Cavs The Blog Podcast

Nate, EvilGenius, and Tom enjoy the Cavs universe the way it is - not the way it could have been.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

What a week! Ben Werth plays us in on this pod with his Jack Black-esque diddy about how he feels about a Cleveland Champship. Tom Pestak, Nate Smith, and Carson Zagger discuss game seven again, the series, LeBron's legacy, Kyrie, Championship Week, and the transcendent moments we all shared over the last eight days.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

A raucous pod celebrates the Cavs first championship, and the first Championship in Cleveland in 52 years. Nate Smith, Ben Werth, EvilGenius, Tom Pestak, Elijah Kim, David Wood, and Mallory Factor celebrate. What a win. What a season. What team.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Ben Werth, Nate Smith, and Mallory factor exuberantly recap the greatest game in Cleveland Cavaliers history, and now the Cavs are one game away from an NBA Championship. We're so excite! (warning, PG13 for language!)Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Nate and Tom talk all things Cavs going into game five Monday night.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In part II of our finals podcast, Ben Werth ironically joins us from Germany to talk Finals with Nate, EG, and Tom. Topics: has Kyrie Irving improved since he was a rookie, adjustments the Cavs can make, LeBron's "genius" reputation, silver linings, and more. Do the Cavs retreat and regroup, or is this their D-Day?Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

On the anniversary of D-Day, Nate Smith thanked the heavens that Tom Pestak and his despairing attitude hadn't poisoned the Allied spirit, especially in Britain during the early years of WWII, lest "we'd all be speaking German today." Tom countered that this may be our evacuation of Dunkirk. EvilGenius laughed at us both. With such a dramatic vignette, we humbly offer our "saber-tooth podcast" where we mostly try to answer the question: What, if anything, can the Cavs do about the Warriors? Both in Games 3, and 4, and as LeBron continues his trek along the proverbial Back Nine. Rebuild? Reload? Surrender? Hope Curry retires to play pro golf?Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Former CtBer Colin McGowan joins Nate Smith and David Wood as they broadcast during Game 7 of the Western Conference finals, and realize who the Cavs will be facing in the finals. Who terrifies us most? What are we looking forward to? What's the vibe in the region as we anticipate the finals? How do the Cavs match up? We also take a look back at the Raptors series and discuss their future, and take a peak at the crazy contracts we'll see this summer. We give the most love to this crazy likeable Cavs team, Tyronn Lue, the evolution of Saint Weirdo, and the even more amazing evolution of LBJ.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Nate Smith, Tom Pestak, and David Wood talk the week in Cavs: the Game 3 Loss, good and bad Kyrie, the Under-respected Raptors, the surprising Thunder, and the Cavalier adjustments. We check in on Tom's many sales adventures, and Nate waxes absurdist on the nature of basketball.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Podcast Episode 102: Dinosaurs vs The Comet and ThunderStruck First! by CavsTheBlogAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

On the heels of a Cavalier sweep of the Hawks, Nate Smith and Evilgenius discuss the series, the Cavs' epic three point shooting, and the Cavs' minutes distribution. We also take a peak in on the interminable and aesthetically unpleasant Toronto/Miami series. The ball that refuses to go in the basket in the picture seems the be the perfect symbol of the series. In addition, we talk about the news around the NBA, laugh at the the best (and worst) commercials of the playoffs, and look at the summer movie schedule. We've got another week of talking before the winner of the other eastern conference semifinal shows up. If Mianto ever shows up. Basketball hell is a watching Mianto play an endless series of overtimes.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Podcast Episode 100: Round One is in the Books by CavsTheBlogAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

I can't believe this is our 99th podcast! Tom Pestak will follow this one up with our 100th! For this trip to the CtB podcast studios, Ben Werth and I broke down the match-ups in the Cavs/Hakws series, possible minutes adjustments, what we'd like to see from the Cavs, and what we definitely don't want to see. It's much shorter than our usual long in the tooth podcasts, so hopefully you can listen to both pods before Game 1.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Tom, Nate, and Eli dig into the Cavs 12th straight playoff victory over the Detroit Pistons, discuss the subculture of Kyrie criticism, and look ahead to the next rounds of the playoffs.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

EvilGenius and Tom get together to discuss the Cavs triumphant victory over the Pistons (their 10th straight playoff victory over Detroit). Additionally, we at Cavs:TheBlog are looking for another writer and looking for feedback on new content ideas.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Hey folks! We've an action packed pod for your listening pleasure. Nate Smith, David Wood, Tom Pestak, and Elijah Kim (the voice of @CavsTheTweets) all squeezed into the podcast studio to discuss Sunday night's Cavs game: LeBron, Kevin Love, Kyrie Irving, Cavs' defense (and lack thereof), YOLO Pistons' shooting, and Tom's 2009 playoff demons. We also took a look at the other series around the league and gave out a bevy of awards for the regular season.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Kyrie Irving was a big topic of this podcast, and Tom Pestak, hopped up on NyQuil, showed up to help Nate Smiith and David Wood discuss the enigmatic Cavs point guard. We all wondered why the hell Irving can't use a screen, why the Cavs even bother setting them for him, and how demoralizing it must be to play with him at times. Will he ever "get it?" Can he ever be a consistently competent defender? And does he have to many off the court distractions? (Warning, the opinions discussed in this section were highly unprofessional and speculative and are only the podcasters' opinions and impressions and should not be taken as anything other than pure conjecture).We also talked about LeBron throwing guys under the bus , if Mozgov has any value, Lue's rotations, and the Cavs' optimal starting lineups. We gave a quick playoff preview of who we would like to see the Cavs play in the first two rounds, and who scares us. (We're all scared of the Heat). We also went out west to decide if anyon

Nate analyzed the win over the Hornets, I analyzed the win over the Hawks, we piled on Kyrie as much as we could, we played a very long game of Potent Perceptions that focused on defensive-minded but still elite lineups around the NBA and LeBron's incredible play of late. We finished it off with some very long stories about having our perceptions biased by salesmen and women. Be warned: if you want nothing to do with Tom and Nate's personal stories about salespeople, just end the podcast at the 1:28 mark.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Ben and Tom (we definitely need to hire a Jerry) discuss LeBron's defensive habits, the Cavs uninspiring play in Back to Backs versus games where they had rest, whether Kevin Love's struggles are more physical (back?) or mental, and whether or not Mozgov will peak at the right time.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

It was a mixed bag this week for the Cavs. During five games in seven nights: they whupped the Clippers, dropped an exhaustion game to the Jazz, blew a 19 points out of a 20 point lead to squeak by Dallas, dropped the Magic despite a 45 point night from Oladipo, and finally got their butts handed to them by the Heat on Saturday night. Ben Werth and I got in the podcast studio to discuss the week. A big topic of conversation was the coaching of Tyronn Lue and his defensive assistant Mike Longabardi: the rotations, the schemes, the sets, the timeouts and/or the lack thereof. The difficulty of coaching LeBron James and Kyrie Irving were topics of conversation, as was the problem of what to do with Kevin Love. We delved into many other topics: the Spurs and Warriors, the Kawhi/Curry MVP race. (I'll admit it was a bit of a Spurs love fest).We delved into our fears of Mark Jackson as Cavs' head coach as well as our fears of the Raptors and Heat. We discussed the nuances of the Triangle, and the media's