“I’ve got to try to stay away from it but it’s hard when you have an 11-year-old, 8-year-old and 2-year-old running around”. Heck, even James, who is at.316 from beyond the arc, has made 12 threes. The team has spent the past two days practicing while waiting to see if it will play the Toronto Raptors or Miami Heat in the Eastern Conference finals. We were hopeful past year, too. But start with Bron. He’s just making the right play.
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“We’re finding our way right now”, he added.
Things are good right now for the Cavs. He wanted to replicate his time with the Miami Heat and bring championships to a title-deprived sports town. And for whomever the Cavs would meet if, as most expect, they advance to the NBA Finals.
After holding off the Atlanta Hawks by a score of 100-99 on Sunday to close out the Eastern Conference semifinal series 4-0, Cleveland improved to 8-0 in the playoffs. These guys are learning on the fly, but they are succeeding these pop quizzes.
“I love this city”. Another change was replacing head coach David Blatt with Tyronn Lue but that’s not significant because everyone knows the man who really runs the Cavs show is The Chosen One.
Regardless of the mighty opponent, when Kyrie is killing and Love is percolating and LeBron doesn’t have to do anything other than beast defensively and facilitate and the three-ball is being drained by any number of shooters, Cleveland is as good as any team.
Catchers often make good managers in baseball because they see the entire game from the point-of-attack.
All that talk about Love not being connected with James and others seems silly now, but it was real. “No one steps outside it”.
Kevin Love has doubled-up in all eight games of the postseason – averaging 19.0 points and 13.0 boards per. “Kevin is a great player, I believe a Top 10 player in this league and he knows it”. Ask him about his diet and James won’t share any details-“I’d tell you, but I’d have to kill you.”-but will at least offer up a “maybe” when asked about yoga. That’s what’s been hurting Kevin over this past year and a half, but now we’re using him the right way, he’s comfortable and things are great”. It’s been great for him. “We were tested. I just said before the game, ‘They’re going to throw some punches”.
There is going to come a time when all of those extra games and minutes catch up to James, just as they did for Kobe Bryant over his last three years and for Tim Duncan this season. And when you can lock into a game for a seven-game series, it’s easier to pick up a team’s tendencies and understand what they like to do and things like that. You’re around someone every single day. “No one’s trying to do more than what they can do and the Big Three is doing more than what they should do”.
“Winning trumps everything”, Lue said.
Stephen Curry’s Most Valuable Player award has been weighed in on by a lot of people since Tuesday morning’ announcement. “He definitely deserved it, for sure”.
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“(In) a lot of ways, (it’s) a battle of attrition”, he said of that series. For example, from Wednesday night the league said Kyle Lowry should not have been called for the shooting foul on Dwyane Wade that was whistled with 1:54 left. It’s really a battle of wills between them.
