2015-2016 NBA playoff edition: Finals - Cavs vs Warriors - Cavs win 4-3
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Curry Ready To Rumble In Cleveland
June 16, 2016 7:18 AM
CLEVELAND (AP) — Stephen Curry has had his shoulder wrapped in this series, been questioned about his level of fatigue, even had his choice of footwear shredded on Twitter.
It hasn’t been the easiest time for the MVP.
He could get the most perfect of endings anyway.
Golden State’s point guard — the two-time reigning MVP who had the most prolific 3-point season in league history by a ridiculously wide margin on his way to a scoring title — has had probably more moments of struggle than many expected in these NBA Finals against the Cleveland Cavaliers. Still, his Warriors are on the cusp of back-to-back titles and could hoist the Larry O’Brien Trophy again with a win in Game 6 on Thursday night.
“Definitely the biggest game,” Curry said. “And I’m ready for it.”
The Warriors can only hope he’s right.
Golden State leads the series 3-2 and can win the title on Cleveland’s home floor for the second straight year — which would probably be plenty sweet for Curry, who was born in nearby Akron, Ohio (as was Cavs’ star LeBron James). He could join a very select club of players who won MVP awards and NBA titles in consecutive seasons, the others on that list being James, Michael Jordan and Bill Russell.
Not bad.
But to get there, Curry and the Warriors still need one more win — and a big night from their best scorer would go a long way toward making that a reality. Even with Draymond Green suspended for Game 5 because of too many flagrant fouls, Golden State still felt it had a chance to close the series out at home on Monday night but succumbed to 41-point barrages from James and Kyrie Irving.
“I don’t want to be a prisoner of the moment and say Game 5 was a direct reflection of who we are as a team and who I am as an individual, as a player, as a leader,” Curry said. “I was out there doing what I was trying to do to help our team win and it didn’t work. So that happens in sports. It happens in our game, and nothing’s going to stop me from coming back and doing what I do to help lead my team in Game 6.”
Curry isn’t exactly looking for a breakout game — he already had a 38-point effort in Game 4, when the Warriors won in Cleveland and grabbed a 3-1 series lead.
But the Cavs have not made this simple.
They’ve held Curry under 50 percent shooting in four of the five games so far, kept him under 20 points in three of them and have essentially forced him into one turnover for every assist (23 assists, 22 turnovers). Everyone knows that the Warriors’ attack is fueled by Curry and Klay Thompson, and Cleveland has frustrated both at times.
“We want to continue to not turn the ball over and stop those guys, Steph and Klay, from just having one of these barrages from the perimeter,” James said. “We also want to try to put pressure on those other guys. Those other guys can beat you as well.”
The Warriors reviewed the Game 5 film on Wednesday morning, and Curry didn’t like a lot of what he saw.
It wasn’t his 8-for-21 shooting, 5 for 14 from 3-point land, that made him cringe. Instead, he noticed tons of slippage in areas where Golden State usually excels, and he knows that if those areas get cleaned up for Game 6, the Warriors could cap a year that already includes an NBA-record 73 regular-season wins with the title they need to make this run truly historic.
“I don’t really worry about the shots that I missed,” Curry said. “Those are ones you live with. … The stuff that kind of bothered me the most is on the offensive end there were certain possessions where we had the right reads and right looks, but passes got deflected because they were a little lazy or we didn’t have a crispness to what we were doing. That was a situation where you felt like you had missed opportunities.”
Game 6 is another opportunity.
He believes he won’t miss this one.
“Yeah, I want to honestly play better and more consistent,” Curry said. “But the situation is right now we’re one game away from winning a second championship, and I personally have 48 minutes to do what I need to do to help my team win.”
Very interesting..the trend is GS.. I feel like the refs are going to be very favorable towards GS because of Green's suspension in game 5.. I also feel like they're saving the refs that are normally favorable to GS for game 7 if it's necessary...that line from Vegas is very suspect though..but hey, the nba might want a game 7
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But remember the first go-around the Spurs should have won that game; they choked up at the free throw line and then Bosh and Allen made unbelievable play at the end of the game but Miami should have lost that game..
It's not just now the refs have been fixing games.. that Sacramento Lakers series was the highest level of fuckery I've ever seen....
Scott Foster
Ken Mauer
Jason Phillps
Alternate: James Capers
Welp we gonna have a game 7 fellas...great for Cavs fans however
Tony Brothers refing next game 7 book it... Cavs losing
Golden State closing tonight book it
I picked GS in 6 at the start of the series so ima go with that...but this is the nba
Cavs to win by 20+
Well looks like there will be a game 7
Dubs by five
That's the biggest fuckery I've seen in professional sports.. period... I couldn't believe what I was seeing... literally in shock. I respect the shit out of all the Kings' players as professionals because I would have beaten the shit out of one of those refs after the game.
I bet they did....
Man one of my old friends was at the big shot game and he hated the Lakers. Grew up a Hawks fan. But he got good seats being in LA with a mentor, and he was a lawyer in the making. He was secretly going for Sacramento but had to jump up with everyone else after that big shot on some LA shit. Said he was crying inside though, lol.
But yeah, that was some bullshit. A lot of times, I'd be like fuck that too.
Folks gonna feel how they feel...dude have a recent history of this shit...
I don't like him not being there because he brings energy and effort. Moufstaywideopen has to realize he's not there for birth control methods or to give physicals, he there just to play basketball...
don't know what games the first one took place in...but this ain't a good look, for green...
The most blatant thing I've ever seen. It was like Stern called them at half-time like "you'll never ref in the NBA again if the Kings win this game"
I was watching that shit like
...it was very disturbing..i couldn't believe it...but Kobe stans won't say shit. .....
Not like the result is a surprise lmaoo