"It isn't shocking the Cavaliers are down two games to none. What is shocking is they aren't showing the heart of a team hungering for a championship."
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"Jackson said: "One thing Golden State does is, it takes away your will. The Warriors take away your will to the point where you begin to doubt if you even want to fight. And that's the disappointing thing thus far in this series: Do the Cavs really want to fight?'
"Moments later, Jackson said: "When you get to this level, there are certain guys on certain teams who are looking to tap out. And that's the question right now if you're the Cavs.''
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"The Cleveland Cavaliers quit tonight. They got beat up...They got embarrassed. They were fidgety with the basketball. They were missing shots...it was literally, literally, to a point where you looked in their eyes in the third quarter and saw a team that said 'we can't beat these guys, right now.'
"...only one team showed up in the Finals tonight and I'm telling you it wasn't the Cleveland Cavaliers. They got embarrassed. They got their heart snatched out of their chest to the point where collectively, literally collectively, we should look at this team and wonder what in God's name is on the left side of their chest because I didn't see anything tonight."
Three different writers there "Cavs," all of the same opinion. C'mon. Don't go down like this. If you were going to your execution would you go willingly, like the Chinese to their struggle sessions? Like the ISIS captives who willingly put their heads down for beheading? If it's inevitable, FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! What do you have to lose?! Your going to get executed anyway! FIGHT! Whatever happens in the remainder of this series let it not be said, as it is being said now, that you didn't put in L'Effort.
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"Jackson said: "One thing Golden State does is, it takes away your will. The Warriors take away your will to the point where you begin to doubt if you even want to fight. And that's the disappointing thing thus far in this series: Do the Cavs really want to fight?'
"Moments later, Jackson said: "When you get to this level, there are certain guys on certain teams who are looking to tap out. And that's the question right now if you're the Cavs.''
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"The Cleveland Cavaliers quit tonight. They got beat up...They got embarrassed. They were fidgety with the basketball. They were missing shots...it was literally, literally, to a point where you looked in their eyes in the third quarter and saw a team that said 'we can't beat these guys, right now.'
"...only one team showed up in the Finals tonight and I'm telling you it wasn't the Cleveland Cavaliers. They got embarrassed. They got their heart snatched out of their chest to the point where collectively, literally collectively, we should look at this team and wonder what in God's name is on the left side of their chest because I didn't see anything tonight."
Three different writers there "Cavs," all of the same opinion. C'mon. Don't go down like this. If you were going to your execution would you go willingly, like the Chinese to their struggle sessions? Like the ISIS captives who willingly put their heads down for beheading? If it's inevitable, FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! What do you have to lose?! Your going to get executed anyway! FIGHT! Whatever happens in the remainder of this series let it not be said, as it is being said now, that you didn't put in L'Effort.
