Cleveland's Critical Playoff Series: A Team on the Brink

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00:00Honestly, I don't trust either one of them because of the inexperience and the ineptitude

00:09of someone like a bigger staff. So, what I go to is I go to the players. And I want to

00:14find players that have been in this spot. Go to Orlando. Who is the guy that's had the

00:20playoffs experience? I'm still thinking about it, right? So, to me, this is important for

00:26Cleveland because they are a team that is on the verge of being broken up. You know,

00:33you look at a team like Chicago. Shout out to the Chicago Bulls. The only team to win

00:36one series and people talk about ending an era. That's the worst era I've ever seen.

00:40That's like the era of when, you know, when the Mets were in, like, the 90s when Vince

00:44Coleman was throwing firecrackers into the stands. Now, to me, when you look at this,

00:50Cleveland needs this, Kevin. Like, they need this series. One, bigger staff, if they don't

00:56win in the first round, he's getting fired. There's no way around. Two, Donovan Mitchell

01:00basically said in so many words, if they don't make it to the finals, he's gone. Well, they're

01:04not making it to the finals, but if I think if they make a run, let's say they get the

01:07second round versus Boston and they give Boston a series, then I think he may hang around.

01:13Then you're looking at the breakup of Garland and obviously Donovan Mitchell. Then there's

01:17a Jared Allen, Evan Mobley effect. Kevin, they need this series. Like, they need this

01:23series. I'm going to say it like this. I think it goes seven games. I like Cleveland because

01:28of the experience. And I will say this, if Orlando steals today, it's over. Cause I think

01:35all of the problems of all the stuff that came back is going to be a problem. Cleveland

01:41needs as crazy as it sounds. The experienced team in Cleveland needs to play with the lead

01:46in this series, meaning they need to go up 1-0, maybe even 2-0 to Orlando. If this is

01:521-1, shaky. If they lose game one, I can see all the crying and stuff in Eastern Ohio start

01:58to pick back up again, knowing that this team's in trouble.