REMATCH! Cavs are READY for Playoff Basketball (The Junkyard Pod – Cleveland Cavaliers NBA Podcast)

REMATCH! Cavs are READY for Playoff Basketball (The Junkyard Pod – Cleveland Cavaliers NBA Podcast)

Mitchell has his head up Tak get that we stuff out of Here I think it’s very interesting because against the Bucks that’s a very drop heavy team and the Cavs have to play that a certain way against the Clippers they’re a switchy team they have a lot of switchable Defenders and so I thought that was a really interesting Dynamic and I wanted to know

From your perspective how did the Cavs kind of how did their approach to playing offense change in this game I think it was really interesting how they did it um before the game uh Ty Ty L talked about how when You Face somebody like Donovan Mitchell you can’t show

Them the same thing so sometimes you’re going to drop sometimes you’re going to switch sometimes you’re going to Blitz and I think you saw that throughout the game where the Clippers weren’t really doing the same thing on back toback possessions with him um and he did a

Really good job I thought of getting the ball out early he really did a good job of just kind of reacting and doing what the defense was giving up and that’s not something that he’s done in the playoffs especially last year against the Knicks he wasn’t accepting what the Knicks were

Trying to throw at him he was trying to shoot over them he was trying to run through the double teams or if he did pass it out it was like way too late and the defense was already able to recover so that’s where I was just kind of

Really impressed with this and this was a physical game where it was a lot of especially like the fourth quarter it was very like half court heavy and I thought the Cavs they weren’t perfect but it was a more perfect version of this team it felt at the end of last

Year you kind of saw teams that a game against the Sixers really sticks out I don’t know if you remember the one the one where Joel embiid should have had a six foul but then they reviewed it I remember like the half court offense just complet complely fell apart in the

Final like five minutes of that game that just felt like all right you were when you were watching it you were like well you know it was just a bad night but then it kept happening and then it you know in the playoffs it happened

Again uh this game it felt like this was uh okay we’ve learned all of those lessons from that Nick series and we’re going to start applying them here and that’s that’s what I was most encouraged about with this game what defensive scheme do you think they are better

Equipped to take got right now the drop or the switch because I think last year against the Knicks their downfall was not being able to beat that drop coverage whereas this year I think they’ve kind of addressed a lot of those weaknesses whether it’s just Allen’s

Growth as a playmaker and being able to do stuff above the break you have Max stru who can come off a dple handoff a lot better than Jetty or aoro standing in the corner like last year in that Nick series they just kept running into the same issue over and over again and

They their only option was either okay they had a couple couple options he was either okay Mitchell just has to shoot over the drop and beat it which he had unfortunately a pretty poor shooting series Moy has to beat his Defender by either taking that mid-range shot or

Trying to drive into the paint we saw how that went or you pass it to a cororo in the corner or Jetty and it just nothing was working right this year they have so many more options whether it’s Mitchell seemingly adjusting to what the defense is giving him rather than

Running his head into the wall over and over again the Clippers game was such a good example of that and even the Bucks game both of those uh and then also just I mean dean Wade is shooting the lights out this year maxu is a better shooter

Sam Merill who didn’t get to play much in this Clippers game I think would be better suited in in a Nick series maybe when you have guys like Donovan Mitchell who I think can beat anybody off the dribble in a one-on-one situation or at

Least you trust him to do that I kind of like him in a switching situation more where it’s more spaced out and more you know you kind of you’re not as much right he can manipulate the defense a little more rather than having that help Defender just staying home feel like

Mitchell he was so good last night I’m just gonna we’ll just we’ll just transition to talk about Mitchell here he was just so fun watching as a playmaker because every time the Clippers thought they had him he was getting into the paint kind of freezing the entire defense and then it was just

Pick your poison I mean he was dropping dimes to Allen he was kicking out to the three-point line he’s been so good at just the the Cavs aren’t playing at a reckless speed but Mitchell has his foot over the gas pedal at all times and he is getting them Off to the Races

Whenever an opportunity presents itself that’s where Wade has been so good just firing in transition above the break it’s been really fun watching Mitchell just be on alerts like this entire stretch he’s been so alert as a playmaker and he’s been making some really really good passes that I think

You know throughout his career up to this point before this year he had one game of 12 or more assists he’s already had three this season and I think that really shows of course he’s playing point guard for a long stretch here but I think Mitchell has really just done

Such a great job of get elevating his teammates in a way that we haven’t really seen from him in the past yeah and I think when you talk about them playing with more Pace or more speed it’s not like looking at the pace numbers it’s more so they’re playing

With a sense of urgency on the on that side of the ball that I don’t think they were ever playing with last year where really deliberate about what they’re trying to do and if they see an opening they’re going to attack it I think you shared the clip

Online where where threw it to Wade yeah he’s like behind half court the Clippers defense is set up and he just rifles a pass I mean Mitchell’s throwing these passes before the Bal Sports camera can even cut to the player shooting the ball which isn’t saying much yeah I know the

The bal’s cameram man has some work to do Mitchell’s putting the pressure on him yes yeah so yeah that’s that’s where I think this offense has really changed because last year it just felt like so many times they were just walking it up the court and walking it

Into the actions that they were doing instead of getting into them quickly because they’re not like taking shots with 18 seconds on the shot clock every time it’s more so they’re just they’re they’re just maximizing their time another question that I want to ask as far as DG’s return goes Cavs have been

Very very good on defense and really aside from Nang and and Mer occasionally they’re putting out lineups that have like no weak points on the defensive end I mean you’re putting out Mitchell is having a very good defensive season a Coro weade Allen streu has been very

Good my question is now that Garland is going to be out there and he is I try to give him as much credit as I can for defense because he’s just physically limited I think he’s a capable Defender it’s just there’s only so much he can do

With his build what does that mean for the Cavs defense now that there is a weak point for teams to Target I what I don’t want the Cavs to do is what they’ve done in the past which is kind of over compensate for Darius Garland I think if Darius Garland’s

Going to be your starting point guard don’t try to overcompensate where you hurt your defense in in other areas by not trusting Darius Garland to do his job we don’t need all defense from Darius for this you know team to work but we do need him to compete on that

End and I think he can do that and I think that’s where you’ve seen Donovan really step up because this isn’t the defender who Don that Donovan was last year you know he’s really stepped up in this stretch knowing that hey I have to um compete on this end because I’m not

Going to have Evan mobbly there to just clean up all my messes so that’s what I want to see from Darius and I hope I more so hope that the team keeps the philosophies that have made them successful right now because this this defense defense wasn’t very good at the

Start of the Season uh people forget that it was pretty mediocre uh for large stretches and that’s one of the reasons why they were what are they 15 and 13 13 and 12 whatever whatever it was I think Garland is capable of fighting on the defensive end and so it’s it comes down

To the defensive philosophy it comes down to individual trust and accountability because I do think they really are at their best when they kind of trust their point of attack Defenders to a reasonable extent Allen and Mobley still have to have you know the ability

To get over and protect the rim which is something that they they’re amazing at but you can’t do it at the cost of breaking down the rest of the defense when it’s not really necessary especially those in between shots that we’ll talk about it forever probably in

The next series like you really didn’t need to smother Brunson on those floaters those are the types of shots that the defense probably would rather give up more often than not best defenses in the NBA you limit shots in the paint and you do your best to run

Teams off the three-point line the more shots you can force in that mid-range area the better defense you’re playing uh we’re definitely going to have to talk Cavs Nicks again uh sometimes it does seem like they’re just on a collision course for for this rematch

And I’m very interested to see I mean in the Eastern Conference Finals yeah of course of course I’m really interested to see if those two teams do uh face off again how the Knicks choose to defend us I’d assume they go back to that drop coverage that

Really because it was just so effective last year but I think the Cavs can beat the drop this year I feel confident in that compared to last year um and the Knicks they can play switchable defense too so I’m I that’s something to really watch out for whenever I don’t know when

Their next regular season matchup is but I would like to see how the Knicks choose to defend them and if the Cavs are able to because that’s that’s their kind of last year not only were they just had some some weaknesses exploited but they also just played well below

What they were capable of and so that’s kind of that chip on their shoulder that I hope the Cav and Knicks play again in the first round and they get an opportunity to kind of expel those demons I never want to talk about a cast match up ever again in my Life

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