Warriors are Champions!!

The Golden State Warriors defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers 105-97 in Game 6 of the NBA Finals, and take the series 4-2, and are 2015 NBA Champions. It's the first championship in 40 years for the Bay Area basketball team. It's quite an end to Stephen Curry's MVP season and add a ring to his soon to be crowded mantle.

The Warriors were lead by Finals MVP, Andre Iguodala, who tied for the team lead in scoring with 25 points to go with 5 boards and assists. Curry also had 25 points, 6 rebounds and 8 assists. Draymond Green goes into the record books as one of only a few players in history to have a triple double in a closeout game, 16 points, 11 rebounds & 10 assists. 

Cleveland put up a decent fight but never really got the game close enough to scare the Warriors, who put up a run of threes to break the Cavs back every time they thought they had a chance to close the gap. LeBron James had 32 points, 18 rebounds and 9 assists in the losing effort. He got more contributions from his teammates but it wasn't enough. Timofey Mosgov added 17 points and 12 rebounds, J.R. Smith had 19 points with 5 rebounds and Tristan Thompson grabbed 13 rebounds and had 15 points.

Steve Kerr's adjust to start Iguodala over Andrew Bogut was the turning point of the Finals and shows how tactful Kerr was with his decision always seemingly to out coached David Platt at every turn. Now the focus turns to, can the Warriors repeat. I guess we will have to wait until next year. Once again, this was an amazing NBA playoffs with many exciting games and shots. can't wait til next year.

Game 6 Recap

LeBron wills a Win

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It was another legacy making night for LeBron James. He racked up another triple-double for his postseason career, as well as getting the 95-93 OT win over the Golden State Warriors. The series is now knotted up at 1-1 and headed to Cleveland, where we are all sure the fans will be rocking the Quicken Loans Arena. 

James had a game high 39 points, to go with 16 rebounds, 11 assists, 1 steal and 1 block. Overall, just an unbelievable artsy of basketball. LeBron has dominated both games and inflicts is will on the Golden State defense and keeps taking what they give him and trying to create the rest with his remaining healthy teammates. The only other players for the Cavs to reach double digits were Timofey Mosgov with 17 points and 11 boards, and J.R. Smith who chipped in 13 points. As most people are saying, if James can carry this team of nobodies to the promised land, it could easily be one of the greatest playoff performances ever!

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The Warriors live and die by the jump shot. Many could be claiming that Stephen Curry is choking here in the finals, going 5-for-23 in Game 2 with only 19 points to go with 6 rebounds and 5 assists. My gut says he will have much better games on the road without feeling the pressure from his home crowd. On the flip side of that Klay Thompson lead the Warriors with 34 points on 14-for-28 shooting. This team will not go down without a fight, that's for sure. Just look at what Draymond Green did yesterday, 10 points, 10 rebounds, 2 assists, 5 steals, and 4 blocks. He is without questions an defensive star.Luckily for all of us, with both games going to overtime, my wish of a 7 game series is looking more and more realistic!










Read the Game 2 review here

Warriors Take Game 1 in OT!!

Game 1 lived up to all the hype that had proceeded the game. The Warriors did managed to dominate the overtime session and take a 1-0 over Cleveland. Game 2 is Sunday at 7pm cdt on ABC.

The game started with Cleveland taking early control of the game. You could tell LeBron James (44 pts, 8 reb, 6 ast) was going to try to dominate on the offensive end of the floor to get the Cavs started. You could tell that the Golden State side of the floor was dealing with some nerves. Which they eventually got over.  They benefited from some instant offense from Mo Speights, (8 pts in 8 min), when he entered the game you could feel the momentum swing toward Golden State's side.

The second and third quarters were back and forth. James continued to work the Golden State defense, but they refused to let him try to find any open teammates, they were going to make him take as many shots as he wanted. James and Stephen Curry (26 pts, 4 reb, 8 ast) exchanged shots in the 4th and the tight battle continued until the end, and James had the ball in his hands with a chance to win and couldn't make the shot.

 Kryie Irving (23 pts, 7 reb, 6 ast) He looked like his old self, being very active in transition and creating plays when he could. He didn't look like someone suffering from knee tendinitis. That all changed in overtime after attempting to cut his knee buckled and he was helped off the court and didn't return. Irving is having an MRI on Friday which will tell if there's been any damage inside the knee.

The Warriors tight defense in overtime was the difference, Cleveland didn't score the first 4 minutes of the 5 minute overtime session. This sets up for another exciting game on Sunday, I know where I'll be. Enjoy the game!

Catch the wrap-up of Game 1 Here