“When I woke up this morning, there is no easy way. … It was just like, ‘Damn, it’s over with,’ ” Mitchell told Andscape from the
Cavaliers’ practice facility late Tuesday morning. “You just wake up like, ‘Damn, what am I doing? What do you do now?’ You just feel clueless, but not about just the loss. Being swept is always tough. It’s embarrassing, nasty. But it just gets you ready for 19 weeks from now.
“It was a very painful ending. To go out like that, you try to put on a smile and try to move past it. It’ll take a little bit. The worst part about it is just the sweep. We had an opportunity, right? It was right there. I’m saying we go ahead and win the series. Whatever happens, happens. But when you have an opportunity, man, and you watch it go past, that’s killer. And at the end with the 35-, whatever it was, point loss. That s‑‑‑, I don’t really know how else to describe it. But that’s one of the things. It don’t matter all the success we’ve had. Yeah, it’s great. But when you lose like that, it’s tough.”
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