Cavs at Hawks | Kenny Atkinson Post Game | 11.28.2025

I mean, what area do you feel like you guys didn’t execute the most? It’s pretty obvious. What do you think? Shot making transition defense. I would say that’s where we really let down. You know, there going to be nights where you don’t make shots and, you know, we showed them a couple um clips at halftime where they just run literally running by us. So, um you know, but listen, give them credit. That’s what they do. Um that’s their strength. Um and uh yeah, I mean they outplayed us um quite simply outplayed us, out coached us. Just um got to give them credit. Kenny, that’s probably like the second or third team you’ve mentioned that transition defense has been a problem with the Chicago Bulls, the Pacers. Why is that continuously been something that you guys have to look at? Listen, it’s um you know, things don’t get corrected overnight. We got to adjust. We got to adjust with how the league’s playing. Um, and uh, you know, like you said, the above teams you mentioned, we we have not done a good job. So, did you say Toronto, too? I think put put Toronto in there. Um, so, but overall, Ethan, they they, you know, like I said, give them credit. They they played great tonight. Um, we were not, how should I say, just say we weren’t sharp, whatever that, you know, the playing wasn’t sharp, you know, the coaching wasn’t sharp. We just weren’t sharp enough tonight. They were, they were um much better kind of position by position. Kenny, have you played in a game where we coached the game where both of the shot clocks on the main baskets aren’t working? Never saw that before. Never saw that before. But that that wasn’t, you know, that’s a side note. But I think there was one situation where I didn’t I actually were in a timeout and I didn’t know how much um how much time left I had to to to draw up to play. So, um you know, it happens. You got to adjust. Um it’s definitely not the reason we lost. Uh Kenny, you mentioned uh transition defense being a problem. I’m just curious, does that make you want to experiment more with small ball lineups or just a commitment to getting back? Well, yeah. I mean, it’s a good point. Oh, you could go smaller to to match their speed and and that’s that’s something we could do. We we did do it for a little bit. Maybe could have done it more. It’s good good um good mention. Anything else? All right. Thanks everybody. Thanks. Safe trout.

Kenny Atkinson spoke to the media after a 123-130 loss to the Hawks in Atlanta.

15 comments

  2. The problem is lack of energy by the Cavaliers versus the opponents energy. The Hawks outplayed the Cavs due to a superior energy. The little man killed the Cavs on both ends of the floor tonight.

  3. Starting 5 are playing, 3 days off, DM scored 42 points and Evan had a double double same w/Garland all signs in favors to win the game but then again this is the cavs that we're talking about they somehow loses the game. This team is toast getting burned in transition over and over again. They can no longer deny the fact that they are not built to win a championship with the current structure of the roster. Btw they traded for a wrong hawks player last year they should have acquired Johnson instead of Hunter another miss for the cavs lol.😅

  5. They were getting everything they wanted in the paint. Then we're over helping on defense leaving players wide open for 3. Such a stunning contrast from last year and this year I was not expecting this much of a fall.

  10. Atkinson is on the clock. His late game coaching is suspect. TWO BIGS THAT DO NOT PLAY BIG, entire game 0 post touches, team is soft, undisciplined, doesn't play defense, offense is limited, no cutting, team simply hasn't improved. Bench is almost non existent, nothing but jump shots. We've been passed by multiple young teams… Current outlook is disappointing..

  12. Gotta move Hunter back to the bench. Move Tyson into starting lineup… Stop living in the past, last year is over, we failed. Need to improve effort level. Where's the anger and embarrassment from how we lost last year? Where's the passion?!

  13. Koby Altman needs to be fired. 9 years of being the GM. He drafted and acquired soft and injury prone players. The only title that he has given to this team is being the highest payroll in the league.

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