Maybe you have one leg in a fight. Or maybe you’ve seen from a safe distance, a fight that develops. I mean an abrupt fight, in the world, not a party organized with tickets and probabilities that accompany. In the first internships, it is that Pantomiming or “Will them, they won.” Like a jump, sprayed dance. Better yet, like birds that make a greeting dance. There is an intrinsic hesitation, no matter how intentional the participants appear, even if that doubt is taken to an alcohol level in the blood that changes the limbs to the slow chamber.
No one really cup To fight. Even the people we claim are spoiled On the one hand, as if the opportunity is not granted soon, they will explode, too well with the aggression, only that fight is born from something else, another trigger. Pride, fear, often nothing to do with Agan, only the underlying indications of anger. When cortisol and adrenaline flood the brain, the body encourages and then nine times out of the response is the flight on the fight. This is how we, as a species, have stayed for so long.
The analogy of a fight in basketball is favored. What team lost yours, as if it were a couple of keys, and that had it on display, as a series of paintings hanging in a gallery? The analogy is an excessive and reductive simplification, flattening and mechanical conditions that form this type of “struggle”, aptitude, thin decision making, conditioning, a complete list that clicks at the same time, luck and shakes, and yet …
And yet. What comes to mind, without any record, see Jarrett Allen collide with Myes Turner, specifically Turner’s elbow, in game 3? Or when he barely became the second quarter of game 4, with Indiana by pressing the offensive, Darius Garland walked from the key to meet the possession with tight hands on his head in that universal gesture for “Oh, God.” It was the phrase, Where is the fight?
Even when De’Andre Hunter stalked towards a Benedict stationary from Mathurin and pushed him hard with two flat hands to Mathurin’s chest, or Max Strus became separate with Pascal Siakam and Tyrese Haliburton after whistles and next to the action, the phrase entered as a frown crower – Where is the fight?
Cleveland has not lowered three and goes to a possible elimination game because they are liabilities or “soft”, but now they look at a deficit so that they rush due to a certain inertia.
In his post -shared post after the loss of game 4 in Indiana, Darius Garland and Evan Mobley asked them why they did not come out strongly, or enough. He took 20 seconds, in which the buzz of the room lights burst stronger, so that Garland responds. “Mm,” he started, shaking his head gently, “he simply did not.” Hello, shit.
Garland then sacrificed a longer explanation than it went wrong: too many ball losses, Be He delivered so much when the CAVs are used to forcing them to the opponents, persecuted of their points, but when he mentioned the force again, he replied. “If they hit first, we have to return the blow,” he said. The responsibility, even secondary. Reagent.
The Pacers do not have a surplus of size in the cavs. Apart from Turner and Siakam, of which it cannot have its size as an automatic extension for improved physicalness, Mobley is larger thani toppin, or any of the strikers Rick Carlisle is throwing defense. In addition, that area was the same strategy that Cleveland used in his lonely victory so far in this series, so suddenly it seemed so never, when he turned to them was a shock. And anyway, the size, although discouraging, is not the decisive factor in a fight. Many “lightweights” have tasks in their Goliath version with feet game and a hook well intermittent to the chin, just look at TJ McConnell.
What the paers have in the cavs is the speed. Your ability to go out and run. That combined with its size has bone from the wear factor that has caused Cleveland to look supernaturally exhausted in all series, like a team that is wrapped in the body of the legs with which he saw Ace the regular season with skill and poise.
But if a fight is the last that the human brain wants for us, how, now, the cavs come out and understand it?
The good news is that a team with a record of victories of 64-18 in the regular season, which was the first in general in its offensive qualification, which louves the defensive player of the year in Mobley and the leader of the league in percentage of field goals (.706), DIE shots and completely new offensive resources to recover his competitive identity. That part is already deeply rooted, if it is something obstructed at this time. The bad news is that it was Donovan Mitchell’s ability, unlocked this season by Cleveland’s coaching staff, asking the guard to assume a bit of everything, that he displayed these multifaceted strengths. Without Mitchell, as could be the case in game 5, the CAVs will continue to look at drift for the provocations of Ticky-Tack and stirring in the isolation of the heavy hands that the Pacers are deploying against them.
Lyrics: As much as a leg lied in the last 48 hours, it is really not the fundamental discrepancy here: the cavs are and have an injured bone. Those injuries barely imported Indiana. When you run to someone with a complete tilt, about to get their legs under them, you do not change your career because they notice that they favor a foot. It is still the shoulder first, just to the intestine. There is no team in the postseason at this point playing 100% healthy. There was no team playing the 41 games of the regular season.
The notion of Indiana’s strength, and the line of questions that Garland seemed for the first time that he answered, originated with the Cavs coach Kenny Atkinson. After the folding ordered of his team in Indiana, Atkinson Tok to the podium and told the story of the game.
“Complete domination,” he sighed, “in each facet.” It was a short story.
He pressed to obtain more details and Atkinson said that the Pacers took the game to another level and, despite preparing for that possibility, the cavs do not match it. Instead, they were forced to start their offensive sets in Half Court, they were overcome and never reached any of their places. It was physical domination, Atkinson said: “His strength was greater, in every way.”
The force, either in the abstract sense of the energy used or in the repetitive blows that the pacemakers delivered to the cavs, is essential to fight. Two forces meet, decide whether to collide and drag towards or far from each other. We tend to have a better memory for the fight, for battles, than for you are unleashed. Garland demonstrated so much when he referred to the cavs, as a franchise, 3-1 beer before, as the fighting reverberations could be discovered in a fossil record (that is a change of phrase and No A ageist excavation in LeBron James, who led that Cavs team from the edge to win).
The problem with the nostalgic hair removal with the deficits conquered in the past is that the present. Framed in this way, then the threat of elimination immediately to distant, and the lack of urgency that the cavs have shown in each game of this series, including its lonely victory, has an unfortunate sense. Framed in that way and it is not that the impulse to fight is a foreigner for this group, is that the urgency of the playoffs never arrived. Cleveland is still playing as the orderly team and 64 victories that conquered the regular season, the eyes set in a distant horizon of any person that the team we were so safe would do so, by virtue of what came to Bepore. Not to be raw, but you can’t see that some give a swing that you are looking at, carefully, on the other hand.
