I saw Mosley's game 2 post game interview and reporters asked him about Suggs not guarding Mitchell.JonFromVA wrote:toooskies wrote:JonFromVA wrote:
His knee pain can clear up, that's certainly one possibility ... it can also come right back. That's the nature of tendinitis. Only long rest and time to heal will change that, but he doesn't look like he's 100% to me.
I mean consider, it's been just over a month ago since he had surgery on his nose. Just because he got frustrated with wearing that mask over his face doesn't mean he should have stopped wearing it ... but he's prioritizing his performance over his health like players are encouraged to do come playoff time.
Fact is Mitchell and Garland are contributing and the Cavs need both of them, but they are not and may never come close to 100% during these playoffs. I'm just hoping we don't see a situation again like when Kyrie bumped knees in the finals and his knee exploded. JBB has been running reasonable rotations so far, but when push comes to shove it wouldn't surprise me if he loses track of how many minutes he's played some of the guys again, and fatigue leads to stress, and stress can lead to knees exploding.
He's not playing at his absolute best, but most of that is rust/rhythm/feel which he missed because he was out for so many games and physically impaired in a lot of other ones. He might have a level or two of conditioning to get through, too. Suffice to say, though, that dropping 30 on Orlando in game 1 and his first quarter in game 2 both looked a lot closer to 100% than, say, the Denver or Phoenix games.
Yes, Donovan's knee might get bad again. It also might be perfectly fine. Evan could turn an ankle again, or not. Jarrett could get another hand injury. Garland's jaw could re-break on the next screen he sets. But it's probably more likely that they don't, especially since there's often two or more days of rest between games.
Don looked like a player trying to score while he could score because he knew it wasn't going to last and Orlando wasn't even bothering to put Suggs on him ... but we shall see.
He said the thought is Suggs would get too beat up because of all the off ball and on ball screens Mitchell runs through, his words not mine.
Plus he mentioned they like having Suggs being able to float around when he's off ball to try and disrupt things that way.