Every game is unique. A game where the Warriors role players played lights out is not necessarily the game to steal. When a team gets a well rounded performance from their entire team , they are often more deadly than getting 35 from Curry and having a weak bench performance. Basketball is a team sport in that way.
It's not about beating then 4 out of 6 games. all we have to do is win game two, and all of a sudden all of the pressure tilts to he Warriors because then hey lose home court.
The Cavs just have to be more fundamentally sound and I think Ty Lue made some straight rookie mistakes. Luckily, I don't think we were winning tonight no matter what Lue did because Livingston went absolutely bananas.
This game was not the game to steal. Shaun Livingston dropping 20+ is where the stealing ended.
But I saw a few encouraging things++ Kevin Love showed real promise and I think he is super playable in this series even in crunch time. Irving can get to any spot he needs to get to and can draw fouls , and LBJ was able to get to the basket.
The Warriors did a great job shutting JRs water off. He is a big part of the Cavs because he is the key component of our three point barrages. Take him out and our margin for error goes down ,and we have to execute more in he half court . We did an okay job for awhile too. But LeBroj got stripped a few too many times,.Irving took about 5 really bad22 footers. Dellavedova was ineffective and all he ended up doing was rilibg up Iguodala who went on a personal 7-0 run to erase the Cavs lead and lit the Warriors ahead at a modestly comfortable margin and allowed for Livingston to basically pop a shot his way to the Cavs getting outscored 15-0 at a crucial point in the game.
It didn't help that the refs decided to murder our momentum with reviewing a common folk for what felt like 20 minutes, I hated Lue not riding LeBron heavier...I hated Dellys sudden inability to put the ball in the basket because GS is not guarding him at all and we need him to score 10 points efficiently every night if they aren't going to guard him. And I really despised the lineup to start the fourth. We were only down 6 and I think Lue made a fatal mistake. LeBrkn should have been in the game or Love should have been in the game, the pace should have been snail-level until the entire big three was back on the floor, and we should have been playing through the post. Instead we had a weird version of thoae Cavs teams ran by Irving his first few years in the league that consistently sucked and we had that type of lineup trying to erase a six point deficit or at least not let it get out of hand. And they straight got murdered by Livingston and Iguodala.
