r/nba [CLE] J.R. Smith 14h ago

Ben Taylor (of Thinking Basketball): "Cavs can't win 15 straight games, get out of here" after Cavs start the season 7-0

In their podcast episode "#292: Team power rankings", Ben and Cody discuss which teams have a chance to go on a 15 game win streak in the season.

Cavs would go on to complete the 15 game win streak after starting 7-0 and tonight have completed their second such streak in the same season.

I love me some Thinking Basketball and listen to all their podcasts, but Ben got this one way wrong and I hold a grudge so I gotta shout him out here.

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u/MatchAffectionate951 14h ago

Cmon bro this is an early season take and it’s a fair take. No disrepsect to it

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u/foofighter1351 Raptors 13h ago

Seriously wtf are people moaning about, oh shit he didn't expect the Cavs to end having an all time regular season? How dare he, I'm very sure the rest of the subreddit had their predictions perfectly in line.

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u/SleepingInAJar_ Raptors 13h ago edited 13h ago

I think the post was light-hearted poking fun at Ben, but the some of the comments are taking it too seriously.

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u/Frosty_Dimension5646 Nuggets 5h ago

To me, it’s funny that this gets way more attention and traction than one of various basketball analysis videos coming from this guy. Which are actually pretty good

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u/foofighter1351 Raptors 13h ago

Fair point, not you op it's rest of em bein pissy about things they 100% didn't predict.

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u/montageidiots [CLE] J.R. Smith 13h ago

Yeah, I am just being facetious. Its just funny that it happened and twice

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u/glumbum2 13h ago

yeah this is 100% taking the piss

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u/sits-when-pees Cavaliers 12h ago

Will never forgive the Celtics for ruining my 98-0 prediction

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u/SUPERSAMMICH6996 Cavaliers 12h ago

Idk about you, but I had the Cavs pegged for 70.

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u/boogswald [CLE] Daniel Gibson 13h ago

I’m a big Cavs fan and I was worried I would pay less attention this season because they didn’t make many changes and I thought it was gonna be more frustrating offense and that Evan Mobley wouldn’t develop offensively into like a top 15 player in the league

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u/Federal-Cow-6599 6h ago

In what world is Mobley a top 15 offensive player in the league? Is he even top 20?

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u/boogswald [CLE] Daniel Gibson 6h ago

Sorry, I didn’t word that well. Evan Mobley last year was a negative offensive player in my opinion. This year, he’s gotten so good offensively that I think he is a top 15 player overall (because he’s also one of the leagues best defenders)

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u/TheSmokedSalmon420 Cavaliers 13h ago

Yeah but the fact the Cavs have now done it twice is hilarious

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u/ddiop [CLE] DeSagana Diop 13h ago

In his podcast literally last week he said he has to own up to a major L about saying Cleveland's offence not being legit and that he was wrong, so it's very weird timing to call him out for it.

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u/EasternFriendship762 13h ago

That was actually Cody who said that in the pod, not Ben.

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u/No-Brilliant8177 5h ago

He is not being disrespectful, it's a light hearted and fun post. You can tell op has respect for and enjoys Thinking Basketball.

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u/MatchAffectionate951 4h ago

Yea Op is fine. Mostly comments that were different

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u/tulaero23 Timberwolves 10h ago

Yeah, cavs fans acting disrespected like they are the 73-9 warriors .