48 Minutes "Two-a-Days" Cleveland Cavaliers and Los Angeles Lakers

Now, the Cleveland Cavaliers finished with the fourth-best record out east last year, World B, at 52-30.

And as you may remember, they did have the best record out east just the season prior to that.

Now, the pressure is mounting on this group.

Donovan Mitchell and company have yet to earn a trip to the NBA Finals.

So I'm curious, what's your outlook on the Cavs heading into this season as they continue to try to tweak this roster?

This is the most – maybe the most confusing team to figure out for me, at least in the East, maybe in the NBA, because they have four really solid players, you would think, in Harden, Donovan Mitchell, Evan Mobley, and Jared Allen.

I mean, all-stars or potential all-stars across the board there with all these guys.

I just – and when Harden came over, they got better.

They were – 20, 22 and 19, their first 41 games, 30 and 11, the last 41 games.

That was really impressive down the stretch here, but I just can't get a read on just how good that big four is going to do because they only played seven regular season games together after Harden came over.

But they outscored opponents by almost 27 points per 100 possessions.

They dominated.

They held opponents way under a point per possession, which is what you really want to do when you're a defense.

You want to hold teams under less than a point possession.

They allowed 92.8 points per 100 possessions.

That's ridiculously efficient.

But then in the playoffs, they were outscored by over two points a game.

with that lineup on the court.

And a lot of it had to do with the Knicks series.

It was a disaster in that getting swept.

They were outscored.

That lineup, when the four of them were on the court, the Cavs were outscored by almost 23 points per 100 possessions.

So it's a little misleading there, but it was a real disaster.

But they still – so you don't know what you're going to get at.

You really don't know what you're going to get at.