The Cavaliers Glaring Weakness as Eastern Conference Contenders – Sports4CLE, 2/19/24

The Cavaliers Glaring Weakness as Eastern Conference Contenders – Sports4CLE, 2/19/24

Mentioned um you mentioned Boston and and they’re they’re out ahead of everybody legitimate contenders though behind that the Cavs and what do you think their glaring weaknesses as you look forward to the playoffs I think it’s kind of what I talked about Dave it’s just questions

About how ready is JB bicker staff as a tactician for a seven game series against a really really good coach on the opposite Sidelines how much did he learn from being out coached um by Tom Tibido in the first round playoff series against the New York Knicks now that he

Has more chest pieces and ones that can move in a different kind of way will he be better in that kind of environment when it comes to in-game adjustments when it comes to game- to game adjustments when it comes to lineup decisions and strategy things um is

Darius garland does he have a maturity to his game that is demanded in the postseason because the things that he sometimes can get away with in the regular season uh-uh doesn’t happen in the playoffs it’s a completely different game Evan Mobley is he physical enough is he strong enough Jared Allen Evan

Mobley together can they hold up against you know playoff physicality when um referees tend to swallow the whistle and allow things to go in a different kind of way something that they felt last year with the Knicks so I don’t know that there’s like one position that is a

Glaring weakness or one skill set that’s missing from this roster I think it’s just how is this team going to respond after everything that happened in the playoffs and are they more than just a really really talented team that can Bank wins in the regular season I need

To see um everything that they have done this year um on the heels of last year translate into the postseason those are the questions that I have all right

Dave Bacon and Chris Fedor discuss the Cavaliers as contenders in the Eastern Conference.

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