ESPN reacts to Cleveland Cavaliers DOMINATED Charlotte Hornets 115-92 to improve 44-28 in TOP East
Control and never looked back led by as many as 25 and they win it by 23 hi everyone welcome and T set here at the field house alongside campy Russell I’m Kaye Griffin the Cavaliers taking down the Hornets tonight 115 to 92 and campi again what a bounceback for the
Cavaliers here tonight given the performance they had in Miami last night what impressed you most about their response this evening the biggest thing that I was impressed by what the spacing out there on the floor the ball movement guys knocking down shots guys going inside but more importantly when you
Look at how ja played tonight he played an outstanding basketball game he set the tone early on in this game that is why the Cavaliers got this win tonight and on the other side of it is it was all about home cooking they was back home and they showed this Cavalier fans
That they know how to go out and get get a win no question the Cavaliers certainly have the home court advantage here at the field housee you mentioned Jared Allen finished with his 36th double double of the season and he’s standing by with Serena win Jared JB talked about this being a
Mental toughness test tonight but the first step to that was simply just going out and having fun out there how did you lean into that um from the beginning of the game we wanted to uh you know just EAS have fun uh and just play our basketball you know I feel like we’ve
Been having some down games and we want to get back on track part of that Cavs basketball is moving the ball you guys had a career or season High 40 assists tonight on 46 made field goals how’d you get back to that that uh we were just
Passing the ball moving it to one another and you know when the ball’s moving everybody’s having fun that was a big element of tonight hey did you realize why this crowd was cheering for you at the end of this game uh no I just looked up saw my face I couldn’t read it
You know Tristan started cheering for me everybody started cheering for me so I went along with it they were cheering for you because you knocked down with your 6,000th point of your career in addition to having oh listen to that you got some more cheers out there in addition to having 36 double
Doubles what’s it like to see all this hard work you’re putting into this game payoff right you know over the years I’ve put in hard work I tried to build a foundation and every single year grow on top of that and it’s finally paying off
Hey how weird is it going to be to you just played Charlotte tonight to then hop on the road tomorrow and play them again in Charlotte uh it’s not easy you know they learn our offense we learn their offense so it’s like a playoff series at the end of the day they’re
Going to come back better and harder and we’re going to have to do the same Jared this team has been through a lot already this season right so to be third in the East is there something to be said about that right now we just have guys that
Know how to play and want to play you know every single night somebody’s going to have to step up uh and we’ve been doing it on a nightly basis so you just got to be ready for us all right well you give the fans a pregame wave before
The game starts so how about you give them the postgame wave right now since they uh we’re cheering for you tonight postgame wave let’s do it I see two right here and my way to yeah them right there Jared thanks so much congrats in the way appreciate it thanks
Kay Serena thank you 6,000 career points for Jared Allen his 36 double double on the season that’s a career high as well campia really started in the second quarter the Cavaliers started feeding Jared Allen inside how did that change the way this offense look it changed a
Big time because there was a lot of ball movement the floor was Spread spread out really well and because the floor was spreaded that’s why he was able to operate in the paint as well as in the mid-range area as well as allowing our guards to get down here de that would
Also threaten the rim so when you got all those elements going at one time that’s normally what will open up your big guys Jed Allen so efficient from the floor 7even of n shooting how about his partner in crime here pretty efficient as well 8 of 12 shooting for Evan Mobley
He went off for 17 points as well added seven rebounds and eight assists C be talk about a complete stat line how impressive was this performance for Moy on his second game back well again you know when you look at both of these guys they really feed off of each other they
Really understand where each other are at at all times they both are very good passers they’re good rebounders they’re good shot blockers they just understand how to play the game the right way that is why they are so good together and when one is missing it’s almost like the
Other one is like kind of man where’s my brother at but when they both are out there on the floor that’s when they’re at their best G you’ve been hammering home the importance of ball movement for this team especially entering tonight’s game given the performance last night in
Miami what a response for the Cavaliers here tonight a season High 41 assists on 46 made field goals that is honestly quite unheard of honest the amount of assists almost every single shot 10 for DG eight for Mo seven for Carris why was the ball moving so freely tonight and it
Had to do with the spacing it had to do with guys recognizing where everybody was out there on the floor and the ball was moving when you got the ball moving and good spacing and you’re able to get downhill and you’re threatening the defense all the time it opens up so many
Opportunities for you that is why this Cav team had those 41 assists outstanding basketball in their side obviously Camp you look at the numbers in the last three games compared to tonight there’s more than just ball movement that goes into a victory like we saw but for this Cavs team moving
Forward now 10 games remaining in the regular season how much is ball movement going to play into that Success Ball movement is everything because what it does is opens up everybody it allows everybody to play it allows everybody to have the have their hands on the ball
From time to time but but also it opens up threatening and in the pain and when you got two big guys in terms of Allen and Moy who passes the ball extremely well it opens up so much out there on the floor as well so this is just a team
That’s really getting back to where they were and I think this a good thing to have Moy back because he has definitely helped his team take another step forward it did take a minute for the Cavaliers to find a rhythm though here tonight Camp after the first quarter it
Was tied at 20 but that second quarter the Cavaliers found something like you talked about they started beating Jared Allen but they outscored the Hornets 31-117 how did the team’s presence in the second quarter set the tone for the rest of the game well again I think this
C team came out with the right mindset and that was to get the ball moving keep the floor SPAC and get everybody engaged into the game and when you’re playing that way it gives you an opportunity to win games and tonight the ball was popping out all over the all over the
Building they were playing unselfish basketball guys was ready to catch and shoot when the ball came to them it was just C with their basketball this team has to really feel good about themselves yeah taking a look at the numbers obviously the C shooting seven of 10 from the three-point line 65% shooting
From the floor they grabbed 11 rebounds and finished with 11 assists in the quarter so again the second quarter proved to be the difference and really the tone Setter for the Cavaliers can’t obviously this is a win that this team can build off of and they’re going to
Need to because they now head to Charlotte to play the Hornets once again on Wednesday how can a win like this Propel this Cavaliers team forward well they got a big example now they got something that they were part of tonight and that was that good spacing that
We’ve been talking about that was good solid defense that we talked about it was about the Synergy between Moy and Evan as well as our guards our guards now have have stopped going laterally and start going downhill and when they go downhill they put a lot of pressure
On the defense which allows you to either get the ball to your centers or allowed you to spray the ball for wide open shots all that work tonight solid basketball by the Cavs yeah c cers doing a little bit of everything again a season High 41 assists for the Cavaliers
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ESPN reacts to Cleveland Cavaliers DOMINATED Charlotte Hornets 115-92 to improve 44-28 in TOP East
