REACTION: Cleveland Cavaliers BEAT Orlando Magic On Donovan Mitchell’s BIG Night | GRITTY Win!
On this edition of Locked On Cavs, Danny Cunningham reacts to the Cleveland Cavaliers beating the Orlando Magic on Saturday night thanks to a big performance by Donovan Mitchell. Danny begins the show by talking about the Cavaliers displaying a high effort level and mental toughness despite playing the game without four rotation players on the second night of a back-to-back. He then touches on important contributions from Cleveland’s role players, like Lonzo Ball, Tyrese Proctor and Thomas Bryant. Finally, Danny closes out the show by taking a peek at the Eastern Conference standings, with the Cavs just two games behind the Boston Celtics for the No. 2 seed.
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Timestamps!
00:00 Cavs Beat Magic!
04:04 Cavs Showed More Determination
07:44 Cavs Improve Defense Amid Struggles
11:30 Cavs' Progress with Current Squad
18:26 Tyrese Proctor Shows Early Potential
21:54 Cavs' Depth Key to Victory
25:50 Cavs' Playoff Position Analyzed"
31:18 Cavs Building Momentum
Was Hunter a DNP because of incoming trade?
The Cavs were lucky that the Magic didn't double/triple team Donovan. It show just how good he is with just a little bit of daylight. Snub him in the All Star Game, put the chip on their shoulders.
Ball was really good…….man, just when I write him off……
Proctor need more minutes he is the backup pg for this team. Also gotta stop making excuses forEvan Mobley. He’s not inconsistent this is who he is he struggles with physicality and below average shooter.
Nice use of the big lineups; JA, Mobley, and either Wade or Tomlin. D is so much better without 3 under 6'6" on court.
I thought Lonzo did pretty well
You’re right, it was amazing. It felt like they all actually wanted to play this game. Even though he didn’t have a great game, the fact that Mobley was consistently interested, required Orlando having to pay attention to him which helped out in so many other places. Mobley is the key to everything.
Hunter was injured
A terrific team EFFORT!!!! Unselfish…play hard…share the ball!!!! Loved Kenny's quote why he likes that starting five(DM/Tyson/Dean/Mobley/JA)..he said…"OBVIOUSLY it's because of the SIZE!" When DG is healthy…which is always seems to be in question..that makes us SMALLER…more defensively challenged and maybe more importantly…shuts the door and limits the minutes for CPJ/Tyrese…and Ball looked good tonight! Kinda glad that Hunter didn't play as well!