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     Saarang Pilla Bewarse Username: Saarang Post Number: 317 Registered: 04-2015 Posted From: 206.29.176.75 Rating: N/A |
Nice summary of last year: 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 LeBron. 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 LeBron to guard Green, and made it easier for Cleveland to switch every Curry-Green pick-and-roll. Curry wasn't 100 percent. The Cavs won, and Golden State swapped out Harrison Barnes for Kevin Durant. |