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Cleveland Cavaliers. We got here, through meaningless first- round series and embarrassing blowouts and the lamest conference finals ever, and now a lot of people are telling us the hyped endgame will be anticlimactic. Our own Basketball Power Index gives Golden State, a 6. The same system says Golden State has a 6. Cavs in four or five games. The esteemed Kevin Pelton went so far as to calculate the Warriors' odds of completing the first undefeated 1. NBA history. 2. 01. Watch American Muscle Online Full Movie.

NBA Opening Night. On opening night, the Warriors were stunned in Oakland and the Celtics' high hopes took a tumble.• Irving: Hayward injury among worst• Despite gloom, hopeful signs for C's• Hobbled CP3 sees Houston rally • Le. Bron shakes ankle woes in opener• Warriors get rings for 2. The Cavs are 1. 2- 1 in the playoffs with a point differential nearly equal to Golden State's all- time- best figure, and an offense scoring at a ludicrous rate that looks like a typo. As Pelton notes, they compiled that dossier against competition only slightly worse than Golden State's Glass Joes once you consider injuries.

I don't care about the particulars, you don't paste a 5. Le. Bron James is the best player. Kevin Love is playing perhaps the best basketball of his Cleveland tenure, and when he produces like this, the talent gap between Cleveland's Big Three and Golden State's three best players - - Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant, Draymond Green - - isn't insurmountable. This Love can hang defending Zaza Pachulia when the starters match up, and slide over to Andre Iguodala when the Warriors shift Green to center in various Death Lineups - - the only groups that have reliably outscored Cleveland over the past three seasons. Klay Thompson has the edge on Tristan Thompson in the No.

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Cavs really does. The Cavs are healthy. They are trying on defense again. Le. Bron is rested. They are riding a perfectly timed crescendo into an epic trilogy against the juggernaut they've been eying all season.

Iguodala, the key that unlocks Golden State's scariest lineups and its best James bulwark, is 3- of- 2. If Cleveland regresses to somewhere between its current form and its desultory regular- season play, this is a walkover. If the Warriors have another gear in reserve, this is a walkover. Editor's Picks. Zach Lowe reveals what makes Tristan Thompson an elite role player - - from demoralizing offensive boards to his sneaky floater game to his unique sense of self. From prospect projections to the lottery and draft night, ESPN. NBA draft. Zach and ESPN/ABC NBA analyst Jeff Van Gundy do a comprehensive breakdown of every angle of the NBA Finals.

Related. If neither of those things prove true, this is not a walkover. The Cavs have a fighting chance. Cleveland spent the first two games of last year's Finals messing up a switch- heavy scheme with which they were unfamiliar, and overthinking different ways to attack Golden State's impenetrable defense. Some with the Warriors privately remarked those two blowouts felt like regular- season games. By Game 3, the Cavs had the switching thing down well enough to win, and settled on a single, ruthless strategy they could use in every half- court possession: find Curry's man, and have him screen for Le.

Bron. It wore Curry down, mentally and physically. He picked up cheap fouls, and even minor foul trouble to Curry and Green - - one of the league's handsiest defenders - - could flip a game. Some wild stuff happened, of course. Green's suspension, earned after weeks of groin kicks and one foolish body slam, provides an unanswerable what- if. Love's concussion in Game 2 forced Le. Bron to guard Green, and made it easier for Cleveland to switch every Curry- Green pick- and- roll.

Curry wasn't 1. 00 percent. The Cavs won, and Golden State swapped out Harrison Barnes for Kevin Durant. Even so, the terms of engagement feel set. That's what makes this series so exciting: These teams know each other. They understand what is coming, and how to respond, and the responses to the responses. Watch Bearcity 3 Online Free HD here. Now it's about execution, and mettle, and a little bit of luck.

The central question is whether Cleveland's ho- hum defense can get enough stops, because the Cavs are going to score. They will run selectively, just as they did in nearly doubling up Golden State in fast- break points last time around. And when they don't, they are going to pull Curry into uncomfortable situations that require extra help away from Cleveland's long- range snipers. Curry takes pride in his defense.

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He probably wants to guard Kyrie Irving, as he did over the first two- plus games of last year's Finals before the Warriors slid Klay Thompson into that role. I'd bet on Golden State starting with Thompson on Irving. If Cleveland is determined to yank Curry into Le. Bron's orbit, the Warriors will make them use less dangerous wings - - J. R. Smith, Iman Shumpert, Kyle Korver - - to do it.

This is one of the only pick- and- roll combinations the ultra- switchy Warriors don't want to switch. Doing so leaves Curry at Le. Bron's mercy, a runt about to have his lunch box snatched away. They prefer Curry lunge at Le. Bron to cut him off, and then scurry back to Smith: (Yes, Curry is on Irving there. The teams prefer different matchups on defense, and a key in- the- weeds theme will be how they negotiate those cross- matches: Which team is better at finding the proper matchups in the chaos of transition without breaking apart? When Love is stuck defending Green - - because Green will often guard Love on the other end - - can he tread water?

What about Curry when he can't escape Irving? Things get hazier as Golden State switches on defense, and scrambles the matchups even more.)Curry likes to lunge early at Le. Bron, before he even hits the screen - - Curry's way of getting the pain over with.

When Smith sees that, he will abort the pick early, and fly into open space. The Cavs will even have Tristan Thompson nail Curry with a second pick, so that Curry falls hopelessly behind a dangerous shooter unless Thompson's man - - usually a lug - - darts out to help: Even if the hedge- and- recover gambit works, it creates temporary openings. Le. Bron is better than anyone at zipping the ball through those openings. Golden State is better than any team at shrinking those openings, and closing them fast. It is basketball at the highest level.

Delight in every instance of Le. Bron, in predatory mode, sizing up Green's twitchy movements along the back line. Golden State will also duck under picks, and invite Le.

Bron to hoist. His jumper is always an X- factor. When the Cavs generate that switch, the Warriors send extra help toward Curry.

Cleveland is ready for that. The Cavs spy Golden State players sliding into the paint toward Curry, barricade their path back outside with flare screens, and whip the ball to open shooters: That is what Golden State fears most: Le. Bron as distributor. The Warriors may dial back the help a smidgen, and dare Le. Bron to beat them by scoring 4. Have fun with that! They might also explore some gimmicks to spare Curry.

They saw the wacky zone Brad Stevens used to hide Isaiah Thomas in one game against Chicago. Watch Le Charmeur Online (2017) there. The Warriors probably won't go to that extreme - - they know Le. Bron would figure it out fast - - but they will search out chances to switch Curry out of the pick- and- roll if he passes another Golden State player (Klay Thompson here) on his way toward Le. Bron: That isn't foolproof, but it buys time.