{"id":480595,"date":"2025-12-18T11:54:47","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T11:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/480595\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T11:54:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T11:54:47","slug":"player-grades-cavs-at-bulls-deandre-hunter-cant-shake-the-yips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/480595\/","title":{"rendered":"Player Grades: Cavs at Bulls – De\u2019Andre Hunter can\u2019t shake the yips"},"content":{"rendered":"

CLEVELAND \u2014 The Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a> suffered another crushing loss as the Chicago Bulls defeated them 127-111.<\/p>\n

All grades are based on our usual expectations for each player.<\/p>\n

32 points, 5 assists, 1 rebound<\/p>\n

At some point, the Cavs will have to win games even when Mitchell doesn\u2019t outright carry them. I guess they aren\u2019t ready for that just yet. Mitchell scored 32 points on 22 shots but was far from his best on defense. Even his effort was questionable tonight.<\/p>\n

15 points, 6 assists, 5 rebounds<\/p>\n

The Cavs scored 20 points in the first five minutes of this game. Garland had nearly half of them with three triples in the opening minutes. He only scored six points the rest of the way, and was among the most guilty of Cleveland\u2019s poor defensive effort.<\/p>\n

14 points, 3 assists, 6 rebounds, 2 blocks<\/p>\n

Allen is just getting back from missing the last two weeks with an injury. But there isn\u2019t room for any more excuses. The Cavs needed Allen to be a beast tonight. He was just fine \u2014 which feels worse than it should, given the circumstances.<\/p>\n

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21 points, 3 assists, 2 rebounds<\/p>\n

Tyson plays harder than anyone. But, he isn\u2019t nearly as talented or experienced as the guys ahead of him. Maximum effort from Tyson can only mean so much for a team that isn\u2019t getting nearly enough from its stars.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s worth noting that while Tyson has played hard and given more offense than anyone expected, he still comes with all the defensive warts you would expect from a player in his first real NBA season. That\u2019s why his grade is a bit lower than you might assume.<\/p>\n

2 points, 1 assist, 7 rebounds<\/p>\n

The Ball experiment is getting hard to watch. He went 0-4 from downtown tonight, further decreasing his three-point percentage to 25% on the season.<\/p>\n

12 points, 1 assist, 5 rebounds<\/p>\n

The Cavs tried moving Hunter to the bench tonight to help him snap out of his funk. It didn\u2019t work.<\/p>\n

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2 points, 1 assist, 2 rebounds<\/p>\n

Wade wasn\u2019t anything special tonight. But he had relatively nothing to do with his team\u2019s struggles.<\/p>\n

4 points, 4 assists, 2 rebounds, 3 steals<\/p>\n

Porter isn\u2019t a perfect player. He lacks the three-point range that would make him a legit weapon in today\u2019s NBA. But, we are at the point where he has earned more minutes compared to Ball. That finally happened tonight, with Porter playing slightly more than Ball.<\/p>\n

7 points, 0 assists, 6 rebounds<\/p>\n

Bryant plays his heart out. There just isn\u2019t much he\u2019s truly capable of doing if the rest of the team can\u2019t even come close to matching his effort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND \u2014 The Cleveland Cavaliers suffered another crushing loss as the Chicago Bulls defeated them 127-111. All grades…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3771],"tags":[7,920,1236,7814,919,329,3824,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-480595","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-bulls","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-bulls","10":"tag-cavs-analysis","11":"tag-cavs-player-grades","12":"tag-chicago","13":"tag-chicago-bulls","14":"tag-chicagobulls","15":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115740444661028665","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}