As wretched as the score was in this game for Cleveland, this game told us a lot about the Cavs.
After the trade deadline, a number of franchises are dealing with integrating new personnel into the squad. Add injuries and Covid, and the business of sorting out continuity and change gets difficult. What isn’t difficult to assess is how yawning is the chasm between the Cavs near the bottom of the Eastern Conference and the top tier of the Western Conference. Even if you drink the very strange yet strangely clickable Kool-Aid narrative about the Cavs modelling their backcourt after the Jazz (which verges on trolling after losing by 37 points), it’s obvious…
Outside of the organization marketing bubble, this game was mainly about giving Isaiah Hartenstein some minutes at center.