The Cleveland Cavaliers will try to pull themselves up off the floor and back into the NBA Finals as the series shifts to Cleveland for the next two games.
The Cavaliers trail the San Antonio Spurs 2-0 in the best-of-seven series with Game 3 tonight and Game 4 on Thursday.
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After turning in a poor performance in Game 1, the Cavaliers looked equally unspectacular in Sunday?s 103-92 loss. Cleveland looked sluggish from the start, and only a late fourth-quarter rally made the score respectable.
In the first half, Cleveland dug itself a 25-point hole with poor shooting right down the lineup. Not one of eight players who had a field goal attempt shot 50 percent or better from the field.
"It started to become embarrassing," said Zydrunas Ilgauskas, who had nine points and four rebounds. "Here you are in the NBA Finals and you're down 30 points. So, I think it's just a pride thing more than anything."
The Cavaliers hope to build on that solid fourth quarter, in which they ended up outscoring San Antonio 30-14.
Cleveland was down 2-0 to the Detroit Pistons in the Eastern Conference Final before winning four straight games to take the series 4-2.
"We're definitely still confident," Cavs? star LeBron James said after Game 2. "It doesn't matter if you lose by one or lose by 30 with us. A loss is a loss, and we've been down 2-0 before in this situation, so we have to find a way to bring the intensity that we did in the fourth quarter tonight and carry it on to Game 3."
The Cavaliers trail the San Antonio Spurs 2-0 in the best-of-seven series with Game 3 tonight and Game 4 on Thursday.
Bet the NBA Finals at betED.com, which has Series, Game, Quarter and Half lines for all games. betED.com has the Spurs as 1?-point favorites for tonight?s Game 3, with the game total at 178.5.
After turning in a poor performance in Game 1, the Cavaliers looked equally unspectacular in Sunday?s 103-92 loss. Cleveland looked sluggish from the start, and only a late fourth-quarter rally made the score respectable.
In the first half, Cleveland dug itself a 25-point hole with poor shooting right down the lineup. Not one of eight players who had a field goal attempt shot 50 percent or better from the field.
"It started to become embarrassing," said Zydrunas Ilgauskas, who had nine points and four rebounds. "Here you are in the NBA Finals and you're down 30 points. So, I think it's just a pride thing more than anything."
The Cavaliers hope to build on that solid fourth quarter, in which they ended up outscoring San Antonio 30-14.
Cleveland was down 2-0 to the Detroit Pistons in the Eastern Conference Final before winning four straight games to take the series 4-2.
"We're definitely still confident," Cavs? star LeBron James said after Game 2. "It doesn't matter if you lose by one or lose by 30 with us. A loss is a loss, and we've been down 2-0 before in this situation, so we have to find a way to bring the intensity that we did in the fourth quarter tonight and carry it on to Game 3."
