Welcome on to Dunkton, Dunkton Prime, Dunked on YouTube.

And what we're going to talk about today is which teams that have surprised so far,

or are just playing exceedingly well, whether you consider a surprise or not,

do we expect to sustain that level of play throughout the season,

if, of course, they maintain a level of health so yeah i'll give you the

honors danny what team should we start with here we'll do a mix of subjective and objective factors

that we like to look at and evaluating whether play is sustainable or not i think it's it's only fair

to start with the last remaining undefeated team in the NBA and that's the cleveland cavaliers

they are now nine and oh for those who want it they're cleaning the glass and It's only fair to start with the last remaining undefeated team in the NBA, and that's the Cleveland Cavaliers.

They are now 9 and 0. For those who want it, their clean-the-glass net rating is plus 13.6, which hilariously is not number one, even though they're undefeated.

There are two teams ahead of them.

We may talk about those teams at some point.

Second and offense, fifth in defense.

Yeah. second in offense, fifth in defense. Yeah, so, I mean, they blew out Toronto on opening night,

and you didn't know whether it said more about Cleveland or Toronto, probably actually Cleveland,

ironically enough. And so first thing we could take a look at here is their strength of schedule.

Now they haven't had to play themselves, which makes things a little bit easier. And they have had a

relatively easy strength of schedule, dunks in threes has a really good metric that takes into

account not only the names of the teams that they play, but who's actually been available

for those teams. And Cleveland has had a somewhat easy strength of schedule. But that was

more of a criticism in the first week. And then they played against a full strength New York

team. They played against a full strength Milwaukee team, and then a not full strength,

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