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The Opening Night Optimism Thread

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This year is going to be a total slog. All this talk of "fun" and "development" is going to look mighty silly come January.
 
I'm a Cavaliers fan for life and I'll be watching them all year. But I'm not even excited for the season. Last 4 years has been so much, watching the best player in the world on a daily basis, winning 50+ games a year every year, 4 trips to the Finals and the Championship. Everything you want in watching your team. To me that, is much more fun that watching what is most likely going to be a losing team all year.
 
This year is going to be a total slog. All this talk of "fun" and "development" is going to look mighty silly come January.

IF teh Defense is terrible and 4every game turns into a shoot out could be fun.

I dunno. i enjoyed Kyrie before Lebron came back. Loved the Delly Dion run late in early 2014 too.
 
I'm a Cavaliers fan for life and I'll be watching them all year. But I'm not even excited for the season. Last 4 years has been so much, watching the best player in the world on a daily basis, winning 50+ games a year every year, 4 trips to the Finals and the Championship. Everything you want in watching your team. To me that, is much more fun that watching what is most likely going to be a losing team all year.
Watching the worlds best player coast to the playoffs. Regular seasons sucked
 
If Love or to a lesser degree Hood gets hurt for a significant amount of time we could see the Cavs struggle enough to justify tanking hard to retain the lottery pick after the deadline dealings of Korver and Hill & maybe Smith, but if not, I cannot see them winning less than 41 games putting them right in the mix for the 7th or 8th seed. I have a lot more confidence in this team right now than I might have after a couple weeks though esp if they are not pushing the pace like they are planning out of the gate. This roster as is will outperform most models if I had to bet on it.
If they run, they can beat 75% of the teams they face, if they run and they defend at a decent level as the season goes on they could be the 4 seed.
I think their floor without going tank mode is 8th seed but only because of a tough end to the season schedule otherwise 7th.
By tanking hard do you mean throwing games ? Just the let season play out. It will be what it will be. We will get assets for hill Korver maybe tt or jr at some point. Not going to worry about the Atlanta pick. If we play well enough to not get I think that would be great. If we suck that bad that we are in the lottery then you have the pick.
 
IF teh Defense is terrible and 4every game turns into a shoot out could be fun.

I dunno. i enjoyed Kyrie before Lebron came back. Loved the Delly Dion run late in early 2014 too.
Well you're probably one of the four mentally deranged people who enjoyed the "Delly-Dion run"
 
I'm ok with it as long as we see some development from Cedi/Sexton and we keep our 2019 pick..

What really sucks is the most stacked team in the EC, the Celtics, own Sac's pick..

Agreed 100%. Not really worried about the Celts or Sacto. It sucks, but things change over time .
 
I just think that we can both “suck” and see some exciting development from our young core - these two things don’t have to be mutually exclusive. Say, for instance, if we lose a game by 15-20 but Sexton balls out, Cedi looks like the second coming of LeBron and the rest of our guys show signs of growth, I’ll take that. We’re going to be the second best team on most nights and that’s okay. What we’re looking for are signs of promise moving forward.
 
IF teh Defense is terrible and 4every game turns into a shoot out could be fun.

I dunno. i enjoyed Kyrie before Lebron came back. Loved the Delly Dion run late in early 2014 too.

I think this is the scenario for the second unit when Love and Cedi are off the floor. It will basically be garbage time basketball with some players trying to get the stats. And that's exactly why I want Zizic and Sexton to play with the first unit. There is no way the second unit can use Zizic correctly(and he would just look bad on defense) and there is really not much development or learning for Sexton in this type of basketball.

Kyrie would be fun, but we have Clarkson :).
 
Man I miss Delly
After we purge the roster of most of the junk next year, I'd love it if we extended a reasonable offer to Delly to operate as Sexton's backup. The Cleveland love was mutual and I don't see too much of a demand for him.

That'd be a really high-character group of guys to root for.
 
I think we’re gonna suck, but I’m looking forward to seeing Love as the main option again, Cedis development, and also if Lue is a good coach who was hampered by Lebron of if he’s trash (either way we should have the opportunity for a good coach lmao)
 
I suppose I understand some of the downer elements of people being disappointed our run at the top is over. Who thought it would last forever?

I am happy they didn't blow it all up and have this team aligned to PROPERLY build itself up. I think the fanbase is going to see some very positive basketball and will be pleased with the product.

You have a nice blend of guys on your team in terms of age and it seems they also are focused. What few people realize is how small the dividing line can be with pro ball. The want is a big part of it all. Talent? All of these guys are super talented. It is the want and desire to achieve. I hope our guys get after it and make the city proud.
 
I suppose I understand some of the downer elements of people being disappointed our run at the top is over. Who thought it would last forever?

I am happy they didn't blow it all up and have this team aligned to PROPERLY build itself up. I think the fanbase is going to see some very positive basketball and will be pleased with the product.

You have a nice blend of guys on your team in terms of age and it seems they also are focused. What few people realize is how small the dividing line can be with pro ball. The want is a big part of it all. Talent? All of these guys are super talented. It is the want and desire to achieve. I hope our guys get after it and make the city proud.

Also, the run really ended not when Lebron left, but when Kyrie left. Prob not even that, when Durant signed. We were just in denial.
 

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