i think GS will probably close out cleveland unless lue smartens up and restricts love's and shump's minutes. doubt it happens though. i thought +5.5 was a gift with draymond out. obviously they can't move the line that much because of a player of draymond's stature but pretty clear he is the heart and soul of that team. btw, what happens if he gets another flagrant? will he be suspended for game 7?
Jefferson was a pretty solid starter in game 3; I don't see why Lue needed to re-insert Love into the starting lineup, healthy or not. Irving / Delly Smith Jefferson / Frye LeBron / Love Thompson / Mozgoz Frye has been pretty terrible in the Finals, so idk about that. Cavs are gonna need someone to match up with Ezeli's quickness and leaping ability, now that Bogut is presumed done for the Finals. Not sure which of Frye / Mozgov is better. Frye can at least lure Ezeli / Green out of the post, when LeBron and Kyrie drive in.
Shumpert is useless shooting the ball but he did have a few good drives and forced Curry to shoot an airball three. He is great defensively.
More pressure is on the Warriors...they're the ones with the all time win record. Losing this series would be an alltime choke!
I honestly don't know why Curry doesn't just chuck 30 shots a game. Especially in a game like this where the only other guy dominating is Thompson. Efficiency is great, but sometimes you just have to chuck.
LMAO yeah Lebron goes 41/16/7 but its all Kyrie. Also we can saw that fundamentally, the Cavs with Lebron and Irving are still the better team than GSW. This isn't really surprising since last year the Cavs gave them a fight with just Lebron, so adding Kyrie and suprisingly Richard Jefferson makes them better. The only problem is they got a **** coach, and they keep playing Kevin Love who has just been exposed as totally useless. This game wouldn't even be this close if only Love didn't get 30 mins of PT, he's just useless out there just put out TT or whoever, Cavs just lucky Green was out so he couldn't take advantage of love's bad D. If Love doesn't get any more PT Cavs can still win this series, unfortunately since we all know Love's still gonna play significant minutes no matter what this series is done. Also this game showed how overrated Klay THompson is. He's a great shooter but his D no where near close to what fanboys are claiming, it's just above average at best like if you gave Kyle Korver's shooting to Courtney Lee you'd have Klay Thompson. Extremely good and worthy of a max contract, but not exactly the best ever.
Sometimes better offense beats great d. Klay played very respectable defense on one of the toughest covers on the Cavs and also played great offensively. To me he is without a doubt the best sg in the league.
Lmao. U must aint seen fry out there lmao. Worst then love. Idk why u think shump is bad. To me jr was playing way to this undisciplined on Steph Curry I would start Shumpert and rj over jr and love. They do that i promise u they win the series
if Curry didn't have Thompson, I don't think he would be half the player he is. Probably more on Irving level.
personally, i would play frye over mozgov to match up with ezeli. we've seen how ibaka made ezeli useless by dragging him out. opening up the floor for lebron and kyrie is more crucial because i doubt they can stop the warriors regardless of who's at the 5. while mozgov may provide more oReb opportunities, i think the cavs would get better shots if frye played, thus leading to higher % and more opportunities anyways. i'd prob have to check some detailed stats but that's how i'd see it
That was one of the best finals performances I've ever seen that LeBron just put on. Besides the great stats, he altered a ton of shots with his defense that won't show on the box score. He should have gotten to the free throw line more than he did. Strange the refs are not giving him a fair shake compared to other stars imo.
Jason Lloyd @JasonLloydABJ Steve Kerr on failing to close out series at home: "I like our position a lot better than theirs." 9:11 PM - 13 Jun 2016
Very obvious how vital DG is for the GSW. His all around productivity and versatility especially on defense is not replaceable or replicable
Omg am i the only guy that see frye as horrible on pick n roll d. To me thompson has been the mvp for his trapping ability n being able to gaurd klay n steph. Im i the only one seeing this. Like i dont thinknu can afford to sit him. He has to play the whole 48. Frye to me is a stiff. Aint sent him play all season but i saw him barely able to move againt the warriors. U should start shump n rj
Thompson does the dirty gritty work, but man he lacks any offensive skills. Makes Terrence Jones look like Karl Malone in the post. RJ has to play over Shump. I would even honestly throw Mo Williams in there from time to time. He is a fighter and can actually score the ball. Kevin Love should seriously consider therapy this off-season. He is going down the Elton Brand path.
On the flip side, Curry and Thompson only need half of such a performance to put this away. Even tonight Warriors were within 6-8 points late in the 4th quarter with them bricking wide open shots. Sorry but the Cavs are a woefully unbalanced team which require legendary hero ball performances from LeBron much like last year and now from Irving to win against the Warriors. Even the Thunder couldn't keep up such performances by Durant and Westbrook.
