AMEN TO THAT! GO CAVS!

And big time props to the Raptors team and their fans! True sportsmanship was on display at the end of the game last night and it was refreshing to see.

"Game 5 he quit."

During the playoffs last year...and I'm 99% sure this was the Finals...Love was on the bench and he was ENGROSSED. It was obvious how much he wanted to be on the very top, pinnacle stage. I knew that he'd come back to the Cavs for the current season for a chance to play in the Finals.

Call me cynical and not sold on the Cavs yet, but the Warriors have lost every Game 3 of the Playoffs so far this year and lost two of four last year. It's what they do. Plus the Cavs had all of the emotion and "gotta win now" attitude behind them. You could tell the crowd was desperate for a win.

If the Cavs win Game 4, which should be a good one, I might start believing. They still have a lot of glaring holes that need to be plugged to beat the Warriors. They are no where near as athletic as the Thunder and don't have the guards to keep up with everything Golden State is going to throw at them.

And the bench is still a huge question mark. Even in the blowout last night, the bench didn't score until the 4th quarter. You can get away with that when JR, LeBron and Kyrie combine for 82 points. That's not going to happen every night.

But yeah, that LeBron fellow is OK I guess.

That movement you mentioned is why the Warriors are so fun to watch. Once Steph and Klay start hitting, the movement is something to behold because it opens up a realm of options.

The Cavs are getting the hang of it defensively...but so did the Thunder for seven games they still lost. That's a little piece of a large puzzle in beating this team.

Lue blew game 4. Trying to compete with them at small ball--really?

And, yet, we were reasonably close.

How to beat them. POUND THEM ON THE BOARDS. Gets us 2nd chance points on put backs or 2nd chances to run our O on a trip down the floor, re-setting with a signif chance of them not in ideal defensive position. When their D is set and it's a small ball game and we go isolation ball with 3-4 guys standing around, we are so easy to guard and unmotivated to hustle/rebound; we cannot win that game..just can't.

Them having to try to stop us on the boards will exhaust them an make them less able to run and to get to their set offense...which set offense murders us when it's smalls vs. smalls.

At all times we need 2 to 4 of the following on the floor: LeBron, Thompson, Love, Mozgov. This will also give us better D in the last 3-4 feet to the rim, a KEY area that they attack with passes and drives when anyone tries to shut down their longball game. Our D at the rim was key to winning game 3.

I'm much more confident down 1-3 than I was down 0-2.

If we don't go big, we have no chance at all. That's clear. So, why not try the strategy that's worked?

I know that it's still a long shot. But if we win on Monday, I like our chances.

More..well, you know what I think of you (as does everyone who knows you), attacking me rather than responding in any way to my quite specific analysis.

Of course, who'd have expected anything else.

When you post, everyone's future is dimmed.

Thank you.

Can't expect LeBron and Kyrie to go something like 33 for 54 between them again.

Green, as much of a putz as he is, is a terrific defender such that it won't be nearly as easy for us in game 6.

What game 5 was about was making them play our game, making them defend the torrid Lebron/Kyrie combo.

That's what pounding them on the boards--Mozgov is about: making them play our way such that they're not so on balance on offense.

Can't imagine that Bogut will be fit to play over the next week--another reason to pound them on the boards inside, another reason they'll be less able to stop that thrust.

Make them play our game.

Game #6 41, 11, 8,

Mighty impressive numbers!

Game 7.

LeBron's late run down to block Iguodala's lay-up is immortal.