WARRIORS PRACTICE FACILITY, OAKLAND, CA — The Golden State Warriors started Game 4 with a “small-ball” lineup. How are the Cleveland Cavaliers going to adjust, after losing Game 4 by more than 20 points? Will Warriors head coach Steve Kerr start Andre Iguodala again in place of Andrew Bogut?
From media availability at the Warriors practice facility, I took a look, over at BlacktopTV.com. Here’s an excerpt:
“Unfortunately, the dynamics are pretty tricky,” said Kerr. “If I say anything, I’m guessing it might get back to David [Blatt, head coach of the Cavaliers]. So I’ll just say that I’ve established my penchant for lying. So however I answer right now, you shouldn’t believe me anyway.”
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Blatt was also coy when asked about Game 5 strategy.
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“I’m not going to sit here and give away too, too much,” said Blatt. “If you look at the one game, it makes you think okay, we’ve got to change this, that and the other thing. If you look at the four games, in three out of four of those games we were pretty good doing the things that we did. So I think you’ll see a combination of both of those possibilities.”
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LeBron James came right out and said the Cavaliers’ starting lineup would not change.
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“We’re going to play our game. We’ve gotten to this point by playing the way we play, and we’re not going to change,” said James. “We’ll make adjustments throughout the game, but we won’t change our starting lineup. I think we’ll be much more prepared for it tomorrow night if they go with the same lineup.”
More related reading on adjustments for Game 5
- “Asked how Cleveland will respond to Golden State’s small lineup, Matthew Dellavedova laughs, ‘I can’t tell you that.'” — Jeff Faraudo, Bay Area News Group
- “Cleveland could put LeBron at the ‘5’ with four shooters around him…take your pick from Jones/Smith/Shumpert/Miller/Dellavedova” — Tim Kawakami, Bay Area News Group
- “Bogut on if the #Warriors will stay with starting small-ball: ‘Looks like it…they don’t have any back-to-the-basket players…” — LetsGoWarriors
- “Warriors assistant Ron Adams: ‘Our mental toughness was better our grit was better and it has to stay at that level.'” — LetsGoWarriors
- “Warriors assistant coach Luke Walton on Game 4: ‘It was the most we competed in the #NBAFinals by far…'” — LetsGoWarriors
- “Harrison Barnes: Starting with the small-ball lineup was ‘different but good.'” — LetsGoWarriors
- “Bogut: ‘I still completely feel a part of this thing, but it’s going to be a limited role for the Finals…'” — LetsGoWarriors
- “Klay: ‘Last game I thought I did a good job of moving the ball.'” — LetsGoWarriors
- “Don Nelson: ‘a ballsy move, that’s all I’m saying. Very ballsy…Kerr’s the MVP…this move is what’s going to make us win.'” — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle
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