Well said. Way too much ink spilled over TT and JR. Let's say each of them got three million less per year than they did...does that really even change the Cavs flexibility that much? Or are people advocating that the Cavs should have let those guys go even though they had no means of replacing them?
I also totally agree about Kyrie and Love. I'm not going to blame them for losing to the Warriors this year, because they were hardly the reason for those losses, but they are the ones who, along with LeBron, are eating up a majority of the cap space. The Cavs have three max contracts, but only one of them is even consistently an All-NBA player. Kyrie is objectively not a top ten overall player right now, and he absolutely needs to become one to try and narrow the talent gap with the Warriors. Love is probably not even a consensus top 25 player anymore. The team the Cavs needs to beat has two consensus top five players, and two other top 20 players.
In the end though, I don't really think anyone is to blame: not Gilbert, not Griff, not LeBron...nor any of the players. The Cavs built a team good enough to win multiple championships in the modern era. And then the Warriors broke the league...