Kenny Atkinson said the Cavaliers have momentum after winning their last two games, and he wants to see it travel with them. Speaking to Hunter Patterson, the Cleveland coach said it is hard to stop a team when the momentum is moving its way and that the swing can go back and forth, but he liked the energy his group had found.
“What’s hard to do is stop momentum. … It shifts back and forth, but I do like that we’ve caught this momentum and energy. We’ve gotta bring it forward, we’ve gotta carry it over to the road,” Atkinson said.
The comment came after Cleveland had strung together two wins, giving the team a brief run of form at a point when every game can change the feel of a trip. For Atkinson, the next step was clear: the Cavaliers had to take what they built at home and keep it alive away from it, where momentum is harder to hold and easier to lose.
That is the tension in any short winning streak. Two games can lift a room, but they do not guarantee the next one. Atkinson’s point was not that Cleveland had solved anything, only that the group had earned a little traction and now had to prove it meant something beyond the last final buzzer.
The Cavaliers were expected to carry that momentum onto the road, making the next stretch a test of whether their recent energy was a temporary surge or something more durable. For now, Atkinson’s message was simple: keep it moving, and do not let it stop when the schedule changes.
