“DeMar DeRozan is so great” – ESPN reacts to Chicago Bulls beat Cleveland Cavaliers 132-123 in 2OT
But this game tonight A lot of that just had to do with this Chicago Bulls team really just dominating us from a rebounding standpoint and a pain St yeah there is no question the rebounding numbers were staggering and unfortunately can’t be tonight the Cavalier streak of 11 straight overtime
Win comes to an end in certainly dramatic fashion but uh Cavaliers is just again can’t be a dramatic emotional win last night you have to imagine there was a little bit of a hangover from that one although the team said we moved on we’ve we’ve got to get focused on this
Game in Chicago but something about a shot like that and an ending like that I have to imagine has trickled over into what the team’s feeling today and there’s no doubt about it you know because they have put down a lot over the last couple of days the other night
There was definitely an emotional game for the Cavs and then the night they come in there and they were playing a really a slow game and you look at how the game was played we were being dominated by their bigs and that’s something that we that never happens to
This caval basketball team and I think when you look back at this game that was really the difference and and the other side of it is we allowed the Rosen down the stretch to get the kind of points and and shots and making all decisions out there on the floor for that Chicago
Bulls team well you mentioned the bigs let’s get into The Bigs Evan Moy way here tonight finished with a double double 25 points 13 rebounds he added four blocks Cy Jared Allen just seemed out of rhythm here tonight but Evan moley was able to take advantage what
Allowed Moy to get into such a recove he came out in terms of Moy came out being very aggressive early in the game and whenever Evan is aggressive early he has the ability to carry it all the way through blocking shots just being a presence out there on the floor big game
For him coming up with 25 that that’s huge 11 of 17 with the 13 rebounds four blocks that is key for for in terms of how Moy plays the game he is the guy that really has the ability to control the game not necessarily score a lot of
Points tonight he did that but for the overall standpoint he has an ability to control the basketball game yeah Evan M’s presence was certainly felt on both ends of the floor here tonight and so was the presence of Caris LeVert campy what a statline we saw from him off the
Bench 14 points a career high 15 assists seven rebounds two steals two blocks six Man of the Year here he is and there’s no doubt you know he is definitely in that in that talk in terms of six man of the year but you look at how he goes out
Every single night and produced on all levels a guy is shooting the ball extremely well he’s rebounding the ball he’s defending he is the guy comes off the bench and gives that that extra energy along with that young man that’s sitting next to him there Isaac aoro who
Has really taken his game to a different level but you look at the 15 assist by Caris that’s just outstanding basketball just being involved throughout the entire game yeah we talked so much about kris’s versatility how when he’s not scoring he can create for his teammates
Tonight did a little bit of both and Isa think aoro cap you and I talk about him off camera all the time the growth we’ve seen from him especially this season the confidence he has in his shooting three for five from the three-point line here tonight if Isaac aoro becomes a
Three-point threat consistently which he has now become it feels like teams are just starting to pick up on it though how much does that add to this offense well number one he’s trending that way in terms of getting better being more confident in what he’s doing out there
Being able to see the floor much better and being able to react to situations and the more he sees that the more confident he’s going to become have but the good news is he’s taking those shots whether it is a wide open shot whether it’s a contested shot he’s playing much
Better basketball and he’s not playing with that kind of stiffness anymore he has finally loosen up and now he’s playing outstanding basketball for this cavali team on both sides of the ball yeah Isaac Coro has become so important to this group on both ends he’s known as
A Defender but his offensive game is coming along and the Cavaliers need him in a big way down the stretch of this regular season I we just didn’t make enough plays down the stretch um think free throws kind of bit Us in the butt a little bit um you know the rebounding
Disadvantage obviously bit Us in the butt uh quite a bit um and then you know unfortunate uh Jared just kind of got off balance D rozan was smart enough to create the contact and get the three free throws so um you know multitude of things that we can improve on what type
Of physical and emotional to is it coming up short in a second out of the back to back double overtime game I mean it is it’s tough obviously but we make no excuses um you know we had opportunity to put the game away and didn’t close
It hey JB what’s up CHR what did you see on on the glass tonight I mean they just dominated the boards uh it’s that simple um you know no matter you know offensively like you know 25 offensive rebounds for them um I mean they just punished us on the glass and um it’s
Difficult to overcome you know giving up a team 25 offensive rebound so uh and it was from everywhere the perimeter guys were flying in there was possessions where they had you know multiple offensive rebounds um and we just didn’t do the job on the glass tonight it seems
Like over the last three games Donovan is seeing a lot of crowds and he’s having a really hard time breaking the paint um what can you do if anything to try and free him up and get him inside the three-point AR a little bit more oh
We just got to help him and give him more space um you know the actions that we can run try to get it to him a little bit earlier when the floor is more spread try to find some transition opportunities uh to get to things quickly before teams decide to start
Shrinking the paint um you know but we’ll we’ll do a better job you know we can set screens for more and hit and hold our screens so now he’s got opportunities to attack and find gaps but uh those are things we can improve on and then for you um when it comes to
Your rotation you’ve you’ve done a lot of things in terms of consistency but tonight you went away from George in the second half when it comes to the second half decision making what what goes into that J uh just kind of how the a feel for the game and lineups and matchups um
You know typically we bring in Dean and then bring George for him the first sub in the second half came a little bit later um so Dean ran a little bit longer and then we went back to our regular rotation is this for Paris tonight what
Do you seeing from the fiscal meting um mean doing a heck of a job um you know he’s contributing on both ends of the floor uh he’s attacking the paint and really really you know understanding what we’re trying to do uh he’s sacrificing to create for others um so I
Think he’s doing a great job I mean you talked before the game JB just about like coming off the emotional win over Dallas and it can work one of two ways right um how do you describe the emotions of it going the other way after
That loss I mean I don’t think you know again we had our opportunities it wasn’t as if you know we played a game and you know we laid an egg and didn’t give ourselves a chance to win um you know again we you know missed a free throw
Here there like Jared literally trips you know as he’s coming off the screen so it’s not as if you know we came out and didn’t give Valiant effort or you know give uh you know play the way that we want to play um you know we just had
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“DeMar DeRozan is so great” – ESPN reacts to Chicago Bulls beat Cleveland Cavaliers 132-123 in 2OT
