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Marla Ridenour: Losing their mental toughness in final minutes of Game 3 will be the memory Cavaliers fight to get over this off-season

The Block, The Shot and The Stop didn’t just bring the Cavaliers the 2016 NBA championship.

Those three plays earned them the reputation as the mentally tougher team against the Golden State Warriors.

Going into the 2017 Finals, there was no doubt the Warriors had superior talent after adding 2014 MVP Kevin Durant to a 73-win team. But based on the previous two years, even in 2015 when LeBron James willed the Cavs to a Game 6 against Golden State despite injuries to Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love, I believed the Cavs would perform better in the clutch.