Pelton mail: How can Cavs make playoffs with such a bad defense?

This week's mailbag features your questions on bad defense from playoff teams, poor free throw shooting and more.

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"Listening to the most recent Lowe Post, and while discussing the Cleveland Cavaliers, Zach said that since the merger just eight teams with a bottom-two defensive rating have made the playoffs. Not sure how you quantify it, but does that actually seem higher than you'd suspect? Once every five years, a team that's basically terrible at half of the sport makes the playoffs!"

-- Ben

There's an important bit of context to that research from ESPN Stats & Information: Going back to…