NBA Season 2015 - 2016: Special thread

The Cavaliers' offense has been more dependent on isolation plays during the NBA Finals. They have used isolation plays most this postseason in Games 1 and 2 of the Finals, and they are averaging nearly 12 more isolation plays per 100 possessions in the Finals than they did in the first three rounds.
 
James and Kyrie Irving have led this charge, as James has more than doubled his isolation usage and Irving has almost doubled his.
 
The Warriors have switched on 43 percent of the pick-and-rolls they’ve faced in the NBA Finals. The Pistons, Hawks and Raptors combined to do this 19 percent of the time against the Cavaliers in the first three rounds of the playoffs. Switching frequently can lead to favorable mismatches for the offense, but the Warriors’ defense has benefited most from these switches.
 
The Warriors’ two best individual defenders are Green and Andre Iguodala, with Klay Thompson not far behind. They’ve switched onto the pick-and-roll ball handler more than any other Warriors players, and they're yielding 0.53 points, 0.50 points and 0.80 points respectively per opportunity off a switch (in other words, they're getting stops).
The Cavaliers could avoid this by simply attacking a different defender on pick-and-rolls and picking the more favorable matchups.
 
The Warriors have been switching most frequently (73 percent of the time) when Kevin Love is the screener, and the Cavaliers are averaging the most points per chance with Love as a screener this series (minimum five screens).

However, Love has been the fifth-most-used screener (partly due to his injury in Game 2), trailing even Timofey Mozgov, who has mostly played in garbage time.

The Cavaliers should avoid pick-and-rolls where James is the screener: Cleveland is averaging 0.36 points per chance when the Warriors switch with James as the screener, worst of any player on the team.
 
The Warriors are going to score, but you at least have to make them earn it. If Cleveland continues to give them 20 points per game on backdoor cuts, botched rotations and semi-transition mishaps, we all will be flying home on Saturday...Says James
 
Cleveland's only passable group on defense is the starting lineup, and it's probably not a coincidence that unit includes Tristan Thompson -- a legit big man who provides a whiff of rim protection and keeps Golden State honest on the glass.
 
The Cavs enter Game 3 facing a bit of an existential dilemma: They've committed under Tyronn Lue to a shooting-happy style heavy on smallish units featuring Kevin Love or Channing Frye at center when Thompson rests. (That strategy won't include Love in Game 3; he is unavailable due to the elbow to the head he took in Game 2.) This is different than the smashmouth, slow-it-down strategy they used to hang with Golden State in last year's Finals. There is also almost no evidence those shooting-heavy units, especially the undersized ones, can credibly defend the Warriors. They certainly can't dissuade Golden State from playing the Death Lineup, with Draymond Green at center.
 
This Warriors Mentality is just good. Having a bad game and poor shots but able to cut the 20 point lead by the Cavs to 8. The Warriors have put their mind on LeBron which is really working on them making this guy not taking the game.

Good sign for the Cavs. Tristian Thompson is winning them offensive rebounds and making second chance shots. That's stepping up.

I can see there's a reason why Curry as opted not going for Olympic games. He's not himself and Kerr was spotted asking him if he's just ok after Curry lost the ball and went on to being subbed. That knee, Ankle and Elbow one or two must be problematic.
 
teh teh teh I smell a comeback.. We had our pedals off still Cleveland can't seal the game..

Wanaweza wakaja kujutia..
 
LeBron James is on the brink of losing another NBA Finals.
Unless the Cleveland Cavaliers win four of their next five games against the greatest regular-season team in league history -- a Golden State Warriors group that has lost consecutive games just once all season -- he will begin his summer with suffering once again.
 
Two more Golden State wins would drop James' all-time mark in the Finals to 2-5, inching him toward the 1-8 Finals record West amassed during his career in the 1960s and early '70s.
 
ikumbukwe robo ya kwanza Cavs aliongoza kwa vikapu 33 dhidi ya 16...
lakini robo ya pili wameangukia pua kwa kuruhusu Warriors kupata vikapu 27 na wao kuambilia 18
 
So far game ya leo CAVS wamebadilika kidogo defensively ingawaje bado wanahangaika offensively....hii inafanya ule msisimuko wa fainali kuendelea kukosekana...

Ngoja tuone Q3 & Q4 zitakuwa vipi...
 
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