A potential Cavs’ lineup involving suggested FA target Derrick Jones Jr.

A lineup of Darius Garland-Dylan Windler-Jones-Nance-Kevin Love would be well-balanced for the Cleveland Cavaliers

A lineup featuring Darius Garland and Dylan Windler running at the 1/2, with Jones at the 3, and Nance and Kevin Love at the 4/5 could do plenty of damage throughout games for Cleveland.

Garland, who averaged 5.1 assists per game in his last 26 games active for the Cavs in 2019-20, along with Windler, could function as two more than capable playmakers in this lineup.

They could hit Jones and Nance a fair amount as cutters, and Love/each other on the perimeter after operating out of the pick-and-roll game. Garland hit 39.2 percent of his catch-and-shoot three-point attempts, per NBA.com’s shot tracking data, for context.

Additionally, Love and Nance would mesh well with a high-quality shooter in Windler, who hit 42.9 percent of his 7.1 three-point attempts as a senior at Belmont, per Sports Reference. Windler is an instinctive cutter as well, and a polished pull-up shooter that similarly to Garland, will fill it up on step backs going forward, too.

Both Love and Nance, who are very good passing bigs, have nice chemistry in their own two-man games, too, and I’d expect to hit Jones easy scoring chances in both settled offense and on run-outs after defensive rebounds, too, where Jones excels in the open floor.

So how about the defensive end, then?