00:00On one side of it, I think that they can beat these teams.
00:02Not blow them all away, but they can beat these teams in the East.
00:05And I think that this was supposed to be a team that was supposed to be a finals team
00:09before they even made the trade.
00:11That's why we were so down on them.
00:12And the second thing is, is that, again, I'm not trying to be tough talking Ken,
00:15but do we not have a standard?
00:17After you traded away a number four overall pick who, to a lot of people,
00:21before they made a trade, did not want to make that trade
00:24because they said we were giving up our future for the right now.
00:26So if you still stand by that and you can say, hey, James Harden's a better basketball player
00:30than Darius Garland, if you've given up your future for the right now,
00:33should I not expect something out of the right now?
00:37Common sense says yes.
00:38So on one hand, I look at the rest of the East and I say,
00:42the Cavs are better than the rest of the East.
00:43I pick them to make the NBA finals out of the East.
00:46On the second hand, I go, they should make the NBA finals out of the East
00:49because these are one of the few cards that you can play to still keep yourself.
00:53And just ask yourself the feeling that you get as a Cavs fan right now
00:58compared to where you were two weeks ago.
01:00Two weeks ago, this was all a formality.
01:03It was all lead up to something that was not going to end well
01:06and we were all going to be upset about.
01:08I had no hope.
01:09And you had no hope.
01:10Exactly.
01:10Ask yourself how much hope you had two weeks ago.
01:13Three weeks ago.
01:14It's getting to be a long enough time for James Harden's trade.
01:16Three weeks ago, ask yourself how much hope you had.
01:19You had none.
01:20And you were waiting for the other shoe to drop.
01:22You know I'm right about this.
01:23You were waiting for the other shoe to drop when Donovan Mitchell was going to want out.
01:26And we were all upset about Evan Mobley who was on a minutes restriction.
01:30But we didn't have James Harden at the time.
01:32You've seen this team be professional.
01:34You've seen this team have fun.
01:35You see this team now with expectations.
01:37You see this team playing together.
01:39You are back in a good place with the Cleveland Cavaliers and rightfully so.
01:44It is only natural and I think only right and justified to make sure that they are a team
01:50that I pencil into the finals, A, because I have hope again, and you guys all too, and
01:54B, because I should expect it for all the reasons I laid out.
01:58And I think we're about to get it.
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