They might be the second best team in the East, an adding Mo helps close that gap somewhat. They have a shot.

those words, however, are the key words. TWO YEARS AGO. at the span of those two years, lebron got exponentially better, but his teammates did not. at the same time, the rest of the league exploded. the east can no longer be called the Leastern conference; you can say that the east is legit now. as for the cavs taking the celtics to seven games, i can say that’s more of playoff jitters on the celtics part than lebron’s brilliance.

as long as his teammates are unable to step, which i don’t see changing anytime soon, lebron will always feel that he has to do everything. as great as he is, that is not a recipe for success.

Only one problem with that… Just like dime said “we added a shoot-first, shoot-second, shoot-third point guard I will pretty much have to wrestle to get the ball from.”

Mo Williams has never seen a shot he didn’t like.

I think this thread is sort of an overreaction, though. Of course he isn’t going to win a championship this year. Nothing short of a mysterious outbreak of smallpox or a new millenium case of black plague infecting most other teams in the league would win them a title this year. Everybody seems to focus on how he tore through the East practically by himself the last couple of years, instead of how he got calmly shut the fuck down and swept under the rug by the Spurs and “almost kind of made it” to the EC finals which doesn’t really mean much. Although they did get rid of Damon Jones. That’s always a good thing.

Honestly, instead of something more honest from Lebron (which I don’t think anybody really expects. He’s fiercely competitive, why would he come out and say ‘yeah we’re gonna suck this year, I mean we’ll win around 50 games and everything but we’re not getting a chip so you guys probably shouldn’t even come and see the games at all.’) I would rather him come out Starbury-on-crack style and spit out some crazy hyperbole about how they’ll be the first team in NBA history to win 83 regular season games, LeBron will slam dunk a basketball so hard that it will cause massive earthquakes in China, and Delonte West will get one of his regular tattoo artists to tat a Cavs logo on David Stern’s forehead. It would be entertaining, and nobody would have to try to take it seriously.

Buckle your seatbelts Im surrounded by crash test dummies!!!

Cleveland supporting cast is made of plaster

Dime already answered your question

“we added a shoot-first, shoot-second, shoot-third point guard I will pretty much have to wrestle to get the ball from”

Didnt he kinda do that once already Dime??? I wouldn’t put it on him to dissapoint this year – I say Bron for MVP, and for all you Mo Williams haters … look at the stats…

He’s improved in almost every category over the past 3 years so whats to say not this year as well – esp since he’s on a better team in Cleveland than he was in Milwaukee

Mo williams doesnt do defense

Mike Brown doesnt do offense

seriously tho… Whats the difference between Gibson and Mo Williams other than a lot of shoulder hair? They already got shooters and people to run the point. They should have been looking for a slashing SG with a decent Mid ranger.