Cavs optimistic for the status of 3 injured stars for game 3 against Pacers

Independence, Ohio-es, gives optimism that all three injured star players of the Cleveland Cavaliers, including the all-Star-Wachmann Darius Garland, who missed the last four games, will try to play against the Indiana Pacers against the Indiana Pacers on Friday, said two league sources told The athlete.

“I don’t think he has a choice,” said a league spring that is near the Cavs, about Garland, who has not played since game 2 of the first round.

Cleveland, the seed No. 1 in the east, is 0: 2 in this series in this series after he fell in the second Eastern conference defeat in the second Eastern Conference in the 120: 119 defeat on Tuesday. Garland (Big Toe), NBA defensive player of the year Evan Mobley (waved ankle) and De’andre Hunter (bricked thumb) missed the game after they were listed “questionable” with their complaints.

The Cavs organized a passage on Thursday before they traveled to Indianapolis, and coach Kenny Atkinson said that all three players had touched the ball during the training. Everyone will continue to be listed in the team’s injury report before game 3.

“You took part in the walk-through and we hope for the best,” said Atkinson. “I think it’s frustrating for all of us, isn’t it? It is not a charge against someone, it is only, injuries are a difficult thing and they don’t really know unless they experience it themselves.”

The attempt to play and play effectively is not the same. A source of league with the knowledge of the training of the CAVS on Thursday said that the swelling of Hunter’s injured thumb decreased, while Mabley and Garland moved as if they were trying to play injuries in the lower leg.

Hunter suffered injured in a dunk attempt in the fourth quarter of game 1, like Hunter, in the fourth quarter of this game in one piece in which Cleveland demanded a bad call. At the end of the second game of a four-game heat injury, the garland was again an old injury.

The Cleveland fan base is indeed frustrated with the absences of the players due to similar circumstances that this team (and its fans) plagued in the past two years. Local radio talk shows were flooded with calls this week, and the CAVS players criticized national television commentators for being classified as “questionable” in the injury report.

This is the second post -season in a row in which a key player has missed several playoff games for weeks while he was considered “questionable”. Jarrett all missed the last post -season eight in a row with a painful rib injury, which was only described as “bruising” in these injury reports. Finally, everyone was criticized by teammates and trainers who thought he could play more.

Lay sources said, and Atkinson confirmed that all three Cavs, Garland, wanted to play “desperately”. Not to put words in the coach’s mouth because he did not say this part, but if the players are hungry to be on the pitch during these decisive games, but are not even in uniform, they can be worse off than a “questionable” name.

It is the right of a team to get involved with the injury report on such a play art, perhaps to guess the opponent, but the record of the CAVS in the last two conference semi-final is 1: 6. Teams can also be clear by designating a player. For example, before the game 2 of a semi -final between the Golden State Warriors and Minnesota Timberwolves Stephen Curry, the Warriors listed as “available” with an illness with a knee tendon load and Gary Payton II. The Timberwolves said that Robert Dillingham was “on the road” with an excess of ankles.

In addition, Curry spoke to reporters on Thursday, even though he is on the road and explained his status of injury status (and how he feels with it). The players don’t have to talk to the media when they are traveling with injuries. Cleveland’s fans have not heard of Garland for more than two weeks.

On Thursday, Atkinson proposed that Garland’s absence was a question of pain tolerance, although the player also advises the team’s medical staff on his determination.

“He has to find out and I support him 100 percent in which way it goes,” said Atkinson about Garland, although what he said could easily describe how he also feels about Hunter and Mobley. “He probably thinks:” I have to come to a certain point where I can compete with high intensity and playoff level. That is the difficult one for us. We really can’t simulate it (in practice).

“You have to speak to the trainers, you have to speak to the doctor, and then you can only make the call,” continued Atkinson. “It’s kind of (garland).”

Atkinson also said that Donovan Mitchell, who confirmed that he carried out a calf pollution in game 2 (and scored 48 points), would not be on the injury report of the CAVS for game 3.

Cleveland is the eighth team in NBA history and opens up a regular season with at least 12 wins in a row. Five of the first seven teams to do this reached the NBA final this season.

The Cavs have something to do to do six out of eight, and they also try to become the sixth team in the history of the league to lose the first two games of a playoff series at home and win the series. The defending champion Boston Celtics is located in the same boat and behind the Knicks with 0: 2 in the other eastern semi -finals.

Of course there is no correlation between what happens in the Celtics series with the result of the Cavs-Pacers series. Cleveland, who get his players back, may have an impact.

(Kenny Atkinson’s Pop Photos: Jason Miller / Getty Images)