The hosts break down Cavs' training camp, team bonding, and Kenny Atkinson's coaching style.
training camp in Florida, exploring the team’s dynamics, coaching changes, and player developments. They delve into the significance of team bonding in a new environment, and hone in on theIsaac Okoro’s defensive skillsRead the automated transcript of today’s podcast below. Because it’s a computer-generated transcript, it may contain errors and misspellings.What up, Cavs Nation? I’m your host, Ethan Sands, and I’m back with another episode of the Wine and Gold Talk Podcast.
in Boston, we’ll go to Massimino’s in Boston. So he’s an Italian guy, I’m an Italian guy. And there was this really, really cool place in downtown Sarasota. And I’m probably going to butcher the name of this one too. So apologies to everybody, including this business. But I think it was called Casa Antica. And the reason why I think it was called that instead of Cassantica.
when it comes to the season. So this is where we get our questions from subtexters. Here we go. So I’m going to start with the ones about the environment, the overarching views, all of those things, right? So the calves are in Florida. We talked about it. They’re at IMG campus. This subtexter, Evan in Lindhurst says, why Florida? The weather? IMG campus? Just to get away?
more and more teams are going to do this so that they can have the experiences of being around each other and building team chemistry and camaraderie in just a different kind of way. And I would think, I would think, I don’t know if it’s going to be Sarasota. don’t know if it’s going to be IMG Academy, but I would think that this is something that the Cavs are going to continue to explore because whether it’s the players or it’s coach Kenny Atkinson or it’s members of the front office.
Like we have outgrown this particular facility. It doesn’t mean that they don’t have access to the weight room and all that other kinds of stuff, but it’s just smaller than it probably would need to be for training camp, especially when you expand the roster, to 20 players, 21 players, and you expand the coaching staff to all the developmental coaches and the coaches from the charge.
and some new sets and some new language as well. Like some of that stuff is going to carry over and some of that stuff is going to be the same, but some of it is Kenny Atkinson specific. So he has to do those things at the beginning of training camp in a way that JB Biggerseph didn’t have to do. there hasn’t been as much, according to the players, there hasn’t been as much scrimmaging.
In this scenario with what Kenny Atkinson is doing, it makes the players think not only, okay, are we getting into a set? What is the scenario that they’re doing these drills in? Right? Like you talk about 14 or 10 seconds or whatever. Like, is this late in the game? Is this go get a bucket time? Or is this, okay, we still want to be patient, set something up and figure out how quickly we can run this action for certain players.
as being able to benefit not only the players, but also just what’s going on around the court during every aspect of the practices. But the next question from our subtexters comes from Matt in Los Angeles. And we’ve been talking about running and we’re talking about transition. This is a little bit different of that question. He says, Hey Chris, so much of quote unquote running it back seemed to hinge on Mowgli.
It’s smoother and I think it can be more reliable and more consistent. You’ve to see it in game action, right? It’s one thing to just go through all these different workouts post-practice, shoot a certain kind of way.
enough thought in his mind that that is the right shot. That’s the right shot for him and that’s the right shot for the Cavs. And I don’t know that he is there yet.
As, as the season was going on last year, Isaac was on my list. I considered him as an all defensive type player, the whole entire year. And I think Isaac brings up a point that, you know, we have to continue to remember that there are different parameters for end of season awards. and, and for some guys it’s,
to who should be defensive player of the year or all defense or things like that. So that was a long winded answer, but I don’t think it’s going to be held against Isaac that he doesn’t get a whole bunch of steals because there are so many other ways that he makes an impact on the defensive end of the floor. And I think those are better quantified by some of the deeper analytics that are designed to show a player’s impact or value.
both from a scoring standpoint and even a passing standpoint that make me think he could be better than Caleb Martin. And like I said, there are other places where I think he could come up short of Josh Hart because you just cannot. I mean, Josh Hart is one of the best rebounders in the NBA, regardless of position. And he has done that at a high level for a number of years.
This is a young core that there’s some natural, organic growth that can happen with them alongside Kenny Atkinson as their head coach. So I do think sometimes people get caught up into the other things and they don’t enjoy a team as much as maybe they should, or they don’t enjoy regular season success as much as they should. was talking to a different media member about this on media day and it’s like, the Cavs aren’t a good place.
that has 13 or 14 playable NBA guys. I mean, I was out there earlier today at training camp and I was looking at all the guys that were on the court and I was like, that guy can play in the NBA, that guy can play in the NBA, that guy can play in the NBA. There aren’t very many guys on this NBA roster, the regular roster that you sit there and you say, that guy shouldn’t be playing at all.
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