Cleveland is like an upgraded version of Memphis - slow paced, great defense, physical. We just have better offense. Given what the Warriors had to suffer at the hands of Memphis I would be shocked if they don't fear us.
I think we are basically our own team. I think it's a pretty broad brush to call us basically like Memphis. They were posting both bigs so perhaps we will do something similar with LBJ being defended by Green, I would imagine. If that's the case, we have to have TT do what he did in Game 4: have the ball a little bit more and make good, aggressive decisions, as he might very well be covered by Barnes, who will need help.
I think the best thing to happen to us in G3/G4 was that Shelvin Mack got some burn. Hear me out here! The dude isn't great but he is a threat from 3 and that's something that we didn't have against Chicago or ATL with Rose/Teague. Curry is a whole 'nother problem, and his release is so quick, but Mack at least had the ability to pull up, so that was nice for us to learn a little bit.
One thing that I thought Atlanta did poorly was vary where their screens were coming from. There were so few interior screens or just general funkiness, and we kind of got used to them. Needless to say, GS runs a ton of motion, but we have some very intelligent defenders.
We are going to have to play our asses off and get a little lucky. The Warriors are healthy and they do play great ball. Part of them is just like part of LBJ/KI/Pipe - there's just so many players on the court who can get SCORCHING (piping?) hot and simply take over a game. That's what's so nuts about watching Curry/Klay (and sometimes Green) - they just have that ability, and I know that they respect some of our players for the same reason.
Wow, no way I last 8 days. No way...
