I was recently doing some research for a video on teams I thought could beat their over/under win totals [(video can be found here for those interested)] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsbwI99js4o&t=310s) and couldn’t help but feel the Cavaliers could be overlooked entering the regular season.
This is accounting for regular season only, as we all know playoffs can be matchup dependent, etc. Though the Cavs will have a lot of continuity in terms of their whole rotation returning and they also had a lot of bad injury luck last year. Of their core four players (Donovan Mitchell, Evan Mobley, Darius Garland and Jarrett Allen), only Allen didn’t miss at 25 or more regular season games. So assuming they’re healthier, I wouldn’t be stunned if they ended up being a pretty high seed. Interested to hear what others thought.
Hard to say how much other people are or aren’t sleeping on them. I think I’ve seen more hype for the Knicks and 76ers on media sources, which I don’t agree with, but I don’t know what people’s actual opinions are. The Cavs are probably the team, if I had to pick one, that I’m most worried about beating my Celtics in the East, though its a small difference for me between like 5 teams. According to ESPN right now the over/under on them is 47.5, which seems low considering there could be 7 teams in the East that are tanking.
Yeah I was thinking it more so relative to hype. I could see them having a better regular season record than a few of the teams in the East that are discussed more.