Hello from the West Coast, Cavalier fans! It’s A.C., checking in from the NBA Finals – the final stop on the yellow brick road. What’s happening?

This is what we’ve been waiting for. This is why you play those back-to-backs in January and February. This is what it’s all about.

With eight days off, the national media has had time to dissect the entire series. Now, there’s nothing left but to play it out and see who’s the best team in basketball.

Naturally, when you talk about the Warriors, you talk about the reigning MVP, Stephen Curry. And regardless of how well the Cavaliers defense has been, he’s going to be a handful.

Naturally, Kyrie’s going to start on Curry and he’ll see a lot of Shumpert. But it’s going to be more of a – group effort when he’s in the area.

The thing is, he moves so well without the ball, you can’t just focus on stopping his jumper. You got to understand, if you do that he’ll backdoor cut you to death. He’ll take you one way when he wants to go the opposite way. And you don’t see that much in the NBA these days. You see most guys just standing there, calling for the ball or just trying to push you off. But you can tell his dad played, because he has facets of an old-school game.

It’s probably going to be defense by committee against Curry – and it’s going to be working to make sure that he gets contested shots. He’s gonna get his shots, he’s gonna make his shots. The key is to not let him get five, six in a row, catch fire and get the crowd worked up.

But this will be a fantastic experience for a young gun like Kyrie. This is all part of the maturation process, and he and Tristan and Delly understand now the effort and concentration that it takes to get here. And it tells me we’ll be a better team next year than we are this year.

Kyrie has looked sharp in practices this week, but only he truly knows how close to 100 percent he is. Either way, the team needs him out there. Because when he’s out there, if nothing else, he spreads the floor. The defense has to make allowances for him. And if you make allowances for him, it’s gonna open stuff up for everybody else.

So the Cavaliers have to gameplan around Curry. But the Warriors have to do the same thing to our MVP.

For starters, they’re going to have to double-team LeBron. And that’s where the Cavs are going to have to move the ball. If they move the ball, they’ll get good shots because Golden State is not going to be big enough to stop him in the low post – unless they want to put the big guy on him. And that’s going to throw their whole defense off.

So they’re going to have to put Draymond Green on him quite a bit. And some Harrison Barnes. And Barnes isn’t going to be able to stop LeBron. LeBron will just back him down and go over the top of him. So they’re going to have double-team, and they’re going to have to come up with some elaborate scheme. It’s up to us to come up with a scheme to beat it.

I think LeBron, right now, is at the top of his overall game. He may not be shooting the ball well, but his leadership skills have gotten us to this point. We have now started to re-develop the culture to where when guys come in they know what they have to do and how they have to play and what’s expected of them. That’s how you develop sustainability.

And I think he’s done a masterful job of not only leading the team but also producing in a big way while he’s leading them. Put it this way: LeBron is talking the talk and walking the walk.

It’s funny now that we’re here by the Bay – and I think a big part of it is that he played his college ball out here – but everyone wants to focus on Matthew Dellavedova. Although I wish they’d focus more on his basketball skills than the other stuff.

The whole thing is completely unwarranted. All he’s doing is playing hard. And what people don’t understand is that he grew up with Australian Rules Football – which means they use their bodies. So he uses his body. Instead of reaching, he goes at the play physically – I guess you could say “all in” – for the ball.

The incident with Korver: that’s just two men going for a 50-50 ball. I don’t’ understand why people want to make a villain out of him. But I just don’t understand it. To me, it’s unfair to put a label on a guy who’s in his second year in the league that might stick with him for the rest of his career.

But from a pure basketball standpoint he’s been huge.

One thing now, defensively, is he has the reputation of being a pest. So whoever he’s guarding is already aware of that when he comes into the game. Now, he’s learned how to penetrate and how to use the lob pass – and he’s making baskets. If you can get that out of him, that really makes us dangerous, because now you’re getting real production off the bench.

I don’t know what’s going to happen in this series, but I do know that the Cavaliers will defend. That’s going to happen.

We have big bodies that can defend – and they defend strong. And we have Timo in the middle. I think their biggest problem will be keeping Timo and Tristan off the boards. I feel like Tristan can guard Green outside and inside and run the floor with him. And that leaves Barnes on LeBron. So, to me, they have matchup problems. We still have to play solid defense, but we don’t have matchup issues.

What’s very encouraging about this series is how well the Cavs have fared against the West in the second half of the season. It shows that we can play any style. We can play big or small.

In the west, they play a wide open game. But our small team is physical and can play wide-open and our big team is physical and can play the halfcourt. So because you can play both ways, you can mix and match your personnel to really cause problems for them.

So I think we have a size advantage, but our perimeter defense has been great as well. And those two things have really been the keys to our success in the postseason.

On Thursday night, it all tips off – and we’ll be ready to roll. I think we have to get one of the first two and I’d prefer to get the first one, because that puts some doubt in their minds, similar to what we did with Atlanta.

I don’t want to go much farther than that. If ever there was a time to go one game at a time, it’s right now. But if we play like we’re capable of playing, these could be the best two weeks of basketball in Cavs history.