5 under-the-radar 2020 NBA Draft prospects Cavs should pay attention to this NCAAB season
By Tyler Meitin
The draft is so important for the Cleveland Cavaliers in their full-rebuild. Here we’ll take an in-depth look at five prospects that the team should be paying attention to during this 2019-20 NCAA basketball season.
The Cleveland Cavaliers sit in a unique place in the NBA. The team is coming off a relatively strong 2019 NBA Draft that provided them three promising young rookies in Darius Garland, Kevin Porter Jr. and Dylan Windler.
Windler is recovering from a reported stress reaction in his leg that has kept him off the floor for the first month or so of the season, but both Garland and Porter Jr. have each played their fair share of minutes to start the 2019-20 season and have each contributed as the team has navigated through their underwhelming start to the season as a team.
The organization will likely enter the 2020 offseason and NBA Draft with another top 10 draft pick given the underwhelming and even poor manner in which the Cavaliers have performed this season and this past month.
November has been particularly cruel to the Cavaliers as the team has gone 3-12 (bringing their overall record to just 5-14) and they have struggled to remain competitive against most of the opposition they have faced thus far.
These struggles have largely stemmed from the team’s poor defense and as such, the organization will likely prioritize the overall improvement on the defensive end both moving forward this season and into this upcoming 2020 NBA Draft and offseason.
The Cleveland Cavaliers do have some quality young talent on their roster in Collin Sexton, Garland, Porter Jr., Windler and even Cedi Osman.
Cavaliers general manager Koby Altman must still continue to aggressively hunt for young talent to add to this core in order to improve on this team and vault them back into playoff and even championship contention once again, though.
Altman is certainly fortunate as this upcoming NBA Draft possesses a multitude of potentially elite and game-changing talent that could fit very well as a member of the Cavaliers and their young core moving forward. This article will highlight a few of the players the Cleveland Cavaliers organization likely could and even should be targeting throughout this 2019-20 NCAA season.
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