Cleveland Cavaliers: Donovan Mitchell — ‘We Have No Choice’ But To Move On From SHOCKING Pacers Loss

Cleveland Cavaliers: Donovan Mitchell — ‘We Have No Choice’ But To Move On From SHOCKING Pacers Loss

What’s up, Chris? Feeling right now in this moment. We got to go get two and Indie. Simple as that. Given everything that went into this game and everything that you put into it and how the against you, backs against the wall, short-handed. How do you process the emotions of the ending with this one? I’m proud of every individual that put up a fight tonight. Um, we’ve shown how deep we are as a team, how great we are as a unit. Um, but yeah, it’s tough losing like that, but we got to find a way to get to an indie. It looked like um you were just putting your body on the line over and over again. Um how’d you come out of it physically and were you pushing through a calf strain tonight? It was said on the TNT broadcast. You were banged up, but we all are. Is what it is. Does it make it harder to know like that. I mean, it’s tough, but that’s what the playoffs are, you know. Now, we got two days. Get ready for Friday. How do you mentally get past this Friday? You ain’t got no choice. I mean, we can sit here and dwell on this and be home in about four or five days, or we can move on and take some things that we did really well and and go from there. Um, I have no doubt everybody in that locker room is ready for Friday. Um, it sucks, stings, but we got to go out there and take care of business. Otherwise, that’s it. But I believe in everybody in the locker room. We believe in each other. Um, we’ll figure it out. that you guys can um I think the biggest thing is we’ve guarded in spurts, but I think it’s tough. We gave up Yeah. 15-point corner that it was 35 34 36 like, you know what I’m saying? You know what I’m saying? So, um our defensive intensity is there. Just got to continue to do it as a group. Um yeah, but we’ll be ready for Friday. Excuse me. Excuse me. Oh, just now. Yeah. I’m about to go home and do that right now to be honest with you. I’m good. So, I assume that is true. I was at the end of No. I’ll be ready for Friday. I know you were in there on the the rebound at the end. Just it looked like I should have grabbed it. I should have grabbed the ball. I should have grabbed it. I was right there. So, that’s on me. I didn’t mean to cut you off, Bar, but I should have grabbed the ball. And then the the charge call they had in the last just what what happened there? I tried to be strong with the ball. Um I knew they were going to trap. I guess I hit him in the head like but I’m not mad at that because I was trying to be strong with the ball. It wasn’t like you know they ripped it out my hands. You know what I mean? That one is just elbows are too high like you know what I’m saying? Just understanding that it’s coming. But yeah, it’s on me and I should have grabbed the rebound. My fault. My bad. Mike 15. Why is it so hard to sustain that level of intensity over the course of um Well, I mean to give Indie credit, they play fast. I mean, I think slower pace would be able to do for sure, but so I think it’s it’s always tough and you know, we we continued to fight, but it’s definitely tough to continue to play at that pace. And um we showed that we’re sustain we can do that. You know what I mean? I think we were what were we up eight seven? um that’s not what lost us the game the end but like I feel like we put ourselves in a good spot um despite giving up those those court those 35 34 36 and that’s what we’ll look at on the film how do we how are we in the gaps can we rebound whatever it is you know not foul like whatever it may be plays in the last minute of the game feel like guys were open to get open I wasn’t really Look at everybody else. I just was trying to go with myself, but couldn’t move, man. But is what it is. We’ll be ready for Friday. You talked about this being a game of momentum. Now, it’s not on your side right now. So, what’s the first thing you guys need to do to swing it back your way? Watch the film and be better and get ready for Friday. I mean, obviously, yeah, everybody can say, “Yeah, we had DJ Ev and Dre out. I’m not going to go there.” Like, you know what I’m saying? I think for us, you know, if they play Friday, great. We definitely lose them. But if they don’t, we got to be ready. Understand that we we’ve shown we can do this. Like, this is um this is a tough loss, but understanding that we’re also up 20, whatever. So, look at it, figure out, make the adjustments, and then go in on Friday and handle business. Okay, after that. Thank you.

Cavaliers’ superstar Donovan Mitchell reacts to Cleveland’s stunning loss after his special 48 point performance. He calls on his teammates to build on the good and get ready for Game 3.

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