From Terry Pluto on Cleveland.com. Article link here.

Thought this was a very informative article about the upcoming season. Here are some highlights:

  • Mitchell put together a three-day minicamp recently in New York where the "vast majority" of players attended.
  • The starting small forward is expected to be De'Andre Hunter. (This was contradictory to a different article by Fedor, where he expected Hunter to not start.)
  • The starting shooting guard is expected to be Merrill, and the starting PG is expected to be Mitchell, until Garland returns.
  • Garland injury update: "Garland is not expected to be out as long as Strus, but he’ll probably miss several weeks early in the season as he continues recovering from toe surgery. The Cavs are very pleased with his progress."
  • Atkinson and the Cavs consider pace and conditioning to be an issue in the playoffs.
  • Lonzo Ball looks healthy. Also interesting tidbit: "Mitchell was a huge proponent of the Cavs acquiring Ball." Reading between the lines, Mitchell is perhaps responsible for both the trade of Okoro and letting Jerome walk.
  • The coaches are impressed by Jaylon Tyson and Nae'qwan Tomlin.

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  3. It’s hard not to be impressed with Nae’qwan’s summer league performance offensively, but the dude was a turnstile on defense. Maybe hiding him with an elite rim protector will help but his performances just reminded me of how impressive Isaiah Mobley was

  4. If Tomlin can be as good as the flashes he showed in summer league… which I believe we’re legit, we might have something that could be a piece to a title. He could score at all 3 levels, rebound(actually went after them) and seemed to play with a certain pep in his step. I hope he gets a real chance. I think he could be a Naz Reid type guy eventually (hopefully sooner than later)

  5. I would assume the secondary rotation at the start of the season might be consist of Lonzo, Wade, Nance, Tyson, and Craig. I would love to see Tomlin get some of Wade’s minutes though

    I would assume Proctor starts out in the role that Craig had his rookie year

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