2016 NBA Finals: Golden State Warriors vs. Cleveland Cavaliers (3-4)

[Inevitable]

Warriors in 6. Cavs defense will get exposed.

[Matty]

LeBron needs to average 25-8-8 for them to have any chance at beating the Warriors. He can't defer to anybody this time.

Even then I still don't see GSW losing it. One of Thompson and/or Green will have to be non-existent for this to be a legit series.

[raptor jesus]

It'll be interesting to see how the Cavs defend Curry. They don't have the bigs to switch out like the Thunder. Do they make Green beat them on the short roll instead? Either way, I think they are in trouble. Kyrie is the key. Gimme the Dubs, though.

[RapRising]

I say GSW in 6.
4th team to come back from 1-3
too much history, let see who the refs like

[BismackonLebron]

The more I think about it this may be the year where Lebron just absolutely dominates in the finals. He finally has a healthy supporting cast and they are firing on all cylinders. I don't think Iguodala will be able to contain James like he did last year. I fully expect Lebron to take his lunch money and own him.

[RapRising]

I know I am probably in the minority.
But I like Curry and the Warriors over LBJ,
Don't get me wrong I was huge LBJ fan since his hype @ the age of 16.
But over the last 5 year, LBJ creating a super team- in the East first of all.
Instead of actually winning it all organically.

Curry and Westbrook together I think have tarnished LBJ's legacy a bit.

Curry - 61 votes for MvP, only one to improve over 6 pts from the year before MVP win,
the 3 points we know,

Westbrook- the amount of triple doubles, and the way he plays the game, LBJ is normally the biggest player on the court, but Westbrook plays bigger than LBJ,

so losing back to back MVPS
losing the finals last year- i know without his starters, if he was or suppose to be the greatest talent ever, you know.

I think the swag, the confidence of the Warriors is what all good teams need, I mean Spurs are amazing, and I thought BB brought that swag to the Raptors.

I have been watching majority of GSW games and Raptors games, and GSW's coaching and the team chemistry and the understanding of the X and Os of the game and the strategic aspect of the game, is just so amazing.
They turned to crap during this series,but before it was too late, snapped out of it and found a way to win.

PS. When Curry says, I enjoy the moment even more when all the injuries still affect him, is something I would love the leader on the RAptors say- lowry is pretty damn close to curry in that aspect, the leadership.

[smallgains]

The match ups favor GS. Warriors in 5 or 6

[Latrell]

Sharks in 7.

[Susp3ct]

Really torn here. Cant stand the GSW fans and Green, but Cavs eliminated us and cant stand LBJ either.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ddtPkviAPQ&ab_channel=NBA[/youtube]

Fine, a slight edge to the Cavs then.

[BrunoSkull]

Who knows maybe Lebron goes ham

[primopastalove2]

LeBron in 6

[Raptorstorm]

Hoping no corrupt calls by refs..

[TheBatman]

I want Lebron to get another 'ship but I got GSdub in 7.

[knickerbocker2k2]

Warriors in 6. Cavs defense will get exposed.

Cavs were better defensive team than Thunder. What are the Warriors going to do differently than the Thunder series? If you look at how they won, they won with historically shooting from Curry/Klay. I don't know how it gets any better. They beat Cavs last year on the play of their bench going against depleted Cavs bench.

It'll be interesting to see how the Cavs defend Curry. They don't have the bigs to switch out like the Thunder. Do they make Green beat them on the short roll instead? Either way, I think they are in trouble. Kyrie is the key. Gimme the Dubs, though.

I think they put Lebron on Green, and switch any screen action involving those two.

[Stromile12]

gstate in 5

[VinBaker6]

I wanna see how GS guards that death set the Cavs run with their bench and LeBron. We got murdered on that.

[Undefeated]

Will be interesting to see how the Cavs defend Curry on the high pick-&-roll. Last year they trapped Curry and would force Green to try to beat them with floaters while staying home on everyone including Bogut to take away the dump off or lob pass if Bogut's man had to step up to wall off and Green just didn't make enough of them. That's where Iggy came in as a screener since he was capable of making of those shots. But yeah I'm interested to see if the Cavs will stick to the same coverage or switch something up.

[albinorap]

lol @ steve kerr's comment at postgame: "because (steph) he looks like he's 12"

[Yosemite Dan]

Just look at the matchups:

Love on Barns?

Curry vs Irving

Klay vs JR

Lebron vs Iggy.

Dre vs Fry?

If the Cavs play small - they will lose. If they try to out gun the Warriors from the 3 point line - its over.

Well the match up last year looked even worse and the Warriors needed 6 games to win. People are underestimating that LBJ is another head coach out there on the court. The Cavs are the smarter team, the Warriors play only one way and won't adjust to whatever the Cavs throw at them. They are lucky to even be here because Durant and Westbrook imploded and played like crap in games 6 and 7 and GS still barely won. The Cavs will not panic and GS will be exposed even more than they were against OKC.

[SFour]

I like Curry and Lebron but I don't like their teams if that makes sense. Wouldn't mind if Lebron got another ring though.