Stephen Curry is 1 for 5 with three turnovers, three fouls and two points.
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Tyronn Lue challenged his team prior to Game 3 of the NBA Finals.
CLEVELAND- The Cavaliers are faced with a huge task Wednesday night.
Quicken Loans Arena has been a safe haven for the Cleveland Cavaliers all throughout the postseason, and the team is anxious to make that the case again in the NBA Finals against the Golden State Warriors. Thompson would go on to finish with 10 points in the loss on 4-13 shooting. Irving shook off some monumental struggles in the first two games to score 16 points in the first quarter of Game 3 as the Cavaliers jumped out to a 33-16 lead over the Golden State Warriors.
NBA Most Valuable Player and season scoring leader Stephen Curry managed only two points in the first half and finished with 19 while Harrison Barnes added 18 points and Klay Thompson contributed 10.
Love, who wasn’t on the floor with his teammates when the media was allowed inside at the end of Cleveland’s shootaround, is averaging 16.5 points and a team-leading 9.4 rebounds in 16 post-season games.
The Cavaliers face a 2-0 hole to the defending champion Warriors as the series shifts back to Cleveland, where they are 7-0 during these playoffs.
After getting pounded by Dallas in the first two games and trailing by 13 midway through the fourth quarter of Game 3, Miami pulled off one of the most fantastic turnarounds in National Basketball Association history.
It took 17 minutes of game action for one of the Splash Brothers to make a field goal, a gimmie Stephen Curry lay-up off a broken play – a dish from Draymond Green that nearly felt like he was trying to get his 12th man a bucket in garbage time.
J.R. Smith said: “The leader was looking at us eye-to-eye and telling us to go to work”. Losing Kevin Love definitely hurts, but after the way the Cleveland Cavaliers have performed throughout the first two games of this series, it may not be all that bad for the Cavs to significantly shake up their starting lineup and try to create different matchups.
“I’ve just got to stay ready”, he said before learning Love wouldn’t play. They’re too good to get swept.
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Speculation pins James as being exhausted from six straight NBA Finals appearances and playing more than 100 NBA games per season. “Everyone felt like they were part of tonight’s win”. I’m here to help the team win. Cleveland hasn’t lost or failed to cover a game at QuickenLoans Arena in seven weeks.
