With another lopsided score, NBA Finals audience down again

Once because they played without poise, composure and a requisite sense of urgency.

This was Kyrie Irving after missing a number of shots he wished he could get back in Game 4: “I just tried a few shots I forced in the fourth quarter that I felt like I had to…”

Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James (L) shoots over Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green (R) during Game 6 of the NBA Finals in Cleveland, Ohio.

“It’s either win the whole thing or bust for us”. I mean, it’s no fun getting second place.

And now they’ll meet one more time for a championship.

One game from delivering long-suffering Cleveland fans their first major sports crown since 1964, the Cavaliers are trying to complete the greatest comeback in NBA Finals history by becoming the first team to rally from a 3-1 deficit for the crown. He even let Curry know how he felt with a little trash-talking after blocking a layup late in Game 6.

It was a meltdown from start to finish.

Within seconds, Curry reached in and appeared to steal the ball from James only to be called for his sixth and final foul.

LeBron James was nothing short of devastating, surviving yet another elimination game and willing the Cleveland Cavaliers to Oakland for an epic winner-take-all Game 7 on Sunday.

“Not at all”, he said. I can’t wait for Sunday. Obviously, Cleveland has played well the last two games and we’ve got to play better. I’m confident we will. Our confidence comes from being defending champions.

It would also be their first National Basketball Association title.

“Well, that had nothing to do with the outcome”. Game 7 is necessary. “He should be upset”, Kerr said.

Kerr harped on the fact Curry is the league MVP. He had to be held back from referee Jason Phillips.

League MVP Stephen Curry, who had 30 points for the Warriors, was ejected for the first time in his career with just over four minutes remaining.

With James on the upswing, the Warriors need their star, Stephen Curry, on a similar path. Instead, the two-time regular season MVP has often looked lost and made plays that, if attempted by anyone else, would be flambeed by National Basketball Association observers.

“I’ve thrown my mouthpiece before”. I was off aim. “Threw it up right where I wanted it to go”. Kerr, the league’s coach of the year, was fined for publicly criticizing officiating after the game, which Cleveland won 115-101 to force a deciding Game 7 in the title series. It’s a physical game.

But the Cavaliers, who got a game-high 41 points from James, managed to hang on for the win and keep alive their hopes at a maiden National Basketball Association championship.

The team immediately fell behind by 20 points after the first quarter and they had to mount daunting comebacks that just weren’t feasible for a road finals game. There’s a lot of talented teams that never got over the hump because one guy maybe didn’t sacrifice as much as he needed to or you might have had a position where your offence wasn’t as useful with the five guys as it should have been.

“We feel like we could have closed it out a long time ago, but here we are”, Warriors guard Klay Thompson told reporters.

“But we’ll make the right corrections and we’ll come back Sunday even better. We can’t be on our heels and (let) them be the aggressor”. Can he build on those gaudy, history-making averages? Now they’ve got to avoid being on the wrong end of history here.