Fan Blog: Cavs Struggles Down the Stretch

Coming into April, the last month of the NBA regular season, the Cavs are beginning to show their inexperience to playing a longer season than college. Most of these players were just playing college within the last few years and because of the strike, NBA teams have been cramming 66 games into a relatively short period of time. These young Cavaliers seem to be not used to this amount of games especially in such a short time. Cleveland has lost their last eight games and 11 of their last 12. The frustrating thing about this is that the majority of these games have not even been close. In the NBA, it is one thing to lose games but a complete different situation if you're not even competing. I think that is why many of the fans are frustrated by this. Cavalier's majority owner, Dan Gilbert, even tweeted after a recent blowout loss to the Milwaukee Bucks,

"One of those nights where I can't find the words to match the emotions (at least non-profane words). Cavs fans deserve better. Much better."



Frustrations are at a season high right now so it is vital to close the season on a strong note and at least finish by playing hard. Injuries have been a part of the issue but the veterans should be able to pull the young guys through to the finish. Cavs fans have seen some flashes of what's to come in the future from this team so there are some things to be positive about. It's just playing for pride at this point and knowing that even though playoffs are no longer a possibility, the team can still use these last few weeks to gain experience and practice for upcoming years. If you would've told me at the beginning of the year that because of the lockout-shortened season the Cavs would play 16 less games and still win more than all of last year, I would've said you were crazy. But they have the chance to do just that. The Cavs are only two wins away from having the same record and three wins away from beating that. With a shortened season like this and so much youth on the team, I guess that's all we can ask for, to keep improving every day!