No he fukking didn't
Y'all peasants really think that 07 team was among the worst teams in the league
That 07 team was a better team. And besides Lebron is a top 10 player of all time.
PG: 20yo rookie Daniel Gibson. Would be D-league anywhere else, out of the league by 26, having spent his last three years bouncing on and off of the roster.
SG: 28yo Larry Hughes. Shot 40% in the regular season and 34% in the playoffs. Hughes only played 3 more injury filled half-seasons before he retired.
SF: 23yo Sasha Pavlovic. D-league anywhere else, when he left the Cavs at the age of 26 he averaged 2.6ppg the next three years and was then out of the league.
PF: 25yo Drew Gooden. Reliable 11 and 9 hustle guy.
C: 31yo Zydrunas Iglauskas. So injured at this point he could only play 25-27mpg. Had a midrange shot, but immobile and got destroyed by stronger/faster guys.
Off the bench, you have
PG: 33yo Eric Snow. Completely done, averaged 1.7ppg in the playoffs, only 22 games from retirement
SG: 30yo Damon Jones. Completely done, averaged 2.4ppg in the playoffs, only 85 games from retirement
SF: 33yo Donyell Marshall. Completely done, averaged 3.5ppg in the playoffs, only 51 games away from retirement
PF: 24yo Anderson Varejao. A 6 and 6 guy who was still 4-5 years away from his breakout season
C: 31yo Scot Pollard. Completely done, averaged 0.0ppg in the playoffs, only 22 games from retirement
Cleveland's top-10 without Lebron in 2007 is six guys who legit shouldn't even have been in the NBA, an injured Larry Hughes stinking up the arena, two hustle rebounders, and half a game of Z.
How the hell was there a roster in the NBA worse than that?
I think a lot people forget how good Varajeo was
Larry Hughes was still good
Z was still good
Baron couldn't stay healthy. Nobody would take a 2011 Baron over 07' Larry Hughes. If memory serve me correct Baron got hurt that year
And Z was washed in 2010
Ya'all kill me.
Varejao was a 3rd-year player averaging 6 and 6 in 2007. What do you mean, people "forget how good Varejao was"
Larry Hughes was NOT good in 2007. Hughes was HORRIBLE in 2007. After his 2006 injury Hughes was so bad some Cleveland fan started a website called,
http://heylarryhughespleasestoptakingsomanybadshots.com/, an entire website dedicated to how bad Hughes shot, and it was legit popular. Hughes was supposed to be the #2 option on the Cavs and he shot 40% in the regular season and 34% in the playoffs (which was better than 2006, when he shot 32% in the playoffs). When the Cavs traded Hughes to the Knicks, he missed his first 18 shots with them before making his first one. He was a black hole of shyttiness.
In the 2006 ECSF against the Pistons,
Hughes missed 3 games. Cleveland won all three. Hughes played in 4 games, scoring 9ppg on 33% shooting. Cleveland lost all four.
In the 2007 Finals against the Spurs, Hughes played in 2 games, shooting 1-10 and scoring 2 points TOTAL. Cleveland lost the two games he played in by a combined 20 points, lost the two games he missed by only 4 points combined.
Cleveland was clearly better WITHOUT Hughes than they were with him, he was that bad.
