First off, kudos to Mitchell for one of all time great performances. I just checked later parts of that game and he was absolutely carrying Cavs for the entire second half and both OTs, way more so than how Luka carried the Mavs in his historical game. Hard to say which performance is actually better though (1 OT vs 2 OT and Luka had 21 boards..)
However before people get too sad about trading him away, here is one astonishing fact related to that awesome outburst by Mitchell... he scored more points in that game than he has in his previous FOUR GAMES combined.
So his last 5 compared to Lauri:
Mitchell last 5 games - 28.2 PPG (on 43/35/75 shooting), 6.4 APG, 4.6 RPG, BPM -5.8 <-- NOTE this includes the 71/11/8
Lauri last 5 games - 29.4 PPG (on 51/39/97 shooting), 10.4 RPG, BPM +4.0
I'm not arguing Lauri is a better player since he isn't, but rather wanted to point out that Mitchell is still as inconsistent as we know him to be (remember the Mavs series last year and his 40/20/88 shooting splits?). Think about this:
Mitchell has 1 sub 10 point game and 6 additional sub 20 point games this season.
Luka has 1 sub 20 point game this season.