Cleveland Cavaliers: 5 Takeaways From Game 6 vs. Warriors
5. Cavs Didn’t Get Buried By Warriors’ Long-Range Shooting
The Warriors have a lot of variables that make them difficult to beat. For starters, they have two of the best shooters to ever lace up a pair of sneakers in Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson.
They also have depth at several positions, and in case you weren’t already aware of this, they led the league in three-point shooting during the regular season, converting 41.6 percent of their attempts.
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How big of a role does the long ball play in the Warriors’ attack?
Well, in the three games they have won in this series, the Warriors shot 41-for-96 from distance compared to just 18-for-69 for the Cavaliers. That’s a difference of 69 points.
That being said, it was pivotal that the Cavaliers not allow the Warriors to outscore them by a wide margin from beyond the arc.
In Game 6, the Warriors converted 15 of their 39 three-point attempts (38.5 percent), while the Cavaliers shot 10-of-27 (37 percent) from distance.
Although the Warriors did convert more shots from deep, the margin was not as overwhelming as what we saw in the Games 2 and 4, where they connected on 32 shots from long range, compared to just 11 for the Cavs.
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