No one needs to rehash the gory details of the Cavs’ performance over the past three years. Since LeBron departed in 2010, the team has lost a lot more than it’s won, and has seemingly found itself cornered by the injury bug at every turn.

Even with the constant injuries to Anderson Varejao, Kyrie Irving, Dion Waiters and others, the losing is by design, for now at least. The Cavs have spent two years trying to build a nucleus through the lottery, and will add another lottery pick to the roster in a couple of months. You gather lotto balls by losing games, and you lose games by stripping the roster down, playing youngsters and packing the bench with low-cost (read: not very good) veterans.

When you have two rookies and two sophomores in the everyday starting lineup, the undrafted Alonzo Gee rounding out the starting five, and a bench that has, for the entire season, employed the likes of bald-treaded Luke Walton and chucker-extraordinaire C.J. Miles, it’s simply not a team designed to win.

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The problem with the Cavaliers lies not with their collective athletic ability. It lies not with their approach to the games or their teamwork.

Their biggest problem — at least of late — is the defensive play of the guards, who seem more "Lost in Space" than Will Robinson and Robby the Robot ever were.

When the Brooklyn Nets torched them the other night, starting guards Marshon Brooks and Deron Williams combined for 51 points. The previous game, Atlanta guards Devin Harris and Jeff Teague combined for 44 points. And the game before that, the lowly Hornets’ guards combined for "only" 39 points, but the diminutive Brian Roberts came off the bench to add 15 in limited playing time.

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At the end of the strike-shortened, 66-game 2011-2012 NBA season, the Cavs had won 21 games. That’s approximately equivalent to 26 victories over a regular, 82-game season.

To date, the Cavs have a 22-51 record through their first 73 games; the way they’ve been playing, another victory doesn’t seem to be coming anytime soon.

Even if they were to go 5-4 over their final nine games, they would finish at 27-55, one game better than last year’s pace.

Raise your hand if you believe this will happen.

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Media is evolving. Consumers are adapting. When I was growing up, the main form of entertainment in a household was the television. Some families had regular broadcast channels and others had cable. As I grew older, cable became the norm. As time progressed, the internet became more more interactive and abundant. Before we knew it, media was available on-demand via services like Netflix, HBO Go, Youtube and others. It is almost to the point where cutting the cable is a foregone conclusion. Paying over $100 prer month when the consumer has the ability to watch just about anything they want, when they want, where they want and how they want using services that cost as little as $8 per month or even free of charge is a dying business model.

Some people continue to keep their cable box out of habit. Change can be scary. Other people keep it because they have plenty of disposable income. Then there are people like me who shell out an almost-unjustifiable amount of money every month for cable TV because they are sports fan and do not have any other way to access their favorite team's games without risking malware infections or sanctions by the aforementioned cable companies. 

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