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Can't wait for this guy to leave so all his dickriders leave. Get this place back to actual fans of the Cavs.
 
I was here when LeBron left. I remember arguing with posters about how we screwed up drafting Thompson, Waiters, and Bennett and I got shit for it lol.
 
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I was here when LeBron left. I remember arguing with posters about how we screwed up drafting Thompson, Waiters, and Bennett and I got shit for it lol.

"You got to give the front office time"

"Bennett is a good player "

"It's lebrons fault"

Denial is not just a river in Egypt. We all know he's gone. Cle has the title, can't take that away

Going to be interesting who the new Bennett is, do not underestimate this front office ineptitude
 
First of all James is a much better shooter than Wade from anywhere, and a better three point shooter than Kobe or Jordan. But the more important flaw in your analysis is that you are comparing teams that won before the spacing era that started this decade to the older eras where the value of the three pointer was not acknowledged. Just look at all the championships since the Mavs won in 2011...all the winners were amongst the best three point shooting teams in the league, both in terms of frequency and in terms of accuracy.

Two of the examples you cited are during the days of illegal defense rule where guys didn't even have to shoot well to have a degree of gravity. By virtue of standing on the three point line, someone would have to guard non-shooters until Michael or Bird caught the ball, giving them more initial space than any star would have today if he wasn't surrounded by shooters. If you put non-shooters around any modern star, the paint would be clogged and the defense could shade towards them before the catch.

If you put LeBron on any of the rosters of the teams you mentioned above in place of the respective stars of those teams, the teams probably still would have won it all in those years. Are you really trying to argue that LeBron couldn't beat the Magic or the Celtics in 2009/2010 with the likes of Gasol, Odom, Bynum, etc. instead of Mo Williams and the corpse of Big Z? But none of those rosters you mention above are ideally suited to face teams like the 2014 Spurs or especially the current Warriors squad who are perfectly content to trade twos for threes. So the reality is that modern basketball requires a team of floor spacers around LeBron...and also around every other great star who wants to win a championship. That's not some flaw inherent to LeBron...that's just the reality of the NBA.

ACisKING and Porzingis for Shumpert.

Lets Do This, BBY!
 
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I was here when LeBron left. I remember arguing with posters about how we screwed up drafting Thompson, Waiters, and Bennett and I got shit for it lol.

Confused because your joined date is July 2017.
 
Denial is not just a river in Egypt.

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It really does suck that this dark cloud looms over us again this forthcoming season.

As incredible as it is to have LeBron on our team, the negative byproduct that exists when approaching the end of his contract becomes such a polarziing distraction.

Media speculation will continue to run rampant through the course of the season. Surely that impacts the remainder of the team as the pressure and uncertainty continues to swell.

But what it does, more than anything, is prevents us as fans, from fully enjoying this (potentially) final season of his. Every win, every loss, every "rest" game will beg the question: "where will LeBron be in 18/19?"

And there's just something about that that doesn't scream "fun" all that much to me.
 
I won't over react to regular season losses. The question is why Lebron doesn't just tell the Cavs that he will return. This tells me Lebron is considering other team(s). If he really wants to win his best chance is still with the Cavs.
 
Can't wait for this guy to leave so all his dickriders leave. Get this place back to actual fans of the Cavs.
"O Hero! What a Hero hadst thou been
If half thy outward graces had been placed
About thy thoughts and counsels of thy heart!
But fare thee well, most foul, most fair, farewell
Thou pure impiety and impious purity."
 
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Denial is not just a river in Egypt. We all know he's gone. Cle has the title, can't take that away

Going to be interesting who the new Bennett is, do not underestimate this front office ineptitude
This is the kind of a post that only a complete dickhead would make (and this is me attacking the post, not the poster). "We all" don't know jack shit.
 
LBJ with his actions is driving the speculations of him going to the west coast. IE Business office, house buying, son's school visit, no commitment to the cavs after this year.

IMHO think the cavs should take this opportunity to not give up on this season or on resigning LBJ but to get younger. Approach the Lakers, Clippers, and the Kings about trading for Love and Jefferson. Could be a bidding war as getting Love and Jefferson would likely give the a team
potentially an advantage in signing LBJ.

Cleveland gets talent for this year and helps to protect themselves if LBJ leaves.
 
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No, Lebron is making the decisions easy. He will be 34(37 in usage years) in 2019. He just wants to chill. Any team that gets him, will be disappointed.
 

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