The Cleveland Cavaliers saw their season opening winning streak hit a baker dozen Wednesday night.
Mitchell play down the stretch he was beating himself up after game for passing out of wide open dunk late in contest tried to chase his first triple double he said he apologized to his teammates for and which he followed up by hitting couple of 3 pointers to officially put the pesky 76ers away.
Mitchell his coaches and teammates were able to laugh about moment it came with stretch fro the All Star guard and night resulted in the Cavaliers keeping hold of their unbeaten start.
Thanks to Donovan Mitchell pouring in 13 of his 23 points in fourth quarter the Cavalier became sixth team in NBA history to win 13 games to start a season by claiming a 114-106 victory over Philadelphia 76ers Joel Embiid, Paul George, Tyrese Maxey.
Mitchell said with a sheepish smile “Its been eight years. I mean if there is any indication was passing up a wide open dunk. That’s out of character it’s not me. That’s why i did not get it. You do not get rewarded for not being yourself”.
“It was a selfish moment We all have those moments but i apologize to Cav fans to my teammates. that’s not me. And that’s why I did not get it because I go do something selfish. It was not selfless like I have been preaching myself”/
“We are just sticking together” said Darius Garland who led Cleveland with 25 points.
“Just taking it game by game. We know we have got a target on our back, so we have got to come in with that aggressiveness and that confidence that we are going to win every game and that what we have been doing. Even though like I said long nights not a lot of sleep, but we have got to stay together and just continue just to be great. That what we are trying to do”.
“The fact that we are 13-0 is great. We could be 9-2. It does not matter to me. I think the biggest thing is how do we continue to build the habits through getting every team best shot on night by night basis”
“It was a selfish moment We all have those moments but I apologize to Cav fans to my teammates Thats not me. And that why i did not get it because i go do something selfish. It was not selfless like I have been preaching myself”.
Mitchell his coaches and his teammates were all able to smile about moment, it came with stretch for All Star guard and night resulted in Cavaliers keeping hold their unbeaten start.
It was not clear would happen as Cleveland struggled against undermanned 76ers team which is 2-10 on season and sits in 14th place in Eastern Conference.
Philadelphia opened the match against Cleveland couple big me, Evan Mobley and Jarrett Allen with fortnite featuring 6 foot 7 Guerschon Yabusele at center and 6-10 rookie Adem Bona backing him up.
76ers managed to hang around thanks to another stellar game from rookie guard Jared McCain who score career high 34 point most by rookie this season.
“We had honest talk at halftime” Cavaliers coach Kenny Atkinson said.
“We show more clips they just were not feeling us They were running where they want to We had no ball pressure. Our energy was low our physicality was not great and these guys they are winning group and they turned it up again”