The Cleveland Cavaliers rolled into Las Vegas Summer League with an extremely young roster and one steady hand, third-year guard Craig Porter Jr., to keep everything together. It was a bold move not having any veterans to give structure to the group, but Porter as point guard could run the show and put his youthful teammates in positions to succeed.
Then Porter left the first game almost immediately with hamstring soreness, and the team took the cautious approach and ruled him out. Suddenly, the one player with more than a year of experience was on the sideline, and the ephemeral hope of someone steady to run the show disappeared.