Cavaliers coach J.B. Bickerstaff didn’t mince any words after his team’s 101-97 Game 1 loss to the Knicks in their first-round playoff series on Saturday.
Despite entering the contest as the higher seed at No. 4, Cleveland looked firmly second best throughout the night.
Around superstar Donovan Mitchell, the Cavaliers have a young core that does not possess much playoff experience.. “This is a wake-up and a learning lessons for our guys. It’s one of those things that we talk about. You can’t explain or describe what a playoff game is like. You have to go through a playoff game and understand the physicality of it. Understand what you can and can’t get away with.
“We talked about this before and our group is aware, we’ll go as far as quickly we learn from out mistakes. We make these mistakes again, we’ll struggle.”J.B. Bickerstaff called the Cavaliers’ Game 1 loss to the Knicks a ‘wake-up call.’J.B. Bickerstaff speaks with Donovan Mitchell and Darius Garland during the Cavaliers’ Game 1 loss to the Knicks on April 15.The Knicks had the upper hand in those four meetings as well, owning a 3-1 advantage including wins in the final three games.
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