Donovan Mitchell scored 27 of his game-high 35 points in the first half, helping the Cleveland Cavaliers to defeat the Indiana Pacers 127-117 in Indianapolis on Tuesday.

The Cleveland Cavaliers lost their fifth game of the season. They’re now 33-5 and continue to sit atop the Eastern Conference, but it was a tough setback nonetheless. When asked about that, Donovan Mitchell had some simple explanations as to what went wrong.

It just speaks to our growth,” Mitchell said. “I told everybody after the game, as a unit, we don’t win this game last year. … Everybody that came in did something