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NBA playoffs: Donovan Mitchell returns to court an hour after the Cavaliers were removed to sit on the bench: “We will be back”

NBA playoffs: Donovan Mitchell returns to court an hour after the Cavaliers were removed to sit on the bench: “We will be back”

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Donovan Mitchell was incredibly emotional compared to the Cleveland Cavaliers season, one of the best in the team history that ended abruptly on Tuesday evening.

The Indiana Pacers stayed late to defeat the Cavaliers in game 5 of the semi-finals of the Eastern Conference, which achieved their 4-1 win, and secured their second trip in a row to the conference final. Mitchell and the Cavaliers, who deserved the top seeds in the conference, let it go home early.

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An hour after the end of the game, Mitchell returned to the pitch to sit on the bench.

“I just couldn't believe it. I didn't want to believe it, I don't want to believe it, still doesn't want to believe it,” said Mitchell. “It's hard. It is difficult to win in this league … We didn't make it, especially at home. That hurts, do you know?”

Mitchell had 35 points and nine rebounds in the final defeat. In the entire series, he scored an average of 34.2 points and fought against an apparent ankle injury in Cleveland's last two games. He left the 5th game 5 shortly after missing the entire second half of game 4 with the same edition on Sunday. The 28-year-old Mitchell signed a contract extension of three years by $ 150 million last summer.

It is difficult to consider a trip to the second round of the playoffs as a failure, but it is easy to see why many see this season as exactly that for Cleveland. After the Cavaliers started the season with 15 victories in a row, they won 64 games in the regular season. This is the second highest in the team history and the third 60-win season of the franchise.

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But the Cavaliers fell completely flat in their series with the Pacers, who won all three games in the Rocket Arena in Ohio, and had little problems winning.

In order to make things worse for Mitchell, he never made it into a conference finale in his career, as Kendrick Perkins from ESPN quickly pointed out on social media. He lost twice in this round with the Utah jazz.

Despite the loss and criticism, which will certainly come in the coming days and weeks, Mitchell does not yet give up hope. Together with team owner Dan Gilbert, he swore back.

“You will write down the F ** K, man. But we will be back,” said Mitchell. “We let the city down, we let each other down. But we will be back.”

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