Let’s do it. Let’s relink to our own Cavaliers West Coast trip preview.
Facts are facts, and the facts are that after last night’s loss to Seattle, we’re officially in unknown territory. Lost waters. Scary time non-fun.
This is where an official divergence is created from both of our prediction scenarios, and we need to re-evaluate.
There are three games left on this thing, and in both of our guesses, we have the Cavs losing tonight in Portland, and Saturday in Utah. The wildcard then, becomes Friday in Denver.
However, since reality diverged, we should also be given that same form of pleasure. Especially after these postgame comments.
“Their zone, the way they played it, as much of a time period as they played it, I think affected us at times,” James said. “You’ve got to try to look to attack it sometimes, but they had three guards up and sometimes one big up so it was kind of tough to penetrate.”
Fact is, the Cavaliers didn’t play too badly last night, save for the usual stretches of jumper hoisting and silly turnovers. Overall, they ran into a motivated (for whatever reason) Sonics team that got it done.
The words above indicate that LBJ, et al know they done screwed up and more specifically, how they screwed up. This is in shapr contrast to earlier season, vague commentray on “figuring this thing out”.
As such, we expect the team to now win tonight against the Zach Randolph Gang, and also Friday at DEN. If both of those happen, we’ll also be feeling a Jazz victory, but we’re not going to get all overexuberant and unrealistic yet.
Cavs – 82-0 rest of the year. They’ll play so great, past losses will be amended into wins by the reality time-space thingie, and Tim Legler will be forced to change his MVP list that places LeBron at number eight.
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LeBron has his legs back. The US basketball team had them in storage. Anyway, Cavs, sometimes you don’t have to shoot the open 3. The lane is your friend. Visit him. Often.
Duncan is the “greatest power-forward of all time”? Seriously? I know my hatred for the Spurs colors my view of Duncan but I see him as a guy with an array of solid post moves, a really nice touch and an impressive ability as a passer. But the all-time greatest? Hell no, he’s too soft for a big man, he avoids contact and he’s not all that impressive defensively aside from his size and the fact that he moves well. This is a guy who’s never gone for more than 25 per game in his career. The fact that Chuck calls him “Groundhog Day” is both a testament to the fact that he is reliable but also because he’s pretty vanilla, look at his playoff line: 23 and 12 … great, no question, but greatest? Nope
Also, I have LeBron’s legs’ back
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