We have an individual players thread or three, but I was thinking because of the thread where we discussed the 88-89 Cavs losing to "The Shot," and come to think of it, that had to be one of the best franchise teams ever overall everything considered; it had the same regular-season record as some other very special team. We've also gotten some Kyrie trade fatigue, so time for something different for the offseason.
In keeping with another recent discussion, normalize training and nutrition between generations, etc. as you see fit.
1. 2015-2016 - duh
2. 2014-2015 - 53-29 regular season, won the first 2 Finals games in franchise history, against the first iteration of the Greatest Show on hardWood despite injuries, only 2 playoff losses before that finals
3. 2016-2017 - a lot of deficiencies on defense, but won 1 Finals game against likely the GOAT team, and had only 1 narrow playoff loss before then
4-T 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 - Best regular seasons ever, 66 and 61 wins. Lots of "what if's" in each season due to what happened the latter season against what appeared to be an inferior Boston team that went on to nearly win the Finals. The 08-09 season is harder to tell because of all the things that went wrong against Orlando, and how if we won we seemed to match up so poorly against the Lakers.
6 1991-1992 - another regular season matching our favorite year's. Matched 75-76 for getting closer to the finals than anyone else up to 07.
The 88-89 team might be 7th or 8th? When you look through the team history - and not an expert here who's watched the old games, but have watched quite a bit dating back to 2001 or so, but only a little before that - you have to go quite a ways down the list to get to the one other team that actually made the finals.
In keeping with another recent discussion, normalize training and nutrition between generations, etc. as you see fit.
1. 2015-2016 - duh
2. 2014-2015 - 53-29 regular season, won the first 2 Finals games in franchise history, against the first iteration of the Greatest Show on hardWood despite injuries, only 2 playoff losses before that finals
3. 2016-2017 - a lot of deficiencies on defense, but won 1 Finals game against likely the GOAT team, and had only 1 narrow playoff loss before then
4-T 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 - Best regular seasons ever, 66 and 61 wins. Lots of "what if's" in each season due to what happened the latter season against what appeared to be an inferior Boston team that went on to nearly win the Finals. The 08-09 season is harder to tell because of all the things that went wrong against Orlando, and how if we won we seemed to match up so poorly against the Lakers.
6 1991-1992 - another regular season matching our favorite year's. Matched 75-76 for getting closer to the finals than anyone else up to 07.
The 88-89 team might be 7th or 8th? When you look through the team history - and not an expert here who's watched the old games, but have watched quite a bit dating back to 2001 or so, but only a little before that - you have to go quite a ways down the list to get to the one other team that actually made the finals.
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