The Cleveland Cavaliers are off to a slow start to the 2017-18 season after splitting their first six games, including dropping three of their last four contests.
Despite that, Cavs star LeBron James isn’t ready to panic as he understands the team is playing shorthanded, according to Joe Vardon of Cleveland.com.
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“It’s a long season,” James said. “It’s way too (early to judge). We’re out two starting point guards. So, I’m not overlooking what’s going on. I wasn’t overlooking if we had success, I’m not going to overlook if we had a couple games off. I’m not getting too high and getting too low. I’m an even-keel guy. I understand this is a long process. We played some different (lineups), like I told you guys, we played some crazy lineups that we haven’t even played in practice. So, we’ll continue to get better.
“There’s going to be some games where we don’t look as good unfortunately but that’s all part of the process and we just have to be patient with it until we can become full strength and we got lineups and things out there that we all can become comfortable with.”
The Cavs have obviously struggled to find any level of consistency offensively through the early goings of the season. Part of this is mixing in the new pieces of the puzzle to the fold while playing without two key players in Isaiah Thomas and, up until the game against the New York Knicks, Derrick Rose.
The Cavs have been able to get by on the strong play of James, who is averaging 26.0 points with 8.8 assists and 6.7 rebounds per game. There have been some encouraging signs as All-Star guard Dwyane Wade has started to play better after the move to the bench.
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Ultimately, it is only a few games into the season with plenty of time to turn it around and figure out how to best utilize the new additions to the roster.
