Cavaliers facing steep NBA Finals climb

                                                                                         

Tom Withers
Cleveland, U.S. (AP) - Time to bust out the
hiking boots, grab some sturdy ropes and maybe
even hire a Sherpa. The Cleveland Cavaliers have
some serious climbing to do. Right now, the San
Antonio Spurs tower over them.

Deep in the heart of the Texas, the Cavs dug
themselves a canyonesque hole. Looking like lost
tourists in their first NBA finals, they dropped
Games 1 and 2 to the playoff-polished Spurs, who
with the exception of a fourth-quarter letdown on
Sunday night, have mastered Cleveland.

The Cavs will host a finals game for the first
time in their 37-year history on Tuesday night,
and they're hoping to turn around this lopsided
series in boisterous Quicken Loans Arena, where
the ear-splitting crowd noise and fire-spewing
swords on their scoreboard will be a welcomed
sight.

"It's going to be electrifying," LeBron James
said.

Shocking the Spurs won't be so easy.

Creeping toward their fourth title, and third
championship in five years, the league's best
defensive team unleashed its offensive fury on
the Cavs in Game 2 as Tim Duncan, Tony Parker and
Manu Ginobili combined for 78 points.

The awesome threesome helped the Spurs bolt to a
25-point lead after two quarters _ the third-
largest halftime lead in finals history _ and by
the end of the third it was: Big 3 68, Cavaliers
62.

Pride kicked in and Cleveland frantically rallied
in the fourth, trimming a 29-point deficit to
eight in the final minutes before the Spurs
stopped giggling, made a few more clutch plays,
and finally put the Cavs away.

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