In the two games in Cleveland they've had the provocateur, the wrestling villain. He made that list after getting suspended in Game 4 of last year's NBA Finals. That's up from 12 percent previous year.
"You gotta be better", said Durant, who was at the interview table with Curry on Friday night.
On Friday night, the Cavs turned anger over some comments made by Golden State's motor-mouthed forward Draymond Green into energy and their best performance this season. Winning one series on the road is one thing.
"I was quoted in saying that there was no other option, and that was completely true, and that still stands", Irving said. "We have to come out with some fire and try it get done". We weren't up 3-0 previous year.
"You add, of course, some chatter in there, and that adds some extra motivation", said Kyrie Irving, via ESPN's Dave McMenamin. "I think the last two games we have played Cavaliers basketball", he said.
That postseason perfection is no longer in play might ease pressure ever so slightly.
No team has erased a 3-0 deficit in any series.
LeBron James registered his 19th playoff triple-double (3rd of 2017 postseason) with 31 points on 11-22 (.500) shooting, a team-high tying 10 rebounds, a game-high 11 assists and a steal in 41 minutes. But they still lost, as the Warriors had too many weapons and a well-oiled and honed machine that took advantage of the slightest foibles and mistakes made by the Cavaliers on defence. The series goes back to Oakland for Game 5 on Monday, June 12, 9 p.m. ET on ABC. Every year's different, every playoff series, every game, but we just are a team that never count ourselves out. We shared the ball, we moved the ball and defensively we were physical. Their chippy play on both ends of the floor halted the pace of the game and that is exactly what the Warriors do not need.
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Golden State became the first team in National Basketball Association playoff history to win its first 15 games in a single postseason.
"But last year is last year, this year is this year", Kerr said.
"It's part of the game, I understand that". You know what I'm talking about. But we'll bounce back.
Following the game, Warriors stars Stephen Curry and Kevin Durant took to the media for a press conference. They don't figure to shoot as poorly again at home, nor should the Cavaliers expect to have a 39-point advantage from behind the arc. I'm super proud of those guys, of all my teammates, but more or less those guys coming in and giving us energy, and as well as R.J. coming in and playing huge.
"You can't hold on to it", Klay Thompson said. But they have to do it four straight times to keep the crown that they brought home from California last June.
Green did pick one up in late in the second half of the Cavs' 137-116 Game 4 win, and initially that appeared to be his second of the game, which would result in an automatic ejection.
The unbeaten talk is gone.
"Sixteen-and-one sounds pretty damn good anyway". Forget about that undefeated talk.
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