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CelticsElite:
http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/21202063/cleveland-cavaliers-not-concerned-several-recent-losses

CelticSooner:
They are mailing it in, no surprise. They are a worse team than last year though.

crimson_stallion:
I called it a couple of weeks ago - the Cavs are looking terrible right now.  On the court and off the court, they are a mess. 

Cavs are missing Kyrie in a massive way. 

Lebron is an amazing player, but he's 33 years old, and as good as he is he cannot carry the team on his shoulders for 38-40 minutes a night, every night.  If they try to keep that up, then they are threatening his health in a huge way.  When he had Love and Kyrie there every night it took an immense amount of pressure off his shoulders because you know that Kyrie is giving you 20+ every night and Love will give you 15-16 every night.  That's easily at least 60 points a night you can depend on from Kyrie, Love and Lebron alone.  The other 10 guys combined only needs to give you 30-40 and you are set. Lebron just had to do his thing and he could effectively criuise through the regular season.  Also having Kyrie/Love/Smith on the court opened up a ton of space for Lebron to be able to get to the basket at will.

With Kyrie gone, Kevin Love has been the only consistent producer on that team outside of Lebron.  Loves been giving them a solidly consistent 15-20 points and 8-10 rebounds a night, but after Lebon and Love give you a combined 40 a night, they then have to rely on the other 10 guys to make up the remaining 60 points - and so far they haven't gotten that.  Jeff freaking Green has been their 3rd best producer so far at something like 9 PPG - and that's bad.  Wade has been terrible and looks completely cooked, Rose is injured again (shock), the Crowder-at-PF experiment failed as expected, JR and TT both had hissy fits about coming off the bench - it's a severe mess.

Not only does the Cavs 3-3 record look bad, but they have actually been WORSE then that record suggests.  If you look at the 6 games they have played so far,  only one has really been an impressive one - the win over the Bucks.  Aside from that they barely beat the Celtics without Hayward or Morris, they got blown out by Orlando, barely beat the bulls (after being down 80% of the game), lost to the nets, and now have lost to the Pelicans too. 

They have been struggling immensely against BAD teams.  If they faced this kind of schedule in any other season they would be at least 5-1 by now.

They are absolutely desperate for IT to return - they need his scoring in the most desperate way. 

It actually speaks well for the Celtics.  The Cavs lose their second best scorer and they fall apart at the seams.  The Celtics lose their second best scorer and other guys are stepping up, allowing us to flourish.

And we don't even have Morris back yet, don't have Smart at full health, have been depending on two <21 year olds who are still green, have still yet to build chemistry (after changing all but 4 players on our roster), and still have an $8.4M DPE that we have yet to use - so we will only get better as the season goes on.

In other news the Nets are 3-3 (tied with Cleveland) and are holding the 7th seed right now - so that Brooklyn pick so far is looking incredibly mediocre.  Danny Ainge is a GM god lol

CelticsElite:
^tp.

Ainge made the Cavs worse and Celtics better. Remember espn saying that the Cavs won the trade by a landslide? Lol

SparzWizard:
Brooklyn is #7 seed at the moment.

I really like that trade right now.

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