Now with the wade injury, I predict the cavs will be in the finals this year.

If you’re just into winning championships, regular season half-assedness is not a bad strategy. But if you just enjoy basketball, it sucks. I would much rather watch old tapes of dallas-sacramento when they were putting up 70 point halves and know the outcome than watch a current San Antonio game without knowing if SA was going to bore the other team into losing or not.

Classic series. 7 games and all but 1 were decided in the final minutes. Had Robert Snorry not ressurected in game 5 you probably would’ve won back to back titles.

“As evidenced by the statistics you see LeBron has been carrying this team since he’s been in the league with no support from anyone else.”

If you listen to The Cavalier tho this is a team that “underacheives” and that when they play at their best, no one can beat them. Alrighty Cav. Daniel Gibson is the truth, tho. Too bad LeBore’s ego won’t ever give the guy a decent shot of being a true second option, you know with his whole “Let me hold the ball for 22 seconds and shoot an awkward running fadeaway.”

I hope it is a Detroit vs. San Antonio finals. That was actually the most evenly matched Finals of recent memory, truly could’ve gone either way.

I’d hardly call a Cavs’ loss the same as making fun of cancer patients. Cavs win by 1 over the Gnaptors and everyone is back on the bandwagon. It’s fun to read how everyone keeps saying “this is Lebron’s year” and then at the all-star break everyone is saying now how he lacks killer instinct.

The Cavaliers have virtually the same amount (if not less talent) of talent they had the season after they drafted LeBron. Let’s look, just for comparison’s sake k?

LeBron James (20.9 PPG, 5.5 REB, 5.9 AST) 2004
LeBron James (26.5 PPG, 6.8 REB, 5.7 AST) 2006-2007

Carlos Boozer PF (15.5 PPG, 11.4 REB) 2004
Drew Gooden PF (11.5 PPG, 8.5 REB) 2006-2007

Ricky Davis SG (15.3 PPG, 43% FG%, 5.5 REB, 1.1 STL) 2004
Larry Hughes SG (14.8 PPG, 40% FG%, 3.5 REB, 1.25 STL) 2006-2007

Z C (15.3 PPG, 8.1 REB) 2004
Z C (11.7 PPG, 8.2 REB) 2006-2007

Let’s use Jeff McInnis as PG (11.7 PPG, 7.5 AST, 1.2 STL) 2004
Let’s use combo of Boobie and Eric Snow..
Boobie (5.0 PPG, 44% FG%, 1.1 AST) 2006-2007
Snow (4.7 PPG, 41% FG%, 4.4 AST) 2006-2007

There are other odds and ends that I could add in, to make it basically even out or show the lack of talent on this squad compared to LeBron’s rookie year.

So why is it some sort of surprise that this team is “underachieving”. It should come as no surprise to anyone that this team is destined to overachieve (at best) at anything they get. As evidenced by the statistics you see LeBron has been carrying this team since he’s been in the league with no support from anyone else. Add that to the fact that he feels he’s owed everything in the world and he thinks he can just ignore his coach. Your boys made the mistake when they fired Paul Silas.

Could it be that the teams that were actually “good” are getting older or worse or staying the same? In the case of teams like the Wizards (finally), Pistons, Bulls, Magic, and Raptors, I’d say no other team has really substantially gotten better since 2004. The Nets have stayed the same, if you remember, they went to the Finals a few years ago. The 76ers have gotten older and then now they’re worse, they went to the Finals too. The Pacers have gotten old, ghettofied, and now worse, and they went to the Finals recently.

The Heat have always been on the brink of being decent since they originated. They got lucky when they got Shaq AND Wade together, but now that “dynasty” is done. The Celtics have been average at best. The Hawks have been terrible since ‘Nique hung them up. Charlotte Bobcats? Please. Knicks have just recently become horrible. Milwaukee is horrible.

Is it really that the Cavaliers have gotten that much better, or is that the Eastern Conference has gradually gotten worse OR older? Detroit is an older team, Philly got old before recently, Nets are getting old and are injury prone, and the Heat are old and injury prone and those are the last 4 to represent the East.

Your thoughts?

Let’s not forget they choked away a 3-1 lead on the Spurs and would have never been in the Finals had it not been for Manu’s idiotic foul on Shaggy and ensuing 3 point play. Hopefully The Cubanettes won’t get the calls from the refs this year and all will be well with a Spurs/Pistons finals again. It’s only right that the two teams that play beatiful basketball the right way get to duke it out again.