NBA Playoffs

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Originally Posted by Dahoss

I'm not defending Lebron, had you read what I said prior to trying to troll, I said I don't know how anyone can defend him.

All I am saying is no one was going to win a championship with the teams Gilbert gave him to work with. No one. The way he handled himself with the decision and everything since then has been embarrassing. But the decision to leave was the correct one.

In essence their fate was sealed the first offseason with LeBron. they were still a lottery team and had a legit number two guy in Boozer. They thought they had an agreement with Boozer to extend and then fiasco ensued and he left. That combined with them drafting Luke Jackson from Oregon with their lottery pick was pretty much it. I'd have to go back and see who they could have gotten with that pick, but it was one of the worst picks in NBA history. From that point on they never got high draft picks and they actually got serviceable players in Shannon Brown and JJ Hickson from some of those but they were not difference makers like you get picking high. It became a desperate search to find mainly stationary 3 point shooters to compliment LeBron through a series of trades and bad free agents. I think they did the best they could with what they were working with. And the Boozer fiasco and Luke Jackson occurred pre-Giilbert. And that was the precursar of everything.