Now the pressure is on Cavs rookie head coach Tyronn Lue to make adjustments.
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“It gives coaches and teams who are smart a way to manage the cap as opposed to thinking, ‘How do I collect superstars?'”
Now, he’s on the court at Oracle Arena all smiles and gearing up for more in Game 2 when he gets his chance.
Trying to speed up against the Warriors sounds a bit like challenging Secretariat to a footrace.
The resounding narrative is that Cleveland took a demoralizing loss directly on the chin and the ramifications could be damning. Draymond Green stole Mo Speights’ minutes to start the second and fourth quarters, chunks of the game where the Warriors tore the Cavs apart.
The Cavaliers walked off the floor after Game 1 knowing that an opportunity was missed.
The run came against the Cleveland bench, which was outscored, 45-10, by the Warrior reserves. But the fact that Curry and Klay combined for just 20 points and the Dubs still won by 15, things aren’t looking great for the Cavs. “But we’re holding the ball and we’re just staring down the defence and we’re staring down the ball, then it can become a problem for us”.
A couple adjustments could be reasonable, but picking up the speed is a risky proposition.
The Warriors led by nine points (52-43) at halftime before the Cavs briefly took the lead in the third quarter. This is the record-setting Warriors and iso-ball is a sigh of relief for them.
He didn’t say what player caused his frustration, but it could have easily been Cavs player. So it’s not exactly a comfortable way for Cleveland to play.
“He looked for openings; he was very aggressive”, Kerr said of Livingston. Up 98-87, Green’s steal of James set up Curry to drain a 27-foot 3-pointer, followed moments later by a long Thompson 3. The Cavs did not look like the run-and-gun team that cruised against three overmatched Eastern Conference opponents.
Lue mixed and matched every combination possible, but it didn’t matter.
“When you see a guy down, you make sure you pick him up and when you see a guy up make sure you keep him level-headed because, you never know what’s going to be next in this game”, Marreese Speights said Friday.
Surviving that crucible ” coming back from a 3-1 deficit ” only served to embolden a team that needed no such emboldening. So I’m one of the lower guys on the totem pole, so I just do my job. “Now we have to take advantage of it, getting to our spots, getting to our spacing, and take advantage of the junked-up defense”. They shot 35 percent in the first half, including 4-of-13 from beyond the arc.
Golden State’s depth was on display throughout the first two periods, with Curry and Thompson not among the top scorers. Why not slow things down and try to get a junked-up defense consistently? And, you know, this was a unusual game for us.
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It’s not like the Warriors’ two starting guards played poorly, they simply didn’t have to do anything to put the Cavs down. I didn’t link the video of his injury for a reason. “We’ve just got to convert”.
