A repeat NBA title now just 1 win away for Golden State

Love had 11 points and five rebounds off the bench, J.R. Smith scored 10 points and Tristan Thompson finished with 10 points and seven rebounds. “Let’s get one. We’ve already got to take a flight home anyways, we might as well come home with a win and play on our home floor again”.

Off to the fourth, and we are tied at 81, Irving gets to the cup, his miss is is thrown home by LeBron 25 and 13 for the King. We played well. So I just made a decision to stick with RJ. Eventually, they are going to do their thing. A statement announcing the discipline said that Green “made unnecessary contact with a retaliatory swipe of his hand to the groin” of James.

Cleveland, which came in 8-0 at home in the playoffs, went 6:36 without a field goal in the fourth quarter, the kind of scoring drought no team can afford against the potent Warriors. James believes the National Basketball Association will take a look at the play. It wasn’t major, centering on whether a foul should have been called, but it outlined James’ frustration. “That’s the league office”.

More than at any other time in this series, they came together and looked like the Warriors.

It was another story inside the somber home locker room, where the Cavaliers who lingered to speak with the media spoke in hushed tones about Curry’s on-court outburst. And they know it.

Cleveland’s ineptitude was surprising given the way they trampled the Warriors in this building in Wednesday’s Game 3.

After averaging 28 points combined the first three games, the Splash Brothers exploded for 63 in Game 4.

Both players delivered as the Warriors defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers, 108-97, to put themselves on the cusp of another championship. After Green fell to the ground late in the game, James tried stepping over his head, but Green popped up quickly and the two got tangled up. “He’s going to support us as a team the best way he can, even though he’s not going to be on the floor, and we have to go out and get a win for him”.

“No one can really – that’s a bad shot for everyone else in this league, but when you have Steph’s range and handle, we’ll take that shot every day”. Neither was hit with a technical, though, leaving Green still two shy of a mandatory one-game suspension.

That is the hard math facing a Cavaliers’ team-one routed by 15 points and 33 points, respectively, in Games 1 and 2 at Golden State-that looked spent by the end of Friday’s contest.

A big question coming into the game was the status of Kevin Love – and would the Cavaliers start him if he was cleared to play? James also went cold when Golden State pulled away in the beginning of the fourth, although he did finish with 25 points and 13 rebounds.

It’s very tempting for players in the Cavs position to say, “We’ve made The Finals”.

Warriors coach Steve Kerr spoke to Green earlier in the postseason about keeping his emotions in check. Hit a huge 3. With 54.4 seconds left and Cleveland still somehow threatening, Curry hopscotched past a double-team for a give-and-go layup that pushed the lead back to nine.

Harrison Barnes is probably going to command about $20 million per season during his upcoming free-agency process, and it sure wouldn’t hurt if he could go into those negotiations with an NBA Finals MVP on his resume.

Along with Curry’s shooting touch, the Warriors welcomed back a more intense defensive effort. Through the first three games, 38 of the 47 ball screens for Curry were set by the Warriors’ bigs (Draymond Green or their centers).

This is the fait of Cleveland Cavaliers, and we all will, just for now, wonder how much more LeBron has in the tank, AND how much long the Warriors be THIS good.

Before one game previous year, an assistant coach told Kerr that Curry had struggled in warm-ups.

James then tries to rough Curry on an inbounds pass in the final minute – what is that about.