Your move, Dan Gilbert--Where do the Cleveland Cavaliers go from here?

and start over.

Unless Gilbert can get a 1000 year miracle and build an all-star team out of our current roster, a nuke needs to be dropped. Spend and trade like a madman, not necessarily for draft picks, but for anyone who has high upside and projected longevity. It will be a bittersweet day when the nuke is finally detonated.

And rightly so.

Just here to say; the game was… intense. Tragic. In many ways. The whole situation is. For all parties involved.

Bah.

Good luck Cavs & Fear the Sword. Still keeping an eye on ya.

It is now time. The team didn’t compete at all and they have major holes. It isn’t good enough to expect them to play hard every night. I would rather lose badly every night with the expectation that we will have a chance at the lottery rather than hold on to the 8th spot in the playoffs. I wasn’t a big fan of that idea before and thought we had a decent enough team to compete for at least the 6th seed but why bother with that now. Use your trade exception now to pick up an expensive player like Jamison who then you could flip for picks. Do what the Seattle Supersonics (er) I mean the Oklahoma City Thunder did and stock picks.

Blow it up. Essentially they were hoping to win over fans this year with the ‘hardworking team guys who are going to give it their all every night.’

Well, they failed in just about every possible aspect of that….and talking about “We are disappointed we should have done a better job” the next day isn’t going to change anything.

Much like Lebron being ‘amazed’ at the backlash and the hostility after ‘the decision,’ Yesterday and today Cavs players are probably amazed at the backlash from the smiling, laughing, hugging, and most importantly, lack of effort from thurs. game.

This in itself is amazing to me that they seem confused and shellshocked by it. If we’re even discussing the issue of some ‘confusion’ as to whether the players were hostile towards Lebron…that’s enough of a problem right there. THERE SHOULD HAVE BEEN NO CONFUSION. IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN MADE ABUNDANTLY CLEAR BY THEIR BEHAVIOR.

From yahoo…
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=ap-cavaliers-lebronstaunts

CLEVELAND (AP)—LeBron James(notes) may have ruined another friendship back in Ohio.

Cavaliers guard Daniel Gibson(notes) didn’t appreciate some of James’ words and actions on Thursday during the Miami star’s heated homecoming to Cleveland. James, who scored 38 points in the Heat’s 118-90 win, was subjected to almost constant booing, taunts and profanity.

According to Gibson, James dished out a little of his own.

"Some things went on last night," Gibson said, "that I didn’t like."

James engaged in some trash talk with Cleveland’s bench, jawing at some coaches and former teammates. After making a tough, baseline jumper while scoring 24 points in the third quarter, James spun just in front of Cleveland’s players and mouthed something in their direction. Later, he and a smiling Gibson exchanged words.

Gibson also took issue with comments that it appeared the Cavaliers were acting too outwardly friendly toward James, who played seven seasons in Cleveland. Center Anderson Varejao(notes) hugged James as the teams lined up for tip-off and a few players shook hands or bumped fists with the two-time defending league MVP.

"I’ve heard that, and that kind of rubs me the wrong way," Gibson said. "We all know LeBron and we all know that he enjoys being in front of the camera. To say we were fraternizing and being friendly … nobody knows what was said and the things that were said probably could not be repeated right now. We wanted to win the game and those guys brought it to us."

The Cavaliers are now 7-11 without James.

"I think people, from the outside looking in, might say we were laughing and joking with him, but if you could hear the things that were said, you would know that wasn’t the case," Gibson said. "There was nothing friendly about the conversation we had."

Gibson said the evening soured his relationship with James, his teammate for four years. Gibson was also upset by the Cavaliers’ awful play in front of their rowdy fans, who had waited five months to vent at James for the way he announced his decision to leave.

"I didn’t like the way we performed," he said.

top-notch point guard—Scott would still be in NO probably had CP3 not been injured a lot over the last few years. I always thought Moe was a tweener (between a 1 and 2). I have never heard the Cavs mentioned for getting Melo, is that even a possibility because that would help lure the best point guard available to Cleveland. For 2011, the only guy that looks to be an unrestricted FA who is a good young PG is Aaron Brooks. CP3 would jump ship if Melo was there. Just some thoughts.

The fans is Cleveland were humiliated, laughed at by their own team on Thursday. Cleveland fans were great Thursday. The Cavalier players did not understand how important this game was to Cleveland. I have never seen a team so disconnected from their fans.