I don't ever want to hear the phrase, "It's a long season", ever again. That is an absolute cop out used by players, coaches, and fans with blinders on to justify unjustifiable bad losses in the first half of a schedule. And it is those losses that, year in and year out, ultimately are the ones responsible for keeping a team like the Cavaliers out of the playoffs.
Mike Brown, point blank, did not have the Cleveland Cavaliers basketball team prepared to play this season. That is his job. I was sick to my stomach at the announcement of his re-hiring. This season (one where, from the management on down to the coaches and players, we expected to be in the playoffs has been an abject failure. What's worse is Brown's complete lack of player development with rookies like Karasev, Bennett, and Felix in the midst of this cl*sterf*ck.
If he isn't fired after this season, I have absolutely no hope that this team will ever reach the championship caliber status we all, and Dan Gilbert, aspire it to become. What an absolutely deflating year for this fanbase with no light at the end of the tunnel in sight.
How does this team energize the Cleveland Cavalier fanbase next year. Because, right now after so many broken promises, it's going to take a Herculean effort to inspire any optimism and convince someone like me that we aren't just headed for more of the same.
