Tyler Cavanaugh began the 2017-18 season as one of the more anonymous players at the Las Vegas Summer League but it did not take him long to seemingly become a favorite of the Atlanta Hawks coaching staff. He’s a power forward that can make perimeters shots and knows what he is supposed to do at all times on both ends of the court. He’s not the most athletically gifted player but he proved to be stronger than anticipated and he uses his IQ to consistently give the team just a little more than might be expected.
The young big man agreed to a two-way contract to begin the season but, when the Hawks centers (literally all of the them) sustained injuries early in the season, the result was that the organization quickly worked through the allotted 45 days that Cavanaugh was allowed to spend with the parent club.