2015-2016 NBA playoff edition: Finals - Cavs vs Warriors - Cavs win 4-3

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Don't know if these numbers are in the Dubs favor



SPORTVU GAME 6 PREVIEW: 2016 NBA FINALS 06/15/2016 at 6:02PM

A historic performance from LeBron James and Kyrie Irving got Cleveland a Game 5 win to force Game 6 back in Cleveland. Can the Cavs hold home court and be just the third team to force a Game 7 after trailing 3-1? Or will the Warriors win the title with a Game 6 win in Cleveland for the second straight season?

SportVU looks at the data from the first five games of The Finals to break down Draymond Green’s defensive impact, the Cavs being better on ball screens in Game 5, the disparity in isolation play by LeBron James and Kyrie Irving in Cavs’ wins and losses and how the Splash Brothers are shooting from beyond the arc on contested and uncontested attempts.



Draymond Green Defensive Impact


Exploiting Draymond Green’s absence, Kyrie Irving and LeBron James lit it up in Game 5, scoring 41 points each. Looking at the numbers from the series thus far, Green’s defensive importance is undeniable. Irving is shooting a combined 23-43 (53.5%) against Klay and Steph, while James is also scorching his two primary defenders Iguodala and Barnes on 23-36 (63.9%) shooting. When matched up against Green, however, their efficiency dips drastically. The Warriors will be more than happy to welcome back their NBA All-Defensive First Teamer to the lineup in Game 6.



vs. Kyrie Irving
Defense Matchup
Time FGM-FGA EFG% Fouls Steals
Klay Thompson 24:42 12-20 (60%) 67.5% 4 1
Stephen Curry 16:42 11-23 (47.8%) 50% 4 2
Draymond Green 5:07 6-16 (37.5%) 40.6% 0 1
vs. LeBron James
Defense Matchup
Time FGM-FGA EFG% Fouls Steals
Andre Iguodala 30:45 15-22 (68.2%) 75% 0 3
Harrison Barnes 13:15 8-14 (57.1%) 60.7% 0 0
Draymond Green 8:31 8-20 (40%) 42.5% 3 4




Game 5 Ball Screens


After allowing Stephen Curry to run rampant on ball screens in Game 4, the Cavaliers tightened up defensively in Game 5. Curry and the Warriors were limited to 0.97 points per ball screen possession, as opposed to the 1.39 PPP mark from Game 4. On the other end, Kyrie Irving and LeBron James feasted on ball screens Monday night, sparking offense that averaged out to 1.54 and 1.29 PPP respectively. For perspective, Golden State led the league in ball screen PPP at 1.15 in the regular season.



Player Screens Points Points/
Screen Team
Points Team
PPP FGM-FGA 3PM-3PA EFG%
LeBron James 28 23 0.82 31 1.29 9-16 (56.3%) 2-4 (50%) 62.5%
Kyrie Irving 26 17 0.65 37 1.54 8-12 (66.7%) 0-2 (0%) 66.7%
Stephen Curry 39 8 0.21 33 0.97 2-8 (25%) 2-7 (28.6%) 37.5%




Irving & James Isolations


Looking at the Cavaliers win-loss splits, the isolation efficiency of Kyrie Irving and LeBron James stands out. The duo has led the Cavaliers offense in each of the five games thus far in the Finals, and a key component of Game 6 will be their ability to score and create out of isolations. In the two Cavs wins, they have been excellent, scoring 1.26 team points per isolation. In the three Cavs losses, however, Golden State effectively stifled Irving and James’ hero ball, holding them to 0.79 team points per isolation.



Isolations Points Pts/Iso Team
Points Team
Pts/Iso
Wins
(Games 3 and 5) 42 43 1.02 53 1.26
Losses
(Games 1, 2, and 4) 66 43 0.65 52 0.79




Splash Brothers Three Point Shooting


Stephen Curry hit 300 uncontested (48.4%) and 102 contested (38.3%) three pointers in the regular season. Surprisingly, his contested (47.4%) versus uncontested (39.4%) percentages have flipped in the Finals. Excluding Game 4, he’s a shockingly poor 7-29 on uncontested threes—just 29.2%. Klay’s numbers are more of what one would expect, shooting vastly better while uncontested. While the Cavaliers shouldn’t count on Steph to continue missing open looks, it is an interesting trend to keep an eye on nonetheless.



Contested Uncontested Total
% Cont 3PM-3PA % Uncont 3PM-3PA 3PM-3PA
Stephen Curry 36.5% 9-19 (47.4%) 63.5% 13-33 (39.4%) 22-52 (42.3%)
Klay Thompson 25% 2-10 (20%) 75% 14-30 (46.7%) 16-40 (40%)

 

[Mask]

Finals MVP.

Shit We gonna see in 24hrs

 

[jack walsh13]

Who all coming to the fry fish tomorrow?

I need a head count.

 

[shaddyvillethug]

what are the sides you're making?

Greens and sweet potatoes

But I know niggas like you eating anything

 

[shaddyvillethug]

Im there Mannie. I bought a new bottle of tabassco sauce today.

Cool

Ima make sure my Largebillsonly mom mashes up your potatoes and fish

 

[Amajorfucup]

Cool

Ima make sure my Largebillsonly mom mashes up your potatoes and fish

Dont do that.

 

[shaddyvillethug]

Dont do that.

You want fillets or steaks?

Sunday is gonna be even better

Ima have pops bring out the turbo fryer

 

[Amajorfucup]

You want fillets or steaks?

Sunday is gonna be even better

Ima have pops bring out the turbo fryer

Im thinking fillets my G.

 

[godofwine]

How much will the loss of Andrew Bogut effect the Warriors? He has been squatting shit left and right this series. Last year, he was a liability, but this season he has been a true rim protector. With him out for the rest of the series, how will that affect the games

 

[#blacklivesmatter]

This shows how much better jordan was than curry. How many pgs torched curry this playoffs? Lillard, westbrook, kyrie shit even zach levine gave curry buckets in the reg season. You not dropping 40 on jordan. Not happening. Dominque nope that was pippen. Jordan not getting torched like curry has been.

 

[ak_rep]

If CLE wins this next game, there's a huge psychological advantage going forward. They have to know that going into the game. Expect them to come out firing.

 

[shaddyvillethug]

Lebron was in mike mode last game

When that happens

 

[T'Challa]

No bogut affects them because i think that DG will play at center.... but with no back up. is they gon put harrison barnes at the 5 again?

Could you argue that steve kerr was out coached or it was just lebron/ kyrie playin 2k with the sliders on 10

 

[#blacklivesmatter]

 

[Mask]

How much will the loss of Andrew Bogut effect the Warriors? He has been squatting shit left and right this series. Last year, he was a liability, but this season he has been a true rim protector. With him out for the rest of the series, how will that affect the games

Dude average 16 mins per game, grant they normally huge minutes but it's not like they're 35+ plus with him out.

At certain points he's useless against small lineups

 

[Mask]

Title got me wondering what this has to do with bball

 

[Mask]

No bogut affects them because i think that DG will play at center.... but with no back up. is they gon put harrison barnes at the 5 again?

Could you argue that steve kerr was out coached or it was just lebron/ kyrie playin 2k with the sliders on 10

With Barnes at center I thought the Cavs would've went big to punish them
Something like

Kyrie
James
Jefferson
TT
TMo

 

[TheAlias]

We got a Beatdown prediction yet?

 

[LSN]

We got a Beatdown prediction yet?

refs get announced around 9 this morning

 

[Amajorfucup]

What about the mvp?

 

[BDR]

45 mins to glory faggits

 

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[BDR]

15 mins to a championship or game 7 lmaoo

 

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[BDR]

3 mins lmaoo

 

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[Mask]

That's right have some kinda pride about your self. Dubs talk slick shit all year and backed it up.

 

[Tha Great Muta]

3 mins lmaoo

So who winning?

 

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Film Study: Warriors’ centers can’t contain Cavs

CLEVELAND — Some nights, Kyrie Irvinghas it going like he did on Monday. Some nights, he doesn’t.

Every night though, the Cleveland Cavaliers try to get him going early with the same action, a screen set by Tristan Thompsonalong the sideline. We saw it on the Cavs’ first two possessions of Game 1 of The Finals, as well as on the first two possessions of Game 2. It’s a play that, especially in transition, can get Irving going downhill and put the defense on its heels.

In Game 5, we first saw the Irving/Thompson sideline screen with the Cavs in a 9-3 hole…

Thompson’s defender, Andrew Bogut, met Irving above the foul line…

… and got beat to the basket.

• NBA.com/stats video: Irving drives past Bogut for a reverse layup.

On the very next possession, the Cavs ran the same action on the other side of the floor. Bogut didn’t come out so high…

… and didn’t get beat to the basket. (Irving, instead, passed to LeBron James, who hit his first of eight buckets from outside the paint.)

Bogut made a quick adjustment and got a better result … if we’re talking about the shot and not the points scored on the play (three instead of two). The Warriors are generally happy with James shooting from the outside. In previous games, they’ve been content to have Bogut sag down to the low block and have Irving pull up for a mid-range jumper off that sideline screen.

Of course, James made twice as many shots from outside the paint in Game 5 as he did in any other playoff game this year and Irving’s shot-making was twice as ridiculous. Those guys would have had big games no matter who was on the floor for the other team, because there were too many moments where great offense beat great defense.

But that first Irving/Thompson sideline screen, where Bogut got beat off the dribble, was just one of many examples where the Warriors missed their most important defender. And it’s hard not to wonder if this series would be over had Draymond Green just kept his right hand away from James’ groin in the fourth quarter of Game 4.

Small ball has been the Warriors’ formula for success in The Finals. And small ball isn’t the same without Green. Prior to Game 5, the Warriors were a plus-54 with Green playing center and a minus-25 otherwise. In their Game 4 win in Cleveland, Green played almost 28 minutes at center.

But without him in Game 5, the Warriors had to play another way. They used all four of their centers in the first quarter, and they totaled 37 minutes of playing time in Game 5. Steve Kerr tried some small ball, withHarrison Barnes and James Michael McAdoo at center, for a few minutes here and there. But he mostly went traditional. And that made it harder for the Warriors to switch screens and keep the Cavs’ ball-handlers in front of them.

Here’s Festus Ezeli trying to meet James near the 3-point line after a Thompson screen onAndre Iguodala…

He got beat to the basket.

• NBA.com/stats video: James drives past Ezeli for a layup.

Even Iman Shumpert took advantage of Ezeli’s pick-and-roll defense, driving past him after a little hesitation move.

James vs. Marreese Speights?

A dunk and a foul.

Irving vs. Bogut again?

Another and-one.

Too often, the Warriors’ centers met the Cavs’ drives too high and paid the price. The biggest difference for Golden State in small ball vs. playing a traditional center has been on offense. But their defensive versatility with their Green-at-center lineups is a huge part of their success, especially when it comes to defending quick ball-handlers coming off a screen. A little mobility goes a long way.

Through five games, the Cavs have scored an efficient 1.32 points per possession after setting a ball screen for Irving, according to SportVU. They’ve scored 1.31 points per possession on drives from Irving or James. The Warriors, meanwhile, have allowed just 0.82 points per possession on ball screens when Green has been the guy defending the screener. In that spot, he’s been much more likely to entice an isolation play than any other defender.

Both Irving and James scored in a variety of ways on Monday. Their drives were actually down from previous games. But those sideline screens kept coming. One time when the Warriors did switch it (with McAdoo, their most reasonable facsimile of Green)…

… they forced a turnover when the Cavs tried to go into the post with Stephen Curryguarding Kevin Love, a matchup that Golden State hasn’t been all that afraid of in this series.

• NBA.com/stats video: Love loses the ball out of bounds after a switch.

We’ll see more of that and much more small ball from the Warriors in Game 6 on Thursday (9 ET, ABC). With Bogut likely out with aleft knee injury suffered in the third quarter of Game 5, Golden State could start the game with their “Death Lineup” — Curry, Klay Thompson, Iguodala, Barnes and Green.

That, along with it’s Shaun Livingstonderivatives, has been the Warriors’ most successful configuration against Cleveland. It will allow for more effective switching and less penetration if James’ and Irving’s jumpers aren’t falling as often as they did in Game 5. And we could see the difference early, when Irving dribbles up the sideline toward a screen from Tristan Thompson.

 

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[BDR]

Scott Foster
Ken Mauer
Jason Phillps


Alternate: James Capers


Welp we gonna have a game 7 fellas... great for Cavs fans however

Tony Brothers refing next game 7 book it... Cavs losing

 

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