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Originally Posted by KC_Connection
Shows the importance of everyone fitting into a role (also how good LeBron James actually was last year).
One of the biggest problems with the Heat is that nobody's fit into their roles, they are all playing for themselves.
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I love how everybody points to Cleveland's record and says "this shows how good Lebron is." The Cavs won 61 games last season. Unless Miami wins out, they're not going to top that.
And Cleveland is not that bad. Since February, they've only lost one game by more than 10 points. They're as bad as any team would be when you lose a superstar and have no opportunity to replace him with zilch. Not to mention losing Delonte, Z, and Shaq and playing most of the season without Varejao and Moe Williams. Anybody who's watched them play this season will tell you that when they hustle, they're not horrible. After they lost to Miami in the big showdown early in the year, it was pretty clear that the team flat-out gave up.
The question is, if you replaced Lebron in 2010 with a player like Durant, Derrick Rose or any other all star calibre player, would the Cavs have been a deep playoff team? Given the way they're scrapping close losses in February, why in the world would they not be contenders next year if they get two impact lottery picks?