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How many games will Cleveland win this season?

Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 6:36 pm
by ballerblogger
How many wins will it take to capture the #1 seed in the East?

Is this the year the Cavs catch the Pistons in the Central Division?

How many wins is Mo Williams worth?

Will LeBron's scoring average increase or decrease with the addition of Mo Williams?

Re: How many games will Cleveland win this season?

Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 8:20 pm
by prekazi
Cavs won't be better than the Celtics, Pistons and the Magic but that means nothing. We'll own each of them in the playoffs. I expect us to win smthng around 48-55 and finish the East 4th.

I don't know if Bron's scoring will increase or decrease but I know that his FG% will be better than %50.

Re: How many games will Cleveland win this season?

Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 9:03 pm
by bossman23
i'm going for the 2nd seed,win the divsion & win between 54-60(injury-free)

don't forget a trade come deadline to put us over the hump

Re: How many games will Cleveland win this season?

Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 12:31 am
by LiquidFire
58-65 imo.

Re: How many games will Cleveland win this season?

Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 4:25 am
by Baseline Runner
55-60 IMO. This is the year that Cleveland is truly thought of as among the elite teams in the NBA.

Re: How many games will Cleveland win this season?

Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 7:30 am
by cavshats
im not so sure i would count on 55 60 wins guys it might appear that way cuz we have a better more talented team this year.. but theres alot of things that factor into this... one is age in our frontcourt you gotta think Z and big ben are declining as is and they are both a year older we lost joe smith in the mo will trade so that hurts. If we are going to win that many games we are going to need varejao to be much more productive than last year and hickson is going to need to be able to add post scoring off the bench, Its very important that he can put up points off the bench at a high percentage because when you look at it who else is going to be a factor in post scoring off the bench.... hopefully we are not counting on andy or wright to do it.... We need to stay healthy this year as well we could probly manage without one of our gaurds but if anyone up front goes down it will hurt big time. I think its going to take mo 15-20 games atleast to adjust to clevelands style because of how different it is than what he had in milwaukee you can't just run down the court and jack up a 3 here unless your name is lebron. I definately think we are far better than last year but i think 60 wins and winning the division might be out of the question but this team comes ready come playoff time we will definately be in the eastern conference picture. I am expectin us to make a long and deep playoff run not sure will we will end up but we definately have enough talent on this roster to compete with boston or detroit and we will meet one of the 2 in the ecf.

Re: How many games will Cleveland win this season?

Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 5:25 pm
by Baseline Runner
Most of our production is going to come from our backcourt, Lebron, Mo, West, Wally and Gibson. The only thing we need our front court to do is rebound and defend which Z, Ben and Varejao should be able to do.

If we stay healthy I'm sure we'd win 55 games or more. Mo may or may not be all-star caliber, but he is very talented and brings an explosive element to our offense alongside Lebron that our team has never had.

Also don't underrate the impact of having West and Wally. People forget that we just acquired those guys last year but if we had them all season we may have won 55 games. It was those two that picked up a lot of the slack when Lebron was slumping in the Celtics series. Two years ago who could of picked up that slack, Hughes, Pavs or Gooden? Probably not.

Our offense is the real deal now. We have the dominant franchise player, several great outside shooters, a center that can score in the post and an explosive PG that can break down defenses.

Re: How many games will Cleveland win this season?

Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 5:35 pm
by zol2332
56

Re: How many games will Cleveland win this season?

Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 10:41 pm
by TheOUTLAW
I still see the Cavs sticking around 50 wins. It's just a fact that they really don't care too much about the regular season.

Re: How many games will Cleveland win this season?

Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2008 1:40 am
by Icness
I have 56 wins in my head, Central Division title. And this year more than in the past two years, I strongly believe the Cavaliers can beat any team in any playoff series.