The second quarter featured more of the same as Cleveland set a Finals record with 86 first-half points.
LeBron James remains confident that his team can bounce back in the Cavs vs Warriors Game 4 after losing the first three games of the NBA Finals 2017.
The Cleveland Cavaliers will live to play another day.
"I think the biggest thing, though, was they brought a level of physicality that we did not match". Kevin Love was three for four on three-pointers in the first. Cleveland shot a awful 27.3 percent and made 12 of 44 shots from distance in a crushing Game 3 loss, but it shot 53.3 (!) percent from beyond the arc Friday and set a new NBA Finals record with 24 made 3-pointers. At best they can tie the 2000-01 Lakers, who went 15-1, when beating the Philadelphia 76ers in five games in the Finals. "Just because 16-0 means we're champs". Irving is a magician when it comes to finding the tiniest of spaces to get to the rim but the fact remains Golden States defence was nothing close to what it had been the first three games of the series. "So we made enough plays tonight to still win the ball game, but they made a couple more".
The Cavaliers scored 137 points in Game 5 on June 9, and the Warriors left Quicken Loans Arena with nearly as many bruises on their battered bodies.
A technical foul on the Warriors and accompanying made free throws helped the Cavs move the lead back to double digits.
Said Warriors head coach Steve Kerr of James and Irving: "They were phenomenal". The Cavaliers' offensive onslaught slowed somewhat in the second half, but not before they could set a Finals record with a whopping 24 3-pointers on 45 attempts. James had a triple-double with 31 points, 10 rebounds and 11 assists.
Kevin Durant scored 35 points but the Warriors could never slow down the Cavs and missed their chance for the NBA's first ideal postseason.
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Despite the 39 and 38 points of LeBron James and Kyrie Irving respectively, the Cavaliers failed to execute in Game 3. These guys got us here and I'm sticking with my guys, not going to change my lineup. They made tough shots, they got it rolling. "We just want a championship and I think we are very capable of finishing ideal".
"I'm not even thinking about that", Durant said yesterday.
They couldn't pull it off against the Cavaliers, though, but they have a chance to clinch the title at home.
Once they get there, though, it will nearly assuredly be a repeat performance of what's on tap this year - a loss to Golden State.
Later, Warriors center Zaza Pachulia was involved in a pileup of players and delivered two swipes to Iman Shumpert's groin area as the referees tried to get control.
The recruitment of Kevin Durant to the Golden State Warriors may have happened sooner than anyone realized. "That's kind of what you want to do, right?"
James sat a grand total of two minutes and 23 seconds Wednesday, and only 34 seconds over the final three quarters.
"We felt great about previous year, up, 3-1", Kerr said.
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