Mitchell’s displeasure continued after the game, blaming the refs for the loss and saying the league should do something about it:
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Donovan Mitchell just went off on the officials. “We won this game in my opinion … It’s getting fucking ridiculous.” Says the Jazz "continually get screwed” and that the league needs to “do something about this.”
Edit: Here's
more of the quote:
"First off, you know, give the 76ers credit. They played a hard game.
Joel [Embiid] did what he does, and at the end of the day, they're a good team. We competed. But it's tough. It's tough to go out there and see how we fight and compete, and to have a game like that taken from us," Mitchell said following Wednesday night's contest.
"Now, I'm never ever one to blame a ref, to blame an official -- I can say I could have done more -- but this is getting out of hand. There have been games like this that we've won; there have been games like this that we've lost. But this whole refereeing stuff. ... We're nice, we don't complain, like, we don't get frustrated, we fight through things, and the fact that we continually get ... screwed, in a way, by this. You know?"
"We won this game, in my personal opinion. You know?" Mitchell continued. "But like I said, I'm going to give them credit. They won. Whatever. Cool. But it's been a consistent thing, and the question is, 'Can we do it? Can we sustain it? Are we for real No. 1? And, yeah, the hell we are. And it's getting f---ing ridiculous that this is what is happening."