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2018 Finals Recap: Golden State 108, Cleveland 85 (Things Fall Apart)

Everything ends badly. Otherwise it wouldn’t end.

Truth can from the most unlikely places. In this case, Doug Coughlin’s philosophy from the 1988 Tom Cruise “classic,” Cocktail, describes the ultimate game of the 2018 season, and the season itself. Cleveland spent the first half struggling to contain and keep pace with a Golden State team that it had spent the last 361 days preparing for, and rode a nine point deficit into halftime. Beleaguered and hapless, the Cavs folded in the third quarter as the Warriors bounded out of the locker room priming the fuse their typical third quarter explosion.