Larry Sanders, the Cleveland Cavaliers need you. Derrick Williams, the Cleveland Cavaliers need you too.
The Cleveland Cavaliers are giving up 44.0 points in the paint per game, putting them at 17th in the league, and that’s not going to cut it. In fact, only four other playoff teams are worse in that aspect: the Golden State Warriors, the Denver Nuggets, the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Houston Rockets.
Of those teams, the Warriors, Nuggets and Thunder have lowered the average amount of points they give up in the paint over their last three games.