So family and I went to disney for the day and i taped game, did my damndest to avoid twitter, text (even though brother was trying) get home about 1045 to start watching it and checking my email and saw i had an email from fresh brewed tees (cleveland tshirt company) thinking it was spam i went to swipe left to delete and i must have clicked so it opened and said buy you world champion tshirts..lol Needless to say watching the rest of the game was delightful, i didn't know the score, just the outcome..good thing too, that game was easily the best finals game in recent memory regardless of outcome, and the outcome made it all that much sweeter. As much as the game was amazing, watching the celebration was so much more fun and heartwarming. If anyone really thought this one wouldn't mean more to lebron, you can tell by his reaction that wasn't the case. It's funny, the last 3 games it was like a switch had come on, something someone saw in film that allowed us the blueprint to beat them, and this game everyone gave a little bit more..there wasn't anyone that played who didn't contribute some way. Very special night...I am really going to enjoy this offseason.
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday. -John Wayne
Can't imagine how the older generation of Cleveland fans on here feel right now.
Probably happy for you. We have seen this before. I am happy you kids get a win for once.
My daughter asked me if she had to go to bed when the game was over. I told her that when I was 12, I assumed I would see this multiple times.... and I'm 50 and it never did. I told her she could stay up and watch the post-game as long as she wanted.
Can't imagine how the older generation of Cleveland fans on here feel right now.
Probably happy for you. We have seen this before. I am happy you kids get a win for once.
Thanks, at 3-1 I pretty much thought it was over, but......... I'm in absolute disbelief, even with a 4 point lead and 10 seconds left I was just waiting for something to go wrong. And it didn't.
Can't imagine how the older generation of Cleveland fans on here feel right now.
Probably happy for you. We have seen this before. I am happy you kids get a win for once.
My daughter asked me if she had to go to bed when the game was over. I told her that when I was 12, I assumed I would see this multiple times.... and I'm 50 and it never did. I told her she could stay up and watch the post-game as long as she wanted.
Same here. I was in tears. I let my 7 and 8 year boys old stay up and watch most of the postgame pressers. My wife, kids and I were jumping around and hugging. What a Father's Day!
I'm sitting here on my couch with espn cleveland on my phone and ESPN on the tv. I'm still in shock. This feels like a dream.
It's been a long week and a half. I've been on vacation with my family. We spent a night in Chapel Hill, 7 nights on the coast of North Carolina, and last night in Louisville. I don't even know what day it is. I missed the first quarter of the game because we were still driving home. I always said if a Cleveland team had a shot to win it, I'd get home, but it was just about impossible. Especially with some things going on at my job and them really needing me tomorrow and really the whole week.
If that's the sacrifice it took, that's all good. I'm just so happy we pulled this off. I try to not get that emotionally invested into a game, but I sat on my couch for the last 3 quarters with luggage still needing to be unpacked. I was a wreck the whole night. That was really hard to watch. I feel like sports for all of us won't be so difficult to watch now. The last time a Cleveland team needed just one win to seal a championship was almost 20 years ago, so you watch this wondering if you don't get it, when will you get to see another chance? I feel like I can now watch the Cavs and the other two teams without that kinda feeling. Sports should be fun.
As far as the game goes, that is an all timer. Just on the game alone without all the circumstances, or without the title on the line, it was just a really well played and for the most part, very well officiated game. 20 lead changes. 2 Signature plays. Tremendous defense at both ends. You don't need 200+ points to have a good basketball game.
That shot by Kyrie was absolute stones. 3 Point misses create tremendous transition opportunities, and with a team like Golden State, that's a gamble. You will remember that shot forever. Obviously that Lebron block is hollywood-esque. If he would have finished that poster job on Draymond Green on that last offensive possession that would have supplanted any other play in the history of the league. Jordan's shot, Bird's steal, Havlicek's steal, etc. Guess you can't have it all, haha.
If you haven' seen JR's presser after the game, please do. It's pretty powerful stuff. Total genuine emotion. Really happy for that guy. He had a tough series, but his play to start the second half in the first few minutes was HUGE. So many things will go forgotten leading up to the plays you will remember. Shump's 4 point play, Thompson knocking down key free throws and his defense on Steph Curry. I can't wait to go back and watch this game over and really break down everything that lead up to our championship.
Klay Thompson drove for a layup at the 4:39 mark and that was it for the Warriors. The Cavs broke the will of a historically great team. Let that sink in. You can talk about stats, analytics, vegas odds, detailed breakdowns by experts, but the cool thing about sports is that teams come together to overcome that kinda stuff. I think sometimes these fans wanna say well a team has this, this, and that over the other team, and it'll just end that way.
We're getting a parade, and a banner in the rafters, that's so awesome. I still can't believe it. I've had calls from friends and family and I literally didn't know wha to say. I'm still in shock. For everyone on this board who has suffered through everything with all the Cleveland teams, and with everything the Cavs have been throw the last 6 years with Lebron leaving, us being horrible and rooting for lottery wins, to having to watch a team hobble to a series loss last year, I'm so happy for you guys. I raise my glass and celebrate with ya'll.
Awesome post man! It's been a pleasure posting with you about the Cavs, even way back when we were terrible!
When you step back and really look at where we were 2 years ago, and where we are right now, it's incredible. The Celtics had a ridiculous turnaround that happened in the first year they traded for Garnett and Allen, but again, the circumstances surrounding both the team and cities are totally different.
Sperg, you somehow captured everything I feel right now but can't find the words to type them.
I was a bit negative on here the past three games, but I had to. I said it was over, they won game 5. I had to repeat my negativity, they won game 6. You know I had to follow my streak, so I posted another negative prediction and then took my internet silence until the game was over.
Stunned.
As for Lebron, he was the storybook hero all along that Cleveland and northeast Ohio needed. From Akron, getting drafted by the Cavs, the Witness shirts (damn, I need one of those now), that 25-point ending against the Pistons, the Finals trip against the Spurs, the defeat against the Magic that I cried to, the Celtics series that shook me up, the announcement, the defeat against the Mavs, the two titles with the Heat, the CRITICAL loss to the Spurs to stop the Heats attempt at a three-peat that if it had not happened he would have stayed for a four-peat, the return, the essay, the Finals trip last year where he willed the team to two wins without Kyrie and Kevin, the firing of Blatt and the crap he took, the series against the Raptors, going down 3-1 against the Warriors, the back-to-back 41-point performances, the block, and the reaction to the win. Wow. Hollywood couldn't have written a better script.
Read this, and then read it again...
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In the final three games of the series, all Cleveland wins, LeBron James averaged 36.3 points, 11.7 rebounds, 9.7 assists, 3 steals and 3 blocks while shooting 50.6 percent overall, 42.1 percent from 3-point range. He finished with an unstoppable flurry, and in the fourth quarter of Game 7, James scored 11 of the Cavaliers' 18 points, and made one of the most incredible blocks in Finals history .
#WeAreAllWitnesses
“...Iguodala to Curry, back to Iguodala, up for the layup! Oh! Blocked by James! LeBron James with the rejection!”
I was a bit negative on here the past three games, but I had to. I said it was over, they won game 5. I had to repeat my negativity, they won game 6. You know I had to follow my streak, so I posted another negative prediction and then took my internet silence until the game was over.
I'm not even going to sit here and tell all you guys that I was positive the entire way through this series. Not even close. When the Cavs lost the first two games by a combined billion points, I told my wife I wasn't going to watch game 4 if they lost game 3. Just wasn't going to do it. The Cavs win, and that Friday night in Chapel Hill I watched them really blow it by melting down in the 4th quarter. Really didn't want to watch game 5, but my family was so incredibly positive, and there was a beach house filled with 15 people who were all about watching the game. The way they played in game 5 and game 6 you could see they had figured out some things about the Warriors. Obviously losing Bogut hinders the team, as well as Iggy being really banged up (btw, I tip my cap to that guy for gutting it out there, he was clearly nowhere near 100%, that's one tough dude).
I actually felt pretty good going into game 7, but obviously as we got closer to the game, the nerves really started getting to me. Like I said, great game, but just not fun to watch because of how tight it was.
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Needless to say watching the rest of the game was delightful, i didn't know the score, just the outcome..good thing too, that game was easily the best finals game in recent memory regardless of outcome, and the outcome made it all that much sweeter. As much as the game was amazing, watching the celebration was so much more fun and heartwarming. If anyone really thought this one wouldn't mean more to lebron, you can tell by his reaction that wasn't the case. It's funny, the last 3 games it was like a switch had come on, something someone saw in film that allowed us the blueprint to beat them, and this game everyone gave a little bit more..there wasn't anyone that played who didn't contribute some way. Very special night...I am really going to enjoy this offseason.
