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Danny Cunningham: #Cavs list Donovan Mitchell (left eye contusion) and Jaylon Tyson (left great toe sprain) as questionable for tomorrow’s game against New Orleans. Jarrett Allen, Craig Porter Jr. and Tyrese Proctor remain out.
Drew: Jarrett Allen will miss his seventh-straight game tonight for the Cavaliers. Jaylon Tyson and Tyrese Procter are also out for Cleveland, who’s gone 11-4 with James Harden in the lineup.
Chris Fedor: #Cavs Evan Mobley on overcoming Jarrett Allen's continued absence: “Without another big out there I have to hold it down until he gets back. That’s what I tried to do tonight, and I feel like I’ve been doing a pretty good job so far.”
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Cleveland Cavaliers big man Jarrett Allen missed practice for the second straight day due to a right knee injury, and, unsurprisingly, he has been ruled out for Sunday's matinee clash with the Boston Celtics as a result. “He's still got a little soreness,” Cavs head coach Kenny Atkinson said on Saturday. “We'll get the feedback from today and see where he is. But, like I said [Friday], not concerned about long-term.”
Chris Fedor: #Cavs are listing Donovan Mitchell (groin) and Dean Wade (ankle) as PROBABLE for tomorrow’s showdown with Boston. Jaylon Tyson (neck strain) is QUESTIONABLE. Jarrett Allen (knee) and Max Strus (foot surgery) are OUT.
Theo Pinson: My second year. Kenny Atinson is my coach. Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving, DeAndre Jordan, all these guys just get there. We on a the path has changed. We in championship or bus mode at this point because you got bonafide guys. And it shifted so quickly. It took everybody a minute to get themselves together because like at first we had D'Angelo Russell, Caris LeVert, Jarrett Allen. We were just in figuring it out. We just made the playoffs. We played Philly, blah blah blah. Everybody was like, "Yo, Brooklyn's on the way." Blah, blah, blah. And then these guys come. I'll never forget, bro. We played in Miami. I think we played the game and we had practice in Miami before we got on the plane. I don't know what the f*ck happened. I don't know. And I f*ck with Kenny Atkinson. That is my guy. He gave me opportunity. I f*ck with him. But I don't know what the f*ck happened, but Kenny was on one that day. This motherf*cker was going off. We were trying to run all types of sh*t like y'all know what Pistol is. Pistol is a like when you come down the court, guy sets like a flat screen on the sideline just to get the switch or whatever. People do it all the time in the playoffs just to get the matchups. And pretty much KD and them, they weren't really rocking all that like, ‘Hey, look, just give me the f*cking ball and all this shit.’ And we weren't, they weren't really running it, bro. Next thing you know, he flips the f*ck out. He's like, ‘Run the sh*t! I'm the f*cking coach! Run the sh*t.’ And everybody's like, “Oh sh*t.’ And I ain't he never seen it before. And he's yelling at superstars now? One game, he got an altercation in the huddle, the next morning he was gone. He got fired. That's when I was like, ‘Oh sh*t.’ The NBA is 1,000 percent a players’ league. (…) You don't talk to your star the same way you talk to everybody else.
“That’s part of this job, figuring out when you can get a guy a game and you can look at the schedule — we try to do that the best we can,” Atkinson said. “You always look back on it like, ‘Man, should we have (given a player more rest)?’ This is more of a contact thing (with Allen). The soft tissue is one of the ones where you’re like, ‘That’s overuse.’” Jarrett Allen loves to play in the regular season — he didn’t miss a single game last year — and has no interest in sitting out now, especially after injuries to his fingers forced him out during the early months. Still, he seemed to be toughing out a difficult night Tuesday, battling not only behemoth center Jaren Duren but also backup big man Isaiah Stewart, who returned from his seven-game suspension for fighting with the Charlotte Hornets.
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Pistons beat Cavaliers 122-119 behind 33 points, 16 rebounds and three blocks from Jalen Duren, 25 points, 10 rebounds, seven assists from Cade Cunningham. Jarrett Allen and Evan Mobley combined for 48 points, 21 rebounds in defeat.
“I think we’re rolling right now,” Jarrett Allen said. “Things are clicking on the offensive end. We’re finding sets that work for us.” Earlier in the season, the Cavs leaned heavily on quick 3-point attempts. The better defensive teams threw multiple bodies at Mitchell, forcing him to give up the ball, because Garland, the former All-Star who had been Mitchell’s backcourt partner, was either injured or not playing up to his usual level. Teams haven’t been able to do that with Harden and Mitchell. Then, when Atkinson staggers the two of them, and Harden is out, another trade the Cavs made, bringing in veteran point guard Dennis Schröder, has allowed Mitchell to remain off the ball and avoid the constant swarms of double-teams. “From a physical standpoint, from a mental standpoint, being able to know that guy’s over there … that always helps,” Mitchell said of Harden.
