The Cavs took control of the series, but they nearly let it slip through their fingers due to a rare lapse in defensive effort. It's a lesson learned.

Playoff Spida arrived just in time. Behind star guard Donovan Mitchell’s late-game flurry, the top-seeded Cavs avoided a fourth-quarter collapse in Game 2 of their first-round matchup with the eighth-seeded Miami Heat,

Donovan Mitchell scored 17 of his 30 points in the fourth quarter to hold off a vigorous Heat comeback attempt as the Cavs took a 121-112 Game 2 victory.