In Game 4, the Cavs scored most first-quarter AND first-half points in NBA Finals history. They also have to try and make history again, like they did previous year when they became the first team ever to come back from a 3-1 deficit in the NBA Finals. James, Irving and the rest of the Cavaliers mustered up their best performance of the season. Cleveland will have to win their next three consecutive games. Perry Green and Stephen D. Riley of the AFRO Sports Desk debate this pressing question.
They couldn't do it in this same situation a year ago.
"Last game, in game four, I thought that's who we are".
He has also been the subject of scorn from hoops fans ever since July of previous year, when he left his former team, the Oklahoma City Thunder, to join the Warriors.
The Cavaliers turned the tables in front of the Golden State fans in Game 7 past year, winning the decider 93-89.
So long as money doesn't become an issue, this team should be together for many more seasons to come, and that could become a problem for competitiveness in the National Basketball Association unless more superteams like this one start to emerge. It's two super teams facing off and anything is possible.
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Ananya Vinay never looked all that impressed by any of the words she was given in the finals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee. The 12-year-old from Fresno, California , showed little emotion and didn't take much time as she plowed through word after word.
If you believe one ex-NBA official, we can expect more of the same as the Association attempts to get the series back to Cleveland. "I think if we can kind of duplicate that same thing we did in Game 4, we have a good chance to win in Game 5". They, obviously, can't play like they did in Game 4.
"Yeah, thank God I get to play on Monday", he said.
The Cavaliers are just 3-9 SU and 4-8 ATS in their last 12 road games against the Warriors, per the OddsShark NBA Database. James took over the series and Irving sprinkled in some big shots. They won in a blowout fashion, leading for every minute of the game. Not going to happen in Game 5.
But Draymond Green said Golden State is eager to end this one back in the Bay.
And now the Cleveland coach, Tyronn Lue, hopes that winning formula holds when the play the Warriors tonight in Game 5 of the best-of-seven series for the league championship.
"Once you get into that, then the game starts to become just more fluent". They turned it around and went from down by eight to up by 11, as part of a 21-2 run. That can be scary for the Warriors, who face the pressure to close the series out. The Cavaliers outscored Golden State 72-33 from beyond the arc.
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