Andre Iguodala took exception to Matthew Dellavedova’s challenge for the ball, but it’s nowhere near as bad as what Steven Adams had to go through. Iggy’s movement’s going forward, you have some slight contact to the upper leg, groin area, but at the end of the review, the officials said this was not unnecessary.
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But he hasn’t had a good postseason and Iguodala finally supplanted him in the starting lineup for Game 7 of the conference finals.
It turned out to be a key moment late in the third quarter.
After the game, the Warriors were pretty diplomatic.
A postseason of low blows continued Thursday in Game 1 of the NBA Finals.
“I said if we would have swept, they would have been off 10, 11 days and it would have been hard to try to get these guys to do the same defensive drills over and over again, to continue to condition every day”.
Barnes said it was the Cavaliers’ approach previous year of – to nobody’s surprise – focusing their defense on Stephen Curry and Thompson that helped his aggressive approach.
That’s the best highlight of Delly that I could come up with.
That last part is the trickiest for the Warriors, because the salary Durant will command will likely make it really tough for Golden State to keep Iguodala instead of trading him to free up salary cap space.
The Aussie point guard’s fame rose during Cleveland’s run to the NBA Finals past year. I said I was glad we lost two games against Toronto.
James has scored 20 or more points in a career-best 25 straight playoff games, topping his previous mark of 24 in a row from May 12, 2008, to April 25, 2010. “He smacked me in the [expletive]”, teammates heard Iguodala say.
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Kerr stuck with regular starter Harrison Barnes, and he delivered 13 points. Iguodala knocked down a 3-pointer less than 8 seconds later and Golden State took a 74-68 lead into the final 12 minutes and never backed down no matter who played.
