Cavs Identity Crisis + Land of the Lost | Slam N Jam
The Athletic NBA Daily
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🗓️ 15 November 2025
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Andrew Schlecht and Alex Speers discuss the week of the NBA basketball, the Good, the Bad, and the WHAT?? and then the boys are joined by Carter Rodriguez of the Chase Down Podcast to discuss the Cleveland Cavaliers. They discuss the Cavs 3 point shooting, how they are fairing with their new bench, and how they are off to such a strange start in the weak East. Then the guys play a fun edition of Andrew vs. the Beat
Host: Andrew Schlecht and Alex Speers
With: Carter Rodriguez
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio/Video Producer: Monica Compton
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Saturday slam and jam here on the Athletic NBA Daily's podcast and YouTube. |
| 0:13.7 | If you're not listening or watching on YouTube, we'd appreciate you guys. |
| 0:17.3 | Go check out the YouTube channel. |
| 0:18.7 | Just search Athletic NBA Daily. |
| 0:21.0 | I'd go check that out. |
| 0:22.1 | On today's show, we're doing our good, that, and what? |
| 0:26.8 | We're talking to Carter Rodriguez of the Chase Down Pot about the Cleveland Cavaliers |
| 0:32.0 | and their kind of strange start to the season. |
| 0:35.6 | And then we're going to do some trivia. |
| 0:38.6 | But first, Al, tell me what happened in the NBA this week. |
| 0:43.1 | Well, Andrew, the top story this week was the firing of Mavs GM at Nico Harrison. |
| 0:49.8 | Less than one year since Harrison traded away Maxi Kleba for peanuts. |
| 0:54.1 | Mav's owner Patrick Dumont decided he didn't have the patience to wait and see |
| 0:58.3 | if more than two Mavs were going to shoot better than 29% for you this season. |
| 1:03.3 | Now, Harrison said after the Luca trade that defense wins championships, |
| 1:07.9 | and as a Friday morning, the Mavs had the fourth best defense in the league per clean |
| 1:12.4 | in the glass. |
| 1:13.2 | And the offense is improving too. |
| 1:15.3 | Earlier this week, Bobby Corella of DLLS shared a stat that the Mavs had the worst |
| 1:20.5 | offense in NBA history relative to the league with a minus 11.8 relative offensive rating. |
| 1:26.2 | Well, since then, the Mavs relative offensive rating has climbed to minus 10.7, |
| 1:31.8 | making them only the second worst offense in NBA history. |
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