CLEVELAND, Ohio — There’s an unmistakable disconnect between how the Cavs talk about Jarrett Allen and how they actually utilize him on the court.

As the Wine and Gold Talk Podcast team discussed in their latest episode, it’s starting to look less like a temporary strategy and more like the prelude to a trade.

“It’s starting to smell like trade in here to me with Jarrett Allen,” cleveland.com columnist Jimmy Watkins declared bluntly during the podcast. “Because it’s one thing for it to be a matchup, based thing. Okay, you want Evan Mobley as you’re loan big out there. It’s another thing for you to deliberately choose other big men over Jarrett Allen.”

The evidence is mounting.

Allen, a member of Cleveland’s “Core Four” and a $20 million per year player, has become a spectator in fourth

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