Energy, effort, and competing. Those were the three things Donovan Mitchell highlighted as the core reasons for the Cleveland Cavaliers managing to snap their three-game losing streak. Those are also some of the main reasons skeptics have refused to get behind the team as a true title contender.
The Cavaliers have been labeled as soft, both physically and mentally. Their recent string of losses reaffirmed that point so much so that a second-year player needed to call out the squad for its shortcomings in terms of their mindset.
It worked, and the Cavaliers were back in the winner's column, taking advantage of a comfortable Indiana Pacers matchup to do it.