The Warriors are halfway there, holding a 2-0 lead against the underdog Cavs as the series shifts to Cleveland for Game 3 on Wednesday. He is averaging 9 assists per game, which leads his team and is the third most amongst players who participated in the playoffs.
Advertisement
“This is the beauty of this team and the luxury that we have of having multiple big-time scorers”, Kerr said. “So we’re used to that”. “We have to be prepared for that”. “It’s best when we’re communicating with each other about what we see on the floor consistently”. The Cavaliers rolled the dice and put Rodney Hood into the series, and got 15 points from him.
The Slim Reaper’s last trey with 49.8 seconds left proved to be the dagger that pierced the Cavs’ hearts after it gave the Warriors a 106-100 lead.
“I don’t know why people keep wanting to pick battles this way”. “I don’t like the mood that I’m in right now”. The over is 2-0 so far in this series.
“That margin for error is so little, so thin against them, I think in some cases you have to be ideal”, Love said. “So I don’t feel good about it”. “Top two best players in our league”, said Cavaliers head coach Tyronn Lue.
Hood is 25 and 6-foot-8 who can score off the dribble in catch-and-shoot situations and can switch on defence. He converted only three of his 16 attempts from the field – and one of 10 in 3-pointers – for 11 total points, and unlike Games 1 and 2, wasn’t terribly effective attacking off the bounce. They play free, without much angst when things don’t go well, adding to what James called “the level of stress” for opponents.
“We had our chances”, James said. But we should probably go back to Kevin Durant, shouldn’t we?
Curry and his fellow Splash Bro, Klay Thompson, are now tied for the most three-pointers made in a single postseason at 98, a record that will likely stand for a very long time (unless one of the two breaks it themselves). “The last two years I’ve been playing alongside Kevin Durant”.
Durant and Curry combined for 114 points in Games 1 and 2.
Then came the expected third quarter Warriors run – up-tempo play, some threes raining down, the layup line continued, and the Warriors had an 11-point third quarter lead at one point that shrunk to eight by the end of the quarter, but that was enough to have the Warriors up 83-81.
Iguodala hasn’t played since May 20, the night he banged into Houston’s James Harden and bruised a bone in his left knee.
Officiating in this year’s NBA Finals has received some attention, especially after Game 1.
Advertisement
Will Golden State take a significant step toward locking up its third title in four years? I think everybody gets excited for the small parts of the game, and Steph is one of those guys that just brings that joy. We know coming on the road, it will be tougher. “But we’ve got to come out and got to play 48 minutes”.
