Ryan Lewis. Akron Beacon-Journal, is the only local writer that I have read who has mentioned Donovan Mitchell's three missed free-throws near the end. They were KEY! It was 106-100, Mitchell could have cut it to a one-possession game and HE MISSED THREE FREEBIES!
Donovan Mitchell expended every ounce of energy and played through a hurt ankle, but those three missed free throws will stay on his mind this entire summer...Darius Garland did the same thing down the stretch in a game a month or two ago. It speaks to Cleveland being a "psychologically" fragile team, indeed a psychologically fragile city! "Cleveland is a sensitive city"--1995! It is the perpetual "anxiety" of Cleveland people that infects the players of the sports teams that have Cleveland in their names.
