Danny Cunningham

Cleveland so this was a certainly like if you would have told me this a month ago I think I would have been a lot more stunned than I am sitting here talking to you guys about it now just having time to process a little bit but wild nonetheless how much of the calculus is the the issues that garden Garland has dealt with injury wise over the last couple of seasons and not necessarily knowing what you can get from him in the playoffs coming up and and in the future

I don't know.

Yeah, I mean, especially you see it.

We've talked about this all season, really, Dave, when it comes to the load that he carries in the fourth quarter and how he's tried to will the Cavs back into some of these games.

And again, the fatigue makes sense at this point in the season.

I'm also curious to see how those two work defensively.

Because a lot of the questions around Garland and Mitchell were the fact that they were a smaller backcourt.

And there were clearly some questions defensively as to like, hey, how are we going to attack?

Mobley has to clean up so much for us.

Jared Allen has to clean up so much for us.

Do you think adding James Harden potentially exacerbates those issues?

And then of course post defender.

How do you see them stacking up against the rest of the Eastern Conference?

Because obviously this adds a level of talent and availability in James Harden.

You just talked about the depth that they've added at the guard spot with Dennis Schroeder and Keon Ellis.

When you look at them compared to the Knicks, the Celtics, the Raptors, the Pistons, where do you slot them in now?

And as a person who covers the Toronto Raptors, I would agree with you.

I think that's right.

Yeah.

Yeah.