The sooner some of you stop caring what the sports media thinks about the Cavs, or anything really, the happier you'll be.
Cavs were only going to get credit if they beat Miami, and not because Miami is good, but because these same media members said Miami was good. So therefore they made up their minds who the good teams in the East were before they actually played in the playoffs.
But who cares? This is why bitching about the Warriors path being easy never made sense. You play who you play. If you win a title, your path means jackshit and no one will remember if it was easy or hard 5 years after the fact.