Cavs Unleash Chaotic Harden-Mitchell-Thomas Lineup
Underdog NBA reported the lineup alert on X.
The are rolling out a starting five on Monday that looks like it was drafted by a teenager playing NBA 2K with the salary cap turned off. , , Cam Thomas, Evan Mobley, and Jarrett Allen are officially getting the nod.
That is an absurd amount of usage rate packed into one backcourt. If you are holding an over ticket on any of these guards' individual point props, you might want to pray they figure out how to play with three basketballs at once.
Cleveland is sitting at 4-2 and currently boasts the seventh-best offensive rating in the league at 117.2. They just dropped 136 points on the Milwaukee Bucks over the weekend, and now they are injecting even more pure scoring into the first unit by swapping Thomas into the mix.
The math here is objectively hilarious. Mitchell is already pacing the team with 22.7 points per game, while Harden is operating as the primary facilitator with 6.3 assists a night.
Adding Thomas to a lineup that already features two ball-dominant guards and two traditional bigs in Mobley and Allen is the kind of chaotic basketball experiment that makes the regular season watchable. Defense might be optional, but the shot-making potential is terrifying.
They get to test drive this offensive funhouse mirror on Monday night against a 4-2 Oklahoma City Thunder squad. If this group actually figures out how to share the rock, the rest of the Eastern Conference is going to have a massive headache on its hands.