Should the Cavs be asking more of James Harden and Donovan Mitchell?

Yeah, I think it's only five games in.

So you have to be careful in terms of certain numbers that you cite.

But I do feel like the turnovers have become a problem for this team.

And in a lot of ways, that continues to fuel the opponent.

And I would like to get a real sense of just how good the Cavs can be as a defensive group.

But their offense has to help them out.

You have to take good shots defensively.

You have to have good floor balance.

You can't have live ball turnovers that compromises your defense.

So I feel like the Cavs offense, which I thought was going to be the strength of this team, I feel like in some ways it's compromising their defense at times.

So I think they have to get the turnovers under control for sure.

And then they have to guard better at the point of attack.

I understand that their defense is compromised at times by the way that their offense has played.

But the amount that they're asking Jared Allen, Evan Mobley and Peyton Watson to cover up for mistakes and the amount that they're asking those guys to do, it's just too much.

It's too much.

At some point, Donovan Mizzell and James Harden just have to take it upon themselves.

And maybe they're not going to in the regular season, right? Maybe they're going to just wait until the playoffs and see if they can have a little bit more effort, a little bit more attention to detail, a little bit more focus.

They're not going to go all out right now and try and guard people like their Cason Wallace and Alex Caruso for the Oklahoma City Thunder.

Maybe that's the case.

But we do have a lot of data in terms of Donovan and James together and the kind of stress that that puts on the Cavs frontcourt to make up for some of those point of attack miscues.

So you just have to be stronger at the point of attack.

You have to take these individual challenges and not be over.

It's something that they talked about throughout the course of training camp.

We're so over reliant on Jared Allen and Evan Mobley because they're so great at protecting the rim.

But we can't do that.