CLEVELAND, Ohio — The Cavs are navigating a season filled with championship aspirations while fighting a frustrating reality: they’re missing two critical pieces that fueled last year’s success.

Through 25 games, the absences of Ty Jerome and Isaac Okoro have exposed glaring weaknesses that have the Wine and Gold Talk podcast crew debating which loss hurts more.

“I think obviously Ty’s the big one,” Chris Fedor, cleveland.com’s Cavs beat reporter, argued. “Ty had the ability to turn 5 point leads into 15-point leads, 20-point leads. He was responsible for so many of the Cavalanches throughout the course of last year. He was on a team friendly contract, and he was in the running for Sixth Man of the Year.”

The numbers back up Fedor’s assessment. Cleveland currently has the second-least p

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