1 stud and 1 dud for Cavs in their loss to the Bulls on Saturday

Cavs stud from Saturday’s loss to the Bulls: Evan Mobley

As we touched on, this was not a stellar performance from the Cavaliers overall, and not having LeVert in there, not even mentioning Collin Sexton, to that point, hasn’t helped the offense of late.

Cleveland shot only 41.9 percent overall, and just 5-of-24 from three, a 20.8 percent clip. By comparison, Chicago made nine triples, which was not an astronomical amount by any means, but they did hit key ones down the stretch, and shot 42.9 percent from there.

Garland was far more effective in general in the second half, but he was 0-for-3 from deep, and Cedi Osman was just 1-of-8, for context. The Cavs in this situation are going to have their inconsistencies for stretches if those two are that off, as Garland had a rough first half.

Anyway, the clear standout for the Cavaliers here was Evan Mobley, who was a bright spot for them in their loss to Miami on Friday, too. Mobley did concede some buckets to Vucevic, clearly; still, Mobley did have some really impressive offensive sequences, and was active off-ball once again.

There were some tough looks for him at times when the offense stalled, but he did still have 17 points, to go with seven rebounds, and he did still have two blocks on the other end of the floor.

He did have three turnovers, to just one assist, which was uncharacteristic of the Rookie of the Year frontrunner, as an aside. However, there were some instances, objectively, where I thought he definitely could’ve had free throws, which led to some off sequences from him, and for him to have no free throws in those was shocking, frankly.

All in all, though, Mobley did make his imprint here, as was the case on Friday, and also on Tuesday in a win at the Pacers. And him being a plus-seven at Chicago was a positive.