Assuming the Golden State Warriors don’t sweep the Cleveland Cavaliers in the NBA Finals, Game 5 will return to the Oracle Arena on Monday, June 13.
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Thursday night’s Game 1 looked more like an extension of last year’s Finals, with Golden State pummeling the underdogs in the fourth quarter of a 104-89 rout. “We had some opportunities”. “We’ve got to be much better moving the ball, moving bodies”. We were able to get where we wanted to go.
If you’re looking to argue that the Mean Tweets Jimmy Kimmel makes celebrities read have an effect on them, last night may just have provided some proof. Once Steph and Klay are required to show up, it’s going to get uglier.
Considering Cleveland has to win at least one road game in this series, this was clearly a missed opportunity. Barbosa is not some kind of star player who is constantly in the spotlight like Curry, but Barbosa is a proven veteran backup who helped the Warriors take the first game of this championship series. “But we’ve got to play well”.
The Cavaliers are a different team compared to the 2015 NBA Finals that lost to the Warriors. So nothing has really changed. “They have exceeded what they did a year ago”. The Cavaliers were easily outplayed on a night in which Golden State didn’t come close to playing at their highest level.
“It’s not like we have any control over them”, he said. They are going to compete and they are super talented. We’re good.’ Absolutely not. “As soon as you do that and let your guard down, it’s a wrap”.
Love never made it past the first round, separating his shoulder against the Boston Celtics and Irving entered the Finals battered and bruised before bowing out with a broken kneecap in overtime of Game One. “If we can repeat that and take it up another notch, that’s when we’re at our best”.
Iguodala is also the mellowing influence for a club that won an National Basketball Association record 73 games this season but can sometimes push the pace too fast, too long for its own good.
“I think Bob Fitzgerald, our TV guy, calls Andre the adult in the room for us”, Kerr said. “We’re much more experienced”. “When you’re playing against a team this great, you can not make mistakes or you have to limit your mistakes”.
Klay Thompson (right) celebrates with Shaun Livingston during Game 1. He was drafted by the Warriors in 2012 and is in the last year of a four-year rookie contract, earning an annual average of $2.2 million. “We rely on a lot of people”, Kerr told reporters afterwards.
Teams that won at least 65 games during the regular season are 13-2 in Finals openers. Those teams have won Game 2 every single time. “Not anxious about that”, Curry said. He had 23 points, 12 rebounds and a game-high 9 assists. He shot just 7-for-22 from the field, and the Cavaliers made just 38.1 percent as a team.
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James laughed off the notion he spent too long sitting, noting Golden State’s fast-paced scoring attack. Meaning if you got a great shooter in the corner, you might want to influence the ball to go to the wing and, either we’re stunting or we’re X-ing out.
