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Right, like I'm not saying we are absolutely going to win a championship. But I also think it's pretty extreme to say our offseason cost us one. We'll see how this team gels come next season, but if everyone is health (minus Varejao and that is still a huge if), I don't see why this team can't compete for the title.It's too premature guys.. Going in either direction of the argument.
I've been keeping notes of what's been going on, and I think at the end of the offseason we should think about what the Cavaliers accomplished to make this team better.
Right now, I am not satisfied. But, I'm also not far at all from @MirORich or @kovanovich 's positions either; in that, we really need to take a wait and see approach.
Maybe Griffin has a plan... maybe.. Maybe he doesn't, and maybe we did miss out on some pretty solid pieces.
Right now, again, it doesn't look like the most well managed set of decisions. It's the GM's job to get talent, to convince said talent to play for the best team in the league and to sell them on a guaranteed Finals appearance. The fact that we haven't been able to do so thus far speaks volumes, but what speaks even louder is the fact that the Cavaliers have not been reported as one of the teams pursuing some pretty prominent figures.
We were linked to West, but AFAIK, that's about it; and ultimately it seems like it was the Cavs who chose not to make the Johnson trade.
If that turns out to be true, that we balked at trading Haywood+Varejao for Joe Johnson and that cost us David West... boy oh boy... Especially considering Varejao might not even play 30 games this season.
...not going to go on forever about purely speculative things... really it just boils down to a wait and see approach. But August 1st is fast approaching and it looks like we might, at most, get a TPE (which will cost us an asset). It also looks like our draft night decisions have not worked out either.
We'll see where we are in two weeks.
The biggest mistake we made -- if it was in fact us who made it -- was not trading Varejao and Haywood for Joe Johnson when we had the chance. I still don't necessarily believe that cost us a championship. It would've just been really nice to have that talent as simple depth.