The 2015 NBA Finals was a much better showing for Curry. LeBron couldn’t when he left Cleveland.
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“He didn’t make the decision he made to go to the finals. Even though I wasn’t here the last couple years, talking and hearing the stories and watching the film kind of transfers me and I feel like I’ve been part of this team”. The Warriors were a pretty consistent under team (53 of 94 games overall) most of the season, but oddsmakers have adapted and the total has gone over in the Warriors’ last five games. The Cavs, on the other hand, lost Kevin Love in the first round and would eventually lose Kyrie Irving in overtime of game one of the NBA Finals.
The Golden State Warriors can take a comfortable 2-0 series lead before heading to OH for game three. Golden State Warriors’ Stephen Curry dribbles during an NBA basketball practice, Wednesday, May 31, 2017, in Oakland, Calif. But the Cavs are 12-1 in the playoffs.
“It’s awesome. Especially since this is Year 14 for me, for this to happen now, this means so much”, Korver said of his first trip to the Finals. The Warriors went at the rim initially before the 3-pointers started to go in during the third quarter. His teams has arguably been an underdog in six of them.
Yet, while we’ve always known the Dubs could put the ball in the bucket in bunch (for the record, Kevin Durant is also averaging 25.2 points per night in the postseason), it’s their defense in these playoffs that has taken the club to the next level.
The Warriors have been licking their wounds all year, and waiting for another opportunity to get a victory over the Cavaliers. But the Warriors came in as significant favorites because of the addition of Durant.
And remember.as I always say, the Cavs have LeBron.
And that, among all other reasons, gives me hope that we can do this again!
The third chapter of the trilogy has seen the Warriors sign superstar free agent forward Durant and again lead the league in wins. They’re 12-0 in the playoffs. His record is 1-6 in openers!
So what do we have to look forward to?
The Warriors were 16 games better than the Cavaliers were in the regular season and have yet to lose a game in the playoffs. Many people prefer Michael Jordan to LeBron. And both of us have been around long enough to know better. The Warriors’ best lineup against the Cavaliers probably has both players on the floor at the same time, with Iguodala on James and Thompson defending Irving, so Thompson said he doesn’t get caught up in whether his shot is falling.
“He looked healthy enough past year”, Durant said.
Strap in, folks, we’ve got ourselves a rubber match.
The Warriors don’t have the best player.
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“Conventional wisdom basically suggests that having dynamic rivalries of great teams is really good for a sport, even if it does leave more cities on the outside looking in”, Robert Boland, director of the sports administration program at Ohio University, told Reuters. But it is just as hard to count LeBron out of any series he plays in, especially with the way Kyrie has played in the past two games. “And hopefully we keep it going, but we fully respect and are aware that this team that we’re playing, they’re the champions and we’re not”, Kerr said.
