Cavs Corner, Week 1: Money Merrill cashes in

Weekly slate: Loss at New York (119-111); Win at Brooklyn (131-124); Win vs. Milwaukee (118-113); Win at Detroit (116-95).

🤑 Weekly winner: Sam Merrill.

• With Garland out, all Merrill has done is make more threes than any Cavalier in history over a season's first four games (18).
• He is 100% from the free throw line, and his quick-trigger shooting has driven national TV broadcast crews to spasms of rapture.

Between the lines: Merrill signed a four-year, $38 million contract over the summer, which precluded the team from keeping backup guard Ty Jerome.

• After four games, it looks like the front office knew what it was doing.

🎯 Stat du jour: Evan Mobley made 12 of 12 free throws in Sunday's victory over Milwaukee.

• Only once in his career had he attempted more than 12 free throws, and he had never been perfect from the stripe with more than seven attempts in a game.

What's next: Wednesday at Boston (ESPN); Friday vs. Toronto; Sunday vs. Atlanta.