Compare this to the Cavs – 115.2 through the first two games (102.3 during the regular reason).
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Mychal Thompson, Klay’s dad and a member of two of the Lakers’ five championships, agrees with his son’s assessment the Warriors are better.
The Cavs, conversely, are searching for answers after scoring 89 and 77 points to start the series and shooting less than 40 percent in each game.
“All the Warriors have done so far is win the first two games at home, and now they travel to Cleveland for Games 3 and 4”. “They’ll be playing with a sense of desperation, and their fans are going to be really hungry”.
“It’s the NBA Finals, against LeBron James, with Stephen Curry, Draymond Green and their teammates aiming to crown themselves as one of the greatest teams in sports history”. I think they would beat us.
With Love injured for most of last season’s playoffs, Cleveland gave big minutes to Tristan Thompson and Timofey Mozgov.
Instead, moving Love to the bench (or if he misses Game 3 due to injury), sliding LeBron over to the four spot, and inserting another guard like Matthew Dellavedova or Iman Shumpert into lineup would potentially help them in several ways. We couldn’t keep up with them offensively because of the way they could score so quickly.
The Warriors winning Game 3 would all but guarantee another championship for the team, which puts the Cavaliers essentially in “must win” mode.
“We passed a garbage can around the locker room in the old Winnipeg Arena, raising it above our heads like it was the Stanley Cup, everybody was howling”, Kelly Kisio, a center on the 1992-1993 Sharks team, told Frank Seravalli of Canadian TV network TSN. He’s yet to be determined whether he’s going to be able to play.
They took a 133-105 loss to Oklahoma City in Game 3 of the Western Conference Finals on May 22, a 120-108 loss to Portland in Game 3 of the conference semifinals on May 7 and a 97-96 loss to Houston in Game 3 of the first round.
-The 2016 NBA Finals through two games have the second-highest ratings ever, according to overnights released from Nielsen on Monday.
This simply will not cut it. If the Cavs want that ring, they’ll need to bolster The King a lot more than they are right now.
That certainly sounds good, given that James at his best is probably still better than any player in the world. Channing Frye had seven in a game against Atlanta and shot 57.8% from that distance in the Eastern Conference playoffs.
“Just looking for my shot early, penetrate and try to get a couple easy ones just to see the ball go through the net”, Smith said.
He knows the numbers, 28 of the 31 previous teams to lose the first two games of the finals did not recover. “More (angry) than anything”, Cavaliers coach Tyronn Lue said.
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This next topic is fairly self-explanatory. LeBron, almost averaging a triple-double in the Finals at 21 points, 10 rebounds and nine assists, is more isolated than ever. The Cavs’ bench has averaged 20 points a night. The 33-point margin tied six other teams for the seventh-largest in NBA Finals history. If it doesn’t, chances are the Cavs will be swept. That didn’t workout too well for the Cavs, as they were blown off the court by the Warriors in-game two.
