Spurs fan what would it take to Darius Garland?

Evan Mobley's ceiling is at the 4.

great guest and great show on some hard love/ possible reality - mid pack team with some potential .. Two guards in the playoffs dont work when everyone is 6'.8" + in the east.. Hoping Jalen T is a dynamic piece and Mobley really breaks out.. Hoping the coach plays the most productive offense/defense lineups in crunch time and not the politically correct 'best' line-ups .. As a Cavs fans who no longer lives in Cleveland (but grew up there) , I see the cavs like John Fanta see's them. We can however be one player away from contending in the East if the able Wade is also healthy and hitting on all cylinders on both sides of the ball .. Hope he is having a good off season..

the team works amazing if we have another 6.9 guy and can play Garland off the bench wiht Strus at SG, this is the most spot on program ive seen, no homer material just real talk... if the cavs are somehow able to find a SF then we can go back to blowing teams out .. but Garland is on a bad contract and will never come off the bench to run the 2nd unit .. either that or bench him down the stretch for the longer more defensive line ups

John Fanta is a beast. He's fully tapped in. I'd love to see more of him

With 3 guys at 6'0 6'1 and 6'5 those guys have to score more then they will give up which in the end is impossible in the playoffs team will shoot over easy in which the smaller guys must work so hard to just get the shot off

You talk about the Cavs need to change things all the time it’s the same thing over and over and over again. I think we need to find something else to talk about. you’re so negative about CAVS are doing, why are you covering the Team. Find a new one because it sounds like you don’t like anything about this one!

Okoro, LeVert, Jerome, or Niang should probably be traded for some more size on the wing and some draft picks. I would wait and see what Atkinson can do with Garland and if he has a bounce back year without any weird injuries. If Garland has another down year then look for trades.

U know the Warriors did a coaching change with an exact same Roster, but fired Mark Jackson for Steve Kerr. Coaching matters, philosophy matters, development matters, and role definition matters. Kerr put the ball in Draymond's hands not Jackson.

Andrew. Has it right. In addition, As difficult as it would be to accomplish, If garland came off the bench, It would make The cavaliers the team to beat in the east. With Wade, Allen and mobley playing together teams would be hard pressed to score a hundred points. Also, They could have their pick of who plays the number two slot. It could be merrill, Jason, Stress. O'coral Or whoever.

Asinine to say Mobley is more valuable than Allen.

John Fanta really one of them ones ☝🏾

Great video!

RB's are so important...Imagine a rotation of DM at the point, Tyson at the 2, Wade at the 3!!! along with EM and JA....now that's a top notch 1 thru 5 RB rotation!!!!

Hey Danny...roster building = KOBY!

Strus in by far the 2nd worst contract on the CAVS! He is a solid bench guy...not a starting SF by any stretch!

Positional SIZE and Length has always been my issue with KOBY! with DM and DG as well.....DG will ultimately be the first to be traded!!!

cant wait to see them go against the celtics in the in season tourny

I wanna see the rematch with the Celtics

Mobley deserves one award: the most OVERRATED Cav of all time. Giving him that max rookie extention was a bad move.

Bill Russel was 6'10" w/a 7'4" wingspan & in his prime only weighed about 5 more pounds than Mobley does today. The tics didn't really need him to do anything else other than defend and grab boards and the rest of the guys on the tics didn't really have a scoring talent like we do in Donovan Mitchell. Sam Jones was their go-to guy in the clutch but he was also a lockdown defender against the Lakers (some say that is the reason why Jerry West never won a championship against the Tics, because of Jones locking him down.) I believe if Mobley can bump up those blocks and rebound #s during the regular season, he can win most improved for sure even if he maintains 15ppg and maybe sprinkling in a handful of assists. Donovan in my opinion is the best SG in the league and he has been peaking every single year since being in the Wine & Gold. So yeah if he plays enough games he could win MVP. But like I commented on the previous pods...Cavs are going to need to impose their will on both ends all season long, and bring it every single night, especially against the best teams around the league.

With the Maxey/DG comment, you made me think of back when LeBron played for the Cavs and it felt like almost every single night opponents went so hard against the Cavs like it was their litmus test (regardless of travel and back to backs) to see if they were serious contenders. So I think we need to take what we learned from that Boston series, now that we are full strength, and I want to see us contend for the #1 or #2 spot in the East this year. No nights off unless its against the bottom of the barrel nights. I am circling the harder matchups on my schedule to judge how WE make a statement & where we stand going into the postseason!!! Go Cavs!!!

Cavs are not trading Okoro this summer for a 31 yr old dfs. Maybe at the deadline, if Ice is out of the rotation non factor, but not now. I think Altman playing the the tax line game with Okoro means very little about what Altman thinks about him. I feel they love Okoro, but are willing to risk losing him to UFA just to avoid paying him a lot right now, especially after overpaying the core, which for some damn reason apparently doesn't include him. Okoro has shown a lot of improvement whereas DG has regressed. Not sure how that DG contract is going to age if he has to stay second fiddle to Mitchell either. I think they trade Garland before its all over, and I wouldn't be surprised if Okoro is the starting 2 guard next to Mitchell as a result.

We do neeed another good player but that’s a lot of draft picks

I wouldn't give up any more of the draft picks

Can we get the likes up

Wait what Georges Niang is a bad contract???

I don't think it's unrealistic to say that Okoro's peak is somewhere around what DFS was in Dallas. He is only really a 3pt make per game away from it now

Thank you for having my comment on the show appreciate the interaction

I think the in-season tournament winner should be guaranteed home court advantage in the 1st round. Make it so the winner can do no worse than 4th in their conference, and I think a lot more teams would take it seriously.

Do not break a sweat, Travers is a complete player, connector/glue guy, and would play and contribute to the Cavs game instantly.

Would much rather have kicked the tires on Aleks Pokusevski instead of JT Thor!

Okoro for L.Nance Jr....would bolster our frontcourt bigs....or Okoro and Levert at the feb trade deadline for Tobias Harris....if Detroit starts selling off! Nance can play next to Evam or JA...Harris would start at the 3 and move Strus to the bench where he belongs as a rotational bench contributor.

NO way 4 2's for DFS...and George....especially with that contract and he's not a longterm guy!

Get tha likes up respectfully

Evan is already the best from his draft class and he still has a higher ceiling than all those guys too. I've tempered expectations until now. It is #ascensionseason!!!

I've got a feeling that the over/under for total wins is looking more spot on than it did at first glance. Sounds like the schedule is not very friendly BUT it can be the fire that forges us for when the playoffs roll around. I want to see us play up to the harder competition and prepare for those games like it is a playoff game. No more of this "oh it's just one game" b.s. when it comes to teams like NY, Philly, Denver etc. Go kick some doors in and make 2024-25 regular season count!!!

I think the nba should make the in season tournament more interesting and competitive what if the in season tournament winner was guaranteed a spot in the play in tournament 🤔🤔

Outside of Sc.Barnes....Tor has nothing!!!!!!....I have them as the 3rd or 4th worst team...after Nets,Wash,Maybe Chic.....Det will be better as will Char! Must win that 1st one in Toronto!!!!

For context, when DG & Mobley were out, that stretch of wins was against the worst teams in the league (some of which like the Wizards we played multiple times.) Nothing to scoff at, but context matters.

Thats a reach. We will see.

I think Atkinson starts and plays who matches up best, opponent dependent, regardless of $$ players make. He had the balls to bench Gobert in the Olympics.

People underestimate wades impact.

jb couldnt play them when DG returned , it was humerus , its also funny that Altman thinks a two guard line up works

None of the overpaid 4 are coming off the bench on paper , even knowing it might improve the bench having DG running it. Or might improve the spacing benching Allen

Any successful business has to think out of the box from time to time in order to be successful. Same goes for the cavaliers. Darius garland coming off the bench is thinking out of the box. So many positives to this move.

I’ll miss him. I thought he was a solid guy.

10:35 that sigh...the same reason why I commented about Strus in yesterday's locked on fantasy hoops video. Is averaging 12 points during the regular season "good enough" from our starting small forward? The answer is no & for most teams across the league the answer is no too. And even worse, averaging 9 points in the postseason on 36 minutes per game from our starting 3 is just...9 freaking points! Where is the Strus from his Cavs debut dropping 27 points and 12 rebounds?! THAT IS THE STRUS WE NEED!

3 wings? struss and okoro are shooting guards not wing

If Garland and Mitchell move without the ball then that could overcome some of the issues with size. They could have Garland come off the bench but I don't think they'll do that because of the max contract. The real problem is Donnovan is too short to play the 2 but you don't want to get rid of him because of what he brings. He could play point but like he said in the video that might cause more problems down the road.