They will now try to respond in Monday’s Game 4 from Toronto. Cleveland has shot 86 free throws, Toronto 51. “We don’t need them to score every play, we just need them to play well. both of them were playing great and the outcome was completely different”, Scola said. “The same foul on one end has got to be the same foul on the other”. “I think even more when you have two All Stars with you”, said LeBron James when asked about how his supporting stars have made it easier for him throughout the postseason. The Lakers did it in 1989 and again in 2001.
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“Everybody thought we were going to be swept and I think that fuels us”, coach Dwane Casey said.
The Raptors scored the first five points of the fourth quarter to go up by 15.
“It was wonderful, honestly”, DeRozan said-. “He was big time tonight”. J.R. Smith added 22 for Cleveland while Kyrie Irving had 13 and Channing Frye 11. LeBron James also moves to fourth place in the NBA All-Time Playoff scoring list via this performance, going past four-time NBA champion Shaquille O’Neal. “So to have a coach that’s kind of that counterbalance of, ‘Hey, everything is going to be all right, we’re fine.’ But at the same point in time, he’s intense”. We’re going to see how they react to a bad game, to a team that outplayed them, to a team that played with more effort and more energy. They were more active. With their backs against the wall, the Raps came out firing, winning the first quarter, which was the very first quarter they won this series.
“Those guys will be better”, James pledged.
Joseph’s pull-up jumper with 1:38 to play restored Toronto’s 14-point lead. “I didn’t know from my own teammate”, James said.
DeMar DeRozan has taken a lot of flack throughout these playoffs, but when the Raptors have needed him the most, he has delivered. “We’ve just got to be better [Monday], which we will be”. Then, Thompson flung his arm back that caught James in the face.
But Koepka was bogey-free the rest of the day and took the lead with a 20-foot birdie at the hard 405-yard 14th hole. “They miss shots that are wide open, they miss layups that are wide open”.
Biyombo went down in pain at the end of the game after taking a knock below the belt.
It is awesome how easily Biyombo makes that look, jogging through traffic before getting airborne with ideal timing to avoid the goaltending call. “On the boards, blocking shots, just being a nuisance…” “I didn’t see it”, Lue said of the incident. When you get around the neck, like Biyombo did last night, that’s different.
The Cavaliers only had 8 points in the paint in the first half. Matthew Dellavedova played after suffering a sprained left ankle in Game 2.
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Those 26 rebounds bested the previous Raptors record of 25, set earlier this season by Biyombo himself in a game against the Indiana Pacers.
