REACTION: Cleveland Cavaliers EMBARRASSED In LOSS To Utah Jazz! | Worst Game of the Season!?
On this edition of Locked On Cavs, Danny Cunningham reacts to the Cleveland Cavaliers loss at home to the Utah Jazz on Monday night. Danny begins the show by talking about how the Cavs appeared to overlook a Utah Jazz team that was coming off of a 55-point loss and not being mentally focused for the game. Next, he dives into the alarming struggles the Cavs have had defending the 3-point line on the season, and finally he touches on the poor performances from Jarrett Allen and De’Andre Hunter.
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Timestamps!
00:00 Monday's Disaster"
07:14 Cavs Alarming Performance Concerns
12:31 Cavs' Maturity Questioned After Loss
19:09 "Cavs' Struggles Defending the Three"
23:16 "Cavs' Defensive Adjustment Needed"
26:40 "Jarrett Allen and De'Andre Hunter struggles
Cavs biggest problem is coaching. Atkinson does not coach with a sense of urgency, like he's afraid to offend someone. Cavs need better, more experienced assistants, coaches that can motivate players. But, if not, it's okay, we might have a new coach soon…
So disappointing. Just going through the motions. They’ve earned no benefit of the doubt at this point. What a letdown after last year.
Atkinson always says Cavs have good leadership. There's no way this team has quality leadership. Whoever the leader is currently, get a new one…
Im so tired of this team.
i think the pacers broke us
I SAW THIS LOSS COMING BECAUSE THE CAVS ARE AN UNSERIOUS TEAM….they are never consistent and have no momentum. And I dont buy that the cavs overlooked anything–they are literally a bum mediocre team that too many fans think they can turn it on when they cant. They are undersized…they are weak…they are lazy and they have no dog in them. And their kryptonite are stretch teams–because EVERYONE KNOWS cavs wilt against teams that put two bigs on Jarett and Mobley. It works every damn time and the Cav never learn.
GILBERT …I"M sure is looking at CHANGES!!! This rollercoaster is RIDICULOUS!
Ok cavs 😶 nevermind let me take my ass back to sleep good night
"When they don't make the playoffs and Kenny is fired, Garland Allen, and No offense Mobley are traded the fans might wake up Stop making excuses for these
no account no heart having srubs. The only players with real heart and hustle are, Tomlin, Tyson, Porter and Merril.
11:37
Trade all players not on rookie contracts for draft picks and FIRE Koby Altman.
What makes me disappointed the most is I like the guys on this team they seem to be great guys it doesn't seem fair we won't win with this group 😔
Yeah it’s time to blow it up . If we can’t get quality pieces with heart that play physical for garland and Allen i say just trade everyone cause i don’t care if they start a winning streak our bigs are gonna get bullied in the playoffs again and our guards are too small to carry us
Cavaliers play like they're just tired of winning so many championships
good night to lose to Utah, nobody will notice. The mighty Lakers had a real stinker against the woeful Sacramento squad. YouTubers engaged LeBron security, and are gaslighting every Laker possible, after James looked absolutely terrible on defense tonight. I know, he's old… but it was BAD
Forgot how bad hunters been . Horrible trade for us
I feel Kenny is challenging Hunter to fight for minutes……..and he is wilting……at this point it is just sad to watch.
We need someone like Lonzo to start shooting average, we need a guard like him that can defend and is not 6 foot. Our guards currently are all 6 foot and everybody is shooting over them and just beating them 1 on 1. We always have 2 guards at 6 foot on the floor and every team we play has guards at least 6’5 and it’s hurting us .. NBA is becoming more physical and players are becoming bigger and half our team are small dudes in comparison …
OK, Kenny, at what point do you stop tinkering and just settle in on what are the best lineups and what is the identity of this team is? They need set lineups so they can use the rest of the regular season to use real game experience to lock in with each other.
Yall should be so good but ur team is soft. You aren’t as good as you thought you were. Last seasons playoffs showed that. This regular season is proving it. You’re literally Mitchell’s jazz of the east. So many excuses it’s insane. Mitchell isn’t a true leader, Allen is soft, garland can’t stay healthy. Hope things work out of you. No toxicity in my heart or words just my opinion. Go New York! 💙🧡
This will sound strange, but whenever Tomlin has a great game it usually means something really broke with the team and we had a terrible loss. His success is like the canary in the coalmine for team dysfunction.
Mr. Optimistic Cunningham. The Cavs as a finished product are getting knocked out in the play in. Quit being a homie with the players and coaches and call it like it is. This team is soft and Altman went all in on an undersized SG and should have been fired a long time ago. Atkinson and his small lineups are questionable as well.
Everybody done touching themselves over the Wolves game? 😆
Trading Issac is showing just saying
Jazz suck they don't get any credit for being motivated after hornets loss. We got embarrassed by golden state and Pat Spencer that should have been our motivation to never get beat again. I'm gonna crash out now because these cats do look soft at time. Cavs don't take pride in winning and they already got embarrassed worse than jazz did in the hornets game. What the f
They keep showing flashes every once in a blue moon, but then do something like this. I have zero faith in them anymore. They haven't earned it
To be honest Kenny need to throw his defense away n just use jb defense system we was top 3 in the NBA every year under him
No serious team uses Sam merill as wing defender. Bottom line. He’s not a starter in this league elite shooter who competes on defense but by no means is he stopping anybody.
Every win is the best win of the season apparently
I believe that last night’s game was a repeat of that game against Minnesota on Thursday: the Cavaliers played poorly in the first quarter, then they got it together in the second quarter, but then played poorly again in the 2nd half and never recovered from there.
Koby should have been fired a few seasons ago…the roster construction has been and continues to be piss poor
Kenny had 31 games left in last season when the Cavs front office made the trade for Hunter and instead of inserting him in the starting lineup he only got 5 starts last season which is poor coaching on Kenny! 29 other NBA teams and coaches except for Kenny would look at their rosters with everyone available and healthy and choose Sam Merrill or Max Strus over Hunter and that's been the problem Kenny has never committed to starting Hunter and making him part of the Cavs game plan! Hunter has only started 28 games next to the Cavs core 4 and that's too small of a sample size to actually figure out if this can work with Hunter and the Cavs! This is all on Kenny in my eyes!