{"id":426979,"date":"2025-12-05T17:53:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T17:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/426979\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T17:53:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T17:53:12","slug":"donovan-mitchell-demanding-more-from-the-cavaliers-ahead-of-san-antonio-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/426979\/","title":{"rendered":"Donovan Mitchell demanding more from the Cavaliers ahead of San Antonio clash"},"content":{"rendered":"

Donovan Mitchell is leading the war cry for the Cleveland Cavaliers, who do battle with the San Antonio Spurs tonight (Friday).<\/a><\/p>\n

From second in mid-November to eighth less than a month later, the Cavs are in freefall, having dropped four of their last five and, after a flicker of light in their dominant win over Indiana, found the lights switched off brutally to the Portland Trail Blazers in Cleveland\u2019s last game.<\/p>\n

Mitchell is unhappy but refuses to panic. He knows that things have to change. <\/p>\n

“Right now, we’re not where we want to be, not where we need to be,” said Mitchell, who is fourth in the NBA for points, averaging 30.7 per game.<\/p>\n

“We can’t lose three in a row, have a promising performance against Indiana and then come out and do this.<\/p>\n

“No matter who’s out there, no matter who’s playing, no matter what we’re doing, we all have to have it. But at some point, we’ve got to, as a collective, do it.”<\/p>\n

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Dec 1, 2025; Indianapolis, Indiana, USA; Cleveland Cavaliers guard Donovan Mitchell (45) in the second half against the Indiana Pacers at Gainbridge Fieldhouse. Mandatory Credit: Trevor Ruszkowski-Imagn Images | Trevor Ruszkowski-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, as is customary for the Cavaliers, they have been hit with a plethora of injuries and will go into their clash with the Spurs light on the ground.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Cavs will not have center Jarrett Allen (right finger strain) or three-point marksman Sam Merrill (right hand sprain). <\/p>\n

Darius Garland will also be absent to manage his return from a toe injury, and Tyrese Proctor is out due to personal reasons; the latter also missed the game against the Trail Blazers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“We just have to be better,” Mitchell emphatically said. “I don’t really have another message than that.”<\/p>\n

The Spurs continue their long stretch of games and are getting the job done during a challenging nine-city adventure over an 18-day span.<\/p>\n

They edged out a fierce Orlando Magic side 114-112 on the sixth stop on the trip. They are currently 4-2 on their trek, which has seen them play only one home game – a 126-119 win over the Memphis Grizzlies on Tuesday – between November 21 and December 16.<\/p>\n

The Spurs will be without Victor Wembanyama, who is out due to a calf injury. However, since the Frenchman sat out on November 14, San Antonio has relied a lot more on the 7\u20191\u201d Luke Kornet.<\/p>\n

He is averaging career highs of 7.6 points, 6.0 rebounds, 1.6 blocked shots and 24.9 minutes. Wembanyama is hopeful to return for the NBA Cup quarterfinals on December 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donovan Mitchell is leading the war cry for the Cleveland Cavaliers, who do battle with the San Antonio…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":426980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,7202,7203,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-426979","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-san-antonio","10":"tag-sanantonio","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-tx","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115668243124989254","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}