Cavs will be seeing Green for this year’s Game 5

A year ago for Game 5 of the NBA Finals, Golden State general manager Bob Myers sat alongside suspended forward Draymond Green next-door to Oracle Arena in a suite at the Oakland Athletics game. We can’t let him do that again. They added an MVP to a 73-win team after being up 3-1 and then KD was up 3-1.

However, Thompson’s ability to play 13 more minutes in Game 4 than he’d been able to play in the first three games of the series helps prevent James and Love from wearing down banging for rebounds and increases the likelihood they’ll be aggressive and efficient late in the game.

And is that the way you want to get your wins? “You remember what can be, what can happen”. In Game 4, things were different, the Warriors got a taste of their own medicine. Green sat in his vehicle in the parking lot and called Myers, telling him he had to sign Durant.

(B) You believe them capable of playing such a shoddy level of defense for a second consecutive game. I’m stressed out. Keep doing this every year. And look, he hasn’t lost any of the intensity and he hasn’t lost his edge. “So you bring out everything that you have in your arsenal and everything that you work hard for and then leave it all out there on the floor”.

“When I say something, I’ve thought about what I’m going to say before I say it”, Green said. “Because everything I say, I know what I’m saying”. Teams down 0-3 in a best-of-seven series are 0-126 all-time in National Basketball Association history, but the Cavs believe they can overcome the odds once again. “We can’t worry about what happens after the game”, Durant said. “So that wasn’t a good recipe for us to try to get a win and knowing coming into (this next) game that they’re going to try that same game plan”.

This was the closest that the Thunder had gotten to the last round since they reached the Finals back in 2012, and the media didn’t hesitate to put the blame on Durant who came up short during the final three contests.

If the Warriors hope to end this series on Monday night, they’ll need to control the pace and run the floor.

But that was in Cleveland.

“Well, it’s a time to definitely show everything that you’re made of in those moments”, Irving said. But not since 1951 has a team down 3-0 forced a seventh game in the finals. But the scorer recorded a technical foul on Warriors coach Steve Kerr as on Green so when it was discovered, Green was allowed to stay.

Green said the chance to sweep was a distraction more so than the now-ended chance to become the first champion to roll unbeaten through the playoffs. And also perspective and experience.

Jefferson said cavaliers had one goal going into the season and that is winning the championship and failing to win it, will make their season unsuccessful. I don’t see anything amusing or anything to smile about. “But as long as collectively as a group that everyone feels good, then my opportunities will come on breakdowns from their defense and offensively and things that we can be sharper at”. The Cavs needed to break records just to beat the Warriors in Game 4 and I’d love to see them repeat that performance on Monday, but I expect the Warriors to learn from their mistakes and cap off their season with a blowout win at home. However, the Warriors Cavaliers 2017 NBA Finals is not your average 7 game series.

Cleveland Cavaliers guard Kyrie Irving reacts in the first half against the Cleveland Cavaliers in Game 4 of basketball’s NBA Finals in Cleveland, Friday, June 9, 2017.

James rested for the first 97 seconds of the fourth quarter but two quick Warriors’ 3-pointers hastened his return as Golden State surged within 115-104. Although there was some miscommunication between scorers of the game, Draymond Green of the Warriors was not technically fouled twice.