Monday, June 4, 2018

Dead yet? Well ...

Look, we all know what the obvious is here. Right? The obvious?

The obvious is that Golden State is a better basketball team than Cleveland, much better, and that when Steph Curry lapses into unconsciousness the way he did last night, the Warriors are going win by 19. Which they did in Game 2 of the NBA Finals to take a 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven.

It was never much of a contest, really, even though LeBron James LeBronned again, going for 29 points, 8 rebounds and 13 assists that probably would have been 20 if his teammates knew how to move off the ball.

But Curry dropped 33 points and a record nine 3s, one of them a ridiculous off-balance fallaway from close to 30 feet that should have had no prayer, because no one should be able to hit off-balance fallaways from 30 feet. Of course, because it was Curry, it plunged right down the throat. You pretty much knew right then the Cavs were done like dinner.

And now?

Well. Now it gets interesting.

Now the temptation, the severe temptation, is to think the Warriors are so much better that even if LeBron continues to LeBron at the very top setting of Hero Mode, the Warriors are going to sweep. The greatest basketball player on the planet, and likely ever, can beat a lot of people by himself, and has. But he can't beat the Warriors by himself.

You might want to resist that temptation.

That's because the Cavs were in this very position after Game 2 of the Eastern Conference finals, going back home down 2-0 to a Celtics team that had absolutely handled them in the first two games. And what happened?

The Cavs won the next two at home. And went on to win the series.

So the Blob will hold off on the anointing. The Blob still thinks Game 1 proved this could be an actual series. The Blob says "Let's wait and see what happens in Cleveland."

Because if there's one thing we know about LeBron and the Cavaliers, it's that they're never more dangerous than when they look the deadest. Down 2-0 to a clearly superior team?

Really. They're feeling much better.

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