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Take a bow Craig Porter Jr! Injuries in the backcourt pressed Porter Jr. into action, and if the Cavs thought they found something before, they have to know they’ve found something now. Porter was relentless in attacking the rim. His combination of ability to get vertical quickly and his creativity in finishing around the rim is a sight to behold. He’s consistently putting pressure on the inside/middle of the defense. He seems to just glide when he’s on the court. Off the ball, Porter Jr. always seems to be around the ball – whether it was the four rebounds, two steals or one block. Sometimes jobs are relinquished due to injury, and that just may be the case whenever Ty Jerome comes back. The question for Porter Jr. is how long can be...

Although the Browns will take center stage, the Cavaliers also have a game and this one against the defending Champion Denver Nuggets. The Nuggets are off to a great start at 9-3 but they have lost their last three road games. Their last four games have all been close with two 3-point wins at home and two road losses by 3 and 5 points. The Nuggets are missing their starting point guard, Jamal Murray, who averages 16.3 points and 7.4 assists. The Nuggets are 6-1 when he plays and 3-2 when he's out. The backup point is Reggie Jackson, age 33, who has been averaging 29 minutes a game since Murray has been out. He's still a good player, averaging 14.6 ppg as a starter, but they don't play him more than 32 minutes. They don't have another...

We're going streaking! With a win Friday night the Cavs have their longest win streak of the season: Two games. This is also the first time they are at or above .500 since an opening night win against Brooklyn. The Cavs had to start somewhere, and it's been taking advantage of two young, disjointed, injury plagued teams in Detroit and Portland. But hey, with how the season has gone up until this point the Cavs will take it. The first two baskets of the game were high action with Evan Mobley around the elbow. One was a big two-man game between Mobley and Jarrett Allen that lead to a lob; the other was between Max Strus and Mobley that lead to a three-pointer for Strus. Mobley ended up with five assists for the game but the high action...

This is a time and space where your favorite RealCavsFans personalities will come together to answer questions round-table style. With our first RCF Roundtable, please welcome Sebastian, our great site owner; The Oi, one part of our own RCF podcast: Rubber Rim Job; and RCFWriter (@RCFWriter on Twitter/X), who will be the RCF front page lead writer. - What is the next level for Darius Garland and Donovan Mitchell? RCFWriter: Better offense. Of 2-man pairings with at least 1,000 minutes last year, Mitchell and Garland were 39th in net rating at +8. That was also good for 6th best on the Cavs filtered with the same qualifiers. So good, but it can be better. (For comparison: Denver and Boston dominated the top-25 2-man pairings with...

Luckily for JB Bickerstaff this year, continuity should make his lineup decisions easier. There’s no experimenting who the fifth starter will be – whether it was year one in going big or last year in cycling through Caris LeVert, Dean Wade, Isaac Okoro, Cedi Osman and even Dylan Windler. Max Strus was acquired to be the guy and is being paid like a starter. LeVert was retained and is being paid like a super sixth man, a role that he seemingly settled into during the second half of last season. How Bickerstaff would juggle Ricky Rubio, balancing respect to Rubio’s accomplishments and veteran presence with the subtle signs of age and injuries catching up to him, would have been something to watch. Now, it’s uncertain if Rubio will don...