CLEVELAND — Players and coaches were still dressing and lingering around the arena Monday night when the owner sent the first tremor shivering across the court and into the streets of downtown.“We’re nowhere near where we need to be,” Dan Gilbert wrote on X, and suddenly, anything seems possible.The Cavs have another summer of difficult decisions to make and Gilbert’s tweet perhaps complicates that a bit more. This isn’t nothing. It reminded me of the time Gilbert tweeted during a Cavs rebuild, “When the Cleveland Cavaliers arrive back to the top tier of the NBA we will be a DEFENSIVE 1st team.”Byron Scott was fired two months later. We won’t have to wait two months for action this time.Gilbert didn’t spend $280 million on this roster in payroll and taxes just to get swept in the conference finals by the New York Knicks and get embarrassed by their fans taking over his arena for Game 4. I’ve covered this team for more than 15 years, and I’ve never seen anything like what we witnessed here Monday night, the sheer amount of Knicks fans who infiltrated the seats. Even though it’s the same thing Gilbert did in the second round when he bused more than a thousand Cavs fans up to Detroit, I understand why he’d be aggravated watching this team unravel over these four games. It was a pitiful ending after fighting so hard to get there.The painful truth about how this season ended, where the Cavaliers now stand and what lies ahead is that there is no easy way out. Enough dynamite can make any roster decision possible, but a series of difficult choices has led them to this pressure point — where a major roster pivot will be incredibly difficult.I would love to tell you the Cavs have options and flexibility this summer. I wanted to write that the Cavs’ best path forward is to either trade Donovan Mitchell or acquire a better star to put above him. The reality is that neither of those paths seems plausible.With the payroll at the current level — a second apron team — and a lack of control over many of their own draft picks for the foreseeable future, the Cavs are boxed in a bit. In the macro of these playoffs, Mitchell certainly did not play like someone worthy of a $270 million extension, but that’s exactly what the Cavs are going to put in front of him this summer. Most of the decisions this franchise has made over the last few years have been geared toward acquiescing to Mitchell’s wishes. Firing J.B. Bickerstaff, hiring Kenny Atkinson and acquiring James Harden were all moves that came with his blessing/approval. They aren’t about to turn from him now, particularly after finally breaking through to the conference finals, and Mitchell doesn’t sound like someone looking to move anytime soon.“I love it here,” he said after the Cavs were eliminated Monday night. “I don’t know how else to say it.”