The Cavaliers defeated the Pacers 4-0 in their best-of-7 Eastern Conference first-round matchup and will next face the victor between the Toronto Raptors and Milwaukee Bucks.
"When he got that right-to-left crossover, between, that left-to-right crossover, he pulling up on threes off pick-and-rolls with no hesitation, he's getting into the lane", James said.
Westbrook, who gets more touches per game than nearly any other National Basketball Association player and often carries the Thunder on his back, finished with 35 points, 14 rebounds and 14 assists.
All that was the case for stretches of Games 1 and 2, and it was certainly the case in the first half of Game 3, when the Pacers scored 37 points in each of the first two quarters.
Game 4 - The Cavs once again blew a lead (this time 13 points) as the Pacers went up 102-100 with 1:31 left.
"It's real frustrating to continue on losing to the same team or same person", Paul George said of James.
"The Miami game definitely helped because it was a game where I was just trying to be aggressive, go back to kind of playing the way I'm used to", Williams said. Even as recently as game three on Friday saw IN control a game with a 26 point advantage, but just couldn't hold on, leading the way for a Cavaliers comeback performance. He pushed his first-round winning streak to 21 games.
Although the Cavaliers have had plenty of success in the early rounds of the playoffs since James' return, such victories are of little outcome to Smith, who knows what the team's ultimate goal is as the playoffs continue.
Kawhi Leonard locked in a playoff duel with Mike Conley
The 25-year-old scored 43 points to go along with eight rebounds and six steals. "It will never happen twice". The Spurs had tied the game at 108 with a three-pointer by Kawhi Leonard with 12 seconds left.
At the end of one quarter on Sunday, the Pacers were ahead, 24-22. Guard, Kyrie Irving added 28 points for the Cavaliers. They are now up 3-0 in the first-round series against Indiana.
Pacers: George finished with a series-low point total Sunday and was 3 of 9 on 3s after entering the game with a league-high 15 3s in the playoffs. Wilt Chamberlain did it in four consecutive games in 1967.
Isaiah put up 33 points as top seeds the Celtics claimed back-to-back wins over the Bulls in Chicago.
In a series in which the the first three games had all come down to the wire, Sunday's finale was no different, as the Pacers managed to take a 102-100 lead late in the game, sending The Fieldhouse into hysterics. Gerald Green hit four 3-pointers and had 18 points to help the Celtics overcome Jimmy Butler's 33 points.
The best-of-seven series resumes on Wednesday night in Boston. The Clippers never led again after controlling the game for most of the night.
Great teams are victorious in most of their tight contests, while lesser teams typically find a way to lose games they seemingly had a very good chance to win - and these outcomes are no accident. This was James' 10th series sweep, surpassing Tim Duncan (nine) for the most all time.
J.R. Smith did something maybe only J.R. Smith would do in the final seconds of the Cavs' series-clinching win over the Pacers today.
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