The Cleveland Cavaliers and LeBron James know what they have in front of them in Game 2. They know how stacked the odds are against teams that fall down 0-2. For James, he is strictly focused on tonight’s game and doesn’t even want to talk about advancing out of this series.
“I can’t think about advancing,” James told Joe Vardon of Cleveland.Com. “I’m thinking about tonight, what my job is, how I can help change the game, help affect the game, try to be as dominant as I can. I don’t never think about advancing, I think that’s too much karma for the basketball gods, I don’t play with the gods like that.”
For James, he also thinks the team was used to being able to come back from big deficits in the regular season and that isn’t something that works in the postseason.
They’re used to falling behind big in first quarters or halves and winning those games in the regular season. The playoffs don’t work that way, and now the Cavs understand, James said.
In tonight’s game, it starts with James who had 24 points, 12 assists and 10 rebounds in Game 1. The other guys around James need to step up big though. If the defense can just key on James and don’t have to respect everyone else, there might not need to be any tempting because a second-round series might be out of the question.