The Gold Coast Bulletin

Cavs ready for rumble

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LEBRON James and Kevin Durant will be banging bodies in today’s Game 2 of the NBA Finals, with defending champion Cleveland vowing to get physical after dropping the opener to Golden State.

“You have to be the first one to hit,” Cleveland coach Tyronn Lue said.

“You have to bring a physicalit­y to the game and we weren’t as physical as we needed to be. We have to do a better job of being on bodies and bringing the contact.”

Warriors forward Durant scored 38 points, many of them on unchalleng­ed slam dunks, in sparking Golden State’s 113-91 triumph in Game 1.

“I’m pretty sure that won’t happen (again),” Durant said.

“They’re going to be way more aggressive. They’re just going to muck the game up and be physical.

“We have to come out and be even more physical than we were in game one. We definitely have to be better.”

Foul trouble could become an issue, but the Cavs plan to walk the fine line between hard-nosed play and over-thetop bumping and grinding.

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