No, the sky isn't falling, as Cleveland Cavaliers head coach Kenny Atkinson said on Sunday, but it is starting to descend. One-fourth of the way into the 2025-26 NBA season, the wine and gold look like pretenders, not contenders, further fueling their loudest critics' fire with a 12-9 record. Suffering an all-too-familiar-feeling loss for the third straight time, Cavs sophomore swingman Jaylon Tyson said the quiet part out loud .

“I just think we're in cruise control,” Tyson candidly told reporters multiple times postgame in the locker room.

Though it's admirable that a second-year player who's played in 67 total career games is willing to use his voice to right the ship, he shouldn't be the one publicly falling on the proverbial sword. Cleveland's front-of-rotation guys need to face

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