Between this and your post about the Cavs being cock-blocked by the rest of the East, I think we’ve reached the “go home, you’re drunk” portion of today’s programming.
The Cavs did do a total rebuild. And they’ve hit big time on two of their picks, in Garland and Mobley. The jury’s still out on Sexton and Okoro, but neither one is an out-and-out bust. The two picks that haven’t worked out were Windler (although
@PIP might want to chime in here, tireless Windler defender that he is …) and KPJ (a reasonable risk that just didn’t work out). I’m not sure what else you were expecting.
In fact, we could point out that the Cavs did have a rebuild of the type you mention, with multiple firsts in consecutive drafts. That rebuild went so great, it required #23 coming home to rescue it from being a giant bag of farts. So let’s not pretend that piling up draft picks is some guarantee of future success.
As for next year’s playoffs: you’re putting on anti-homer goggles and assuming that all of the current playoff teams will stay at that level, whereas the Cavs won’t improve at all (or not enough to matter). Those are two huge and likely false assumptions (especially the first one).
Nobody said that the Cavs were guaranteed playoffs next season, so let’s let go of that strawman. All anybody has said is that it would be disappointing if the Cavs don’t make the playoffs next season. Given their trajectory, that sounds right to me.
