NBA Twitter Reacts To Thrilling Game 3 Of NBA Finals

KD, who scored 14 points in the fourth quarter, took over down the stretch and hit a dagger three pointer over LeBron James with 45.3 seconds left, setting up Golden State’s 118-113 victory.

Curry’s Warriors, who lost last season’s National Basketball Association finals to the Cleveland Cavaliers after blowing a 3-1 lead, are on the verge of capturing their second title in three seasons.

The top-seeded and undefeated Warriors, who can close out a ideal postseason run on Saturday morning (HK time), boast a slew of weapons, most notably two-time reigning league MVP Stephen Curry and four-time scoring champion Kevin Durant.

The Cleveland Cavaliers gave the Golden State Warriors their best shot, and it still wasn’t enough. “And when I came back here, we built something again”.

Everything’s on hold in the NBA Finals.

Top scorer: Kyrie Irving of the Cleveland Cavaliers. “We missed shots”, he said. “We showed that. We were in attack mode”.

“Obviously it’s working and we have to keep that keyhole mentality of: What’s next?” We shared the ball, we moved the ball and defensively we were physical. The Cavs needed Kyrie to have a monster game for them to have a shot at making this a series and that is exactly what he did.

“Our mindset is to go out there and get one”, James said. They won a championship, and past year it was the greatest regular-season team we had played, probably one of the best postseason teams that everybody’s ever seen as well, but we were just able to overcome that.

No NBA team have ever found their way back after losing the first three games of a best-of-seven series but James was not ready to admit defeat. Game 4 is scheduled for Friday night at Quicken Loans Arena. He is scoreless in the 37 minutes of game time he has collected through the first three games, shooting 0-11, with only four assists and two turnovers (not to mention the air-balled corner three in Game 3).

If Cleveland decides to trade either Love or Thompson to go towards a smaller lineup against the Warriors, then it plays right into the Celtics hands.

In Game 3, Green aroused some concern when he began complaining about a foul call to a referee and Curry did the same. “So we won’t be exhausted because we got adrenaline on our side and we got to act like this is a do-or-die situation”, Thompson said.

“I don’t think there was any concern or thoughts about history”, Kerr said.

“We got an unselfish team who just wants to win”, Thompson said.

Stephen Curry sealed the deal with free throws. “Not going to overreact to one. So I think a lot of guys had that in their mind today, and they came out and played like it”.

Cleveland got everything it could have asked for out of James and Irving, who finished with 39 and 38 respectively. The Celtics have always matched up better with Golden State than with Cleveland. He is, you know, LeBron James. Kyrie Irving was the game’s leading scorer with 40 points and Kevin Love chipped in with 23 points for the Cavs. We’re celebrating on their floor, celebrating in their locker room, quieting their crowd.

And hey, after all, didn’t Jordan pass to guys like current Warriors head coach Steve Kerr in clutch situations?

Later, Warriors center Zaza Pachulia was involved in a pileup of players in the foul lane and he delivered two swipes to Iman Shumpert’s groin area as the referees tried to maintain control.

Irving got going in the second quarter and had 17 points, but he made a critical mistake on defense late in the quarter that gave the Warriors an edge. The champions had 49 points in the first quarter.

Green also made it clear, in a video last summer, that he did not talk to Durant during the 2016 playoffs. They are also on the cusp of an unprecedented flawless postseason in which they have now won 15 matches in a row and not tasted a single defeat.

The price of the Warriors’ postseason efficiency has been great. That broke the record he shared with Los Angeles Lakers legend Magic Johnson. Comedian Kevin Hart and National Football League star Odell Beckham Jr. were among the courtside celebrities. Cleveland shot 26.1 percent in the fourth quarter and missed its last eight shots.

You can hardly second guess him given the effort he got from his team. And that was my barometer. The Warriors previously swept Portland, Utah and San Antonio.

James then recreated everything he saw on the play and said, “I would do the same exact thing”. “I don’t stink anymore.”.

But Lue is still looking for some kind of production from his bench which scored a grand total of 11 points.

Who should the Cavaliers sign in the offseason to bolster the roster for next season? Griffin took over after Chris Grant was sacked in 2014 and has been responsible for overhauling a roster that is the highest paid in the league.

“It didn’t look like it to me”, Durant said.