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The Cavaliers, especially James and Coach Tyronn Lue, were gracious after Game 2, emphasizing the old playoff cliché that it’s just one game.
James, who was a plus-46 in the game (plus-63 in two games), dished out seven assists and added four rebounds, four steals and three blocked shots, while Kevin Love had 21 points and 12 rebounds and Kyrie Irving 23 points. “When we went back to the locker room, our training staff and doctors got with him”.
“We got our ass kicked”.
Rounding out the starting five, shooting guard J.R. Smith and center Tristan Thompson combined for 16 points in the Game 2 win.
Boston Celtics Game 2 (live stream online and score here) of the Western Conference Finals resumes tonight with the Cavs leading the Eastern Conference series 1-0 in the 2017 NBA Playoffs.
The Cavs scored the most points, and won by the largest margin in a playoff game, in franchise history. Cleveland’s lead eventually climbed to 50. The Cleveland Cavaliers lead the Eastern Conference Finals series 1-0 after defeating the Celtics 117-104 on Wednesday night in Boston. “We didn’t come out with enough energy to start the game off, two games in a row”.
However, the addition of Hayward would obviously help but it alone wouldn’t move the needle enough to where they could come close to looking the Cavs eye-to-eye if the two met again in the postseason next year.
Games 3 and 4 will be Sunday and Tuesday in Cleveland, where the Celtics will fight to regain their pride and stave off elimination. His sister, Chyna, died in a auto crash before the Celtics played the Bulls in the first round.
But against the Celtics, you would think they had a team of Kawhi Leonards or something the way they absolutely stone-walled Boston at every turn.
“It is embarrassing”, guard Avery Bradley said.
Because most lottery picks land on bad teams, hardly any advance this deep into the playoffs. Credit to those guys. We understand that this is a good team.
His status for Game 3 is unknown. I’ve been going to war with these guys all year, so I know everybody else is going to have their A-game as well.
Celtics players said the first step forward is to remain unified and not splinter, despite the dismal performance. (If that can happen, we’re not sure exactly what the injury is yet.) I would not be surprised if Boston shuts Thomas down for the series, likely against his wishes. “We’re getting on that plane to play well”.
“We’ve been in this situation before”.
“The game’s over. We’ve already been embarrassed”.
That’s not the type of team Boston is. But we’ve been in this situation before.
“I’m a guy who lives in the moment”, James said. This league knows what I bring to the table.
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Minutes after the National Basketball Association announced the three finalists for the MVP award – and James wasn’t among them – the Cavaliers star scored 30 points before resting in the fourth quarter.
