NBA Playoffs snack: Donovan Mitchell's 43 Trace Cavs to Game 3 win at Indiana

The Cleveland Cavaliers won the victory in game 3 of their series against the Indiana Pacers behind an outstanding effort by Star Donovan Mitchell.

Mitchell scored 43 points in the victory of 126-104, in which the semi-finals of the Eastern Conference took 2-1 into the game on Sunday.

While Mitchell Cleveland's indictment on Friday evening, he and the Cavaliers were reinforced by returning three important players, including the starter Darius Garland and Evan Mobley. Garland bumped into bad difficulties in the first half, but still scored 10 points, while Mobley 18 was accompanied by its 13 rebounds, four templates, three steals and three blocks.

The Pacers did not enjoy the best start in game 3, which allowed an 11-0 run after the opening tip and found itself by 15 years at the beginning of the quarter.

Indiana gathered from the slow start and briefly took the lead in the second quarter. Star Tyrese Haliburton, who met the 3-winner 3 in the second matchup of the series and fought with only four points in loss.

A complete victory

No wild comebacks and no stars that are missing in action.

Just a complete, brave victory of the Cavs, which urgently needed one.

As The athlete Garland (bricked up Big Toe), Mabley (bricked up ankles) and de'andre Hunter (bricked thumb) all used for game 3. The individual results were mixed, but together they seemed to bring together a team that had to show two difficult losses and questions about two difficult losses and questions throughout the season.

Mobley played like the NBA defensive player of the year and probably an all-NBA selection. The jumping power, the presence in the color, the gate and the ability to run the ground were all of Mobley, which showed practically no effects from the injury that he had to kick on Myles Turner's foot in game 1.

Garland shot 3 of 11 and started four fouls in the first half. He ended with 10 points, seemed to get going again in the third quarter, but returned to the game and started four sales. He hadn't played for more than two weeks and his presence was felt as a ball handler who could handle the Pacers printing.

Hunter shot 2 out of 6 for eight points in 20 minutes. His thumb is still swollen, but without asking him, it is difficult to see whether it was really disturbed by the injury. With regard to Hunter, the greater story is that as a bank player he is part of a reserve unit that is played by the Pacers. Bennedict Mathurin gave Indiana 23 points from the bank and TJ McConnell added 12 points. Ty Jerome is still struggling to Cleveland, and Kenny Atkinson carved some of the usual minutes from Jerome and gave them Sam Merrill.

Otherwise, the Pacers reduced a big deficit to 11 points in the fourth quarter before Mitchell ended their momentum. Mitchell achieved 14 in the fourth quarter and the collapse that this team suffered in game 2.

The Cavs also broke out a 3-2 zone, which the Pacers seemed to frustrate without end-a solid adaptation to the game to Atkinson. – Joe Vardon, Senior NBA writer

Beated back on the glass

After the second game of the series, the Pacers mentioned their need to improve the glass. In game 1 they ended with seven offensive rebounds and in game 2 there were a slight improvement to 11. On Friday evening they were killed again on the offensive glass. In the first half they had two offensive rebounds with four points of the second chance, while Cleveland had 13 offensive rebounds and 21 points of the second chance. In the second half, they only added two offensive rebounds and ended with four points of the second chance). Although it is not the whole difference, it is certainly still a pain point for Indiana that needs and stops all the chances that it can get.

The Pacers also fought from beyond the arch. In the first half, they shot 27.8 percent (5 out of 18) of 3 and missed 3 points at one point 13 in episode, including the last 11 of the first and the first two of the second. The second half was not much better. Indiana made only three out of eight 3-point attempts in the third quarter and ended with nine 3-point attempts from 30 chances. – Shakeia Taylor, Pacer Beat Writer

Fighting star

Three days after drilling the game with the game, which gave the Pacers a 2-0 lead against the Cavs in their second round, Haliburton fought powerfully on Friday evening. The Star Point Guard from Indiana ended with a playoff career low of four points and marked the third time that he scored less than 10 points in the late season. He only shot 2: 8 from the field (25 percent), which was the second lowest brand of his post -season career, and only issued five templates.

Haliburton ended up awkwardly in game 2 on his left wrist, got an X -ray in the middle of the game and returned to the square with heavy wrist before drilling the game winner. He insisted that he was “okay” in training on Thursday, but his wrist was recorded again on Friday, and that could have contributed to his quiet night.

The defeat on Friday was also the first time that the Pacers lost a home playoff game in which Haliburton played. Indiana was previously 9-0 with Haliburton in the line -up, with the only defeats for the home game in the last two years in the final game of the Eastern Conference against the Celtics of the Eastern Conference last season. Boston swept Indiana, but Haliburton had got out the way in the last two games in the Gainbridge Fieldhouse Fieldhouse due to a thigh injury. – James Boyd, Colts Beat Writer

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