If you look at the one-sided games in the NBA in the past decade or so, the recent Cavaliers-Warriors matchup stays right up there. Leading the game by a staggering 41 points at half-time, the Cavaliers stunningly dominated the game from the get-go. Steve Kerr and Co. didn’t have answers to all the complicated questions the Cavs kept asking throughout the game. Sports analyst Brian Windhorst joined the green room with fellow analyst and former Warriors GM Bob Myers to shoot for NBA Countdown. In fact, the Cavs’s blowout impressed Myers.
Strange, isn’t it? Especially when the Cavaliers returned from a 3-1 deficit to lift the title in 2016. Windhorst described a conversation about the Warriors that happened in the green room. Guess what? Myers couldn’t control his laughter with the drubbing of the Warriors. In the latest podcast of Brian Windhorst, joined by ESPN’s Tim Bontemps and Tim MacMahon, he detailed the incidents in the green room.
“Watching it with Bob Myers in the green room because we were doing Countdown on Friday night, we were just kinda laughing,” mentioned Windhorst, detailing their conversation.
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During Friday night’s game, the unbeaten Cavs ran the Warriors out of the building, taking an 83-42 lead at half-time. It was another stunning display of basketball by the Cavs, who entered the game with a 9-0 record. However, the Warriors came into this matchup in good form as well, having won 3 games in a row on the road. They even beat the defending champs, the Boston Celtics, at the TD Garden right before this matchup. So the Cavs blowing them out left everyone stunned.
Well, it probably became the first time you saw something like that with Cavaliers roasting the Warriors from start to finish. If you were a Warriors fan, it was impossible to just sit back and stay silent on the court. But Myers loved how his teams dominated in this very own court in the yesteryears.
Windhorst pointed out, “I would say Bob was having some fun. He’s like, ‘That’s okay. I think the Warriors have won some games in Cleveland.’ He’s like they have won some games in Cleveland. They have taken some gold outta there. I go yeah, Bob, this calls out Warriors-Cavs games.” He also detailed the famous Cavaliers comeback in 2016, where they won a sensational game 6.
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Game 6 blues for Steve Kerr and Golden State Warriors as Cleveland Cavaliers run riot!
“I have seen Warriors having the same memory of Game 6 in 2016. So there were some Cleveland-Warriors trash-talk going on in there,” said Windhorst, speaking about the Cavaliers destroying the Warriors in 2016. To refresh your mind, the game finished 115-101, with LeBron James scoring 41 points to force a Game 7. And the rest, as they say, is history.
However, the Cleveland Cavaliers have played remarkably this season. With an 11-0 run in the NBA right now, in hot form, they won every single game with a dominance not showcased for a long time. With Donovan Mitchell, Darius Garland, Jarrett Allen, and Evan Mobley on fire, the Cavs look set for a title run this year. Windhorst gave his flowers to the team, stating their rise to the top.
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“I am not sure if there’s been a more clinically perfect half of basketball played in the history of the Cavs franchise. And I realize what I am saying. That first half, it was like Spurs in the 2014 Finals. Like, the level they were paying was preposterous. There were like possessions where the Warriors were playing like really good defense and the Cavs would hit a three,” mentioned Windhorst regarding the efficient Cavs offense.
They finished with a final score of 136-117, with six players scoring 12+ points. A team effort, one must say. For the Warriors, they would lick their lips at the prospect of facing them at home.
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