Zach Lowe

The other dream outcome is that Dean Wade can stay healthy for more than 10 consecutive days because they liked the defense with him and Mobley and Allen.

But in that game, you know, it felt almost like deja vu.

Cleveland got a little bigger swapping Garland for Harden, a little stouter physically, a little bit more switchable defensively.

And yet here they are playing the Lakers and Struce and Donovan Mitchell have to guard Austin Reeves and Luka Doncic.

And I'm like, this is...

The same basic problem that the Cavs have had against teams with two elite wings or playmakers like the Celtics, like Jalen Brunson, like how much has really changed for the Cavs?

You picked the Cavs to win the East or at least two weeks ago, I think you wrote a column about how the Cavs are going to win the East.

I've never gotten there with them and they are more confusing to me today than they were when you wrote that column.

What is your state of Cavs?

What is your Cavs con level?

I'm at Cavs.

I'm Cavs con three right now.

We're just at Cavs con three.

What's your Cavs con level?

Cause I'm not sure.

Three is like, I'd like, can I, I'd like to be at four.

If I'm like 75 games, I'd like to be at four.

Maybe, maybe I'm, but I'm still, I'm not panicked.

I'm not global thermonuclear war level one, but I'm level three caps con three.

And I don't know if... Or so desperate for like the player that everyone thought on multiple franchises that DeAndre Hunter was and never actually was or will be.