The other reason Golden State lost is their entitled 2011-Heat-Esq attitudes:

[CavaliersFTW]

Remember this shit?

https://youtu.be/DBPzLopf5rw?t=1m8s

Think how entitled they felt after they followed that up with a 73 win season and a unanimous MVP...

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/o9p9bsbzkkej4nj3sra7.gif

https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/enhanced/webdr01/2013/2/28/12/anigif_enhanced-buzz-29585-1362073853-1.gif

That team felt the championship was basically gift wrapped. They deserved to lose.

[Spurs m8]

They were their own downfall.

Bought into their own false hype

Glad to say I was right all along

[Im Still Ballin]

It's true

There was no love in them

No heart

It was so obvious in how the Cavs reacted after winning game 7

The Love for it all was there

The heart

The will of champions

[DoctorP]

Im going to agree with this. their youthful exuberance bit em in the ass

[NBAGOAT]

well tbf they were defending champs. The Heat hadn't even won once yet.

[WayOfWad3]

Be thou humble

[Springsteen]

Klay and his dad getting egg in their face felt so good.

[Nilocon165]

http://i63.tinypic.com/2uzozmx.jpg

[Da_Realist]

https://www.cleveland.com/cavs/index.ssf/2016/06/let_us_gather_to_praise_lebron_and_the_cavs.html

[J Shuttlesworth]

I mentioned it in another thread too.

Think about GSW winning in 2015 vs. Cleveland winning in 2016

The amount of raw emotion Cleveland displayed was so much stronger than Iggy & Co looking like a bunch of frat boys having a party. Cavs looked like they earned it, deserved it, worked for it, and appreciated it.

[IGOTGAME]

lol the guy started crypt walking during a game. I wonder where all that stuff was when the Bron Bron came.

[GrapeApe]

When they were up 3-1 they were already thinking about the parade. I honestly don't think they took the Cavs seriously. They had the 2 blowout wins, relaxed and got embarassed in game 3, and then seemingly took control of the series in game 4. They thought they could just turn it on whenever they wanted.

It WAS eerily similar to 2011. The Heat had an embarassing loss in game 2 and bounced back to win game 3. At that point they thought they had regained control of the series, only to lose 3 in a row.