{"id":442050,"date":"2025-05-14T08:57:27","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T06:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=442050"},"modified":"2025-05-14T08:57:27","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T06:57:27","slug":"cavs-coach-atkinson-pacers-were-better-weve-got-to-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/cavs-coach-atkinson-pacers-were-better-weve-got-to-grow\/","title":{"rendered":"Cavs coach Atkinson: Pacers were better \u2014 we\u2019ve got to grow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Pacers deserved it,\u201d said Kenny Atkinson after the Cavs fell 114-105 in Game 5, ending their playoff run. \u201cThey played great. Credit to Rick Carlisle and that team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Wu9qo8ggCsg?si=0ASscTl00BfzIJGz\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Atkinson admitted that Indiana\u2019s pace and pressure exposed Cleveland\u2019s flaws. \u201cIt\u2019s a physical and mental challenge,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s part of our development.\u201d He added that poor shooting and limited ball movement hurt their offense across the series.<\/p>\n<p>While frustrated by the early exit, Atkinson remains hopeful. \u201cWe\u2019ve improved, but we\u2019re not there yet,\u201d he said. Looking ahead, he sees the loss as fuel: \u201cYou live with that pain every day until you get back here next May or June.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenny Atkinson acknowledged Indiana\u2019s superiority after Cleveland\u2019s Game 5 loss and sees the postseason exit as a lesson for the Cavaliers\u2019 growth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":372530,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[187],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-442050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","typology-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Cleveland-Cavaliers.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442050"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=442050"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=442050"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=442050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}