Last season as in 09-10?!? WOW, I remember pretty much every game going down to the wire last season.
the cavs may have blown out the bad teams, but against mid-range and good teams the cavs struggled....i'm not revising history...others are remembering it wrong.
Last season as in 09-10?!? WOW, I remember pretty much every game going down to the wire last season.
32 of the team's 61 wins last season were by double digits.
13 of the remaining 29 came by at least 7 points.
That means the Cavs only had 16 wins decided by 6 or fewer points.
Maybe they weren't blowouts in the sense that the team was up 20+ the whole game, but it's not like every game was coming down to the last shot.
The team that did win 7 games is still on the roster.
The team that DID beat Boston is still on the roster.
The team that did win 7 games is still on the roster. The team that DID beat Boston is still on the roster. The team that has played real well at the start of the season is still on the roster. This isn't a case of really bad players, but a case of really average players who USE TO play as a real team and USE TO play REAL HARD, suddenly NOT caring at all. This current team has indeed quit.
Like I have asked prior, when does this become a coaching problem? It's definitely a defeatist and attitude problem so how much can this new team's problems be attributed to coaching?
The bottomline is that this team needs to be blown up.
1. For the most part no one wants any of the players on this team. By this I mean no one is willing to trade a quality player for nearly every player on the Cavs roster. That tells you something- the talent is bad.
2. Forget the margins of the past, this team is losing like crazy this season without Lebron. The talent on this team simply is not good. Lebron made this team a winner.
You go ask GMs what they would trade for Jamison, Mo Williams, Varejao, Hickson, Parker, Moon etc and the players they will offer will not be impressive, even in a hypothetical world without salaries.
Where would you rank each player on this team at their respective positions?
Do that and compare it to good/decent teams and you will see a HUGE difference. No one can deny this.
Things could not be going better IMO. Even in a crappy draft, the #1-#3 picks can net you a player to build with. This team needs talent and the draft is the only way to get it when you're Cleveland.