Cleveland Cavaliers changed head coaches and saw a 16 -game improvement in normal season records. In the end, the result was the same as the previous year: the second round of playoffs.
Cavaliers’ extraordinary 64-18 normal season, LeBron James when he played for the team for the last time he plays a spotlight in the light of a spotlight and basketball operations President Koby Altman, he knows that he invited the title expectations.
Altman met with journalists on Monday six days after Cavaliers Cavaliers, with the best seed, took them to Indiana Pacers from the semifinals of the Eastern Conference semi -finals.
Altman, “I think we all come to the season we can assume that no one predicts that no one is the seed. I do not think anyone has 64 win.” He said. “Because we’re so good, we’ve recreated the expectations of the finals. I think everyone here has seen potential champions, a new area for us.
“We have recreated expectation and now we have to live with it.
The expression of overcoming the hump was throughout Altman’s words. When asked whether the construction of the current squad could gain a title, Altman supported the team’s Young Foundation, Darius Garland (25 years old) and Evan Mobley (who was 24 years old in June) support Donovan Mitchell.
Altman, “This year we understand our aggressive identity, and so I am really high and optimistic about our future.” He said. “However, not only 82 games. We have to find this 16, how to overcome the humpback. However, this group has shown that they can play some of the best basketballs in the world.
Altman pointed out that Mitchell, Garland, Mobley and Center Jarrett Allen, who joined an average of 76.6 points per game in the normal season, pointed to what Cleveland called “Core Four”. Allen also directed the NBA on the face percentage (70.6) and accelerated Cavs with 9.7 rebounds per game while playing all 82 matches.
However, Altman said that Cavaliers would not be afraid to add pieces even if he took it to the luxury tax or the second-hotel zone.
Cleveland was one of the favorites to win the 2025 championship when the new coach Kenny Atkinson started the season’s 15-0 season and then directed the 12th and 16-game winning lines of the season. Despite some of Mitchell’s big games, Cavaliers swept Miami Heat before getting into trouble against Indiana.
“This was the 3rd year for Core Four, and they have achieved an incredible success, right?” Altman said. “Playoff success needs to come in the next row, but what we have proven this year in the normal season and I think it’s an internal belief as possible to run back and see what we can do. But not just running back. Kenny’s year.
“… This year there was an innovation, a freshness.
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