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The Cleveland Cavaliers kicked off the home stretch of the season with a dominant win over the Brooklyn Nets.

It was a thorough team beatdown of the Nets, as it should be. Obviously, this was the

expectation, but boy, was it fun to see the boys back. And speaking of the boys being back

in town, Carter Rodriguez, how are you doing, buddy? I'm doing good. I thought you were about to open it by saying,

they kicked ass, not kicked off, and they did both things.

That was about, that was the kind of game you want to see after eight games of no

Cavalier basketball, all-star game, nonwithstanding, just a thorough butt kicking

from start to finish.

You know, I guess the fourth quarter notwithstanding where the offense went a little quiet

as the deep bench came in, but you really got to see everything.

And I think I'd like just to start with James Arden,

who was just phenomenal in this game.

His first game with Evan Mowgli on the floor,

you know, I had some questions about how the two big thing would work with him.

He really hadn't played alongside two bigs in a long time.

Yeah, I think someone pointed out, I was really probably the thunder was the last time he played next to, you know, two more traditional bigs, at least, you know, in a starting unit.

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