Justin Rowan

He played with so much joy and joy was the identity of this team, right?

Like when they were playing at their best, they just played really fun, energetic basketball.

And he always had the smile on his face.

I think people forget like the year before Donovan came to Cleveland, the Cavs were the three seat at the all-star break, right?

Like they were playing really,

really good basketball.

After the break, you know, Mobley missed two weeks.

Jared Allen basically broke his hand and missed after the all, like the all-star stretch on Larry Markin and missed time.

Karis LeVert missed time.

Like it just, every single injury hit at the wrong time.

And they still won 44 games like that.

That's more regular season wins than Trey Young has ever had in his career.

Right?

Like, and that was with Garland as that top guy.

So yeah,

um i think darius was a huge part of their identity uh last season their offense was historically good it was even better when darius was on the court on his own right like he was the most impactful offensive player for them and i was talking to carter about this when we're kind of eulogizing the garland era but it's just kind of hard to think that that game two in miami where both of us were in attendance and he lands on a fan court side and

you know, ruptures his big toe on his right foot, that that really was the ending of the window for that group, right?

As constructed.

And, you know, the Clippers now, they've shut him down, not for the toe that he recently hurt, but the surgically repaired one.

Yeah, the other one, yeah.