Toronto Raptors All-Star point guard Kyle Lowry missed the team's morning shootaround due to his ankle injury and is a game-time decision for Friday night's Game 3 of the Eastern Conference semifinal series.
"We knew we were coming to a hostile environment, we knew they were going to give us everything they had, no matter who was in the lineup", James said. "We just tried to make it tough on him and weather the storm".
The Raptors, playing without injured point guard Kyle Lowry, led by three points after the first half.
Alas that was not to be and the Raptors wound up on the wrong end of a 115-94 defeat and are now just a game away from a second four-game sweep in the past three years.
The two teams play their Game 4 in Houston on Sunday night.
"When we're getting stops, we're a unsafe team", Cavaliers coach Tyronn Lue said.
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The Raptors took the Cavs to six games in last season's conference finals. No team has come back from a 3-0 deficit to win a series in the National Basketball Association playoffs. Tonight we competed extremely well, but it sucks to get down late in the game. "This year we understood what mindset we had to come in, especially in a rowdy arena like this". Kyrie Irving added 16 points and Kyle Korver chipped in 14 points (4-6 from three).
Despite losing Tony Parker for the season in Game 2, the Spurs duo of LaMarcus Aldridge and Kawhi Leonard scored 26 points each.
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They will need both Lowry and DeRozan at their best.
"The doctors will have something to say about it", Raptors coach Dwane Casey said. Right now, they are doing what they want to do to our defense, and that is unacceptable and we can do better. They shot 2-of-18 overall to the Cavs' 13-of-23 (a 33-point disparity).
Lowry, who battled a lower back injury in the first round, suffered the ankle injury early in the third quarter of Toronto's Game 2 loss. "He was limping badly". "He was in so much pain he just couldn't go". "The medical people know the severity his ankle".
Cory Joseph started for Toronto.
The Raptors missed 11 of their first 12 field-goal attempts in the fourth. "We had different expectations, each and every game was different". Green tweaked his left knee in Game 2 and left for a short time before returning in the fourth quarter.
The Cavs shot 51 per cent and were 13 of 23 from three-point range. And when Brampton, Ont., native Tristan Thompson scored with 5:47 to play, it gave the Cavs a 99-80 lead, much to the dismay of the noisy, white-clad Air Canada Centre crowd that included Gord Downie of the Tragically Hip and rapper Drake.
The Cavaliers had a 49-25 advantage in rebounding.
James also tallied eight rebounds and seven assists as Cleveland look ahead to clinching the series with a win in game four on Sunday in Toronto. Technicals-Toronto defensive three second, Toronto team. Game 4 is Sunday afternoon in Toronto. The fans were all decked in white shirts printed with red maple leafs and they booed LeBron James each time he touched the ball. James bumped the lead to nine points on two free throws with 8:56 to play. The Cavs sent the double-teams anyway, trying to attack Toronto's only unsafe offensive option given Lowry's absence.
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