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Halfway to a sweep in the NBA finals.

The L. Periction, all predictions, all experts.

Well, not all, but there were some dopes that picked the Cavaliers,

but most agreed that the Warriors clearly the better team,

and that was on display in game two of the NBA finals a 33 point effort by Steph Curry Kevin Durant 26 the Cleveland

cadavers playing like the cadavers and the Warriors are up 2-0 in the finals and on their way

well on their way to another NBA, which will be the third and

fourth year, in four years, which would be, oh my God, so exciting.

So the story here is really a lopsided game, although it wasn't lopsided for three and a half

quarters. The full throttle happened late.

So what are the big takeaways from game two of the NBA finals?

Now, my thoughts on this, you've got arms length, the butter knife, and epic.

All right?

And we'll tie all this together. Number one, it was not a masterpiece by Golden State.

Although some laying it out as a masterpiece,

Steph Curry didn't shoot the ball all that well for the first 36 minutes or so of the game.

And you look for the Warriors to hit the turbo time button.

They didn't really do it until late in the game.

The full onslaught against Cleveland didn't happen for the first three-quarters of the game.

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