The oxygen tank is empty: Cavs need Donovan Mitchell’s heroics just to survive — and sometimes that isn’t enough

The oxygen tank is empty: Cavs need Donovan Mitchell’s heroics just to survive — and sometimes that isn’t enough

Donovan Mitchell's admission that he can't afford bad performances reveals the Cavs' fatal flaw. They've built a team that can only win when their star plays at superhero level

Cavs’ recent slide getting harder to explain away

File photo The Cavaliers are slipping, and Brad Botkin of CBS Sports believes the trend is becoming difficult to ignore. Cleveland has lost six of its last nine games, including Sunday’s overtime defeat to Charlotte in which the Cavs failed to score a single point in the extra session. Botkin noted that going scoreless in an entire overtime period is a rarity, and doing so against one of the league’s weaker defenses only added to the concern. Tw…