NBA 2018-19: 3 talking points from Utah Jazz's blowout win over Cleveland Cavaliers

#3 Lengthy post-game meeting for the Cavs

Cavaliers now face the steepest downfall of any franchise in NBA history in just one year.

The Cavaliers were Eastern Conference champions last year for the fourth consecutive season, before LeBron decided to join the Lakers and leave Kevin Love with the ill-formed roster he had carried through the playoffs.

The Cavs landed talented rookie Collin Sexton, and lost Kevin Love to a season-destroying injury, following which Coach Larry Drew has had to deal with the steepest falls of any franchise in the history of the game. Cleveland are now dead last in the East and have won just one game more than the league-worst Phoenix Suns at the moment.

Four of their losses in the eight-game losing streak have been by a margin of 20 or more points. But after the Cavs lay an egg in the second half against the Jazz, Coach Drew decided it was time to talk.

"After a tough loss sometimes it's good to get your emotions off your chest, and go home and look in the mirror and say, how can I be better for this team," Tristan Thompson said after the meeting. "I've been around for a long time so I know how this stuff goes."

The meeting wasn't an heated exchange but rather 'pretty somber'.

Hopefully, things might turn around for Cleveland in time, but for now, they are just about staring at a point from which there will be no return.