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How Cleveland Cavaliers react in Game 5 will say a lot about team’s character — Terry Pluto Author: Terry Pluto Publication: Cleveland.com
OAKLAND, Calif. — What Cavaliers team will show up for Game 5 of the NBA Finals?
I’m really curious about that.
Will the Cavs play hard and with poise? Will they make a serious attempt to force a Game 6?
Or will Golden State run them out of Oracle Arena, as the Warriors have done to so many teams this season.
That is a legitimate fear. The Cavs can easily decide, “We’re not going to win a title this year, let’s get it over with.”
Other teams have done just that, and been embarrassed. – CLICK HERE to read full story.
LeBron James says Cavs must believe in doing something special vs. Golden State despite 3-1 Finals hole Author: Chris Haynes Publication: Cleveland.com
CLEVELAND, Ohio – The emotional carnage of a wasted opportunity was visible throughout the Cleveland Cavaliers’ locker room in the early hours of Saturday morning.
The Golden State Warriors had just displayed a second-half cool that the home team lacked in Friday night’s 108-97 Game 4 victory. J.R. Smith sat at his locker stall in a daze, looking at nothing in particular. A herd of media members surrounded him. But they might as well have been ghosts — Smith just gazed right through them.
LeBron James, a few stalls over, was fidgety. – CLICK HERE to read full story.
NBA Finals: Behind 3-1, history not on side of Cavs, especially against defending champion Warriors Author: Jason Lloyd Publication: Akron Beacon Journal
CLEVELAND: LeBron James is enough of a basketball historian to appreciate the monumental task facing the Cavaliers. No team has ever rallied from a 3-1 deficit to win the NBA Finals. Perhaps just as daunting, the Cavs must win three in a row against the Golden State Warriors, a team that hasn’t lost three in a row since Nov. 20-23, 2013.
They have played 284 games since then.
“For me as the leader of this team, we’ve just got to get one,” said James, whose streak of 25 consecutive playoff series with a road victory is now in jeopardy. “Let’s get one. We’ve already got to take a flight back home anyways, so we might as well come home with a win and play on our home floor again. Being a confident bunch, we feel like the chips have been stacked up against us all year anyway.” – CLICK HERE to read full story.
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