The over/under for Game 3 has been set at 205 points.
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Teams that have fallen behind 2-0 in the NBA Finals have rallied to win 9.7 percent of the time, with three of them getting it done in 31 past opportunities.
Losing on Wednesday would be a devastating blow to their hopes of delivering Cleveland’s first pro sports championship in 52 years since no team in National Basketball Association playoff history has ever come back from a 0-3 deficit to win four in a row. James smothered Curry at halfcourt to get a steal, pushed it ahead to Irving for a give-and-go, then finished it off with an alley-oop dunk from well above the rim. “We look forward to playing in front of our fans and trying to continue our streak at home”. Frye has played a total of about 10 minutes through the first two games, although Lue reiterated again Wednesday he needs to get Frye more involved. It’s a hard job to stay ready and sometimes not play.
With him, the negativity that surrounds him, honestly, to me, I think is so unjust and so unfair.
And no one has ever come back in an National Basketball Association series from 3-0 down, either. Which Golden State did in the second half to cut the lead to eight at the half.
Golden State worries about matching Cleveland’s intensity, especially early. We were able to switch pick-and-rolls and things like that. “When we get chances on the break to convert, we’ve got to convert”. Against the Warriors, he’s 3-for-9 from the field overall, 2-for-7 on 3-pointers and averaging 4.0 points while playing 35 minutes a game. “But you have to have a collective mindset that we know they’re going to make adjustments”. “Just didn’t go out and execute the way I wanted to”.
Six, the Warriors have looked unquestionably very bad several times this season. If Cleveland goes down 0-3 to Golden State on Wednesday evening, you may as well just hand the trophy over to Steph Curry and company for the second straight season, because this thing will end in a sweep.
“He did not start the game well”, Kerr said. “After that, everyone will adjust and be fine”.
Cavs coach Tyronn Lue started Richard Jefferson at small forward in place of Kevin Love, who sat out due to a concussion. With the Cavs already down 2-0 in this series, it wouldn’t be a surprise at all to see general manager David Griffin shake the roster up, and one of those moves could come in the form of a Love trade. “We can always make a quick substitution”. “Myself and Kyrie and hopefully Kevin, we can attract some more defenders and get some bodies off some of our shooters”. Down by 20 at one point in the opening quarter, the Warriors never fully recovered and lost to the Cleveland Cavaliers 120-90 on Wednesday night. They could stop trapping so aggressively against Curry and Klay Thompson.
“We just expect Cleveland to play well regardless of which individual players we’re talking about”, Kerr said.
“From a team perspective for them I don’t know how much it’ll change the play-calling and whatnot”.
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Irving says the key is fighting back from the Warriors scoring runs that have proven too much for Cleveland to overcome.
