WARNING EXTREMELY NEGATIVE POST but extremely honest criticism.
^It's a kick in the balls because we can now really understand what kind of player we lost in LBJ. He was that transcendent of a player, we were lucky.
We're lucky enough to get Kyrie, is the same 7 year situation repeating itself? Better yet are the Cavs going into years 3-4 of Kyrie's young prime, and we still haven't gotten the proper talent around him. It is factual that we missed out on many key draft opportunities along the way.
I agree with Bennett, that's the way the NBA is going, but Tristan Thompson? Kinda just hoping that one PF will work out in the end. We should have been fuckin around drafting centers instead, if that was our mentality all along. Certainly one of Valanciunas or Drummond would have worked out in the end.
Instead we're swinging for a home run on a PF prospect. There were no 6-10 LaMarcus Aldridge prospects in those drafts, so why fuck around drafting power forwards?
If they always had their sights on LeBron James, why did we keep drafting power forwards? That's going to ultimately be his position as he ages; and the other 4 positions should be filled with the most skilled players at their respective positions. That's how to maximize James. Get Kawhi Leonard on his team, get a DeAndre Jordan or Andre Drummond on the same team as LeBron James.... tell me what happens. Put some shooters around them, and bingo you're contending for a championship.
Miami never had any of the caliber athletes from my aforementioned group, and yet the Cavaliers could have drafted every single one of those guys minus Jordan. It's a compounding Karma, when you make that one mistake, then everything else falls out of place, perhaps we wouldn't been in the same position years later, but maybe we could have snagged Oladipo to put into that group as well, or we could have burned many of our assets to get Bradley Beal, who will ultimately be a difference maker in a series with his shot making ability.
As good as you might think Waiters is, the entire franchise really started spiraling downward the moment we passed up on Drummond and took Waiters instead. Is he worth the headache? If you are getting D-Wade, absolutely; but just there's no misunderstanding here, Dion will never be as good as Wade.
So do you implement the feisty player who is the center of attention, tough, not really level headed, and is an on and off type of personality? Was that a great idea? Perhaps we should have interviewed him first instead.
The Cleveland thing to happen is that everyone is freaking out, we're ecstatic, they're about to burn down Bar Louie, but little do they know they just won the #1 pick in the most god-awful draft I can ever remember.
Then, the GM does exactly what Bill Simmons predicted and that's come out of left field with a bizarre pick. Many people felt that same way about the Tristan Thompson pick, and there's still many fans bitter that we missed out on Valanciunas.
I'm most pissed that we didn't end up with Valanciunas or Andre Drummond!!!! We literally could have taken both, but somehow we ended up with Tristan Thompson and Dion Waiters. Yuck, I'm tasting bile coming up.....
Then, Anthony Bennett ladies and gentlemen. I am excited about the kid's potential, but if last summer you could have given me a peek into the future, I'd once again feel nausea coming on. You couldn't have asked for a worse start, and the worst 1st coach you could ever play under!!! And that's irrefutable.
