4 changes the Cavs should consider making to jumpstart their starting lineup

The Cleveland Cavaliers have quite a few unfamiliar faces on the team and have started off the season 3-4, looking out of sorts and searching for answers. Here are four changes the Cleveland Cavaliers should consider making to jumpstart their starting lineup – and their season.

The Cleveland Cavaliers have hit an early season slump which, of course, has caused a mass hysteria in Cavs Nation. While there isn’t a need to panic so early in the season nor concerned, it’s obvious that the Cavs need something. After starting the season off 2-0 against two tough Eastern Conference foes in the Boston Celtics and Milwaukee Bucks, the Cleveland Cavaliers have went 1-4 against the Orlando Magic, Chicago Bulls (a game they won by 7 points), Brooklyn Nets, New Orleans Pelicans and New York Knicks.

Maybe the Cleveland Cavaliers just time to gel. After all, Sunday night’s starting lineup never played an NBA game together. Neither had the one that took court against the Orlando Magic, Chicago Bulls or New Orleans Pelicans.

However, maybe the Cleveland Cavaliers should consider making wholesale changes to the starting lineup before their next game and – now that Derrick Rose is back healthy – stick with it until Isaiah Thomas returns.

Whatever the decision, the Cleveland Cavaliers are obviously in a funk right now and while certain players are performing well on an individual level, the team isn’t performing well as a whole. That speaks to a lack of chemistry.

Looking at their defensive mishaps, it’s obvious the Cleveland Cavaliers need to improve their effort. Including LeBron James.

In any case, the Cavs need to get on track sooner rather than later as losing tends to taint individual psyches and give birth to toxic locker room environments. Losing, and in the fashion that the Cavs have been losing in, also breeds bad on-court habits that could rear their ugly head in crucial postseason moments (see: the 2017 NBA Finals).

With that said, here are four changes the team could consider making to the starting lineup in order to get off to faster starts and improve their first quarter defense.

(Making more than one of these changes is possible and acceptable.)