Fear the Sword

2 days ago | fearthesword.com | Mike Anguilano

Trevor Ruszkowski-Imagn Images Cleveland Cavaliers superstar guard Donovan Mitchell is officially listed as questionable for Tuesday’s do-or-die Game 5 at Rocket Arena according to an official NBA injury report. Mitchell reaggravated the injury during the humiliating blowout to the Indiana Pacers in Game 4. Darius Garland, Evan Mobley, and De’Andre Hunter are not listed on the injury report, indicating that they are good to go.

2 days ago | fearthesword.com | Jackson Flickinger

Trevor Ruszkowski-Imagn Images Nothing is going right for the Cleveland Cavaliers right now. They’re playing awful, they’re injured, and things don’t seem to be getting better any time soon. Shams Charania of ESPN reported on Monday afternoon that Mitchell’s MRI has shown a “reaggravation of an ankle injury.” He’s expected to be a game-time decision for Game 5 on Tuesday in Cleveland. "Donovan Mitchell had an MRI today and he has been diagnosed with a reaggravation of an ankle injury..

2 days ago | fearthesword.com | Mike Anguilano

Trevor Ruszkowski-Imagn Images With their season essentially on the line, the Cleveland Cavaliers imploded in Indiana and were dismantled by the Pacers 129-109. The 20-point loss looks a lot better than what actually happened, which was a 41-point halftime deficit coupled with some of the worst offense any team has displayed on an NBA court this season. There were winners and losers, and a lot of the latter for the Cavs, who now trail 3-1 in the Eastern Conference Semifinals.

3 days ago | fearthesword.com | Jackson Flickinger

Trevor Ruszkowski-Imagn Images INDIANAPOLIS — The Cleveland Cavaliers essentially had their season on the line tonight, but you wouldn’t have known it with the level of aggressiveness and physicality they played with. It’s cliché and usually reductive to say that a team wanted it more. Maybe it is here as well. But it’s difficult to come away from this game with a major conclusion other than that. The Indiana Pacers thoroughly embarrassed the Cavs 129-109.

3 days ago | fearthesword.com | Jackson Flickinger

Photo by Ron Hoskins/NBAE via Getty Images INDIANAPOLIS — Darius Garland paused for 17 seconds when asked postgame why the Cleveland Cavaliers didn’t come out with enough force and match the Indiana Pacers’ physicality in Game 4. “It just didn’t happen tonight,” Garland finally said. It certainly didn’t. Everything that could go wrong, did. The Cavs didn’t make any threes, the Pacers made seemingly every one they took.