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Heat Check with Trysta Krick

Are the Cavs legit title contenders?

Heat Check with Trysta Krick

The 8 Side

Basketball, Sports

2.21.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

The Cavs are playing great basketball and it's flying completely under the radar.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:09.1

So I am back from Vegas.

0:11.4

Well, I'm not really back.

0:12.8

I'm in Portland.

0:14.1

I am staying in my mom's house in a room I have not slept in in about a decade. I have bought a massive air purifier

0:26.1

and a flat screen TV and I've been working on the internet pretty much all day because this

0:31.5

back room doesn't get Wi-Fi. So all of that after the glamour that was Super Bowl keeps

0:37.0

you humble.

0:38.3

One night you're at an aria party, the next night you can't get Wi-Fi.

0:43.3

So let's get into this. Let's start off with the Cavaliers.

0:46.3

We really haven't talked much about the Cavs as of late, which is wild, because this is the hottest team in basketball by a long shot.

0:56.0

17 and 2 in their last 19 games.

1:00.0

They are climbing the standings like a billy goat.

1:03.0

They went from 7th on January 1 to 2nd in the span of 5 weeks, which is crazy.

1:10.0

Also, for many of those weeks, they did not have two of their five starters, Evan Mowgli and Darius Garland.

1:16.6

So how are they doing this? Very obvious reasons and some reasons that are very difficult to see.

1:21.9

One, Donovan Mitchell Star, pure and simple, major reason that they are tearing shit up out in the East. He's consistently

1:29.7

putting up 30 a game and his assist numbers are through the roof as well. Darius Garland has been

1:35.4

out a good while with a broken jaw. He is now back, obviously. He's been back for a couple of weeks

1:40.2

now. To the surprise of some, what's making Donovan Mitchell play his best basketball of his

1:45.5

career is the playmaking. He is averaged eight assists per game with Garland out. And since

1:52.1

Garland's been back, the assist numbers still very high. And since he's also getting to the

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