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The outcome of any NBA Finals game usually serves as a referendum on the performances and legacies of its stars. Whether in victory or defeat, every result communicates something about what the best players on the best teams do. Did that guy take over when needed? Did another shirk from the spotlight? And what does it all mean?In many ways, then,Air Jordan 6 Black White the most startling thing about the Golden State Warriors' comfortable 2-0 advantage over the Cleveland Cavaliers in the 2016 NBA Finals has been the relatively minor statistical impact of Splash Brothers Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson, neither of whom has scored 20 points in either of these first two games.Although the greatest shooting duo in NBA history performed well in Sunday's 110-77 blowout than they did in Thursday's bench-driven victory, the record-setting Warriors continued to rely far more on a terrific defensive effort, superior depth, and a ream of matchup advantages to put the Cavaliers into a very tough 2-0 hole. The Warriors' ability to thrive without dominant showings from the unanimous MVP and a no-doubt All-Star hasn't been impressive merely as it pertains to other players stepping up, but because Curry and Thompson haven't even felt especially missed.
For Curry, the fact that neither he nor Thompson has had to go on an irrationally hot shooting run speaks to what has made Golden State so excellent throughout this season.Everybody falls in love obviously with how me and Klay shoot the ball, and that's a big part of what we do, and having success over the course of the season in a Playoff run, you need to have that punch," he said. "But you look at the stat sheet and look at some names that jump off, whether it be Shaun [Livingston], L.B. [Leandro Barbosa], Andre [Iguodala], H.B. [Harrison Barnes], obviously Draymond [Green] — what he did tonight offensively, that's huge. But it's the little stuff that you don't see on the stat sheet that has gotten us to this position. ... That's where you become a consistent team."If it seems like Curry named nearly every player who suited up for Golden State, that's because most of them were indeed very effective on Sunday. Backup center Festus Ezeli was the only man who saw more than 10 minutes of playing time to finish with a plus-minus under a positive-10, and only four of his minutes came before garbage time. Both Curry (18 points on 7-of-11 FG and 4-of-8 3FG) and Thompson (17 points on 6-of-13 FG and 4-of-8 3FG) did their parts to further the cause, but the Warriors won this game because virtually every key player was solid.
That consistency throughout the lineup was most evident at the defensive end, where the Warriors dismantled a Cavaliers attack that steamrolled the three opponents that tried and failed to stop it during the Eastern Conference Playoffs. Cleveland shot 35.4 percent from the field and 5-of-23 from deep,Air Jordan 6 stats that were all the more concerning for not falling especially short of what the team accomplished in the Game 1 loss. There haven't been any real bright spots, either — Richard Jefferson is the only rotation player to have shot at or better than 50 percent from the field in the series so far (4-of-6 in Game 2). LeBron has gotten his stats only marginally more efficiently than he did in last June's one-man show against Golden State, and Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love have been offensive minuses on top of their well-established defensive frailties in this matchup.
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