Clipping The Atlanta Hawks (It’s Cavalier Podcast), NBA Breakdowns, Cavs News

Clipping The Atlanta Hawks (It’s Cavalier Podcast), NBA Breakdowns, Cavs News

Oh Welcome to another edition of the it’s Cavalier podcast it’s your boy Mac and tonight our Cleveland cavillers took on the Atlanta Hawks for the third time this year Cleveland had won the previous two matchups earlier this season and in the first game back on November 28th Donovan Mitchell absolutely went off as

He notched his second 40 Point effort of the Season as the Caps dominated the Hawks outscoring them in three out of the four quarters including a massive 38 in the third quarter alone it was a feel-good victory that doubled as an inseason tournament win as well now the

Second Victory came on December 16th in a game that saw the Cleveland Cavaliers overcome a combined 56 points from Trey young and Deonte Murray thanks en llarge part to the trio of Isaac aoro Dean Wade and most impressive of all Jared Allen who worked Atlanta to the tune of 25

Points and 14 rebounds tonight it was really a team effort seven different Cavaliers took at least five field goal attempts which led to seven caps players scoring in double figures including all five starters this felt like a true team Victory there were so many worthwhile performances that I don’t even know

Where to begin to be honest but let’s start with isakura who finished with 12 points his third game with at least 10 points in his last five and his 13th double digit scoring Affair of this young young season now fun fact it took aoro 54 appearances last season to

Record that many last year he’s done so in just 31 games this year a lot of it has to do with the increased opportunities he’s garnered this season due to the injuries his six and a half field goal attempts per game are his most since his second season now he may

Not be the focal point of the Cavalier offense but he is efficient and effective with his looks auro is definitely still a work in progress as a shooter but he is taking and making the most triples per game since his rookie season and looking much much more confident while doing so tonight though

It wasn’t about the shooting it was more so about his work in transition an area where auro typically excels he is one of just three players completing 70% of their transition looks while scoring at least three points per game in that regard the other two Zion Williamson and

Kevin freaking Durant he’s among the top three in transition frequency as well at 29.8% when he’s moving in the open court dude is a hard guy to stop four out of his five Mayfield goals tonight came in transition aoral finished with eight total fast break points the Hawks as a

Team had 11 aoro seems to have this pratal feel for winter run the floor when the Hawks Miss shots auro would do much the same after the calf secured the defensive board he just couldn’t be stopped B in the floor now defensively auro wasn’t perfect as young got the

Best of him a few times catching him off guard with this pull-up jumper but overall I was satisfied with his work defensively as he managed to take Trey out of the game for large stretches young would finish with 15 points and five assists that’s well below his

Season average of 26.9 points and 10.8 assists per game but as I mentioned before this was a collective effort another performance worth discussing came from that of Donovan Mitchell who finished with this 17th game with six or more assists he has steadily turned into one of the NBA’s best combo guards and

Is now averaging 27 .8 points per game and 5.9 assist Mitchell is currently seventh in scoring and is one of just six players League wide to average at least 275 and5 along with Joel embiid Luca dones Giannis SGA and KD Elite company to be in and here’s the thing

Donovan has a knack for turning into whatever the situation calls for need him to get you a bucket he’s gotta Donovan right through the middle of the defense that is way too easy deep play making in a pinch he’s your guy seven on the shot clock there was no

Reset on it Mitchell got by P what a kick outang butter oh that was sweet H needed defensive stop Mitchell is playing defense like he is back at Louisville DJ try to make something the long AR Defender and Allen the shot is no good rebound at kagu back up that’s blocked

Yet he has somehow heavily appreciated and undervalued at the same damn time even more so without having another true go-to squirel out there he has picked up the slack in a major way from the absences of Darius scarland and Evan Mobley since they’ve gone down he has

Upped his averages to 28.4 points and 7.3 assists he is playing at an MVP level and in my opinion however bias he may come off is that he should be a finalist for that war spider has put this team on his back on so many occasions already whether it be his 45

Point explosion in Paris to lead the Cavs to victory over the Brooklyn Nets or his 40 points over the Atlanta Hogs earlier this season or as well balanced performances against the Golden State Warriors which led to a season sweep of them by the way Donovan has taken this

Team to the next level you know who else had another big performance Jared Allen this man deserves to be an Allstar he just does he is one of just four Eastern Conference bigs to average at least 14 points 10 rebounds and one block and you want to hear something crazy

Evan Mobley is in that group as well since Mobley and Garland have been out Jen is averaging 18 points 13 rebounds 3.7 assists and 1.3 blocks the Cavs are playing through him a hell of a lot more there’s more spacing around him they’re getting them more touches and as a

Result he has been fully Unleashed on his opponents ja would finish this game with his 11th straight double double by far the longest such streak of his career hopefully he keep that going and while Jared isn’t Prime Tristan Thompson out there on the offensive glass he is

Among the league leaders this season in that category with 3.4 offensive rebounds per game Allen has been pivotal in generating a ton of Second Chance points for this Cleveland team they rate six in the NBA in that respect he is also key in not allowing the Cavs opponents to capitalize on Second Chance

Opportunities as they allow the seventh fewest Second Chance points in the NBA at 13.2 per game one of the ways he has gotten more evolved is through the continued use of the dho JB is allowing him to direct traffic more and more and it has had a positive impact out there

On the Cutters and the shooters Allen has easily been one of the Cav’s most Dependable players this season and although the most recent All-Star fan V returns didn’t include Allen I wouldn’t be surprised if the coaches got him in he’s been that impactful for this team

Hopefully they do I’m GNA be pissed if they don’t also Max streu joined in on the fun as well contributing 13 points and seven assists in just 20 minutes of action he had a really hard fall early in the first that had me a little scared

To be honest it would have been hard for the course had he been injured luckily a major injury was avoided and stru returned although stru isn’t shooting the ball extremely well this season the gravity he generates is real and he draws the attention of the defense that’s something that you cannot teach

The Cavs knew that he could be streaky and he’s certainly experiencing quite the slump as of late streu is just three of 22 over his last five games is’s knocking down just 33.6 % of his triples this season so far sooner or later he’s got to start making more of these shots

Or the defenses could back off which we don’t want right luckily stru is providing impact in other ways case in point streu is a much better distributor of the basketball than his career averages of just 1.9 assists per game would seemed to indicate he is putting up a career-high 3.8 dimes per contest

And developed a really solid two-man game with Jared Allen and was doing much the same with Evan Mobley before he went down he just knows how to play the DHL and operate the pick and role really well thanks in large part to his time playing alongside Bay atab bio in Miami stru

Knows how to Leverage The spacing that he provides and to become more Adept at using it against his opponents he has also been a really really solid rebounder as well averaging a career best 4.9 boards per game this year he has 21 games this season with at least

Five rebounds including three with 10 or more rebounds he had 20 all of last season let that sink in this was an unexpected development but hey I’ll take it especially without Evan Moy being available and to be honest the Cavs have done a pretty good job at Team

Rebounding they rank six in the league in overall rebounds per game with 45.3 a number that rises to 47.2 over the last 15 games which coincides with Evan and Darius being out now on the other side of the ball Mad Max isn’t quite Isaac a Coro out there at the

Point of attack but he has more than held his own he has averaging the most blocks and steals of his career and as long as he can continue to tread water on that end while providing an upgrade in the spacing Department over last season which he’s doing he could and

Should continue to see Heavy rotational minutes as long as he is healthy his 33.2 minutes per game are Far and Away the highest Mark of his career and when stru isn’t playing well you now have the option of trotting out the League’s next great flamethrower out there man y’all

Know who I’m talking about Sam Meo the literal embodiment of TNT himself he put up 18 points in this one and while he may not have had the most efficient night he still drilled five triples and made the defense pay for leaving him alone Meo has now made 58 yes 58 total

Three-pointers this year which is more than his previous three seasons combined the fact that he has knocked down 41.4% of them is just astounding to me we got to get this man into the Three-Point Contest I keep seeing that everywhere but I seriously hope it happens make it

Happen y’all want to know something crazy he will probably be in the top 50 in franchise history in total triples made by the end of the season assuming he continues to just see regular run now the target number here folks is 34 y’all heard that right San Maro needs just 34

More threes to move past Juan Wagner for a spot in the top 5050 this just kind of illustrates the difference between the eras in my opinion now Wagner spent three seasons in wine and gold and only made 91 triples his entire time while guys like Max stru Lowry marinan and

Pretty soon Merill needed just one of course there are exceptions like three-time All-Star Dan Marley who drilled 146 in just a single season with Cleveland but it’s much more common to see due to the sheer volume that three ball is attempted at these days people are letting it Fly Merill is far from

Just a shooter too and you’d be sadly mistaken if that’s your takeaway when watching him play he’s a pretty solid facilitator and isn’t a player who is prone to gunning he will absolutely look to get his teammates open and will make the extra pass when necessary which is

Nice over his last five games Merill is averaging 3.4 assists he is giving a nice boost of playmaking to this Cavs bench unit I love it man I do defensively Merill has held up much better than I thought him capable of he has drawn seven charges already tonight

He held his individual matchups to 2-7 from the field he made bogdon bogdanovich feel his presence as he stayed plastered to him often overall through 25 appearances he has held opponents to 43 of 109 or 39.4% from the field overall he is very good at the point of attack George Nang was also

Very good in this one as well and after coming off his career night against the Milwaukee Bucks in which he put up 33 points on an ultra efficient 13 to 14 from the field it was clear that his shooting had carried over he drilled five triples in that one he knocked down

Four in this matchup he has now drilled 17 threes in his last five games and 74 total on the season Nang got off to an icy start to begin the season in his first 20 games Nang was averaging 8.4 points and completing just 34.8% of his

Triples in his last 20 he is up to 10.3 points and 38.7% respectively now he isn’t quite knocking them down like he has the past five season but he’s getting damn damn close to it he is converting on 38.1% of his catch and shoot triples and has become a very

Reliable option Off the Bench for this Cavs team the minivan has truly become the G wagon he doesn’t take no and he’ll let you know about it I love it Nang is averaging a career best 9.3 points per game and 3.8 boards this season and has done well in his new role

So far this has been a worthwhile signing C to Kobe Alman for that but Cav spin my God Cav spin there was perhaps no more impressive performance in this game than that of Dean Wade Dean Jackson Wade was absolutely Cash Money the stats do not often tell the whole story when it comes

To deed Wade I mean hell 5.7 points per game and 4.5 rebounds in 22 minutes per game doesn’t scream impactful at all on the surface but I implore you to look past the sheer counting stats when it comes to Wade because the box score rarely does him Justice he sacrifices a

Ton on the offensive side of the ball while often taking on some of the most difficult front Court matchups on the defensive side of the ball the kstate product is taking just four and a half field goal attempts per game this season and doesn’t complain one bit he knows

What the Cavs ask of him and he has happy to oblige you need players like this to compete for championships and not just basketball but any sport honestly he embodies the idea that is team basketball to the fullest tonight weight finished with 17 points on six to

Seven from the field and the best part he drilled five triples we just looked confident as hell out there which hasn’t always seems to be the case this season and when he lets it Fly he can do some real damage from Beyond yard this is exactly the level of play that we all

Know that he is capable of he just needs to do it more consistently to earn the the respect of the general fans Wade has taken the bulk of his threes from above the break but where he has been really solid is from the corners where is a combined

49.8% he is red hot in that right corner though finishing 14 of 26 of them which is good for 53.8% though he is now shooting 38.6% from three-point distance on the season he still isn’t necessarily drawing a ton of gravity 3.6 of his 3.9 3-point attempts per game are considered open or

Wide open but with that said if Wade can continue to make opposing defenses pay for this lack of respect he will eventually begin drawing gravity which in turn will open the floor even more now on the other side of the ball Wade is one of the highest rated defenders in

The league he don’t get credit but it’s true bball index has him ranked as the number one Wing stopper and number one on ball Defender and their D LeBron categories he is currently holding his matchups to 49.6% from the floor he has taken on such a large share of the

Defensive responsibility with Moby missing time that it’s not even funny things I love from this game and let me clarify something now I typically tell you what I loved and what I hated but honestly I didn’t really hate anything from this game so I’ll just rattle off

Some things that I loved first up the Cavs held Trey young to nearly 12 points below his season average thanks large part to some really solid team defense as well as ISAC auro they held the Hawks below 30% from three-point distance it was the 13th time this season that a

Team has failed to crack the 30% Mark against Cleveland clamps the Cavs bench scored 42 points and over the past 15 games they have the League’s third highest scoring bench unit averaging 47.2 points per game also Pete Nance made his NBA debut which was pretty awesome and welld deserved after he had

Been tearing it up in the G league and I really wonder if the cats will sign him to a second 10day contract time will tell CBJ made his 27 appearance of the Season good things tend to happen when he plays as well the Cavs are 19 and8

When that happens that’ll do it for this one and following this match up the Cavs will take on the Orlando Magic for the third time this season so far they’ve split the matchups with Cleveland winning round one in Orlando taking round two now the magic are just four

And six over the last 10 games while the Cavs have won eight of their last 10 Tom will tell what comes in round three but with the way the Cleveland base franchise is played I’m putting my money on win number eight in a row like I

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Mack reacts to the Cavs demolition of the Atlanta Hawks including Isaac Okoro’s consistent impact, Donovan Mitchell becoming the NBA’s premier combo guard, Sam Merrill becoming the league’s next great shooter and more!

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