The general consensus is that the Cavaliers are a year or two away from truly hitting their stride due to the overall youth of the team. That isn’t the mindset Miles and his new teammates have, though.

“I feel like we’re one of those teams where obviously we’re not going to be talked about going into it but as far as players and guys in the league know coming into that gym or playing against us, it’s not going to be an easy game,” (C.J.) Miles said. “We’re at that step now where we’re going to be able to take a step where we can fight for the seventh, eighth seed and that first or second team is worried about coming in to play us; worried that it could be an upset because we don’t have anything to lose.”

via Yannis Koutroupis of HOOPSWORLD