1. Sometimes in the early weeks of the NBA season, we need to reframe expectations. Sometimes a team isn’t a good as we thought they would be. Sometimes a team is much better than we thought they would be.
In this case, we knew the Cleveland Cavaliers would be good. They were close to being a good team last year, and the Donovan Mitchell addition was expected to lift them to that status.
But simply “good” might be underrating this Cavs team some. They have all the components to be very good and to contend in the Eastern Conference.