The Cavaliers lost to the Pacers 105-114 on the 14th, and the NBA playoffs were eliminated with 1 win and 4 defeats in the second round.
The first brother of the knight, Mitchell
The Cavaliers, who won 64 wins and 18 defeats in the regular season, ranked the leader in the East, became the fourth team in NBA playoff history to win at least 64 wins in the regular season but failed to break through the second round after being eliminated today, and Mitchell burned the court despite the injury, averaging 34.2 points, 5.8 rebounds, and 3.8 assists per game, which was still not enough to help the team advance, and Mitchell, who averaged 28.3 points in the playoffs in his career and ranked 7th highest in history, has never played in the division finals in his career.
After the game, Mitchell still didn't want to face the fact that he was eliminated, he admitted: "I really can't believe it, I don't want to believe it. We don't believe it, and we don't want to believe it until now." After a first-ever embarrassing record in the series against the Pacers at home, Mitchell said, "I love playing in that place. That energy, those fans. We lost 0-3 at home and let the city down. This place is special, this place is really very special and we messed up. ”
Mitchell said there was a lot to be positive about the team, but it didn't grasp it. "Now we can only turn the loss into motivation because everybody is going to look down on us now."
Despite the frustration of the loss, Mitchell believes the team is not hopeless: "We still have time in this squad and I believe in everyone here and we believe in each other. We didn't show what we were capable of in those five games, and in the end everyone was judged by the results. "All that's time now is to go to the gym, to the retraining room, to adjust your diet, to do whatever you need to do and start over. We will be back. We have failed the city, and we have failed each other. But we'll be back. ”