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Gilbert will be in budget slashing mode soon enough. He went with emotions and that didn't work out, to no surprise.
I think it was more of Dan foolishly thinking people would buy tickets as long as Kevin Love was still on the team. The same Kevin Love that the casual fan is done with after coming here and never living up to their high expectations.
Dan also may have bought into the "Ty Lue is really a great coach who was being held back by LBJ" theory, when the truth may end up being "Ty Lue is an ultra-crappy coach who was being propped up by LBJ." If you are expecting the HC to be worth an extra 5-10 wins, and he's actually worth an extra -10 losses....
It could get really fucking ugly.
Not to mention that fact that watching either of those teams for 48 minutes doesn't make you want to jump into the tv and beat their head coach with a baseball bat.I was watching Dallas-Chicago last night and it made me realize how far we have to go. IMO both Dallas or Chicago are bad teams and I don't think either will make the playoffs. But they both have way more talent than we do especially young talent. Dallas has Doncic, Dennis Smith, and DeAndre Jordan along with some decent older role players like Wes Matthews. Chicago has Zach Lavine, Kris Dunn, Wendell Carter, Jabari Parker, Lauri Markkanen, and maybe Bobby Portis if you think he's talented.
We've got Love, Sexton, Osman. Love is looking past his sell-by date and it's unclear how talented Sexton will be, if he reaches even Kris Dunn level. We look years away from having the talent base of Dallas or Chicago.
What about Nance Jr? We just gave him 4/45,,,would he be considered a building block type player? I ask because I'm not really sure myself.I was watching Dallas-Chicago last night and it made me realize how far we have to go. IMO both Dallas or Chicago are bad teams and I don't think either will make the playoffs. But they both have way more talent than we do especially young talent. Dallas has Doncic, Dennis Smith, and DeAndre Jordan along with some decent older role players like Wes Matthews. Chicago has Zach Lavine, Kris Dunn, Wendell Carter, Jabari Parker, Lauri Markkanen, and maybe Bobby Portis if you think he's talented.
We've got Love, Sexton, Osman. Love is looking past his sell-by date and it's unclear how talented Sexton will be, if he reaches even Kris Dunn level. We look years away from having the talent base of Dallas or Chicago.
What about Nance Jr? We just gave him 4/45,,,would he be considered a building block type player? I ask because I'm not really sure myself.
Gilbert will be in budget slashing mode soon enough. He went with emotions and that didn't work out, to no surprise.
We need to draft stars, it's early, but I don't think we drafted a star in Sexton. That's what the team really needs to focus on.Dan has never been a "budget slasher" with this team. Even after we lost LBJ in 2010--he put his money where his mouth was and took Baron Davis' albatross contract for a unprotected 1st that turned into the guy who hit the game winning shot in game 7 of the 2016 NBA finals---Kyrie Irving.
I think Dan will certainly probably make Altman keep us under the luxury tax for this season and next season, but that's actually a smart move while we're re-tooling because it completely resets the luxury tax penalties we'd incur for being repeat tax payers.
In fact, if the Cavs stay under the luxury tax the next two years while also keeping our first rounder we owe to Atlanta both years(top 10 protected the next two years, then turns into 2nd rounders) and stay away from bringing in overpriced free agents, we could be looking at a pretty interesting roster in the summer of 2020...We'd only have Nance and Love on the books at declining salaries, Sexton on his rookie deal, Zizic on his rookie deal, the next two 1st rounders on their rookie deals, and Osman I believe would be heading into restricted free agency. We could easily have 2 full max slots and then some on top of Love, Nance and the other young bucks. Clarkson and Thompsons contracts will be up and I believe everyone else is basically on an expiring this year.
In fact, if I were the Cavs...that would be my plan without a doubt. I would even try to lock Osman up on a reasonable extension as soon as possible and then I would only sign free agents to 1 year deals next summer.
Stay under the tax, reset the repeater penalties, pick in the top 10 for the next two years and then you're looking at 2020/2021 with hopefully an intriguing young core of Sexton, 2 top 10 picks, Osman and Zizic (plus anything we get for Korver/, a good veteran big on a declining salary, a borderline all-star veteran big on a declining salary...and about 70 million or so in cap room? Even if we cant land any big free agents, the cap room gives you many avenues to improve your team.
I wonder if that might not be secretly what Koby and the front office are hoping happens.
I'm not gonna grade sexton yet, especially after just 3 games. As I said before, we can Tank all we want and it won't mean a thing unless we hit with the picks. Some teams are stuck tanking for years because they suck at scouting.We need to draft stars, it's early, but I don't think we drafted a star in Sexton. That's what the team really needs to focus on.