“But I do know both teams are better than last year’s teams”.
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But James said Sunday that Durant has never pushed him, even though his answer seemed to go down that path. You got to come out every night and prove yourself. Our goals were set at the beginning of the season, and that’s to win a championship. This year, he dominated them again scoring almost 30 points per game while shooting 45 percent from the field, 42 percent from the three-point line and dishing out 6.5 assistants in a four game sweep.
Take a look back at the Heat-Sixers recap from the 2011 National Basketball Association playoffs.
He’s 28-6 in two postseasons with Cleveland. But the Celtics’ aging Big 3 was no match for the new crew on the block.
James elected not to talk about the Warriors following the game, choosing instead to celebrate a third straight conference title in Cleveland and his seventh consecutive Finals trip.
“When you’re prepared and you do the best you can do and you put it out there on the floor, you’ve just got to live with the results”, Lue said. “He’d done that before against Detroit and that monster game”.
“It’s going to be very challenging, not only on me mentally, but on our ballclub and on our franchise”, James said of this year’s task. They were on their heels.
The Warriors aren’t going to miss many wide open looks so it will be on Cleveland to shore up its defense and play that much tighter against them.
“I feel good about our chances”, he said. It’s time for Stephen Curry to have an all-time series after an average first Finals and a lackluster second one. Cleveland blitzed, double-teamed and did all it could take away the other team’s offensive threat.
The Dallas Mavericks shocked the Heat with a stellar Game 2 comeback. Which side has the edge heading in to this year’s NBA Finals showdown? On their way to the NBA Finals, Cleveland only lost one game during the NBA Playoffs, coming from the hands of the Boston Celtics in game three of the Eastern Conference Finals. However, when Game 4 rolled around, the Cavaliers managed to break out of their startlingly uncharacteristic slump by winning the game and the following three games to close out the seven-game series with a 4-3 win.
Mercifully, brutally, LeBron James scuttled them three straight times with his brute power and rascal finesse. They’re wearing championship rings, not glass slippers.
“For my name to come up in the discussion with the greatest basketball player of all time, it’s like, ‘Wow.’ I wanted to be Mike, so for my name to come up in any discussion with Michael Jordan or Kareem [Abdul-Jabbar] or all these guys that’s paved the ways for Tristan [Thompson] and Kevin [Love], myself and Swish [Smith], it’s a wow factor”.
“First of all, I don’t get involved in the hype”, James said. I’m not playing his name. While he did put together a couple of decent performances in the Conference Finals, his 14.4 ppg in the playoffs is far below what we would normally expect from Thompson and is a significant drop-off from the 24.2 ppg he averaged during the postseason previous year. At least, this way, we would have some parity in what has otherwise been a predictable season. “We just went out and did what we were supposed to do and took care of business”.
James isn’t anxious about point spreads or any odds.
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Twice now he’d reached the cusp of his ultimate goal, only to be turned back in epic fashion.
