Best case scenario for LeBron's Cavs?

tonyreyes123 · Post #1 » by **tonyreyes123** » Sat Aug 23, 2014 7:03 pm

Short term and long term, what do you see is the best case for this new superteam? 70 wins this year? 4-5 Championships in the next 7 year window? Discuss.

Gus Fring · Post #2 » by **Gus Fring** » Sat Aug 23, 2014 7:53 pm

Absolute best case scenario realistically?

Short term: 56 win season, everyone's healthy and gels before playoffs begin, make it to the finals.

Long term: avg 55 - 65 wins a year for 4 or 5 years, multiple finals births, win at least 2.

colts18 · Post #3 » by **colts18** » Sat Aug 23, 2014 8:10 pm

Best case scenario

71 win season, average 67 wins over the next 4 years with a 4 peat.

Post #4 » by **PaulieWal** » Sat Aug 23, 2014 8:30 pm

Best case scenario would be the health of their 2 stars and budding star Kyrie. As long as Kyrie and Love don't take more than one year to mesh their games with LeBron and don't suffer from too many growing pains in the playoffs that should be a good scenario for Cleveland.

Long term they will need Blatt to be a good NBA coach or this isn't gonna work.

OnePostLegend · Post #5 » by **OnePostLegend** » Sat Aug 23, 2014 9:20 pm

Gus Fring wrote:Absolute best case scenario realistically?

Short term: 56 win season, everyone's healthy and gels before playoffs begin, make it to the finals.

Long term: avg 55 - 65 wins a year for 4 or 5 years, multiple finals births, win at least 2.

How is a 56-win season the absolute best-case scenario? That's the best-case scenario for, like, Toronto.

Gus Fring · Post #6 » by **Gus Fring** » Sat Aug 23, 2014 10:28 pm

OnePostLegend wrote:
Gus Fring wrote:Absolute best case scenario realistically?

Short term: 56 win season, everyone's healthy and gels before playoffs begin, make it to the finals.

Long term: avg 55 - 65 wins a year for 4 or 5 years, multiple finals births, win at least 2.

How is a 56-win season the absolute best-case scenario? That's the best-case scenario for, like, Toronto.

I meant 58 and I could see them at 58-62 as best case, but I don't think they are going to come out and dominate. They still have some flaws and there's alot holding them back. Basically a completely new team under new coaching philosophies with a majority of their talent being on losing squads their entire career. I think if they get 58 that means they basically overcame everything holding them back but I expect them to get 51-54 wins in their first year together. I mean the Thunder and Clippers one 58 and 56 games last year I don't think they'll be as good as them till at least March when they really start to gel. They are probably going to go through some growing pains in the beginning of the year, even the Heat did.

Joao Saraiva · Post #7 » by **Joao Saraiva** » Sat Aug 23, 2014 10:34 pm

1st of all they're not a super team OP.

Kevin Love is a great player but he's unproven and has absolutely no playoff experience.

Kyrie is a good player but couldn't even take Cleveland to the playoffs. People arround here always say the East is trash, but now that Kyrie doesn't take Cleveland to the playoffs, he still counts as part of a big 3 and super team?

jmomcc · Post #8 » by **jmomcc** » Sun Aug 24, 2014 12:19 am

Best case scenario:

Everybody important stays healthy.
LeBron is the elite into mid thirties
Love turns out to be the perfect superstar foil to LeBron.
Irving develops and stays healthy. Doesn't settle for just being a spot up shooter.
Blatt is a great coach.
They don't waste draft picks and find young cheap athletic 3&D guys.
One of those guys overshoots his perceived ceiling.
They draft/unearth a rim protector.

5 titles in the next 8 years.

Post #9 » by **Young_Star11** » Sun Aug 24, 2014 1:31 am

Best case for the next four years, 4 trips to the Finals. Would they do better than 2-2? Perhaps.

Ballerhogger · Post #10 » by **Ballerhogger** » Sun Aug 24, 2014 3:33 am

Best case
Everyone is healthy
Love becomes a better defender.
Kyrie becomes more a pass first PG
Lebron develops more of a post game and shoots better and scores more
Go to back to back finals. And win one ring.

Modulate · Post #11 » by **Modulate** » Sun Aug 24, 2014 5:38 am

7 years, huh. Okay.

Let's be conservative and say, the next 3 years (assuming Lebron is the #1 guy in the league or at minimum, in that argument), their best scenario is to have is multiple (3 consecutive) 70+ win seasons and multiple (3 consecutive) championships. After that, I guess the best case scenario is that Kyrie and Love have become absolutely elite players and have a fading, yet extremely effective Lebron as their 2nd/3rd/whatever option and go on to win 4 more titles.

Can't get it any better than that....or can it?