Let's just say watching that Game 6 as a Cavs fan was horrible. It was close enough that you watched the whole game, but the whole time you knew it was a murder. Now I was going to write about how LeBron did not put up a lackluster Game 5. However I didn't watch that game nor do the stats back my argument. But I know for damn sure that he would not give up like that. Just call it quits and walk away from this season because he didn't want to carry this team anymore and wait and start anew next year. Boston was just a better team. Not even better coached, better voiced in the locker room maybe.
Can we even blame LeBron? Danny Ferry did nothing for help. He kept bringing in aged veterans that no one else was pursuing and people kept telling him good job. He had no idea how to build a team. LeBron should have been surrounded with youth and developed with a group of players like Durant is currently doing. Instead he got garbage with a coach who should be no higher than defensive assistant. He's yet to learn post moves, or any real offense at all, because there never has been an offense other than stand around and watch LeBron. Then what did he do for us fans? Even as a kid fresh out of high school he came in and carried this team, willed us to a Finals appearance by himself (Boobie helped a little) gave us hope that Cleveland would hoist a Championship banner soon.
Now we expect him to stay? I know that I would leave in a heartbeat. There's no easy way to fix what has already been done. It'll take a lot of maneuvering to get a champion-caliber team back in place if he leaves or stays. We need youth and coaching and a whole new team basically. It will still be a sad day when he leaves even though I can agree with that move. We've all taken him for granted and expected the world of him. He delivered a lot of it, at least what he could. How you can will a team to the league's best record and then lose to an old Boston team is still dumbfounding. Why didn't he just take control of the team from Mike Brown? Why didn't he go off like he did against the Pistons years back? He seems a bit bored with that. He wants help from someone or somewhere. He can't be everything.
Now what do the Cavs do when we see this new number 6 barreling down at us? I was gonna say fuck it, sign and trade for all the league's best defensive stoppers and don't let LeBron score when he comes to town. But that's quite an expensive personal vendetta. They could try to scrap together a team and give money to one or two of the other big name free agents. That will just be another roster of first or second round playoff fodder though. You have to blow up the whole team and start over with a youth movement and a new head coach. Now if he's willing to stay, that's even harder to do than sitting through 5 years of 25-30 wins a year. You need a point guard, a real one. New Orleans seems to be in chaos, mortgage everything but LeBron and a pick and get Chris Paul. Then go into this especially deep free agency and throw money around on another one of these good free agents that could get max money elsewhere but comes here to form a new "Big Three." Maybe Amare', maybe a shooting guard, I like the idea of a good, young big man. Then bring in youth and role players and you can go with that team which would likely in two years get strong enough to compete for the title legitimately.
Is any of this plausible? I really don't know. I would have done things way different and LeBron would be set here right now. Saying that, a whole lot is possible in the NBA and with the salary cap lowering there is even more players that are attainable. That being said I am going to finish up my application for general manager of the Cavs and hope for the best. Also may I say that I still will be and always will be a Cavs fan regardless of what transpires in the next few months.
Link: ESPN and their super lame "LeBron Tracker" almost as bad as "The LeBocale."
-Jason
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