{"id":369911,"date":"2025-12-25T20:07:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T20:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/369911\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T20:07:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T20:07:14","slug":"poor-rebounding-costs-cavs-christmas-day-matchup-with-knicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/369911\/","title":{"rendered":"Poor rebounding costs Cavs Christmas Day matchup with Knicks"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a> looked much-more like the team they were expected to be this season. The only problem was, they reverted back to their old ways down the stretch. The New York Knicks<\/a> erased a 17-point deficit with 10 minutes left in the fourth, thanks to their offensive rebounding as they came away with the 126-124 victory.<\/p>\n

This was a game of runs. The Cavs got out their lead by controlling the first and third quarters as they won those frames by a combined 29 points. But an inability to turn the momentum once it started going against them in the second and fourth quarters led to their demise.<\/p>\n

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An inability to secure defensive rebounding doomed the Cavs in the fourth quarter. New York picked up 10 second-chance points in the final frame on five offensive rebounds. It\u2019s difficult to keep a high-powered offense like the Knicks in check. It\u2019s even more so when they\u2019re given that many more possessions. This is what cost them the game.<\/p>\n

Jalen Brunson helped lead the comeback for New York. Thirteen of his 34 points came in the final quarter. Tyler Kolek added in 11 fourth-quarter points on 3-3 shooting form deep.<\/p>\n

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The poor fourth quarter spoiled what was an encouraging performance for 38 minutes. The offensive was humming for the third-straight game in a row as the Cavs went 15-34 (44.1%) from three. Darius Garland was playing like an All-Star and Evan Mobley looked good playing his first game in nearly two weeks. But it wasn\u2019t enough.<\/p>\n

Donovan Mitchell led the team with 34 points on 12-24 shooting with six assists. Garland added 20 points on 7-14 shooting with 10 assists. Mobley contributed 14 points and nine rebounds off the bench in 25 minutes of play.<\/p>\n

Every time the Cavs seem to take a step forward this season, they take two more back. This game felt like a microcosm of the season so far. We\u2019ll see if they can put together a full 48 minutes on Saturday when they travel to Texas to take on the Houston Rockets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cleveland Cavaliers looked much-more like the team they were expected to be this season. The only problem…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[8174,27494,13054,51299,5050,36783,355,2005,361,181442,99,56240],"class_list":{"0":"post-369911","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-cleveland-cavaliers","9":"tag-darius-garland","10":"tag-donovan-mitchell","11":"tag-evan-mobley","12":"tag-houston-rockets","13":"tag-jalen-brunson","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-knicks","17":"tag-rebounding","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-tyler-kolek"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}