LOL @overrated........he's in the conversation for greatest ever you know. It's fine that you don't like him, just say that.
That trade didn't do much to fix the team IMO. My friends back home that follow the Cavs were underwhelmed by the deals they made for the most part.
The record was 31-22 before and 18-10 after. Those are winning %'s of about 64% and 59% so fairly close..........and the Pacers and Celtics took them to 7 games and the Celtics did it without 2 starters.......and it took 2 amazing performances by James to win those last two versus Boston.
I don't like/dislike him as a person. My main issue is I don't need people telling me he's good. I know he's good. But greatest ever? Nah. Not even close. No one will ever surpass His Royal Airness. Or Kobe for that matter. Or Tim Duncan. Or Kareem. I'm not even going to argue stats or whatever. LeOverrated doesn't hold a candle to these guys.
My other issue is LeOverrated gets passes of not winning titles, because his team is the one holding him back, and is all puppy dogs when he signs with the Heat with other superstars. But Kevin Durant (and others) gets berated in OKC for not winning with a young team going against Kobe's final hurrah, and berated for going to the Warriors. It's a complete double standard.
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The Cavaliers were struggling last winter. If they weren't, why did they make a slew of moves to "fix" the issues? Whether the internet was "impressed" or not is irrelevant to me. Whatever the team did seemed to right the ship.
I mean look at the games. They lost to teams like freaking Orlando and Detroit..
After Feb 7 is when they got really good and to the finals. I don't like the aura that's been created around him, to me he's always LeOverrated. Always will be. And if I'm the only one, so be it.