Donovan Mitchell — who took the blame for shooting 0 for 6 in the fourth quarter — conceded “We gotta play free. We’re too tense, all of us,” but ultimately agreed with his coach. “It can be a mental thing, it can be. I’m not gonna speak for everybody else when I say [this] — I don’t feel like it’s that way for us. We just play tense,” he said. “… You can sit here and say, ‘Oh, it’s mental’ — it may feel that way, it damn sure feels that way in the arena. But if we go there, then we’ve already lost the game at that point.”