Cavs Net Their First Win

The Chase Down: A Cleveland Cavaliers Pod

Cleveland Cavaliers

Sports, Basketball

4.7 • 588 Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Justin and Carter discuss the Cleveland Cavaliers getting their first win of the season over the Brooklyn Nets. From a bounce back performance from Jarrett Allen, another strong outing from Donovan Mitchell and the growing pains that are likely still ahead for this group.

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0:00.0	Garland in the corner. He's got it.
0:02.7	Feet stand. Power with the right. And so shakes. To the basket. And thunders at home. Oh, Mobley throws it down. And Alan blocked the shot at the rim. Welcome to the Chase Down podcast, part of the Cavs Media family. I'm your host, Justin Rowan. The Chase Down is presented by Fubo, the official streaming partner of the Cavs, much over 350 channels of live sports and TV, including Fan Dual Sports Network without cable. There's no cost and no commitment. Try for free at FubotTV.com slash calves. Well, it wasn't pretty, but the Cavs collected their first win of the season over the Brooklyn Nets, really a tale of two halves as the calves appeared to be in control for the majority of the game,
0:41.7	but let it up in the fourth quarter and led to some stressful moments.
0:46.2	Joining me today is my co-host, Carter Rodriguez.
0:48.9	Carter, how you doing, buddy?
0:50.6	Well, it's nice to have a win.
0:52.6	It was a weird game. It felt like a total, it was going to have a win. It was a weird game.
0:55.0	It felt like a total, it was going to be a total snoozer, almost to the point where it's
1:01.9	like, man, this Brooklyn team is having such a rough time.
1:04.9	I'm like, I'm worried I'm not going to learn anything positive even because it was so
1:10.6	rough at certain points.
1:12.6	But then they get super hot.
1:14.7	The calves get super sloppy.
1:17.2	And all of a sudden it's a game that the calves have to go win, which they did.
1:23.4	Zaire Williams took some of Aaron Gordon's special juice.
1:26.5	That's basically what happened here.
1:28.7	I go, damn it man.
1:30.5	He was killing us.
1:32.6	Yeah, it was, you know, I think it was very clear that at one point the Cavs took their foot off the gas, both on the offensive and defensive end of the floor.
1:41.9	It did seem like they came into this game looking to make a bit of a, you know, send a little bit of a message and bounce back from that loss against the Knicks.
1:49.5	I thought there was a lot of sharpness on both ends of the floor to start this game.
1:54.5	They were cutting with the purpose much more so than they had against the Knicks.
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