The Pacers’ Rick Carlisle shows 1 key to slowing down Donovan Mitchell after game 3

After Donovan Mitchell and the Cleveland Cavaliers had dropped 2-0 at home in the home courtyard, like the Galactic Empire in game 3 and tore down a 21-point lead into half and stopped this advantage on the way to a win of 126: 104 against the Indiana Pacers.

To his honor, Mitchell has never fought himself in this series, with Utah Jazz Draftee scored an average of 41 points per game in the first three games in the series, but in game 3 he really turned on things and arranged all players on the way to the 22 -point victory.

Asked what he could do to stop bleeding and to limit Mitchell’s dominance in the future, the head coach of Pacers Rick Carlisle broke up the strong game of No. 45 and what his team can do to limit its effectiveness.

“Yes, I mean, he is a great player. We have to make it difficult for him. I don’t know what else to tell you. He is opportunistic; he lives in the free -out line,” said Carlisle. “We have to keep it away from the free -wing line. I mean it is one thing when he takes difficult pictures over a hand; it is a different thing if we march to the free -out line and give him and 1.”

While the idea of ​​slowing down Donovan Mitchell is hard to imagine because he had an absolute tears in the last games and makes free points in the line easier, life makes life easier for him that the Pacers do not want to go forward. No, if Indiana is committed to finding a way to slow down one of the hottest players in the NBA, you have to get Mitchell to collect his points on the hard tour by contesting every place and at the same time playing a good, physical and clean defense every minute that is on the pitch.