The Regular Season

Three posts in five days—what is this, 2004?As we endure the interminable march toward meaningful Cavaliers playoff games, but before we get too far removed from the regular season, I wanted to make a couple of points about that regular season, and what it suggests about the 2009 Cavs' place in history. Plus, I needed an excuse to run more Cavs graphs, as required by my contract.To begin, here is a running point differential for the Cavs' 2009 regular season (click to enlarge):The line is nice and steep, and relatively smooth, to boot. But still, that's not a very interesting graph to look at without a little context. Here's one displaying a running point differential for every Cavs team since 2004 (i.e., every LeBron team):There we go. Talk about unprecedented. The turquoise line represents the 2007 season, when the Cavs made the Finals, but even that one doesn't come close. Meanwhile, the depressing yellow line represents last season—talk about improvement!Okay...