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Yahoo Sports senior NBA writer Vincent Goodwill spoke with the Cavaliers guard about his focus for the upcoming season, his expectations for the team under new head coach Kenny Atkinson and why he decided to sign an extension with Cleveland. Donovan joined Yahoo Sports on behalf of BodyArmor.
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Join us on behalf of body armor, Cleveland Cavaliers guard Donovan Mitchell, joining us today, Donovan, thanks for joining us, man.
Before we get to body armor, Donovan, you guys had a huge winning streak last year before you got hurt and I know that kinda head to deflate your season as you went to the playoffs and you weren’t fully healthy.
Is it a matter of you trying to recapture that magic a little bit or is a whole new season bringing on a whole new set of challenges and personnel and everything?
Um I think that stretch really showed us what we can be, you know, at our best.
Um So just continuing to build upon that, obviously making some tweaks and adjustments, um, but kind of following that blueprint, you know, with Kenny here now, I think it’s been, you know, just coming in and being, being more read concept based, continuing to go out there and make plays and kind of play the game with the, with each other, you know what I mean?
And kinda talk it out, uh obviously watch the film on it and um just continue to build upon that, that stretch that was a great stretch for us.
We learned a lot about ourselves.
Um, and even during the playoffs, we learn a lot about ourselves in ways we can, obviously, we weren’t healthy as a whole.
But, you know, when guys aren’t healthy, you see other guys step into roles and that’s kind of what you saw during that stretch.
Um, and I think for us now, seeing, you know, continuing to build upon it, um as a whole and kind of having a direction of what we wanna do offensively and then defensively continue to be, you know, the pest and menaces that we are and just continue to be, you know, one of the league’s best with our two anchors, um behind us.
Yeah, I mean, you mentioned the coaching change, Kenny Atkinson stepping in for Jamie Baker staff.
Have you seen any differences…
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Publish date : 2024-09-24 22:14:14
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