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Griffin pointed out Friday that Cleveland was 33-3 in its last 36 games this season with James, Irving and Love on the floor together. But for sustained postseason success, the Cavs will surely need a wing defender and/or a rim protector on the floor to help Irving and Love. Shumpert is a natural fit at the two, but Cleveland would have to decide whether
Timofey Mozgov, who excelled defensively in the paint and is a Blatt favorite, or Thompson would make the most sense playing next to Love.
When Thompson and Love played together with James and Irving this season, they had one of the best four-man plus-minus scores of any quartet the Cavs played together, according to basketball-reference.com, at +23. Only Dellavadova, Shumpert, James and Thompson were better together, at +25, and that was the defense-first unit that played most of the postseason together.
