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Kawakami: A much different feel to Game 6 this year

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CLEVELAND -- No, the visiting locker room here doesn't still smell like champagne, but the Warriors have a remedy for that.

Splash it again and keep splashing it.That's how Thursday's Game 6 has become a twisted mirror of last year's season finale -- when the Warriors were also up 3-2 in the Finals and then hammered the Cavaliers to clinch their first championship since 1975 and poured enough champagne to create rivers and lakes.Steve Kerr wants his players to remember precisely how that felt, how that happened, how they quieted Quicken Loans Arena ...And how little Monday's Game 5 loss -- with Draymond Green serving a one-game suspension -- will mean if they finish off this series just like they did exactly one year ago.