Georges Niang proud of Cavaliers’ resilience, believes team’s depth has shown in shorthanded games

Georges Niang proud of Cavaliers’ resilience, believes team’s depth has shown in shorthanded games

George this is one of those games that a lot of NBA fans probably thought you weren’t supposed to win how did you guys come back uh you know I just think the the grittin of this group to to never give up is is something that needs to be

You Know spoken for I mean we were down 20 I think at 1. 21 um and uh you know we just have a gritty group that continues to plug away but I think you know guys like J you know Caris Isaac you know taking on that scoring load and

That defense of load um throughout the night like tonight was extremely impressive biggest comeback of the Season you mentioned all the performances by all of your teammates was this one of the if not the most fun win to be a part of oh yeah I think

Whenever you know you come back from a good holiday meal and holiday festivities and you can go on the road and get a win it’s definitely up there um Chicago was a lot of fun we had a little pre Christmas fun now we’re having some post Christmas fun uh

Tonight was was great great you know guys are continuing to play the right way the ball’s hopping around we’re defending I think we held them to 41 points in the second half um so this was a huge team win for us you mentioned the second half defense right 69 points for

Them in the first half and then held them to I think 37% shooting in the second half what was the biggest difference defensively uh you know I think we made it tougher on them before we weren’t you know being as physical as we should um letting them off the hook

We getting drives and kicks and letting them get to what they wanted to do and kind of imposed our will um in the second half on the defensive end which led to some easy offensive points and when you’re playing good defense that leads to easy offense describe Jared Allen’s game

Tonight uh Jared Allen was extremely impressive to you know have 20 rebounds 20 plus points and then to add on some assists uh he was out there doing it all and uh we are uh we don’t know how good we have at having Jared Allen he’s uh

He’s a blessing I mean you know the guy gets out there and you know he doesn’t get all the accolades that he should you know being a a defensive anchor down there um can walk into 20 points and 20 rebounds and um like I said he doesn’t

Get enough credit but you know we really do truly appreciate him he’s awesome and and we wouldn’t be able to go far without him that’s for sure the first thing he said to me after this game as he’s walking over to the interview is

Man I’m sleepy is he just one of a kind yeah he he is one of a kind but he’s ours so we love him car had 15 points in the fourth quarter how did he impact the game at I mean you know I think when you

Have a guy like Caris who can come in and and get Buckets at a in a timely fashion you know especially when we need them it’s huge um you know considering that we needed points and he was doing it efficiently and uh like I said before

You know Caris is a uncanny score and when he does it it seems like it comes in huge you know waves not only is he a great defender but he can get out there and fill it up and he seriously want us the game down the stretch kind of get us

To back in it and had some huge stops and then made some huge timely stretches especially that three to put give us a lead it seems like every game over the stretch without Donan there is an Evan you guys have had somebody step up it’s been Sam it’s been Isaac today was Caris

How is it known that you guys have multiple people that can just have breakout games like that yeah I mean obviously when they put this team together you know they wanted to add depth right and I think we’ve shown that we have that and like we just have a

Next man up mentality you know we just have to step up with who we have in the locker room at that time injuries happen we’re going through this season with a lot of injuries and that happens but you got to keep pushing forward and find ways to win games and I think that’s

What we’re doing what’s the word what’s the message you want to give to fans that were doubting what you guys could do over this stretch without the St let them know let them know

Georges Niang addresses the media after the Cavs’ 113-110 comeback win over the Mavs in Dallas.