Milwaukee – The cleveland cavaliers lost its fifth straight game on Wednesday night, a 113-98 road loss for a little hand milwaukee bucks The squad is missing at least five rotation players.
The losing skid follows an eight-game winning streak for the Cavs, who started the season 8–1 and looked like contenders in the Eastern Conference. However, after Wednesday’s game, Cavs coach JB Bickerstaff wondered whether his team had developed a “fat cat mentality” after such a fast start and believed victory would come easy to them.
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Bickerstaff said, “We have a fat cat mentality. We went out and won eight games in a row, everybody was giving us love and praising us, and we got really comfortable.” “We’re the team that’s won eight games; we’re a really good basketball team. It’s about the maturity and development of the whole team.”
Bickerstaff said he began to notice a change in his team’s effort and mindset during a recent West Coast road trip, which included a slump in the fourth quarter. LA Clippers And Golden State Warriors and harm sacramento kings, Despite his criticism, Bickerstaff reiterated Wednesday that he still believes in the Cavs roster, even as he looks for ways to get them back to winning basketball
“These five games don’t exemplify who we are, who we were,” the Cavs star said. donovan mitchell, who finished with 23 points on Wednesday, 16 of which came in the first quarter. “Like I said before when we were winning: It’s early. There’s going to be trials and tribulations, there’s going to be positives and negatives, and right now we’re in a negative place. It’s about overreacting to anything.” No. The biggest thing is we understood that every night we had to bring it.”
Mitchell said: “We won eight in a row. It’s great. We lost five in a row. It’s a great feeling, feeling phenomenal. We just have to go out there and do it. It’s a long season. There’s nothing to sit here, and the sky is falling and whatever… It’s November, we’ve played a bunch of good teams.”
The Cavs have also played the last two matches without a center Jarrett Allen, who sat out with pain in his left ankle. Cleveland has struggled defensively during this five-game losing streak, but without the All-Star big man in the middle, its defensive woes have only been amplified.
The Cavs are surrendering 122 points per 100 possessions during their skid, per NBA.com, the worst defensive rating ever in the league during that span.
“Basically, our defense and our defensive effort, that’s what we’re focusing on,” the Cavs big man evan mobley Told. “Defensively, we’ve been lacking in certain areas at times. Just doing it. Simple as that. We know what we have to do, we talked about it. We just have to go out there and do it.” Is.”
Cavs host Star on Wednesday giannis antetocampo He had a relatively quiet night offensively – 16 points on 6-of-18 shooting with 12 rebounds and eight assists – but he let the Bucks out-beat them.
Milwaukee converted 16 of its 39 (41%) 3-pointers, including seven 3’s. Brooke LopezJoe finished with 29 points, his highest scoring game since the Orlando Bubble in 2020. Bucks scored 45 bench points despite missing chris middleton, junior holiday, grayson allen, Pat Connaughton And wesley mathews,
Mitchell said, “Whatever the scoring is, it’s not really a concern, it’s really just our defense.” “Yeah, we missed JA, but the one thing that championship teams – which we aspire to be – when people are out, everyone continues to push forward.
“You saw tonight. They had four, five players and the players kept moving forward. We have a way of moving forward and there is nothing to overreact to. We will be good, but you learn from winning. Want, obviously no harm.”
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