Hoops Tonight - Cavs-Raptors Prediction: PHYSICAL series, Harden & Mitchell eventually beat Ingram & Barnes
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🗓️ 18 April 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Jason reacts to the Cleveland Cavaliers matching up with the Toronto Raptors in the NBA playoffs and makes his prediction. He breaks down how Donovan Mitchell and James Harden will lead the Cavs offense and how they will fare against Brandon Ingram and Scottie Barnes.
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| 0:19.8 | All right. Welcome to Hoops Tonight here at The Volume. |
| 0:21.9 | Happy Friday, everybody. |
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| 0:25.4 | We've got another series preview today. |
| 0:27.1 | This time we're hitting the Cavs and the Raptors. |
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| 0:53.4 | basketball. So the season series |
| 0:54.9 | between the Cavs and the Raptors, these are the numbers for whatever they're worth. The |
| 0:59.4 | Raptors are 3 and O this season and they've absolutely dominated. They have a plus 11.4 net rating. |
| 1:04.4 | They've dominated Cleveland on the glass. They've dominated in transition. It hasn't been |
| 1:08.6 | pretty. But I take little to nothing from this data just because |
| 1:13.3 | all three of these games took place during the first six weeks of the season. The calves were |
| 1:18.8 | utterly decimated by injuries. There was no Darius Garland, obviously no James Hardin, because that was |
| 1:23.1 | before the trade. Jared Anlin only played in one game. Max Trues obviously was out of the lineup at that |
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