Cavaliers & Knicks are the two HOTTEST teams in the East 📈 But who’s BETTER? | Numbers on the Board

Cavaliers & Knicks are the two HOTTEST teams in the East 📈 But who’s BETTER? | Numbers on the Board

Let’s talk about the hottest teaming basketball 14- one in the last 15 Cleveland Cavaliers has taken the number two spot in the Eastern Conference big win last night against the Sacramento Kings where the kings were in it for the first quarter um that was one of the best shooting first quarters I’ve seen

For two different teams I think both of them had like six or seven three-pointers nobody was missing and eventually the Kings did start missing and the Cavs did not it was it was over with um they’ve been the hottest te in basketball they’ve had Mitch since December 15th just not lost games they

Got wins against again the Kings they got wins against the Clippers they got wins against some really good teams and they’ve taken care of business against really bad teams too and a team that was around 500 when the first announcement of the injuries of Evan Moy and darus

Garland has now again skyrocketed to the two seed which is interesting because another really hot team you New York Knicks have also been amazing but like the Cavs have been better just been better you know which is crazy to think about because the Knicks have been just so good too and I I

It was confusing when the when the injury history or report came out I was basically not interested in watching this team play anymore yeah it was like Garland is gone MO is gone what’s about to happen I even was like man maybe it’s time to start to think about trades

Because I don’t think you’re going to be able tostain put all that the B just took off yes he’s averaging career high in points rebounds assists his efficiency has gone up over the last month or so after a slow start slow in cation marks cuz it’s not mital

And now they cannot lose I just think it’s amazing to see like one guy be able to like flip a team when they when they could have went backwards Donan Mitchell said no no no no there’s another level that I could play at yep and he put it

On his back and he even like the night the the other game when he when Evan moley didn’t take the shot at the end of the shot clock and the the game saw me yes I did and he went up to him say take the first shot yeah that’s leadership

That’s stuff right there cont it was two seconds left at the end of the first quarter the inbound goals to Evan Moy and it was a smaller guy on him I don’t remember who it might have been de Fox oh no it was daveon Mitchell y instead

Of just shooting the shot because there two seconds left he pump faked Davon Mitchell and then it got blocked it’s like and Donovan looked at him say take the first shot first shot and that’s three threes last night yeah exactly I think that’s something that best players

On team should do like a lot more Empower your teammates to do that type of stuff even though Evan M isn’t a three-point shooter still tell him to take the shot yeah like when Jimmy used to tell bam shoot shoot the three ball yeah like I feel like that’s that’s

Stuff that all leaders should be doing I just seen I just seen Jaylen Bronson do the same thing I wish I remember who was against you know the end of the end of the quarter they always try to get a ball to your best player uh he gave it up but to

Go get it back from uh Duce McBride and he couldn’t get him the ball back and Duce had to take a shot but when after the quarter when they’re walking back to the bench Duce is saying my bad and Jaylen brownson was like no no no no no

He CLA like we good like just just play basketball it don’t have to be you you don’t feel bad cuz you had to take a shot well like the play where he had to tell where he told tior to calm down he had told Theo to calm down cuz somebody

Had turned the ball over but then jayen Bruns was and tho got mad and Jay BR was like oh no that was my fault that was my fault I he told Tio to calm down and I was like that’s that’s amazing right there at least he took the blame and he

Went to the head coach and told him that was my fault right just to go back to the Cavs though uh 14 and one last 15 the most impressive thing for the Cavs is they run teams out of the gym like the Kings to on me I was on the phone my

Dad and I we was he asked me who was playing I looked through the game I’m like it’s a bunch of trash but the first game should should be really good no because the Cavs they do that I be looking at matchups and I be like oh I

Remember when the Bucks in the Cavs played a little while ago I was like oh this going to be a good game they ran them off the court went they beat them by like 40 yeah I’m like they they be ran them out of the gym and as a Knicks

Fan they was rolling but we started rolling and they lost that one game and I was like okay this might be our time and no they just got right back on track I’ve been saying it for a while Donovan mry should be in the MVP conversation I

Know now that’s probably going to grow legs and become a real topic but this team is scary they’re dangerous um they got a little bit of everything they got size up front with Jared Allen and and Evan Moy um they got two Dynamic guards who can score the basketball and play

Off of each other they now have a a spot up shooter and uh Max stru they have a bench score and Levert they have a lockup guy and Isaac aoro and because you have the the the balance of offense from Ma strs you can kind of float

Between both of them you don’t have to feel obligated to play 33 minutes of Isaac aoro if he’s hurting the offense that bad and then you have my favorite thing in the NBA you have a guy that you took in as like he was Missy IR relevant the

Last pick of the draft yes when tra one man’s treasure is another man’s treasure what we’re seeing with Isaiah Jo and OKC Sam Morel yep real NBA player all of a sudden a rotational player and making a difference there is nothing better in the NBA than when somebody is just out

There and a team is like no he’s he’s something for us he’s something for us that is I I love that that just speaks vales to coaching to organization to Player Development to role like I I love that my favorite thing about the samel thing is now that all these players are

Back we’ve seen some people lose their rotational spot Scar’s back EV Mo’s back samarel is like you’re not taking my minutes away like yesterday against the Kings there were there were two possessions in a row where dear Fox tried to get a switch on samel and he

Was successful and Sam Morel was like no I’mma sit in this chair I think dear scored one of the two times because he dear f f yeah but the way he competes defensively is just something again Mr Irrelevant I I don’t know if I’ve watched any real Sam or real minutes

Before the season started honestly just cuz he’ been over there Milwaukee NBA minutes n College minutes and he’s he he’s competitive on the defensive side of the ball which makes it so that cuz they already have like we knew that the defense was real they’ve been the top one of the top

Defenses in B for the last couple years um but when you have a player that can shoot the way he does but also a competitor defensively it’s hard to take minutes away from that guy because one of the things that was so successful when they were without Evan Moy and

Without Darius Garland was it was just Don OFA Mitchell with Shooters they were catching they were letting it Fly minivan even Isaac Coro had a couple games where he had big time three it’s like okay so he’s one of the best three-point Shooters in the league and

You can try to hunt him but he not letting you go yeah that guy’s going to play yes at the end of the day that’s probably all you really want right like a lot of this stuff it’s going to be gaps in athleticism you know what I’m saying

With a lot of players even really good player like jayen Bronson is athletically he’s not you can’t expect him to be keep like really doing anything with a job Morant no but it’s like just compete play hard give effort try just try effort just take can take

You a long way yeah you know what I’m saying instead of just rolling over and letting somebody do whatever the hell they want to do um which is which is kind of I know we passed some but it’s kind of the things with the Bucks where it’s like train little like

Transition defense you know what I’m saying I hate to go back to the BS because we should be praising the hell out of the cabs but that was another thing with the BS it’s just like transition defense it’s IQ I I seen Dame point to like Crowder to go get the

Point guard and then he ended up on Larry and I’m like DN you should have just sprinted and got now y’all just off balance but yeah the Cavaliers are dangerous I fear them for a guy who has a team in Eastern Conference um that’s striving and doing anything and the

Playoffs um some months away now I know it may seem far but once this Allstar break is done we GNA get to Rolling y’all we going to Blink and it’s going to be play in games so yeah um I I would love to keep things how they going in

This direction because this means that we won’t have to play them in the first round um I hate that the 76ers have to be the victim of that um but it’s still a chance also where we give the Bucks time like we gave the Clippers and then they

Might start rolling and then you um then you might have a situation where they they Dro three four we still won’t have to play them but yeah man the Cavs are to be feared and uh I think they should hold Pat I think they should be a team

That doesn’t really do anything at the deadline I kind of like what they got going yeah I feel like when you got something rolling like this you kind of want to mess it up unless you like get the guy but I don’t see none of the the

Guys available right now so you might as well just stay Pat is Vier staff and y’all Coach of the Year running which is yes which is funny because I remember L the first month of the season cast fans was like get rid of [Applause] [Applause] JB

On Numbers on the Board, Derrick and Pierre join Kenny Beecham to discuss the two hottest teams in the Eastern Conference, the Cleveland Cavaliers and the New York Knicks.

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