Cavs players that benefit most from Matthew Dellavedova’s return

#3: Cavs wing Dylan Windler

The Cavs player that should benefit the third-most, if you will, from Dellavedova’s return is Dylan Windler.

Windler didn’t play last season due to complications involving what would eventually be deemed a stress fracture in his lower left leg, but for next season, he seems fully ready to roll and should be a key shooter. That’d be feasibly in mostly a bench role.

We’ll have to see in relation to how much time Dellavedova is on the floor with Windler, but more importantly, with his great passing feel/IQ, I’d think Delly should really help Windler’s timing as a cutter/off-ball/off-movement shooter.

Windler, who hit 40.6 percent of his career three-point attempts at Belmont in a four-year stint, and had 21.3 points per outing as a senior in 2018-19, is polished as an all-around shooter. He should make things happen when he’s on the floor in that realm off-the-catch via spot-ups/off-movement, to go with the pull-up game.

Albeit with Dellavedova being such an intuitive passer/as a player that has helped off-movement shooters get high quality looks often throughout his career, Windler should be able to bounce ideas off Delly for how to aid him in getting open consistently from a passer’s perspective. That same sort of thing could help Windler as a cutter as well.

Plus, although he’ll be more so a shooting/scoring contributor, Windler is a good passer, but Dellavedova should aid him in that way as a ball-mover, too.

Overall, I’m sure the Cleveland Cavaliers are glad to have Dellavedova back, but these aforementioned players first came to mind as ones that would benefit so greatly from Delly’s return.