Cavs Still Have Hope In NBA Finals Thanks To Record-Setting Performance

James broke Magic Johnson’s Finals record with his ninth career triple double – 31 points, 11 assists and 10 rebounds – and the second of these Finals as he and the Cavs were determined not to allow Golden State to pop champagne in The Q.

The Warriors, leading the series 3-0, needed to win game four to clinch title glory and become the first ever side to go through the entire play-off campaign with a flawless record, but they came up against a Cavs team who were not ready to give up on their dream of retaining their crown.

Before the basketball game turned into a variety show with all sorts of extracurricular shenanigans after halftime, the Cavs played some of the best ball ever played in the championship round to thwart the Warriors’ bid at a flawless 16-0 postseason.

That being said, we’ll have a bunch more coverage coming in approximately an hour, but for now, what do you guys think?

“They brought a level of physicality that we did not match”, Kerr said.

Game 5 tips off in Golden State at 9 p.m. Monday night on ABC.

The Golden State Warriors have a 3-1 series lead in the NBA Finals, and the Cleveland Cavaliers have the best player in the world (sorry, Kevin Durant and Paul Pierce). Draymond Green was ejected upon receiving two technical fouls…until he was un-ejected.

A 41-minute first quarter, which ended with the Cavs up 49-33, was extremely frantic, with Golden State’s Green getting two fouls and the overturned technical as Cleveland attempted a whopping 22 free throws, making 14.

“It’s just do or die”, Irving said.

But he didn’t. That technical had been on Golden State coach Steve Kerr.

And front and centre, as he always is, was LeBron James, considered by many as the best player in the world.

If they find that edge and win one more, no one will fixate on this disastrous Game 4 fiasco. In the first quarter, it was poor defensive rotations that left sharpshooters like Kevin Love, Kyrie Irving and JR Smith open on the perimeter en route to a 16-point deficit. They had an All-Star-Game like 86 points at halftime, and had logged 115 points – more than they’d had in any game this series – through the end of three periods. Of course teams never want to get swept in a series, but the Cavaliers put up the highest scoring quarter in NBA Finals history.

CLEVELAND – The Warriors’ dominance this postseason has left many wondering: Could Golden State beat the greatest teams in National Basketball Association history in a best-of-seven series?

Here are 11 takeaways from the Cavs’ Game 4 win.

Cleveland took Game 3 at home, lost Game 4 and then won the final three games – Game 7 in Oakland – to capture the city’s first sports championship since 1964. But then managing to get 15 games deep into a playoff run and having nothing but W’s across the board makes very little sense. Their seven triples propelled them to a 16-point first quarter lead.

“I think it came from Draymond (Green, a Warriors forward), which is OK, that’s Dray anyway”.

The Cavaliers shot 24-of-45 from 3-point range, setting a record for Finals hoops from beyond the arc and finishing one shy of matching the league’s all-time record. “Double T”, as LeBron likes to call him, was fantastic in Game 4 for the Cavaliers and had his best game of the series.

The game saw seven technicals called, skirmishes, an apparent punch to the groin by Zaza Pachulia to Iman Shumpert that somehow, in this day and age of overzealous replay use avoided punishment. James jumped Michael Jordan (1,176) on the Finals scoring list, and hopped over His Airness (1,463) for the most made free throws in the postseason.

Unfortunately, the game was muddled by some questionable officiating, scuffles on the court, and a minor fight in the stands.