Mitchell: “I’m excited. It’s going the way I thought it would, in a good way.”
“I think we did a lot of things well. You walk up the floor and it’s like, ‘He’s got it.’ But it’s not like, ‘He’s got it in isolation.’ It’s like, he’s got it, make a play, create … I said in the locker room, we didn’t call a lot of plays in the first half. That speaks to our ball movement.”
“I think it was the spacing, for me,” Garland said, when asked what he noticed most about playing next to Mitchell. “Just coming off pick and rolls, there’s so many threats on the opposite side, and it’s just a lot easier … you can just pick your poison. You have to live with it.
“It was just fun out there, to be honest with you.”
Coach Bickerstaff said the focus was on avoiding playing “your turn, my turn” basketball.
“I thought it was pretty seamless,” Bickerstaff said. “The way they played together, the way the ball moved, everybody got involved … as long as we play in the same style we want to play, where it isn’t just based on one guy, but based on the team, I think it’s going to work out well for us.”
And who will start at SF?
“It’s just going to be truly about the fit, and that’s going to be who makes those four guys better,” he said. “Who helps them on the offensive end of the floor? Who helps them on the defensive end of the floor? Who can protect guys in certain situations defensively? How does it help our matchups? Offensively, how does it help us space the floor? Those are all things we’re taking into consideration.”
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/34736060/cleveland-cavaliers-star-donovan-mitchell-debuts-new-team-simply-felt-little-different
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