NBA Finals: Potential x-factors for the Cavs and Warriors
Kerr recently reviewed all seven games from 2016, when Golden State squandered a 3-1 lead and missed a repeat championship.
Steve Kerr has yet to decide if he’ll be on the sidelines for Game 1 of the NBA Finals, but admits that his status is up in the air for the Round 3 of the Cavs-Warriors championship battle. He was very good in 2015 when they won the title; he failed to live up to his 2016 regular season – understandably – in the 2016 Finals when he was far from great, but certainly not awful.
Kerr addressed the media because acting head coach Mike Brown was under the weather and did not attend practice.
-Kevin Durant. At some point, the TV debating duo of Jeff Van Gundy and Mark Jackson are bound to take sides on whether the first-year Warrior should opt out of his contract and return to Oklahoma City next season or unpack his bags and settle in. James won his first National Basketball Association title five years ago at Durant’s expense, and now Durant tries to get his first playing against James.
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“I was living those odds”, he said. “But we’re not satsified”.
Defense has been the question for the Cavaliers all season.
But that’s the beauty of a third series: We might get to fix all that.
Golden State notable: The last team to enter the NBA Finals without a loss was the 2001 Los Angeles Lakers.
In 1971, the Warriors moved across San Francisco Bay to Oakland, and changed their geographic name to Golden State to symbolize the entire state of California.
“Right now, he’s not the best player on his team”, Pippen added. “This is what everyone wants to see and this is what we all want to be a part of”. He was the 1st unanimous MVP in league history, led the league in scoring (30.1 ppg), steals (2.1 spg), free throw shooting, and broke all of his 3-point records.
So with all these numbers and more, need we really say how special the 2017 NBA Finals is?
And now, as they’re set to meet for an unprecedented third consecutive year in The Finals beginning June 1 (9 p.m. ET, ABC), we’ll likely once again get to see plenty of what have become two of the NBA’s more familiar offensive attacks.
There’s a four-headed, shot-making, scoreboard-breaking monster out West awaiting LeBron James and the Cavaliers.
“It has nothing to do with passing him in rings, passing him in points, passing him in MVPs”.
“I was happy to just be there”, he said. You can’t go under because it gives LeBron too much room to make a decision-shoot, pass with unimpeded vision, dribble. But you could tell that he was on another level, just his focus, just how much he wanted it, his energy as a kid and then it just continued to grow.
That legacy could use another title.
Lue was asked if it’s more hard to identify who that is on Golden State.
“Everybody’s excited about it, but it’s still kind of business as usual, we’re not finished yet type of attitude, which is great”, Warriors forward Draymond Green said.
It is simple. Regardless if one is superstitious or not, history must not continue to stay the course. We’re still getting better. “It’s the way of the league, and I think the prestige of playing 82 is not what it’s used to be, and this is the way it’s going to be”.
They finished the regular season 67-15 and haven’t been challenged in the playoffs. “It’s a great run – 12-0 is great”.
To begin with, James is confronting millions of fans unlikely to abandon the belief that what they witnessed in their most rabid rooting years is unmatchable.