The Cleveland Cavaliers, who won 64 games, won the best seed at the Eastern Conference, but this Sunday did not exceed the fourth seed Indiana Pacers on the 121-112 road win.
According to Cleveland coach Kenny Atkinson, CAVS is faced with a “real concern”, moving towards Game 2 on Tuesday's Tuesday, and three key participants can be questioned on Monday in the injury report.
Darius Garland missed three flat playoffs with left foot injury, while Atkinson used the word “suspicious” when describing the NBA defender Evan Mobley (ankle) and De'andre Hunter (thumb).
The last two were injured during Sunday during their fourth quarter goods. After a strange descended after a Jumper, Mobley went to the rim before he fell hard to fall on the ground because Hunter was shot by Indiana's Bennict Maturin.
Atkinson said in a statement on Monday, although these games are not dirty, “I think he crossed a line of physicality.”
He added: “But the truth of the issue is on these referees. Maybe it wasn't the kidnapped calls, and maybe I'm misinterpreting the rules, but I have a problem when we suspect two of our best players for the game tomorrow. It's hard for me to keep my head around it.”
Atkinson, who quickly reversed, said Garland, Mobley and Hunter would be listed as questionable for the match on Tuesday and label official appointments as “semantics”.
Mobley shone for Cleveland all season, and the team was the first player to win the defender of the year. After a 20 -point and 10 rebound performance in the game 1, Mobley has an average of 17.0 points and 7.2 boards this season.
Meanwhile, Hunter played an important role on the counter for Cavs, which scored 12.6 points per game in playoffs. Cleveland is definitely waiting for the return of Garland, which scored 27 and 21 points in the first two matches of the playoffs before undergoing a foot injury.
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