Will the Cavaliers Be Active at the NBA Trade Deadline? – Sports4CLE, 1/30/24

Will the Cavaliers Be Active at the NBA Trade Deadline? – Sports4CLE, 1/30/24

Two things what what what is the ceiling with this team uh with the two of their three best guys coming back the ceiling and then because it’s that time of year February 8th trade deadline that’s next Thursday are they active at all do you think are the Cavs active at

All I think coming into this year Dave you could look at the Eastern Conference in tears and you would sit there and you would say well Boston Milwaukee and Philadelphia are just on a different tier they’ve got more experience than the Cavs they probably have better coaching than the Cavs and they have

More highlevel Talent than the Cavs all of those things remain true to me um so I think the Cavs are in the second tier of Eastern Conference teams I think they’re right there next to the New York Knicks surprise surprise battling with the New York Knicks again um and the

Indiana Pacers have been a really really good story and when they have tyres halberton they are a historically great offense and they traded for Pascal cakam that gives them another boost so I think the Cavs are right there I think they’re that kind of team that is in the second

Tier in the Eastern Conference that if things break the right way if they stay healthy if they figure out all of these things in the second half of the Season how to reintegrate Darius how to have the same kind of offensive success with Darius and Evan together despite the

Fact that the Personnel is different um if they can still shoot as many threes as what they have over the last month month and a half if they can still be as Dynamic offensively as they have shown while still being as smothering on the defensive end that they have shown then

This is a team that can legitimately get out of the first round of the Eastern Conference playoffs and put a scare into one of those top tier teams in the East that to me is their ceiling but I’m not ready to sit here and say they’re better than Boston they’re better than

Philadelphia or they’re better than Milwaukee I think that’s just going a little bit too far in terms of the trade deadline Dave I think it’s the same kind of approach that they took this past off season right when so many people around the NBA were were thinking about all

These drastic moves that the Cavs were going to make or needed to make because they got bounced out of the first round of the playoffs in a non-competitive series against the Knicks the Cavs were sitting there saying hey we like what we have we had a bad week we have a flawed

Roster we understand our weak points on this roster let’s go fix those first and see what happens before making a drastic move to shake up the foundation of this team team so what they do they brought in Max stru they brought in George Nang floor spacers guys who create gravity

Guys who can knock down outside shots they bring in Tai jum small moves around the margins that fit with the core four that they already had established and they brought back Carris Levert which was a big deal because they wanted him to stabilize the second unit I think

That’s the approach that they take at the trade deadline I don’t see them doing anything drastic I don’t think they need to do anything drastic I don’t think they need to panic 28 and 16 they’re one of the best teams in the Eastern Conference so to me it’s

Small moves around the margins can we improve the 7th eighth or ninth guy in our Rotation by trading two players for one player and getting an upgrade that way and I would think that they would look at a three and D type player or a backup point guard that gives you a

Little bit more experience and a little bit more knowhow than Craig border Jr

Dave Bacon and Chris Fedor discuss the ceiling for this Cavaliers team and if they could be active at the trade deadline.

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