Berger: LeBron's alone

Source: www.cbssports.com - Friday, December 25, 2015
Once again, the Warriors are too strong for a Cavs team not giving LeBron the help he needs. (USATSI) LeBron James played 95 percent of all possible minutes and scored 38 percent of the Cleveland Cavaliers ' points in the 2015 NBA Finals against the Golden State Warriors . That, of course, was without Kevin Love for the entire series and without Kyrie Irving for all but the first four quarters. On Friday, we had the rematch: The fully loaded Cavaliers against the defending champion Warriors. And once again for Cleveland, it was too much LeBron and not enough of everybody else. If the Cavs have any hope of a different outcome if another rematch happens in June, then it's really simple. That has to change. Facing Golden State on Christmas Day for the first time since the Warriors clinched their first title in 40 years this past June, the Cavs did a lot of good things in an 89-83 loss that snapped their six-game winning streak and pushed the Warriors' record to 28-1. The first one: Just look at the score. It was Golden State's lowest-scoring game of the season. At one point, the Warriors were hovering around 30 percent shooting and finished at 41 percent -- including only 5-for-18 from 3-point range (29 percent). The Cavs won the battle in the paint (46-46), and were only minus-10 in fastbreak points (14-4) as they successfully slowed the pace to a crawl. But Irving, in only his third game back from the fractured kneecap he suffered

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