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Anthony Chiang @Anthony_Chiang
Darius Garland (left great toe sprain) listed as questionable for Game 3 vs. Heat in Miami. – 6:21 PM
Darius Garland (left great toe sprain) listed as questionable for Game 3 vs. Heat in Miami. – 6:21 PM
Danny Cunningham @RealDCunningham
#Cavs list Darius Garland as questionable for tomorrow’s Game 3 against the Miami Heat with a left great toe sprain. – 4:38 PM
#Cavs list Darius Garland as questionable for tomorrow’s Game 3 against the Miami Heat with a left great toe sprain. – 4:38 PM
StatMuse @statmuse
Pick a player:
Herro — Garland —
27.0 PPG 24.0 PPG
3.5 APG 7.0 APG
50/41/83% 52/41/90% pic.x.com/4qUpwQo8Jf – 2:31 PM
Pick a player:
Herro — Garland —
27.0 PPG 24.0 PPG
3.5 APG 7.0 APG
50/41/83% 52/41/90% pic.x.com/4qUpwQo8Jf – 2:31 PM
Jared Weiss @JaredWeissNBA
Tyler Herro on Darius Garland calling him out:
“To go to the media to talk about gameplan and this and that says a lot about him. I’m not worried about Darius Garland. … Somebody that doesn’t play defense shouldn’t be talking either. He don’t play any defense and we’ll see – 2:11 PM
Tyler Herro on Darius Garland calling him out:
“To go to the media to talk about gameplan and this and that says a lot about him. I’m not worried about Darius Garland. … Somebody that doesn’t play defense shouldn’t be talking either. He don’t play any defense and we’ll see – 2:11 PM
Barry Jackson @flasportsbuzz
NEW: Herro and Bam forcefully respond today to Garland insult of Herro. Bam says players who talk like this cannot “hide.”
miamiherald.com/sports/nba/mia…
Herro rips Garland defense, says he doesn’t need motivation from “that guy.” And a message from Wiggins, more: – 1:55 PM
NEW: Herro and Bam forcefully respond today to Garland insult of Herro. Bam says players who talk like this cannot “hide.”
miamiherald.com/sports/nba/mia…
Herro rips Garland defense, says he doesn’t need motivation from “that guy.” And a message from Wiggins, more: – 1:55 PM
Danny Cunningham @RealDCunningham
Darius Garland came out and said what we all knew last night: The #Cavs are trying to pick on Tyler Herro defensively.
So far, it’s worked.
Herro has scored 54 points through two games, but he’s allowed 56 according to tracking data. open.substack.com/pub/theinsides… pic.x.com/qGtOJ4sEXv – 9:57 AM
Darius Garland came out and said what we all knew last night: The #Cavs are trying to pick on Tyler Herro defensively.
So far, it’s worked.
Herro has scored 54 points through two games, but he’s allowed 56 according to tracking data. open.substack.com/pub/theinsides… pic.x.com/qGtOJ4sEXv – 9:57 AM
Danny Cunningham @RealDCunningham
Darius Garland was asked what the key to playing clean basketball/limiting turnovers against the Miami Heat is:
“Pick on Tyler Herro and take care of the ball. Don’t play in tight spaces and pick on their weak defenders.” – 11:10 PM
Darius Garland was asked what the key to playing clean basketball/limiting turnovers against the Miami Heat is:
“Pick on Tyler Herro and take care of the ball. Don’t play in tight spaces and pick on their weak defenders.” – 11:10 PM
Danny Cunningham @RealDCunningham
#Cavs are coming out of the timeout with Garland, Mobley, Allen, Mitchell and Strus. – 9:50 PM
#Cavs are coming out of the timeout with Garland, Mobley, Allen, Mitchell and Strus. – 9:50 PM
Barry Jackson @flasportsbuzz
Heat again shooting well and again losing. They need to be perfect to beat a team they were clearly better than a couple years ago. The enormous improvement of Mobley and Garland, combined with Hunter pickup and Jerome blossoming, has made such a difference. – 8:17 PM
Heat again shooting well and again losing. They need to be perfect to beat a team they were clearly better than a couple years ago. The enormous improvement of Mobley and Garland, combined with Hunter pickup and Jerome blossoming, has made such a difference. – 8:17 PM
Anthony Chiang @Anthony_Chiang
Tyler Herro opens defensively on Max Strus.
Andrew Wiggins on Donovan Mitchell and Davion Mitchell on Darius Garland. – 7:42 PM
Tyler Herro opens defensively on Max Strus.
Andrew Wiggins on Donovan Mitchell and Davion Mitchell on Darius Garland. – 7:42 PM
More on this storyline
Garland’s brother Desmond recalls Darius telling him about how the new coach wanted to do things differently in Cleveland to take pressure off the Cavs’ starting backcourt. From Desmond’s point of view, that meant: “We’re just going to let everybody collectively eat,” Desmond says. “Everybody does a certain role, and it’s going to help in the end, because in the playoffs, they won’t be all banged up.” -via The Ringer / April 23, 2025
He wasn’t sure then how his career—his life—would normally resume, but he returned to the court after missing just 19 games, in plenty of time for the Cavs’ postseason push. This season, he’s blossomed into a formidable one-two punch with Cavs star Donovan Mitchell, and he was a candidate to win the NBA’s Clutch Player of the Year award. But Garland says it wasn’t until his game-winner against the Pistons in February that he realized: “Wow. I’m back.” -via The Ringer / April 23, 2025
Hopes are high. And yet, there was no reason to believe this Cavs team would have this kind of potential this quickly. The Cavs won 48 games last year and fired their head coach, J.B. Bickerstaff. Naturally, in preseason power rankings, The Athletic ranked the Cavs as the 12th-best team in the league. ESPN ranked them 10th, and NBA.com ranked them ninth. But even after their impressive regular season, Garland is aware that some hoops pundits underestimate the team’s chances of winning it all. “It definitely motivates all of us,” Garland told The Ringer earlier this month. “We’ve been having doubters forever since we started making the playoffs a couple of years ago. When you think of Cleveland, you only think of LeBron James or Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love. So just to have this group of guys and the depth that we have, … it’s not just one guy or two guys that’s really carrying the load.” “I think that’s what make us so unique, that we can play 15 guys in a game, and everybody will have a big impact,” he continues. “That’s what makes us so different than any other team because we have so much talent and so much depth that we can really push to the end.” -via The Ringer / April 23, 2025