Cavaliers vs. Warriors: Game 2 Score and Twitter Reaction from 2016 NBA Finals

The Golden State Warriors are two games away from a second straight NBA title. The Western Conference champions took a 2-0 series lead in the 2016 NBA Finals following a 110-77 Game 2 victory Sunday over the Cleveland Cavaliers at home in Oracle Arena.

According to Basketball-Reference.com, Golden State’s 33-point margin of victory is tied for seventh-most ever in NBA Finals history.   

Warriors & Chef Curry cooked the Cavs tonight https://t.co/FOle3am5R1

— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) June 6, 2016

If it’s possible, this was simultaneously an unimpressive yet dominant performance by the Warriors. Golden State committed 20 turnovers but shot 54.3 percent from the field as a team, including 15-of-33 from three-point range.

Between foul trouble and his team’s massive second-half lead, Stephen Curry featured for just 25 minutes. He scored 18 points on 7-of-11 shooting.

Klay Thompson added 17 points, and Draymond Green stuffed the stat sheet with 28 points, seven rebounds, five assists and one steal.

Meanwhile, the Cavaliers’ Big Three couldn’t have looked much worse. LeBron James and Kyrie Irving combined for 29 points on 12-of-31 shooting. Kevin Love finished with five points and three rebounds but only played 21 minutes.

In the second quarter, he caught an accidental elbow from Harrison Barnes to the back of his head:

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Love continued to play for the remainder of the half and into the third quarter but removed himself from the game at the 9:53 mark of the third:

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NBA.com’s Steve Aschburner provided the official report about Love’s injury:

No mention of the elbow that inspired the dizziness but here’s official Kevin Love report: pic.twitter.com/V1P3uYT8Gt

— Steve Aschburner (@AschNBA) June 6, 2016

Complex Sports tweeted that it was one more thing going wrong for LeBron and the Cavaliers:

Uh oh, now Kevin Love is hurt… pic.twitter.com/hwKp6hFR7Q

— Complex Sports (@Complex_Sports) June 6, 2016

Cleveland actually started the game well, despite James failing to score a single point in the first quarter. His team led 21-19 through the first 12 minutes, and the Bay Area News Group’s Marcus Thompson thought it was a return to a strategy that served the Cavs well last year:

Cleveland shooting 34.9 percent and winning. Has this on pace to be a low-90s game. This is the right way, not speeding it up

— Marcus Thompson (@ThompsonScribe) June 6, 2016

In the 2015 NBA Finals, the Cavs were at their best when they slowed the game to a crawl …

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