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Rich said:
I think the floor is high but the ceiling low.

30 wins is the bottom (unless Love goes down for a major amount of time) but 40 wins is the top.

I've got them finishing 10th in the East at like 33 wins.
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Sounds about right.

I’ve got their non major injury floor at about 26 and their ceiling at around 40.

I’m expecting them to have a better record in the first half of the season than the second half.

I’m thinking 35 wins and the 8th slot in the lottery.

All of that would be fine with me. The sole metric of anyone’s happiness with this season can not simply be wins and losses.
 
Naumoski said:
According to Ryan Piers @RyanPiersMedia @HoopsHabit
Cleveland Cavaliers: The 3 best possible starting lineups
1. Sexton, Hood, Korver, Love and Thompson
2. Clarkson, Hood, Korver, Love and Nance
3. Hill, Clarkson, Hood, Love and Thompson
None of these lineups are best for me, Cedi is also surprisingly out from all.
Go Cedi go, prove yourself, haters gonna hate :)
https://hoopshabit.com/2018/10/04/cleveland-cavaliers-the-3-best-possible-starting-lineups/
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Clarkson? Cmon man...
 
tn819 said:
In these candid moments of ignorance, I truly wonder if these guys have ever opened a book or instead spent the entirety of their adult lives running around chasing a ball. Would be curious to hear their efforts speaking in any foreign language of their choosing.
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I believe it was in good jest. TT is a goof.

Cedi has signicantly improved his english as well. All-around player indeed.
 
Zach Lowe pans our team, puts us in the "bad" tier with Sacramento, the Knicks, etc.

http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/24944590/zach-lowe-nba-tiers-rankings-best-worst-teams-2018-19

• The Cavs probably rank as the only surprise here [in the "bad" tier]. Some projections have them challenging for the Nos. 7 and 8 seeds in the East. I can't get there. The single most important ingredient in constructing even a mediocre team is an engine who can break down defenses from the outside in. Usually, that person is a ball-handler. That guy is gone.

Kevin Love can work a facsimile from the elbows, and by leveraging the threat of his 3-pointer to unlock looks for teammates. Running like hell can compensate for the absence of an elite ball-handler, and the Cavs are urging almost everyone to push after rebounds.

But the guard and wing play projects as so underwhelming. Every big man, save for Love, needs someone else to do the heavy lifting. Cleveland bombed from deep with LeBron; the Cavs hit 42 percent of their wide-open open triples last season, tops in the league. Who is generating those looks now? Things get super ugly if Love misses significant time again.

These guys were a train wreck on defense last season. They should improve by accident, and by, you know, trying a little. But they aren't going to be good.

Cleveland is the last member of our protected-pick brigade; it owes Atlanta a top-10 protected pick that converts into two second-rounders if the Cavs don't send it in either 2019 or 2020 -- i.e. if they stink both of those seasons. The bet here is that by the trade deadline, the math surrounding that pick is a more pressing concern than Cleveland's playoff chances. Will Dan Gilbert, rabid for a post-LeBron playoff berth, let his front office ease off the gas?​
 
cavsfever said:
Zach Lowe pans our team, puts us in the "bad" tier with Sacramento, the Knicks, etc.

http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/24944590/zach-lowe-nba-tiers-rankings-best-worst-teams-2018-19

• The Cavs probably rank as the only surprise here [in the "bad" tier]. Some projections have them challenging for the Nos. 7 and 8 seeds in the East. I can't get there. The single most important ingredient in constructing even a mediocre team is an engine who can break down defenses from the outside in. Usually, that person is a ball-handler. That guy is gone.

Kevin Love can work a facsimile from the elbows, and by leveraging the threat of his 3-pointer to unlock looks for teammates. Running like hell can compensate for the absence of an elite ball-handler, and the Cavs are urging almost everyone to push after rebounds.

But the guard and wing play projects as so underwhelming. Every big man, save for Love, needs someone else to do the heavy lifting. Cleveland bombed from deep with LeBron; the Cavs hit 42 percent of their wide-open open triples last season, tops in the league. Who is generating those looks now? Things get super ugly if Love misses significant time again.

These guys were a train wreck on defense last season. They should improve by accident, and by, you know, trying a little. But they aren't going to be good.

Cleveland is the last member of our protected-pick brigade; it owes Atlanta a top-10 protected pick that converts into two second-rounders if the Cavs don't send it in either 2019 or 2020 -- i.e. if they stink both of those seasons. The bet here is that by the trade deadline, the math surrounding that pick is a more pressing concern than Cleveland's playoff chances. Will Dan Gilbert, rabid for a post-LeBron playoff berth, let his front office ease off the gas?​
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I agree with Lowes take. We are going to have to just spam threes and play hard like last years nets for us to win games.
 
Jedi Osman said:
I don't want to eat my words but i guess a lot of experts


Good decision. No need to rush it. His time will come sooner than later.
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Rush what? It’s not like George Hill is some world beater. He showed nothing last season with LeBron, what is going to show without?

I already knew this though. I was being sarcastic.
 
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