One striking aspect of the Cavaliers’ overwhelming 130-86 victory over the Boston Celtics in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference finals Friday night in Boston is the defending NBA champions showed no signs of a let-up.
That’s a huge difference for the team in this postseason. During the regular season, when the Cavs held a huge lead and role players went in for mop-up duty, those leads occasionally would grow tenuous.
Not Friday night.
When the starting five took their bow with about two minutes left in the third quarter, their replacements didn’t miss a beat.