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“We play that same game in Cleveland, there’s no way we win”, said Kerr. They did it last year, the year before and now again this season. They will be facing elimination.

Golden State is plus-41 this year compared to plus-48 last year and takes a 2-0 series lead back to Cleveland for Game 3 on Wednesday and Game 4 on Friday. “You could tell he knows this is his moment”.

The real problem is that the Warriors simply have too much firepower in crunch-time. I thought our team scrapped and competed.

Game 3 is crucial for Cleveland or the series could get tricky.

“Right now, it means nothing, but it will mean something”, said James. They’re a ideal 15-0, and could become the first National Basketball Association team to go undefeated in the playoffs. This is not a winning formula for the Cavaliers against a lot of teams.

They gave the Warriors their best shot and still lost.

James led the way for Cleveland with 39 points while Kyrie Irving added 38 in an electrifying performance. “Changes the emotion. We’ve been here the last two years and got hammered twice in Game 3 so we now what we are up against”.

The Boston Celtics featured Larry Bird, Robert Parish, Kevin McHale and others in their championship run in 1984 when they beat the Lakers in the Finals. Durant (31 points), Curry (26 points) and Klay Thompson (30 points) combined for 87 points.

“I don’t like the position, but in the same sense I do”, he said. “I can’t be disappointed with the effort and how we played, but they made the plays down the stretch that we didn’t execute defensively or offensively, and they took advantage of it”. That’s a fine idea, and the Cavs’ nine steals were crucial to keeping the game close. He sped up, turbocharged through the Warriors, and sent them The King’s best for a half.

Welcome back to “3 Shots” as we greet you from Quicken Loans Arena for Game 3 of the NBA Finals. “It was maybe our toughest in terms of our ability to just hang in there”.

The cloud is that a year ago the Warriors, who set a single-season record for regular-season victories with 73, went into Cleveland with a 2-0 lead.

After Durant’s free throws made it a three-point game, the Cavaliers had a chance to tie it.

James has only been able to score 12 points and has turned the ball over six times with Durant on him. James got the rebound but he stepped out of bounds. James played all but 2:23 – when he sat the final 1:49 of the first quarter the Cavs went from up three to down seven. For the second straight game, it was Steph Curry and Kevin Durant leading the way for the team from Oakland on Sunday, with Curry coming away with his first career postseason triple-double.