The team that failed to make a move and failed...

I know, the trade deadline has been over, however, before the dust all settles, I want to throw out a team I thought should have made a push for something different, but failed to do so, and in failing to do so, I think lost a chance to make the team immediately better.  Granted there are reasons probably for any trade sort of falling through, so you can't really blame the GMs if the other team isn't really willing to deal.  However, you have to think that they need an extra piece to have made the push.  Given that, I think that this team will definitely be players come summer.

Cleveland Cavaliers

Sure I think they're playing great basketball, and with them all healthy, I think they'll do well.  If they do end up winning the Finals I don't think it will be because they're better but because all the other teams faltered.  Honestly, given the roster, they're not an exceptional team, they're a good team with LeBron James, which in the league as currently constructed (and especially in the Eastern Conference) enables them to be considered among the elite.  However, when matched up against the elite teams throughout the league, I don't know that the Cavs really have that edge that will take them to the top.  As much as Mo Williams has added potency to the Cavalier offense, and Mike Brown's overhaul of the offense has improved the team, Williams is still at best a good third scoring option.  As much as Zydrunas Ilgauskas has maintained a high level of play, he is at best a solid role player.  As much as Delonte West has improved, he will still always be at best a role player, and well, Ben Wallace is Ben Wallace.  Most everyone else is kind of a specialized role player.  

What the Cavs really needed to add, was a potent second option to score behind LeBron, Mo Williams is a piece, but I don't believe he is the answer.  Had Mo Williams stepped it up and shown that he was something more, then I might have considered the team differently, however, the Cavs' success cannot be simply attributed to Mo Williams doing the Mo Williams thing in Cleveland instead of Milwaukee.  Sure LeBron "makes everyone better" everyone, being maybe Delonte West and Anderson Varejao, because Ben Wallace, Big Z, and Mo Williams are literally just doing the things that they used to do (grab rebounds, hit mid range jumpers, hit 3s respectively).  Sure they're a solid team, but I don't think they're up there, while they're deep,  they're not loaded.  Too much lies on the shoulders of LeBron still, there is no one else that can take over a game, when you rest all your laurels on one player, it generally tends to not work out.

You'd have to think that the Cavs could've done something more with Wally Sczerbiak's expiring contract, it's possible there just weren't any takers offering what they wanted (Antawn Jamison, Shaq, and Amar'e among those rumored).  However, it does make you wonder who they'll go for in free agency.  For this season's stopgap, names like Joe Smith, Mikki Moore, and Drew Gooden are all popping up.  Of course, in the 2009 off season free agency, they could try to land the bigger fish of say, maybe a Lamar Odom or Carlos Boozer.  Scary.