In basketball scoreboards news, we compare two of the very worst teams in the NBA.
Cavalier fans have had a tough year. With LeBron, the team has had a great few seasons. It won more than 60 games in both of the last two seasons, got to the finals in 1997, and got to the post-season for five years in a row. Now that he has left for Miami, however, the team has changed considerably, and is now considered one of the worst in the league.
The Toronto Raptors suffered a similar fate. Their star player, Chris Bosh, left for Miami last year and since then their fortunes have declined considerably. Now they, along with the Cavaliers, are considered one of the worse teams out there. But which team out of these two is the worst of all?
The best player for the Cavaliers is probably Mo Williams. The basketball scoreboards showed that he shot for 15.9 points and 5.4 assists per game last season. He reminds people of the Allen Iverson era, as he is a shoot-point first guard, although he is much more reliant on jumping from the outside than going for the rim. However, this player has many faults, and he had a bad time with Milwaukee in 2007 and 2008.
Who else do they have? Antawn Jamison, who had a terrible play off series last year. Anderson Varejao, who needs to be on a contending team to shine. J.J. Hickson, who has potential but needs more time to develop his talents. Apart from them, the rest of the players are at best average and at worst low quality NBA players.
The basketball scoreboards showed that Bosh scored 24 points and had 10 rebounds per game for the Raptors, but now their big man is Andrea Bargnani, with 17.2 points a game and 6.3 rebounds. He has progressed well recently, and this season will really need to step it up if the team is going to get anywhere. The emotional leader of the Raptors is Jarrett Jack. He was backup last season for Calderon but he should be starting this season. The Raps have a young team with promise, but as yet they have very little experience, which is likely to lead to a large number of losses.
It will be tough for both teams to draw elite free agents. Turkoglu said that there are a large number of problems at the Raptors, and no one wants to play there at the moment. This is not just talk: top free agents almost never consider the Raptors as an option.
So which team will be the biggest flop this season? The Cavaliers have more experience, but the Raptors have a more youthful side, which ‘does not know any better,’ and which does have an outside chance of surprising us. The Raptors have already shown that they are sometimes OK with Bosh, but the Cavs were always bad when LeBron didn’t play. Toronto have added some talent this summer, whilst Cleveland have absolutely not. So, whilst it is a tough one, I think that the Cleveland Cavaliers will truly be the worst team this year.
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