LoPo
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Pretty early for a victory lap after 2/3 of a season.
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I'm not taking a victory lap, I'm commenting on what has actually happened.
Your delusional speculations of the future do not interest me.
YoungJefe
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I wasn't aware that NBA seasons were only 61 games. How much do you want to bet the Cavs will finish with a better record, better offensive rating, and better defensive rating than they had last year?
I also highly doubt that ANYONE in their front office has any regrets about trading for him. Lauri averaged like 14 on 44% for them, they didn't want to pay Sexton and neither did any other team in the league last offseason.
Jaanipoeg
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Pure record isn't too much better, but statistics show that this team is much, much better than last year's surprise team. They are second in the league in net rating at +5.7. Granted, you would have hoped last season's team would have improved this season even without the trade given how young they were.
100% happy with the trade and wouldn't go back, but I think both sides can be happy with the outcome.
Not much, because as I already pointed out, their final two months of the season were crippled by injury.
I wonder how many times people have to be told that the Cavs overall statistics plummeted last year when their last 2 months were crippled by injury.
Jesus Christ, my 5 year old niece latches onto points quicker than this.
YoungJefe
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So in your estimation Donovan didn't make them better, I guess they remained the same.
But thankfully they didn't leverage their future for someone like Rudy who immediately would've made them worse. I'm still waiting for them to be a top 2 seed and contender like you were preaching about all offseason.
Who brought up Gobert? I know I didn't.
I was thrilled from Day 1 for the haul we got for Gobert and never really looked back. I wish guys like Lopo and Jefe could do the same with Mitchell, but alas, they went from "Why can't we just appreciate the players we have" after the Gobert trade to crying relentlessy over losing Mitchell.
YoungJefe
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I'm fine with the Donovan trade, I love Lauri. But to say the Cavs aren't better this year with him is a stretch and wouldn't be your first bad take in regards to a former Jazz player, aka when you preached about how great the Wolves would be with Rudy.
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The Cavs are better this year. Just not enough to justify the haul they traded away.
You and Lopo both seem to need the same points repeated to you a lot.
YoungJefe
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I don't think they considered it a "haul" outside of the draft capital, but that's just the price of acquiring a star player.
Lauri averaged 14 ppg on 44% FG and was an awkward fit next to Mobley / Allen
Sexton was coming off of an injury plagued year, was an awkward fit with Garland, and had basically 0 market in FA from the Cavs or any other team in the league
They already had a solid young team but they lacked a real #1 scoring threat, Donovan is one of the best scorers in the league.
Jaanipoeg
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Obviously they plummeted. Did some quick math and looks like they were just around +5 net rating last season this time, which is a lot better than I was expecting, my memory is they had a much worse expected record before hand. I was entirely wrong. You do come off as a massive ******* though, hope you're doing good