Kenny Atkinson bemoans the Cavs’ lack of concentration on the rebound
Statistically speaking, we cannot say that it is Cavaliers are a bad rebounding team. They are just average in the field, with 13th overall rebounds per game, 14th offensive rebounding percentage (30.8%) and 13th offensive rebounding percentage allowed (31.1%).
The problem is that they often seem to lose the battle when it matters most…
Against the Knicks, a second or third chance for Mitchell Robinson fed like this the miraculous return of New Yorkwhile Karl-Anthony Towns scored the decisive shot with 27 seconds remaining.
“I was ready to go (to counterattack)” he admits Evan Mobley, guilty of action. “I thought the shot was going to miss, but Towns threw it out of nowhere. I should have made a tight block on the rebound.”
The interior duo is still abusing
The problem is that actions of this type in Ohio have been repeated. For some, this is a sign that this group is “soft,” especially the inside duo of Evan Mobley and Jarrett Allen.
“It starts with mentality. Everyone talks about the physical impact, but it’s more related to mental concentration” sorry by the way Kenny Atkinson. “There’s a difference. The rebounds you have to grab, the ones where guys come from the corner, and I don’t know who missed Towns, but those are the rebounds, the lack of thinking, that have nothing to do with physicality in my eyes. It’s more, ‘Are you focused? Do you see your opponent going to throw the ball first?’ »
Even if the label “soft” doesn’t mean much after all, it must be admitted that it does Jarrett Allen was manhandled in the paint during the fourth quarter, and that the Knicks pounced on all the balls that were lying around, against a Cavaliers who seem to have difficulty getting hurt.
| Shots | Rebounds | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | MJ | Min | Shots | 3pts | LF | Off | Def | That | Pd | Bp | Int | Ct | Ft | Pts |
| Donovan Mitchell | 29 | 34:00 | 49.9 | 39.0 | 85.3 | 0.9 | 3.7 | 4.6 | 5.4 | 3.2 | 1.4 | 0.3 | 2.6 | 30.7 |
| Evan Mobley | 26 | 33:48 | 50.1 | 34.9 | 64.5 | 2.5 | 6.7 | 9.3 | 4.1 | 2.2 | 0.9 | 1.6 | 2.4 | 18.9 |
| Darius Garland | 16 | 30:30 | 40.3 | 36.8 | 87.7 | 0.7 | 2.1 | 2.8 | 7.1 | 2.9 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 1.8 | 17.3 |
| Second Hunter | 28 | 28:11 | 43.4 | 31.7 | 85.1 | 0.7 | 3.5 | 4.2 | 2.1 | 1.5 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 2.8 | 15.3 |
| Jarrett Allen | 21 | 25:46 | 59.7 | 20.0 | 76.5 | 2.1 | 5.3 | 7.5 | 2.0 | 1.6 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 1.8 | 13.6 |
| Sam Merrill | 15 | 26:08 | 45.9 | 43.0 | 90.0 | 0.8 | 1.7 | 2.5 | 2.7 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 2.6 | 13.6 |
| Jailon Tison | 27 | 27:31 | 52.9 | 45.2 | 78.4 | 1.9 | 3.5 | 5.4 | 1.9 | 1.2 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 3.4 | 13.1 |
| Nae’quan Tomlin | 22 | 15:30 | 47.9 | 23.3 | 68.8 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 3.0 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 2.0 | 6.6 |
| Dean Wade | 30 | 23:12 | 38.9 | 31.5 | 73.3 | 0.9 | 3.2 | 4.1 | 1.7 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 1.8 | 5.8 |
| Lonzo Ball | 24 | 23:28 | 30.3 | 26.1 | 66.7 | 1.0 | 3.3 | 4.3 | 4.8 | 1.7 | 1.4 | 0.3 | 1.5 | 5.3 |
| Craig Porter Jr. | 27 | 16:09 | 53.3 | 43.2 | 58.8 | 1.4 | 1.7 | 3.1 | 2.5 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 1.1 | 5.2 |
| Tyrese Proctor | 23 | 11:55 | 33.3 | 29.3 | 82.6 | 0.2 | 1.3 | 1.4 | 1.4 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 1.1 | 5.2 |
| Thomas Bryant | 25 | 9:38 | 51.8 | 33.3 | 82.6 | 0.7 | 1.9 | 2.6 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 1.2 | 4.7 |
| Larry Nance Jr | 16 | 15:00 | 35.4 | 30.3 | 33.3 | 0.8 | 2.0 | 2.8 | 1.3 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 2.4 | 3.6 |
| Chris Livingston | 3 | 5:40 | 57.1 | 0.0 | 100.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 1.3 | 3.0 |
| Luke Travers | 12 | 8:35 | 25.0 | 6.3 | 100.0 | 0.8 | 1.3 | 2.0 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 2.3 |
2025-12-26 16:21:00
