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- Updated: May 22, 2016
11:15 PM ET
TORONTO — It had been a long time since the Cleveland Cavaliers weren’t been able to dictate a game — actually, about six weeks since they’d even lost a game with LeBron James playing.
But finally the Toronto Raptors were able to dent the Cavs, winning Game 3 of the Eastern Conference finals, 99-84, to bring the series to 2-1 and stop Cleveland’s 17-game conference playoff winning streak dating back to last season.
The Raptors executed a game-plan switch, focusing far more on keeping the Cavs away from the basket and gambling on letting their 3-point shooters have space. The same game plan felled the Atlanta Hawks in the second round, but the Raptors had to do something after the Cavs racked up 106 points in the paint in the first two games.
The Cavs gladly switched to their gunning ways and …
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