NBA Finals rematch goes to the defending champs

Curry has also sunk 134 three-pointers, which means he’s now on pace to break his own record for most made in a season (286).

Had he been able to do something miraculous for the side, the result would have been completely different.

In his typical do-it-all fashion, Green finished with 22 points, 15 rebounds and seven assists to help Golden State get out in transition and make the Cavaliers pay when they tried to trap Curry on the perimeter.

“Getting comfortable being uncomfortable”, Warriors backup guard Shaun Livingston said of the low-scoring affair. “You have to knock down some shots against a team like [the Warriors]”.

“Look”, center Andrew Bogut said, “we haven’t played great the last 10 games. No complaints on my part”.

The Cavilers quickly caught up to the Warriors and tied the game five times in the second quarter.

Neither Stephen Curry nor LeBron James delivered a signature performance in a game that never truly opened up in the Warriors’ typical carnival-like fashion. There are other reasons why a guy like LeBron (James) would come out and say that (sort of thing). “We were a little off offensively”. “I didn’t think he could get that much better from past year but I do think he’s gotten considerably better, which is quite a feat when you’re the reigning MVP”.

James scored 25 points and grabbed nine rebounds but the Cavaliers fell to 19-8, 6-7 on the road, and saw their six-game win streak ended by the same team that beat them four games to two in last June’s NBA Finals. He was referring to Curry’s idol status in which kids growing up on the game are trying to emulate his game when they shouldn’t be.

So far this season, Love is averaging 17.5 points per game with 10.6 rebounds per contest, per Fear The Sword.

Interim Warriors head coach Luke Walton, who is likely to soon hand back control of the team to Steve Kerr as his rehabilitation from back surgery nears its conclusion, was somewhat alarmed at the sight of a prized asset leaving the court, but is placing his trust in Curry’s optimistic self-assessment. “What are we, 28-1?”

The Warriors took their lead into third quarter and managed to hold off the Cavilers, preventing them from getting any closer than three points to tying the game. “They are such a huge part of our success”. They actually appeared upbeat in the locker room after the loss and emphasized how this was just one of 82 games on the schedule.

Stephen Curry’s greatness as a basketball player can be measured by his record-setting shooting numbers that are changing the game. The Warriors didn’t play their best basketball, but they played well enough to beat Cleveland.

“We wanted to play a certain way in this gym against this particular team”, Blatt said. One major question entering Christmas was how, exactly, Love might alter the matchup between these two teams after he missed the entire Finals due to injury.

Roughly halfway through the second period of Friday’s NBA Finals rematch, ABC cameras focused on LeBron James waiting near the sidelines as Draymond Green shot a pair of free throws.

The Cavaliers missed four free throws in the final 1:33. “We’ve got to build on it and see where we can go”. “He’s hurting the game”, Jackson said.

–A rematch of the championship series between the Warriors and Cavaliers drew almost 11 million viewers – the most-watched NBA Christmas Day telecast since 2011. He wasn’t good, finishing with 13 points on 4-of-15 shooting in 26 minutes, but neither was anyone else for Cleveland save for Tristan Thompson off the bench.