With a win Friday in Cleveland, the Warriors can become the only professional sports team of the big four sports to go 16-0 in a playoff season.
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They’re just not good enough to beat what may be one of the NBA’s best teams ever. Cleveland is in an 0-3 hole, and they haven’t been able to keep the Warriors from scoring like insane once in this series. An avid football fan, he knows how another team with a flawless season under its belt – the 17-0 1972 Miami Dolphins – basks in the historical glory.
“Doing what he is supposed to be doing”, said Irving. (One win) is a step in the right direction. It would be a great piece of history. It wasn’t a goal of ours to start the postseason, but now that’s it’s attainable, we have our eyes set on it.
As for 16-0, Green figures it comes with the territory. Well, maybe they’ve heard some talk… Sort of like scaling Mt. Everest for the first time.
But as Golden State struggled to get past Durant’s Oklahoma City Thunder in the Western Conference finals and then lost to the Cavaliers in the finals, some around the team anxious that Curry was trying to please too many people and was draining himself.
The series also serves as a rubber match for the teams. It’s something ou should push for now just because it means you’re done.
Golden State Warriors forward Kevin Durant faced plenty of backlash previous year when he joined a ready-made title contender but has proven that he is not simply along for the ride as he closes in on a maiden National Basketball Association championship. Golden State won 118-113.
On the back of a Durant masterclass, the Warriors would score the last ten points to turn a deficit into a five-point win during the final minute. “Whether it be a three-pointer that is out in transition or an off-leg shot or something like that that doesn’t look necessarily comfortable, you have to realize that all those guys in that locker room are capable of making those type of shots”. Now Cleveland want to prolong the series while preventing history.
“I didn’t envision anything but just being around good people and getting better every single day”.
LeBron James, Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love are most certainly a “Big Three” – Tragically, these three have rarely been afforded a long stretch playing alongside one another throughout their tenures in Cleveland. LeBron is as well conditioned an athlete as there is on the planet, but he’s human, you can’t ask him to run the offense on one end then guard Kevin Durant/Draymond Green on the other and not see a drop-off. I didn’t have 101 but you get the gist of it. The Warriors were up 3-1 in the best-of-seven series. Not so fast. The Cavs won Game 4 like men. It’s just that when the opportunity to give the ball up to generate an open three-pointer arises, James will go with what stats have proven to be the more efficient shot. “We’re going to keep competing”, Lue said.
The home fans will desperately hope that’s not the case. So 16-0 takes a backseat. Now, do I believe in my heart that I did cost us? He makes the bench deeper and helped the Warriors endure the loss of coach Steve Kerr, who missed most of the playoffs with back problems.
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“You want to get it done”.
