No. A true fan watches EACH game and he gets pissed off with EACH LOSE. What about that don't you understand? Maybe it's you who should stop watching if you actually believe passion and heart have nothing to do with a game. They do. If the Cavs had played with as much passion tonight as they did against the Heat, tonight would have been a win. Period.
Passion and heart are things to fall back on when you can't point to an actual measurable. It's the same thing Kobe fans use to tell everyone that he is, in fact, a better player than LBJ.
You say the team lacks passion simply because it gets blown out over and over. You fail to realize that lack of talent, and a severe lack of talent, can lead to contiuous blowouts. A team can play hard and still get killed. Give me one thing this team did better against MIami as compared to tonight? The only difference is Daniel Gibson couldn't go 10-16 again. Did he play less hard? Did he suddenly not care? Or, is it because he just isn't good enough.
I'm done blaming losses on passion and desire. You do that with talented teams that are underperoming. This team, and people need to seriously think about this next line, IS NOT UNDERPERFORMING. Their record is almost exactly where it should be considering the talent level of the team. So many of you still, for w/e reason, think this team is actually better than it's been playing, and I just don't know how many blowout losses to bad teams it will take before you take the blinders off. Go back and read that Miami game thread. In the middle of if, you were again claiming the team lacked this so-called heart and desire....only suddenly to change your tune when they made a run. Do you think they just weren't trying until the end? You seem to be confusing making shots with playing hard. One does not mean the other.
This team sucks at defense not because it doesn't try, but because it doesn't have talented enough defenders. We have no shot blocker, a PG who plays his ass off but simply sucks at defense, a very undersized 2 and 3 guard, and a PF who hasn't been able to play defense his entire life. Again, this isn't heart, this is who these guys are. They can try all they want, and that doesn't mean they can beat a teams that are better than them.
Let me make this clear: This team has less talent than the Indiana Pacers. Period. If they were to play hard, then the only way they beat the Pacers is if the Pacers don't play as hard. And even then it would require them to actually make shots, which they struggle at.