Camryn Justice is a reporter at News 5 Cleveland.
CLEVELAND — The Cleveland Cavaliers wrapped up their regular season Sunday with a loss to the Charlotte Hornets, a defeat that locked them into the fourth seed of the NBA playoffs, which in turn sees them scheduled to face the Orlando Magic in the opening round.
"I would say it was more of a ramp-up. It's not something that you can turn on going into the playoffs, you have to play with this kind of energy in the regular season. It's hard to do it for the whole regular season, but like I said, just ramp up to these important games," said center Jarrett Allen.
The Cavs roster has a variety of playoff experience on it. There are players like Strus and Georges Niang who have that experience from their time on other teams, and there are players like Evan Mobley who got their first taste of the playoffs last season in the untimely exit in their matchup with the Knicks.
Niang is working to prepare himself and some of the younger Cavs players for a mindset he said is centralized around intensity. The Cavs know the Magic are going to come out and play hard. Their defensive intensity needs to be both matched by the Cavs' and outdone by an offense the Cavs hope can look like they did earlier in the season when they were playing together and free. Their brand of basketball.
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