire thread.

Drew wanted to be #0 but with McInnis already having the number (and rules preventing teams from having players posses both #0 and #00 on the same team), Gooden has to elect to use another number. The number he might have chosen may shock some of you guys.

This isn't final by any means but on Cleveland's official site, you see a different Cavalier player each time you refresh the page. If you have the patience to keep hitting refresh, you will see Drew Gooden's number.



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Cavaliers to Host Free “Wine and Gold Scrimmage” and Fan Fest at The University of Akron Sunday, October 10th

The Cleveland Cavaliers will play the wine vs. the gold in an intrasquad scrimmage at The University of Akron’s Rhodes Arena on Sunday, October 10th at 6 p.m. The scrimmage, presented by ALLTEL, is free to the public and will mark the first area public appearance by the 2004-05 Cavaliers.

[remy23]

One-on-One with Cavaliers GM Jim Paxson

Cavaliers President of Basketball Operations and General Manager Jim Paxson had one of the more interesting off-seasons in the history of the franchise, but weathered it and bounced back with a vengeance. The Cavaliers -- at least on paper -- look stronger now than they did when they left the floor after a successful 2003-04 campaign. The Wine and Gold's top man took some time to go One-on-One with clevelandcavaliers.com about the Olympic games in Athens, the search for a veteran center and this summer's roster moves.

[Nevus]

Thanks for the updates remy, great posting.

Gooden chose 90? That's wacky... we'll see if that lasts. I guess there's nothing saying you can't do that.

[remy23]

I have no idea why Drew wants that number. I get the 0 part but unless he is adding previous numbers from earlier playing days (high school or AAU) to get the 9 part, I am not sure where the 9 came in from.

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Cavaliers center in on Clark

The Cavaliers still are searching for a backup center -- literally.

With training camp scheduled to start in 15 days at Capital University in Columbus, the roster remains in flux. They might have the candidate for the job: They just can't find him.

The team is trying to locate free agent Keon Clark -- a well-known free spirit and wanderer -- who apparently is beyond the bounds of modern communication devices.

[remy23]

Alleged dealer bought guns to protect Wagner

CAMDEN, N.J. -- Cleveland Cavaliers guard Dajuan Wagner and his mother were at risk of being kidnapped more than two years ago, a lawyer told a federal jury on Monday.

The statement came from a defense lawyer in the drug trial of Wagner's stepfather, Leonard "Pooh" Paulk. While Paulk is not charged with any gun crimes, prosecutors will assert that he bought some 20 semiautomatic weapons in 2002 as they try to prove he was involved in a drug conspiracy.

Paulk's lawyer, Dennis J. Cogan, said Paulk bought the guns to "arm his family" and protect Wagner. Paulk is married to Wagner's mother, Lisa Paulk.

With home troubles, Wagner needs to step up his basketball and stay away from what's going on back home. I just hope all this stuff doesn't distract him from focusing on working hard this preseason. The threat of possibly being kidnapped is a most serious situation. I hope Wagner and his family stay safe and this threat does not rear its ugly head again.

[remy23]

Clark auditions for backup center today

Keon Clark is scheduled to arrive in Cleveland today and that could lead to Clark signing a free-agent deal with the Cavaliers, according to a league source.

Clark is 6-11 and rail thin at 220 pounds but he fills the Cavs' desire for a veteran reserve center to back up Zydrunas Ilgauskas. This move is also being made because the organization has apparently lost patience with the development of center DeSagana Diop, who was the eighth overall pick in the 2001 NBA Draft.

[remy23]

Courtside With Joe Gabriele

Today we’re going to talk about one of the dirtiest words in all of sports on every level of sports. If there are any young childrens reading this, earmuffs please.

The dirty word is bench as in “the bench.” If you don’t think it’s a dirty word, then my friend, you’ve never been benched.

No one wants to be on “the bench.” The bench gets no respect. The bench is for Charlie Brown. The bench is for Rudy. It’s for Ogilvie.

[remy23]

Stephen Silas Chat Transcipt

Stephen Silas, 31, is beginning his second season as an assistant coach for the Cleveland Cavaliers. Silas brings an extensive knowledge of basketball from his years as an assistant coach and scout. As a Cavaliers assistant, he is charged with individual skill work, player development, game preparation, pregame walkthroughs and chalk talks as well as managing and developing technology and NBA scouting systems for the coaching staff.

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Sasha Settles Down In C-Town

June 23, 2004 seems like a long time ago. And in Cavalier years, it is.

So many major personnel moves have been made in Cleveland since then, that the events of that night seem almost quaint.

June 23 was the night that the Cavaliers lost one young gun only to acquire another in very short order. It was the night of the Charlotte Bobcats’ expansion draft and Bernie Bickerstaff scooped up rookie, Jason Kapono. It was a painful loss for a club that desperately needed perimeter scoring. But the expansion lottery – both for the team selecting players and the squads giving them up – is truly a numbers game. The Cavaliers weren’t crazy about losing the former Bruin, but it was an inevitability when he was left unprotected.

[remy23]

Drew Gooden Mix

Click right and download a clip of Gooden's highlights as a player. Until the season starts, use this to give you a vauge idea of Drew as a player and let's hope he does the same things for the Cavaliers as he does on this video.

For some reason, I chuckled when I saw Gooden block Boozer on a play. The person who made this video gets props for putting that in the mix.

Edit: The old site crashed, so I am putting the mix up on YouSendIt. This should last a little while.