First of all thanks to all of you for being so respectful of our wishes not to be spoiled on the game, considering we were watching it late.
Unfortunately, we didn’t cover all of our bases, and were spoiled anyway.
Alas, the important thing is they won, and that LeBron James played like he’s supposed to, ie with 100% effort. Driving with aggression, lots of steely gazes, etc, etc. (And pregame shooting work? Oy!)
In fact, we’d go so far as to say his steely gazes last night were strangely real, as opposed to many of his past ones, which always seemed to be a bit of a show. LBJ had a gameface on from the tip, no doubt about it.
“In order for us to win, I have to play like this,” James said. “And that’s not holding the ball as much and not allowing their defense to set. They’re very good when you allow their defense to set. I was a little more aggressive on the post. Once I got easy baskets, that opened up my outside shot.”
That’s it, and we love it. No drama, no hyperbole, no “it’s okay to lose”. Just facts – facts we’ve been asking to see for what seems like forever.
Other facts that worked in the Cavaliers favor last night:
* Larry Hughes got hurt, forcing Coach Mike to play Daniel Gibson extended minutes. These were, as they usually are, successful minutes.
* Eric Snow spent a lot of time on the bench, practicing for his coaching career.
* Chauncey Billups continued to struggle, and as one of the TNT guys said, three times is a trend. He’s not having off games – the CLE defense is doing something to him. Something that won’t stop, because Chauncey Billups sucks.
* The crowd waved towels around. In circles.
* Finally, after writing a semi-creepy ode to LeBron, ESPN’s Ric Bucher made up stories about Kobe Bryant demanding a Jerry West inspired trade, which was quickly denied in the LA Times.
That last one had nothing to do with the game, but was worthy of mention. All-in-all, a fine night of Cavaliers basketball. We expect Tuesday’s Game 4 to be equally as victorious, only moreso. We smell a blowout, and all because Chauncey Billups sucks.
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Forget LeBron James. When the Cavs take this in 6, the series MVP will be Larry Hughes’ Glass Foot. Thank you Mr. Glass Foot. We wish you’d shown up earlier in the postseason, but we will take what you give any time. Better late than never, eh? HA-HA-HA! Seriously though, I’m sending guys to make sure that thing stays messed up.
And I’m sorry- I just don’t feel comfortable calling Daniel Gibson “Boobie”. Dan? Danny-Boy? D-G? Gibby? Jimmy JJ DYNOMITE Walker? I have no problem with any of those names. In fact, I like DYNOMITE! Danny JJ DYNOMITE Gibson, running point.
DY-NO-MITE!!!
espn.go.com/photo/2007/0527/nba_a_wallace2_395.jpg Some pictures just cry out for the Yaysports touch, ha.
In the article about Eric Snow, notice that the journalist spells LeBron’s name wrong. I’m not saying that this is representative of the overall intelligence of people from Detroit (Detroitians?), but it probably is.
cavs suck and pistons are going to take it in 5 or 6
almost everyone on the cavs blow except for the manchild, which is the only reason they have an occasional win
Chauncey Billups is averaging over 5 turnovers a game.
In fact, we’d go so far as to say his steely gazes last night were strangely real, as opposed to many of his past ones, which always seemed to be a bit of a show.
So true.
Cavalier, it’s ok! Don’t try to provoke Boney, because when he gets on here he’ll just tell us that Chauncey Billups was Finals MVP and the Lasers have won ….blah blah…zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
If Cavs win game 4, they’re gonna win the series. They realized they should’ve won in Detroit and will get it done in the Palace and again at the Q. If Cavs lose, game 4 they’re done.
I wonder if Billups is losing contract money because of this series.
I’ve changed my mind about signing Chauncey Billups, now I want him. Somebody for Boobie to run circles around in practice.
That being said, every time Billups or Wallace misses, I’m surprised and relieved.
Just logged on to abj.com, thought they had started using you PS work.
JTExperience,
You won’t provoke me until CLE is up in this series 4-2. You see, Chauncey Billups would be welcomed with open arms in CLE, or any other team in the NBA besides maybe PHX. I don’t need to say he was the MVP of the Finals because that’s about as important as the MVP of the All Star game. Noone cares about MVPs of the Finals, everyone cares about what team won, because that’s all that matters.
Detroit is the better team in this series, it’s a shame that going down big on your home floor in Game 4 is the only way to prove this to you guys (besides The Cav, because he doesn’t care).
All the world will be right again once Billups puts up a 20 point night or a 10 assist night. Another shame is that Larry Hughes is hurt again, so if/when DET does win this series, that’ll be the excuse at least half of you guys come up with.
That is all, thank you CLE for ruining my holiday weekend (sweep the Tigs and beat the Lasers), but karma will catch up with you soon enough.
Oh, the Billups stuff was to incite Boney rage. I thought maybe Billups called asked for advice after the game thus revealing the outcome of the game.
My favorite part was when LeBron flexed at Gooden and told him to go “strong.” I bet Gooden was 8 kinds of confused after that. “What is this ’strong’ he talks of?”
Is there any doubt Gooden went home after the game and practiced flexing and saying “go strong” in the mirror? He’ll be breaking that out himself soon.
btw Boney I’d guess the majority of CLE fans are pretty happy with this Larry Hughes development.
Bring on Gibson. Billups hasn’t even faced Snow yet, either. Dude is losing contract dollars with every passing game.
Isn’t Rasheed’s bum ankle the DET excuse for it going 7 last year? Give me a break.
i hate to rain on everyone’s parade, but the pistons are going to win this in 5. there’s no way billups can suck four games in a row.
I thought there was no way he could suck for three games in a row, but here we are. Nothing is impossible! I say if we can put a man on the moon, then Chauncey Billups can suck four games in a row.
We all keep forgetting Chauncey Billups is one of the legendary Greek gods and not just a shoot-first PG who fell into the right system after being horrible for the first 5 years of his career.
Actually the excuse for it going 7 was that your guys couldn’t rebound the basketball, right? What’s the excuse going to be when you don’t win this series? you’ve never been this far?
Why do you keep asking for excuses? That’s weird. Are you talking about last year? When the Cavs didn’t get an important rebound in game 6? I don’t think that’s so much an excuse as it is an admission of fault. We’re all pretty good with the fact that DeeeTroit Basketball was more powerful than our Cavaliers last year, we were shocked as hell that they almost stole that series from the Pistons.
This year the Pistons look beatable. They were very fortunate that the Cavs are a bad shooting team and couldn’t hit the wide open game winners at the Palace (again, not an excuse, a point of fact). The Pistons players keep going on about how badly they are playing and that they aren’t playing well and their level of play has been not good. That sounds like excuses to me. The fact is Detroit is lucky to be winning this series and the Cavaliers are poised to even it up if things stay as they are. I guess that means we can just count on Sheed saying something like “We just ain’t playing good!” after tonight’s game is over. No excuses though, right?
Ah yes, the Pistons magic brick-several-shots-consecutively-and-snag-the-long-rebounds strategy. I don’t recall that being offered as THE excuse so much as it was cited as a frustration.
Actually, with as good as the Cavs played in Game 3 just remember they didn’t win the game until the closing minutes, and you don’t have to admit it, but that fall away jumper Billups hit to make it a 84-82 game with less than a minute to go in the game had some of you saying “oh no, not again!”. The games were all 3 played close so far, so either team could be down 3-0 at this point in the series. It’s not like either team has played spectacular up until this point, so I don’t see how either of the teams look “beatable” when the other team hasn’t at least put all the pieces together to totally dominate 1 of the 3 games played in this series.
CLE’s going to have to play their best game tonight, otherwise it’s going to be a 3-1 series deficit going back to DET.
But hey, what do I know, I’m just a Pistons’ fan.
You don’t see how either team looks beatable when neither are playing well? Ok. Can’t help you.
Chauncey shot 37 percent in the 2006 series. He’s sucked 10 games in a row.
Boney is the master of the “no excuses, but…” followed by multpile excuses.
Sacrilege!
yeah I am master of no excuses but… I guess I need to learn how to use the backspace key!
Love the site Cav! keep it up! You would be #1 on my “blogroll” if I used a 3 column page, but since I’m being cheap I am forced to basically use whatever wordpress allows so now I’ll have to go with the ocean mist 2 column hurting…
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