De'Andre Hunter is averaging a career low in three-point percentage and the worst field-goal percentage of his seven years in the league since he was a rookie. However, the Cleveland Cavaliers aren't bailing on one of their most talented players because of a first-half slump.

Vehemently denying false reports of his desire to be traded from the Cavs, Hunter is trusting in his work to get him out of this rut, and his teammates are doing the same.

Why wouldn't they? This is a man who was a front-runner for the NBA's Sixth Man of the Year award before coming to Cleveland. He was lights-out as a shooter when he got to Northeast Ohio, quickly adding a scoring punch off the bench.

In an episode of Courtside with Cavs, Spencer German and I discussed what Hunter is capable of when he's at his best:

"You've seen how good he's shot the ball. You see how much work he puts in on his body, on his craft. You saw it last year when he got here via trade and was burning the nets down. That doesn't just go away. You can't just have amnesia about that. You're in a, as Kenny [Atkinson] put it, prolonged slump, almost like a hitter that is of high-caliber in the MLB that goes 2-for-20.

"Equate that to basketball; that's what's going on with Dre right now. Hopefully, he turns it around. We have one half of the season out of the way. The second half just started out [Wednesday], and I think he's off on the right foot."

After sweeping their two-game series with the Philadelphia 76ers, the Cavs are now home and have back-to-back days off for the first time in three weeks.

Cleveland will next host the reigning NBA champion Oklahoma City Thunder in a matinee affair at Rocket Arena on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

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