The Cavaliers are in control for now

If you’re even a casual NBA fan, we don’t really need to tell you what happened in Cavs-Wizards Game 3.

All three playoff games were incredible last night, and LeBron’s performance was arguably the best. 41 points, game-winning bucket, and – let’s stop there.

We don’t care if he travelled on the last play. He was also fouled about three times, and those didn’t get called, either. All-in-all, that was one of the most technically sloppy games of these playoffs, with both teams making horrible mental errors and the officials blowing calls on both ends. It’s actually kind of funny to watch fans on both team’s message boards claim it was fixed.

Regardless, any loss leads to frustration – it’s understandable. Was anyone more frustrated than Washington Times writer Tom Knott, however?

It was no surprise to see the Cavaliers cut into the lead and eventually pull even at 67-67 late in the third quarter, when James made a two-handed, backhand pass to the Amish-looking center that resulted in an easy basket.

James gave his ugly-face pose at this point, so you knew he was feeling fairly comfortable. James has a thing about making ugly faces, for whatever reasons, which is not really a transcendent quality.

If you are determined to be one of Nike’s leading shoe salesman, you should know the ugly face might discourage a number of potential buyers. Who likes dealing with a clerk making an ugly face?

Awesome – in the face of defeat, resort to calling the other team poopy-pants. Of course, we do things like that all the time, but that’s because we’re a professional amateur.

Truth be told, we weren’t sure we’d be alive this morning, as we had a full-on panic attack in the final minute of that game. It’s been awhile since we’ve done this playoff thing, y’know.

Game 4 Sunday should be awesome, but both these teams need to cut down on the mental errors. In the final minute alone, the Wiz threw an inbound pass directly to Flip Murray and the Cavaliers left Gilbert wide, wide, wide, wide open on the final shot of the game.

There’s every chance that if they do that again, he hits it and then we’ll be dead, but that why the NBA Playoffs are so much better than the NCAA tourney. The one-and-done format is fun, but there’s no chance of actual death due to escalating game-to-game tension.