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I think it has to be the Cavs. No direction, no leader. Best player is Antawn Jamison followed by Mo Williams. Looks like a futile season.
this really shows just how valuable lebron really was/is. he took a team to the finals, and deep playoff runs, and with his departure really being the only major player movement (big z doesnt really count) they dropped to potentially the worst in the league the very next year. what other player/team would that have happened to? maybe the heat.
And I think they are 2nd in attendance? Granted, most of those seats were sold before LBJ left but still kind of a funny stat (if its true, I read it one place, I cant find the hard #s to back it up).
this really shows just how valuable lebron really was/is. he took a team to the finals, and deep playoff runs, and with his departure really being the only major player movement (big z doesnt really count) they dropped to potentially the worst in the league the very next year. what other player/team would that have happened to? maybe the heat.
At first I was thinking Dwight Howard or maybe Deron Williams, but even if they left, I think their teams wouldn't be AS bad as this Cavs team is. I think they would be sub-500 but yeah, not as bad as this Cavs squad. Good point.
As a Cavs fan...I admit, they have proven to be the worst team this season.
I will say that everyone keeps saying how it just "proves how valuable LeJudas was to the Cavs," which there is no denying he is the main difference, but keep in mind, they lost two other key players in Shaq & Delonte West as well. Add to that, they have a mountain of injuries right now w/Mo Williams missing 8 games this season and now out indefinitely; Varajeo has missed 10 games and is out for the rest of the season; Gibson missed 8 games as well. Cavs would not be the worst team w/all 3 of those guys healthy. And, had they kept Shaq & West w/Mo, Jamison & Varajeo - would have been a decent starting 5 that probably made a run at the playoffs.
Orangeish, you can probably kind of relate as your 98 Bulls went from World Champion to 13-37 in 1999; and just 17-65, 15-67, and 21-61 the following 3 seasons respectively. I sure hope it doesn't take the Cavs 4 seasons to get back to respectability, but unless they can get a couple of impact players in the next couple drafts, it might be a long, slow process to climb back up the mountain and a number of painful seasons still to come.
One reason I think the Cavs are so bad is they built their entire team to be a fit with LeBron. The team was constructed to make best use of his abilities, so it doesn't function well without him.
Yeah, I still have scars in my retinas from the hole watching those teams burned in my eyes. One thing I hope the Cavs do better than the Bulls though is draft, Elton Brand was an ok pick, but having to sit through the "twin tower" years with 18 year olds Eddy Curry and Tyson Chandler was so very painful.
Just thinking about some of those rosters with Fizer, Artest, Mercer, Rose, Donyelle Marshal, Trenton Hassel, Jay-Will...Augh so many bad players, bad luck cases, and wasted years. Things finally got a little better with the Kirk Heinrich/Ben Gordon squads, but even they were never a top tier team.
Honestly if the Bulls hadn't lucked into the first pick for D Rose we would still be toiling in the land of mediocre to bad.
didnt west miss a lot of time last year? i would not consider him or shaq anything more then role players, guys who could have been replaced fairly easily with a little bit of try. i dont think the cavs have even tried. i get the feeling they wanted to show lebron "we can without you with just the guys we had around you" and that sorta backfired. while i agree without the injuries they would not be the WORST team in the nba, i would not put them higher then the bottom 5 teams if healthy.
i see/read a lot of the cavs fans try to play it off like lebron wasnt the only thing they had in cleveland but that is just false, lebron was EVERYTHING to that team, and that city.
the only other team (outside the bulls mentioned) i could see such a fall would have been if kobe had left when shaq did but thats 2 players who worked together to go places and not a single player carrying the load.
on a side note, how far will the blazers fall the rest of the season with roy down, camby down, oden.... the knee injuries just keep stacking up over there. i cant remember a team with so many players with similar injuries in one season.
portland, come for the roses and beer, leave with a busted knee!
I think it has to be the Cavs. No direction, no leader. Best player is Antawn Jamison followed by Mo Williams. Looks like a futile season.
*The Kings is the first/second worst.
*Wizards.
*Timberwolves.
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