A Cavaliers spokesman confirmed that Love was on the flight.
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The Cavs might be without concussed Kevin Love for Game 3, but they are 7-0 at home in these playoffs – winning by an average of 20.9 points.
Following practice on Tuesday at The Q, where the Cavs will host Game 3 Wednesday night, James declined to embrace his own history or the notion that he must create another out-of-body experience for Cleveland to win.
Since emerging as the NBA’s next superstar, James has had his way with many teams, ending reigns in Boston and Detroit and foiling the plans of other teams that drafted, traded and rebuilt with the express purposes of bringing down the King.
Cleveland Cavaliers’ Kyrie Irving, from left, LeBron James, Dahntay Jones and J.R. Smith sit on the bench during the second half of Game 2 of basketball’s NBA Finals against the Golden State Warriors in Oakland, Calif., Sunday, June 5, 2016. Cleveland can dig halfway out with a victory in Game 3, something each of their last four playoff opponents have managed to do when the Warriors visited for a Game 3. “Now we use these rules these days, we’d still win, because you wouldn’t be allowed to touch me, you wouldn’t be allowed to touch Kobe”, O’Neal said. And the Warriors in turn also said all the things they were supposed to say as well, like knowing there’s a long way to go before they can think about a second consecutive title.
“I’m going to go here, Skip, because it is necessary”. “Our whole message was just one game at a time because they’re up, the pressure’s not on them”. In four games this season, including the two regular-season matchups, the Warriors have held the lead for a staggering 87 percent of the time. While having their names dragged through the mud and everything they accomplished tarnished in the eyes of some, this is the type of trial that pushes players to get better. As usual, Game 2 was a three-point barrage for the Warriors, as they knocked 15 of 33 attempts.
While we don’t believe it’ll be enough, the fact that Love steps up and the team still can’t win just shows exactly how dominant the Warriors are.
Andre Iguodala is hungry in these NBA Finals, and as we know, the biggest stage is when he really loves to take his game to the next level. All we’ve figured out through the first two games is that Tyronn Lue’s team hasn’t figured out how they’re going to be competitive in this series. “We’ve just got to do better at all facets of the game, offensively and defensively, physically and mentally”. Not only did they beat the Cavs in six games in the 2015 Finals, they’ve taken seven straight overall from Cleveland.
He is averaging 16.5 points and 9.4 rebounds in 16 games this postseason. It has to be better than what the Cavaliers have produced in the first two games. “We’ve got to go in with a higher focus than we’ve had”. “More on the physical, it’s a lot of mental positions where you have to figure it out, and they make you pay for it when you don’t”.
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Will it be incumbent upon LeBron to take a paycut to acquire the players necessary to win it all? Golden State is defending him like no other opponent, switching on him relentlessly with same-size forwards and forcing him to shoot terrible percentages while his impotent teammates stand around and helplessly watch the slaughter. “I do everything. I said after Game 2 that I’ve got to play better, but as far as my numbers go, I don’t worry about that”. Through two Finals games, he has made just two shots from downtown.
