How Would the Wiggins/Irving Duo Have Turned Out?

[Nilocon165]

How Many Wins?

[Nilocon165]

Playoff appearence?

[Thunderfan86]

Wouldn't even make the playoffs. And if they did, it would be a 1st round exit

[Bankaii]

In 2016 without Lebron and Love?

They don't make the playoffs. I don't even know if they'd come close either.

[D-Wait]

If Wiggins was a Cav and Lebron/Love weren't coming, the Cavs might have reached the 8th seed in the 14-15 season.
Remember that they won 33 games in 13-14.
They also could have improved the roster on top of drafting Wiggins.
Considering the Nets made the playoffs with 38 wins, it is totally plausible that the Cavs might have made them.

[RedBlackAttack]

The Cavs were close to making a big offer to Gordon Hayward when all of the buzz about LeBron potentially wanting to come back started circulating.

Cavs management had already met with him once and were scheduled for a second meeting, where it was thought he might sign.

So, it wasn't going to be just Wiggins. I think had LeBron not come back, we would have signed Hayward. And there was still other moves that could have been made.

Here is how things would have looked at that point.

PG: Kyrie Irving / Delly / Jarrett Jack
SG: Andrew Wiggins / Dion Waiters
SF: Gordon Hayward / Sergey Karasev
PF: Tristan Thompson / Anthony Bennett
C: Anderson Varejao / Tyler Zeller

There would have still been slots to fill in and maybe Dion still gets traded away midseason for something more suited to the roster ... but this team makes the playoffs, imo, and has a nice young foundation of Irving, Hayward, Wiggins and Thompson.

[Meticode]

The Cavs were close to making a big offer to Gordon Hayward when all of the buzz about LeBron potentially wanting to come back started circulating.

Cavs management had already met with him once and were scheduled for a second meeting, where it was thought he might sign.

So, it wasn't going to be just Wiggins. I think had LeBron not come back, we would have signed Hayward. And there was still other moves that could have been made.

Here is how things would have looked at that point.

PG: Kyrie Irving / Delly / Jarrett Jack
SG: Andrew Wiggins / Dion Waiters
SF: Gordon Hayward / Sergey Karasev
PF: Tristan Thompson / Anthony Bennett
C: Anderson Varejao / Tyler Zeller

There would have still been slots to fill in and maybe Dion still gets traded away midseason for something more suited to the roster ... but this team makes the playoffs, imo, and has a nice young foundation of Irving, Hayward, Wiggins and Thompson.
Looking back at it now, I cringe every time I see Anthony Bennett's name.

[RedBlackAttack]

Looking back at it now, I cringe every time I see Anthony Bennett's name.
I could barely type his name.

I spent countless hours on here trying to tell everyone how he had crazy potential, too. Terrible.

[no pun intended]

I could barely type his name.

I spent countless hours on here trying to tell everyone how he had crazy potential, too. Terrible.
It's honestly refreshing to know that we have people who hold themselves accountable here. Thanks dude.

[Meticode]

I could barely type his name.

I spent countless hours on here trying to tell everyone how he had crazy potential, too. Terrible.
Here's an article about Bennett after he signed with the Nets. It talks about how the Raptors pushed him and privately they felt he couldn't take on the expectations. It says this offseason Bennett has made a concerted effort to get into a training regimen and lose weight. Honestly to me something he should've been doing 2 years ago.

http://www.netsdaily.com/2016/7/16/12205918/what-the-anthony-bennett-signing-says-about-the-new-nets