Breaking Down the Year

The Cleveland Cavaliers are coming off of a disappointing season last year. Kyrie Irving’s second season with the cavaliers’ was the only was one of the only bright spots of the year. Finishing with the third worst record in the entire league the cavs sealed the number one pick in the 2013 NBA lottery draft. Picking power forward/center Anthony, the cavs now had the big man they were looking for. Also, acquiring center Andrew Bynum from the Philadelphia 76ers we now had those two key big men that we were looking for. Drafting Dion Waiters out of Syracuse the year before the cavs team was looking very solid and they are projected to finish at the number eight seed in the Eastern Conference which would make them a playoff team.

 I do believe the cavs can be a playoff team if they play unselfish basketball and don’t just depend on solely Kyrie Irving to score the basketball and make plays. The cavs are now good enough where everyone on the court can be a scoring threat and that should open up the scoring column for the rest of the team and take some of the scoring load off Irving. The cavaliers are off to a rough start with a record of 4-10 and if they don’t turn their gameplay around then they will fall far out of the playoff hunt and never make up the ground that they’ve already lost and exit the season early, like they did a year ago.

The cavs bench play hasn’t been very solid at all and the only way that they will improve is of their bench players step up and make it more of a goal to come into the game and contribute, by putting points on the board. I think the cavs will turn it around and proceed to make the 8^th seed if they change some outcomes of their game. With the cavaliers division being very tough this year there is no chance that they can win it outright because of the Indiana Pacers who are playing really good basketball and will be the first or second seed in the Eastern Conference, and one of the only teams, in my opinion, to contend with the defending champion Miami Heat. With the choices that the organization has made in draft picks and coaching options I think the cavaliers can get back to their winning ways such as when Lebron James was in Cleveland.