Donovan Mitchell eager to revive feeling of Cavaliers’ playoffs past: ‘This is why I’m here’

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Donovan Mitchell eager to revive feeling of Cavaliers’ playoffs past: ‘This is why I’m here’
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Saturday's Game 1 against Orlando was a brilliant reminder of what it looks like when Mitchell is rolling in the postseason.

CLEVELAND — At Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse, when the in-game entertainment staff presses play on Phil Collins’ “In The Air Tonight” and the guitar and keyboard and synthesizer roar, minutes before the national anthem is played and the starting lineups are announced, anyone who was inside the arena on June 16, 2016, is instantly whisked back to that moment. Advertisement Game 6. The walls shook. There was a feeling, ahem, in the air, that the Cavs would not be denied their place in history.

His production plummeted, which was concerning not because he was maybe in a bit of a shooting slump, but because he wasn’t play with the type of ferocity and tempo that typically generate offense for himself and his teammates. Advertisement There had been hints over the final week of the regular season that Mitchell was perhaps finally beginning to feel better physically. The production, and the attempts he tried Saturday, seemed to prove it. “This is who I am,” Mitchell said.

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