I've got a bit of a different take on this. While, as a whole, I've enjoyed very little about this season and the players on our roster (and I'm not going to re-iterate those points - most of you have done a great job in outlining these already), there was a time - short as it was - that I was totally euphoric about this team's chances.
Cast your minds back to this:
First game with the new squad. We didn't know what to expect and I must admit, I approached this with a great deal of trepidation. Watch those highlights and you see a swagger that doesn't feel present right now. There was an energy about the unknown, a feeling of anxious intrigue about what this team could become.
Watch every bucket on offense. No complicated sets, just high IQ, natural basketball.
This was before the meddling by the coaching staff, the locker room pressures, injuries, rotation ambiguities and the expectation that Guy A should get X shots and Guy B should get Y shots.
This was a bunch of guys who knew how to play good ball and were out there doing just that. I remember jumping up and down with excitement after watching the brand of basketball they played that day.
But of course, as we progressed, things for one reason or another went downhill pretty quickly.
I guess while there's a lot to dislike about these Cavs (Jeff Green's ineptitude, Hood's under-performance, Hill's lack of impact and no clear third best player), I still hold hope that this team can re-ignite. These aren't really a bunch of guys you'll ever like that much individually - but as a team, if they can somehow get on the same damn page, there's still a lot left to like about them as a collective.