With the Cleveland Cavaliers taking Game 4, the NBA Finals shifts back to Oracle Arena in Oakland where the Golden State Warriors will get another opportunity to close out the series to win a title in front of their home crowd. The Warriors are primarily looking to make the Cavs play one-on-one and stay at home on Cleveland's shooters. He might have got frustrated one time.
Draymond Green rarely minces words. Were you playing at 70 per cent? 80? That creates openings for the Cavs.
Irving scored 40 points in the Game 5 win at Golden State a year ago, hit the tiebreaking 3-pointer in the final minute of Game 7 and scored 40 more on Friday, raising his average in those elimination games to 32.5 points per game. Curry averaged 28.5 points in the first three games, shooting 15-of-31 on 3-pointers.
"The team that settled in the quickest was going to be successful the quickest as well", Irving said. The Warrior fans certainly felt they deserved it after what happened in the 2016 Finals. It's on the Warriors to leave them legless and flailing (goat screams in honor of the GOAT James).
Similarly, Love was okay in the first three games. "Not going to overreact to one".
Irving has scored almost seven more points per game in Cavs wins than losses in the past two Finals with the biggest difference being his long-range shooting; he is shooting 27 percent in the six losses and 53 percent in the five wins.
It escalated late in the third after a scramble to the floor for a loose ball led to a jump ball.
The site had two other big sales for the most prime seats in the arena - one pair was sold for $90,000, while another was sold for $82,000. McGee has been the pick-and-roll defender on 13 possessions, according to SportVU.
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If the Cavs score first ...
All that said, the Warriors are in a different situation this time around. In 53 minutes with Green at center, they've allowed just 92. They look at being down 3-1 and recall it didn't prevent them from beating the Warriors three straight times last June to take the championship. They came out there and took it to us.
Late in the second quarter, they ran an off-ball exchange between James and Iman Shumpert, with James setting a screen on Curry. Steph [Curry] didn't really play as well as he wanted to, he didn't shoot as well as he wanted to. Which is it? We find out Monday night, here are three things to watch for in Game 5. #Klay Thompson, who has become one of the best two-way players in the league, has been suffocating Irving on the defensive end, throwing him out of rhythm, as he was held to 24 points in Game 1 and 19 points in Game 2.
The Warriors know better than any team that the Cavaliers don't fold, that they must be folded.
The Cavs' 137 points in Game 4 set a franchise playoff record and was the highest single-game total in a Finals game since the L.A.
If the Warriors lose the tipoff ... Stopping Golden State is a near impossible task, but Cleveland has found some ways to better keep up offensively, which in turn, helps the defense. He scored 38 points in the Game 3 loss before his big Game 4 performance.
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