Which Cavs player could become more important than expected?

Yeah, and I'm glad you brought up the chemistry piece.

One, yes, because I wrote about it for this morning and I would love people to go read my work.

But I also think it was not all to do with the practice on the floor before heading to training camp, right? Like these guys, as you mentioned, Chris, were getting to know each other on a personal level.

They had an opportunity that they didn't have during the 82-game season or the 26 games for the regular season that James Harden was here before they entered into the postseason.

And that simply was time, right? And time to talk to each other, time to pick each other's brains, time to sit down, go golfing, go to the bowling alley, go to the U.S.

Open, play some pickleball.

There's so many different things that we got to see and hear from these guys.

But I think also after that season and the way that it ended and the way that this team had the time to reflect and get perspective.

And obviously hindsight is 20-20.

But there were conversations being had that we kind of got confirmation of some things that we already were thinking about.

Right.

Jalen Tyson, you mentioned maturity.

He admitted that there was some simple mental lapses.

and laziness that he had on the defensive end that prevented him from staying on his assignment and working off ball, which is pretty hard to do in an offseason, was one of the main points of emphasis for him this offseason.

And that's something that we've talked about on this podcast at length that needed to be improved.

James Harden mentioned that he was still dealing with the injury of a fractured thumb in the postseason, making it hard to shoot.

making it hard to dribble because it was his left hand.

Evan Mobley basically admitted that he had no go-to move whatsoever on the offensive end of the floor.

And there's no denying that he didn't.

And that's part of the reason why, you know, people were wondering, did his game plateau? Because he was so reliant on his teammates to create for him because he wasn't great at doing that himself.

But for him to have that kind of admittance, I thought that was big too.

Go on.

And yeah, I agree with you because when we ask him about it, and also this goes into the conversation we were having with Jimmy the other day, talking about, well, was working in silence a good thing for him? Because even though we were asking about what was the go-to boo, he said, you're going to have to wait and see.

So does that elevate our eyes on him to see if he actually developed something? Or does that just give us the perspective of, hey, we got to watch out for this because it's a possibility that it's coming this year, right? So I definitely think that those things are going to be important.

But I also think you mentioned the trajectory of teams going from the Eastern Conference finals and then reaching the NBA finals.