let's talk a little Cavs guys they have 10 games left in the regular season they have 44 wins as it stands today they play the Charlotte Hornets tonight this team won 51 games last season and they took a Victory lap hey we won 51 games in the regular season let's parade that that counts for something it didn't matter in the postseason but there are 10 regular season games left tyus G they have to go six and four through the final 10 to reach that 50 win Mark again can they do it g I don't listen
this is my problem we are the free press and we are giving these guys out this is a beautiful way I can hear Kobe Alman doing Victory laps right now backto back 50 win seasons is something that you know in this league is something to be proud of this core is continuing to grow together and uh I I just truly believe that uh you know these guys are going to you know have Championship aspirations down the line we just have to patient you better don't even try it Kobe cuz I'm going tell him to rewi
nd this tape early and you already know what it is they could possibly get to the 50 wins but at the end of the day that ain't what it that ain't what we looking for I agree we ain't looking for none of that like we listen LeBron James listen again I just want to let y'all know it's not like we haven't been here LeBron James won 66 wins that's crazy 66 you know how that's watching TV every game and they never lose we've seen that so and they lost in in the Conference Finals to the magic right we
never got to we never got to capitalize off that so they may do it they may you know get 50 wins and and and congratulations but the Knicks is looking at y'all Winner's coming half game behind us 50 wins for the Cavs yes or no I looked at that last 10 and I know they got four guarantees and the Cavs like to do this thing where they get so inspirational against some of these better teams and they G to pull it off so I would say yeah they going to get the 50 Mark but I'm with you I could care les
s about that at all like y'all what y'all need to do is y'all need to once y'all get once y'all get close y'all need to start playing the schedule game and looking at the the playoff tree and say he we trying to play Indiana or whatever y'all do that's what y'all need to be doing and figure out how to uh the seating game and get the right seed that's what y'all need because that's important well the issue with that though Tai is 6 seven and eight it's all right there it's all in within a game ga
me and a half so while the Cavs may be looking to play the seating game now you may be positioning yourself to play the three six matchup but the six seed could rotate between three teams ideally the Cavs want to play Indiana in the first round yes like that is the ideal match if they play them in the second to last game of the regular season I do think this team though does get to 50 wins at the end of the day you look at the 10 games they have left and if you want to pull that schedule back up
they play Charlotte twice yep you better beat Charlotte tonight and you better beat Charlotte to end the regular season they're essentially trying to lose to better their draft pick after that that's a gauntlet by the way yes Philadelphia is tough and beid won't be back but they're fighting for their playoff positioning they beat the Cavs in Cleveland the last time they played here that's never an easy game then you have Denver the best team in basketball right now I guess you could say the Cel
tics as well but the best team in the west the one seed in the west Utah is frisky that is not an easy place to play they're usually significantly better in Lake City than they are on the road by no means an easy game Phoenix they're fighting to stay out of the play in in the west think about this a team with Kevin Durant Deon Booker and Bradley Beal may not be a top six seed That's How deep the western conference is you fast forward to the next 10 games you have a back-to-back in La the Lakers
fighting for a playoff spot like literally a playoff spot the Clippers fighting to have homecourt advantage in the first round with the pel that's the four five right now and then you finish with three games Memphis who wants to lose Indiana we we'll see what happens they should win those final three games so if you take those three final games as dubs you take the Charlotte game tonight as a dub four that's four of the six you need to get to 50 you have to go two and four against the rest the C
avs are too good of a team not to go at least two and four against those teams hell they should be 4-2 frankly three and three at worst but I'm giving them four wins so getting the math together I do think this team ends up finishing the season with 51 regular season wins which is a great thing except it doesn't matter because the playoffs is what truly matters with this team anything before then doesn't doesn't frankly move I don't like none of the matchups I don't like like you know Kenny Kenn
y the J Smith always talks about it who has the best player in that series who has the best player in that series Don Mitchell is better than Halle Burton we ain't seen Donovan Mitchell halbert's hurt too so you're getting two hurt guys you don't like you don't like them against the Pacers no really no I don't like them I think that's I think they should win that 4 two I mean what's the season series they beat him last time they played and they they lost to him in the beginning of the season dur
ing the what's name play they should win that series four to two I'll look it up right now I think it's 2-1 but I can we we just saw him play Miami getting beat by 40 they should win that series 4 to2 they lose to the Pacers it's done it's done I tell that right I think it's an even series it's not I mean if Donovan healthy the C should be favored and should win it would be a giant disappointment if the Cavs did not if Donovan Mitchell is not healthy and he is 75% they still should win they stil
l should win Hal bur's not healthy either listen I'mma give you this 76ers nightmare yeah I don't even think they match up against the magic that well Pacer Pacers lead the regular season series 2-1 okay we already know what the Knicks is bucks Celtics stop playing so so you telling me now out out of all the teams that make it in the East you don't like the match up against the Sixers the heat I'll give y'all the Pacers the magic I like I like the match up against the magic I do too I it all com
es down to Donovan's Health it all comes down to D you scared of the magic list listen I don't get me wrong they playing really well don't give me wrong they young Carol's doing his thing they got young legs but here's the thing they too young not to even understand it like when you go play the Cavs it ain't like oh my gosh the magic hasn't played in the playoffs in like 20 years so let me let me that's I'm over exaggerating if you play in the Cavs what are you scared about Donovan Mitch Donovan
Mitchell and if Donovan Mitchell ain't 100% what you scared of nothing you ain't going to be like oh they going to shoot us out the gym they're not going to out physical you they don't got a secondary score that's going get 40 Jared Allen ain't going to out physical you no he get 2020s now listen it's not the magic are not a great matchup on paper for Orlando Orlando has two legitimately Elite Defenders Suggs the guard one of the best defensive guards in all of basketball Jonathan Isaac who's f
inally healthy right now Jonathan is probably the single best defensive player in the entire NBA he can only play 10 15 minutes a game they're still uh like slowly working way back in from injury but they have two guys who can take out anybody however to Ty Us's Point Orlando's proven nothing in the playoffs like absolutely nothing and we have I'm not saying hold on I'm not saying where did that I'm not saying the Cavs have we are the more experienced team it it it does take it typically some te
ams some very special teams jumped the curve on that but a lot of time the Hawks a couple years jump couple the couple years ago but in most cases and I don't think Orlando's a special team I think they're a promising team but not special it takes what we saw what happened to the Cavs last season a playoff shell shock of this ain't the regular season anymore we're not necessarily sure what to expect and they don't even have the veteran leader that the Cavs had in Donovan last season to theoretic
ally Usher them into that next stage so that's what worries me about the magic from standpoint but we are without Donovan the Cavs are screwed we talked about this time and time again like unless Darius finds a 2022 version of himself unless J uh Jared Allen continues to play at this incredible level he's kind of found this season and unless JB figures out how to kind of reinvigorate this offense without Donovan if 45's on the court it's going to be a short and disappointing playoff run there's
just I I just I don't like the Miami matchup hell no no what's wrong with you it's just you know and it's a shame because when you're when you're a secondary player is Tyler hero coming back he's supposed to be back at some point I mean when when when you're Darius Garland you're the secondary player and and the main players out you supposed to be consistent in 26 27 28 points he struggled I can't believe he struggled what he been he been bad this year I mean it's to the point where it's like du
de like yeah no it's it has not been good dude what are you doing like you got the show and you and the funny thing is everybody knows you got the ability to do it because you did it you you like a couple weeks ago you you had like 26 28 point games and like your last like five or six performances little TW and I'm like dude what are you doing well speaking of darus we saw against Miami they completely threw Darius the entire team frankly and JB bicker staff included out of a loop right they did
some things defensively that Cleveland hadn't seen and they didn't even look prepared for it's a copycat league in the NBA you know same thing in the NFL you do something one week the next team sees it they implement it right tiis that's how it works in football in basketball it's an even quicker turnaround and Charlotte tried to do a few things against the Cavs on Monday similar to what Miami tried to do on Sunday the difference is Charlotte's not nearly as good of a team defensively they're n
ot nearly as good individually and the Cs are take advantage so I got a couple Clips you guys want to see a couple clips of what Darius actually did this not just Darius this is Darius this is a big to Big oop we got three will break down real quick who you LeBron and JJ R we're doing a little try we fig we try we do on me and Jason going do this on the C show last night we ran out of time so we fig here all right this is how Darius attacked some drop coverage yesterday if you guys aren't famili
ar with what drop coverage is it's when in a pick and roll situation the guy guarding play the clip at whenever you're ready yeah the guy guarding the screener in this case it is Nick Richards drops off giv Darius plenty of room to operate that's a wide open three that he hasn't been making but if that shots open he's got to shoot it every single time every single time we'll see it again they're going to give you that much room uh Darius you have to step up make that shot or they're going to jus
t continue to play way off you they did it again in the second quarter he comes off instead of shooting it here he tries to get two feet in the paint a beautiful pass to Caris lver because he's wide open I'm gonna show you what Nick Richards did to get lost uh Nick Richards not a great defensive player watch number four Ty you know how you talk about the spinning what yeah he realized he completely lost anybody so if they're going to play Drop coverage off Darius like this he's got to make him p
ay you got to make the defense pay and in those two instances whether it's a shot getting two feet in the paint that's how he was able to take advantage against Charlotte now the other coverage Miami used was they blitzed him to try to get the ball out of DX's hands now he is a an over dribbler at times is that fair to say yes against blz coverage hey take the next clip whenever ready against bl's coverage you can't hold the ball too long here's Darius in two different situations making quick de
cisions which leads to open buckets for Evan Moy and Jared Allen here's the first one Defender steps out boom that's a nice move that's a nice little pocket pass not a lot of space gets it through defense can't recover in time Moy gets an easy Deuce but importantly to watch how quickly he makes that decision here he is two three dribbles goes right past psky forces the help dump off one two dribbles and go darus now he took one before that before he actually went to set it up fine but it's the q
uick decision making Darius has to implement to hopefully get himself in some Rhythm when he's taking five six seven dribbles going side to side it's taking time off the shot clock they're not getting good offense move on to the next one a let's keep let's keep this thing rolling we got three or four this was my favorite play from the entire game check out this big to Big alop here in a sec they Blitz this screen Allen to moy dunk City if that's a shooter in the corner I'll show you here in one
sec that could be an open three in this case it's a dunk but they Blitz the screen what does he immediately do kicks it to Jared Allen wide open in the middle of the paint if that's Max stru in the corner that's George yangang open three ball that's his Defender mopley is not a shooter comes in big to Big oop can't draw it up any better than that but once again it was the quick decision- making by Darius comes off the screen one dribble out his hand you can't rotate quickly enough to get back to
defend that and here's the last clip just for fun here this has nothing to do with Darius Garland this is just George yangang being a really smart basketball player turning miles Bridges into a top here I'm going to spot Shadow him on a sec you may not notice anything on the first thing but we're going to spot Shadow miles Bridges check out the slight relocation here of George Nang that's miles Bridges he's guarding George Nang keep an eye on him right there George two three steps that's a full
spin tiis remember when we were looking at the uh oops I effed up play upstairs raan Jenkins Jen I lost the assignment yeah yeah he drops his head he knows he's screwed up that was just the Cavs executing offensively they took what they learned against Miami they tried to make some fixes against Charlotte it worked against Charlotte Charlotte is here defensively Miami is here we got to see him do it against good teams but at least it was positive to see JB Darius uh Evan and everyone on that of
fense kind of come together all right this is what they did to us how can we counter it they countered it against Charlotte we'll see if they can do it against better teams but at least there was a step in the right direction after that absolute debacle on Sunday night well let you know that first of all when you see that it shows you that Darius is a it can be really good point guard and the good thing is that he learned from what Miami did when Charlotte came and he saw it again he was able to
make better decisions this time so it shows you that he has the ability and he's learning maybe this helps him become better in the playoffs because they're going to Blitz him in the playoffs well when they come with that Blitz it's they not going to sit back off that pick and roll no they're going to play it better but at least he his mind is Spar up you know I was listening to LeBron talk about it today as I was driving in today he was great podcast him and J him and J was talking about it he
was like he said I've been on the court and people like let me get 40 they they want to play ones everybody want to play oneon-one he's like no we're going to double team you because you got 40 points and he was like I want to know what you going to do when we send this double team to you what now you got to speed your mind up and make decisions and that's exactly what Darius was doing they they they blitzed him and he was like all right I got to get rid of the ball and he was able to make the
right decisions and now once you Blitz somebody and you able to make the right decisions you need that other guy like the oop to to Mobly that that Jared Allen threw his mind was sped up which we talked about a couple days ago that Jared Allen is actually really good a good passor this year so he actually knows what to do with the ball obviously when you have Donovan Mitchell out there you'll always have that outlet because they're going to that's what the Knicks did they Blitz Donovan and Dariu
s do stuff so at the end of the day you'll be a little bit more comfortable when Donovan is out there but it's nice to know that if you are the guy that they decide to Blitz you know what to do and you getting your team ready that's what it's about seeing these looks now trying to get it go against all these looks and let your teammates know how you're going to respond to this so when the playoffs come it's not foreign to them everybody's like what is what are you doing we need to know how you'r
e going to play towards this in the playoffs so we know how to react as a team we know how to get to these open spots so we'll be better for you in the playoffs and it's nice that the Cavs is learning these things towards the back end of their season so when they they go against these teams in the playoffs and they do things players know how to react to they lose you g no you're just not buying anything to the playoffs like you're just not hey that's fair I I can't I can't even fault someone for
doing that well here's the thing because people like people take that next step like when you and then when you see him on that next step did he lose you like yo like when you come to that next step and it's like you know they they blitzing you they get the ball out of your hands you dribbling around turnovers is picking up maybe your shots is not falling what are you going to do like I know in the in the playoffs you need Superstars you don't need rooll guys Superstars is what you need because
rooll guys disappear from game to game right that's why Lebron is always saying when you know I got to make I got to make a decision whether I'm going to be aggressive or I'm GNA Let The Game come to me he's more aggressive on the road because you got to keep your G your team in the game on the road like you might get blown out like you in playoffs game could be over in the first quarter it's done so so what you need to do at home is I got I got time to I'mma facilitate I'm going get stru six p
oints I'm G get Isaac auro a couple points here make sure he playing defense let me get out in transition maybe get a couple of Threes from Darius and then all of a sudden the game is a little easier for the role players but my thing is this he's going to have to if the Cavs want to make a run or they want to win a first round series he's going to have to be 2425 points 19 18 ain't good enough and you going to need you Donovan to be at his 28 those Stars got to have them points because you can't
count on the dean Wes and the streu and the and the nangs from game to game in the playoffs so he going to have to he going to have to work on that yeah I think for for Darius La it's just the processing the quick decision making when he plays with pace and Tempo I think he's a lot better than when he tries to slow the game down being very intentional like one of them you saw is one two pass one two I'm to the rack oh you you you all you you sagging off and pulling up it got to be automatic som
etimes when he slow it down and he trying to probe and do a Steve Nash thing like Jason said that ain't your game bro no and and and with Donovan back and he's expected to be back JB has said once again no exact timetable for Donovan stru and Dean Wade but they're all expected to be back before the end of the regular season before I let you do that how many how many if you had to ask right now who's in a rotation for the playoffs cuz I I don't know I I could I think he plays eight assuming every
one's healthy Donovan Darius struce Allan Mobley Isaac Carris Carris Carris and and Nang Dean Wade or Nang you have your hot hand yeah your hot hand if you need more defense Wade if you need more offense Nang I think so dang s Maro ain't even well listen when Mero shoots 44% he has to be in the rotation he has not shot 44% since that 20 game stretch he's about 37 since what is he on for the All Season like 41 which is still very good crazy but since that that unbelievable hot streak he's cooled
off a little bit and if he's not making shots and you know me I'm the biggest San Maro fan on the show I think he's a phenomenal player we got to get him on the show it's my offseason goal we're gonna get S Mar I want to do a shooting contest with San Marl but that' be great I'm I get my ass kicked I get my ass kicked but I think it' be a lot of fun uh he doesn't offer enough outside of his shooting that if he's not an elite shooting at an elite elite elite level in the playoffs they're just goi
ng to hunt them they're going to hunt them we only looking for small spurts McNuggets we ain't looking for like 10 15 minutes so you said thats that Stars win games yes in a seven game series and LeBron's the perfect example of this LeBron's going to win you three of those games Ro players going to win you one game and it could be a San Mar game it could be a George and yang game he had five threes against Charlotte last night or Caris Caris it could be a Caris lever game uh play game so it is a
ll imperative that you need your stars at their best but then it's the rooll guys who do come on and step in and Jason died on this whole last year Danny Green's going to win a Cav of playoff game and Danny Green did not but if you look at the Knicks we should have got did Isaiah hartstein win a game did Josh Hart win a game for HART W one uh Duncan Robinson uh mitchellon D Robinson I just I just mixed two cats that cat is actually good Duncan Robinson he got a jumper that means he got a jumper
and he physical like that and block shots Duncan Duncan Robinson is a like like Elite lowkey allam he an elite shooter about the dude from the heat I'm saying Duncan Robinson and mix with Mitchell Robinson oh mix oh yeah that'd be ridiculous dunan Robinson is crazy a Le shooter that can grab boards and hold the paint down that's ridiculous that's crazy
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