CAVS IN TROUBLE? REAL NBA TITLE CONTENDERS? – 5 Good Minutes With Windy
With the Cavs coming off a tough loss to the Celtics, we’re back with our guy Brian Windhorst to talk about where the team stands and if they’re legit NBA title contenders.
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How worried are you about the Cavs right now?
Technically Tatum is 6'8", not 6'10". Just sayin'.
Bad games happen. 5 days off, coming off injury, Sunday 1pm, no Jarrett Allen. They’ll be okay. Some teams are made for playoffs. Celtics are fantastic but have a lot of unproven playoff performers. The Don-Harden-Mobley-Allen lineup is unstoppable if we go with the right 3. Dean Wade has to be better or replace him immediately with Tyson or Strus.
Not with Dean Wade and Sam Merrill as starters you're not. Those guys would be bench players on the Celtics.
Tatum is 6' 10"?
A 1pm(12noon) game in Cleveland in daylight savings time coming off of 4 days off .. you’d like to see them refreshed and perky but we looked sluggish. Harden is playing hurt and we’re missing Allen .. I can’t emphasis what it would do to have Strus back.. I think we’ll be fine if we can get healthy!
Also I don’t understand why Kenny is married to the idea of Merrill starting at the 3 instead of Tyson.
Windy spent the first 11 minutes monologuing what he could've said in one sentence: we won't find out if the Cavs can be better than the Celtics until they face each other in the playoffs
He made True North wait for so long
Jaysus, i guess Windy likes playing cards. Ive never seen him like this. An 11 minute diatribe with poker metaphors the whole way! You are the Windy Whisperer!
The coach needs to include slashing plays going to the basket for any and all players on team who get to the basket. We need more than just Donovan slashing. We are easy to defend because we are a 1 or 2 trick pony ,swing the ball around the perimeter and take an open 3 point shot or thanks to Harden and Allen we now have true pick and roll option. You can't include Moby in the pick and roll because he sets weak paper tissue screens and when he does receive the ball on the roll ,he stops rolling as soon as he catches the ball and wiggling around trying to perform😮 post up moves. My niece laughs everytime and calls him Mr Wiggles 😂. So at least it's entertaining but I wish he was more successful at it.😊
the cavs haven’t been title contenders since 2018 and to be
honest, 2016 because kd tipped the scales for those back to back titles in 17 and 18…
the cavs are likely second round exits but they aren’t winning no larry OB that is beyond cooked for the blind 90%s out there
love windy but he knows damn well this team not winning the title- doubtful. Bring lebron back – even then still no title im not delusional. Bring lebron back finish the story, that’s is the championship enough
Are they making the playoffs? Yes? Are we facing the same exact challenges we faced the last three years? Yes. Will we finish this season top 4 in the east? Yes. Are we title contenders? Obviously if we're in the top four, make the playoffs And there's no absolute juggernaut in the east. So I guess there's no trouble 🤷 so Maybe you can probably stop making that the headline for every single Cavs video until we fall to the 6th seed or Lower? 😝 .
CAVS title losers for sure.
Another fantastic 20 minutes and 1 second of 5 good minutes with thee Windy!! Go Cavs!!
The Cavs will continue to start Wade when everyone is healthy because the coaching staff understands his defense against the best lead guards and wings while helping on the glass.
So all of you who don't understand Wade's value out yourself as not getting the finer points of ball.
Wade is great against Brunson, Tatum, Cade, and the like.
Yes, it helps when Wade makes his threes and creates out of the short roll.
But this idea that the Cavs have no chance because of 2 way wing problems is showing an inability to get how 5 man units work.
The Cavs simply must live and die with the J. Brown shooting midrange Js. He made them in this game. Their role players made threes. The Cavs role players didn't make theirs.
Honestly, a full strength Cavs vs a full strength Celtics is slightly tilted towards the Cavs.
The Celtics have not been able to stop Mobley. Some of that is by design, but they can't allow Allen also to feast downlow.
Honestly, the Celtics are now scary with Tatum coming back, but so are the Cavs.
Cavs and Celtics are the two best teams in the East. The Pistons and Knicks have fatal flaws.
Until they prove they can get out of the second round, I'll be pretty skeptical.
The Cavs don't attack the basket, they attack the three point line. That WILL NOT win a championship. Those shots will stop falling. Evan mobley looking to pass every time he has his back to the basket anywhere but underneath it is not a recipe for success
Tatum and Brown just elbow their defender with their off arm and then get mad if a foul isn’t called. They get away with this style and it’s called “creating space.” Officials selectively (rarely) call fouls on Tatum and Brown. You saw Brown’s reaction the other night. We now have maybe the most notorious foul baiter in history, but we have him when he doesn’t do it anymore!! If we don’t make it, I can’t wait to see Tatum/Brown and SGA have an elbow-fest and foul-bait athon to terrible tv viewership.
Dean Wade is not scoring more than 5 points in a meaningful game against a good team.
Cavs are not title contenders, they are fool's gold. They cannot beat Detroit, New York or the magic. Forget about the western teams!