Laker fan here i come in piece! Well sorta…LBJ is guna have to play out his mind to get the team back on track.

Regardless of wether or not yall been missing wide open J’s or not game 4 is a must win. It felt good running through the 1st 2rds huh? Now i see why Lebron wanted Boston instead of Orlando. Take care guys…

So now LeBron doesnt have a team around him???

LOL, howd they win 66 games then?

please

Could this article be any more biased? #1 team #1 coach #1 player in world..etc etc..LOL They cant even beat the Magic at home…Cavs will never win a title with James because its all about “James” and nobody else. As soon as James realizes its a 5 man team maybe he will win a ring.

I would like to comment on some of these points.

“Mo Williams, Delonte West and Z continue to miss open looks.”

Yes, they did; but then, so did Orlando’s shooters. Obviously Turkoglu missed most of his, and although a good deal of them were contested, several were not. Also, the Magic missed many open threes as well, just like Cleveland did.

I haven’t watched many Cleveland games to know this, but I’m wondering how much more wide open were these shooters in their other regular season games. Their other opponents were worse defenders than Orlando, so maybe they were even more open than they are now. Perhaps they’re not used to being semi-wide open? This is just some speculation on my part, though, but I too am surprised at some of those shots they’re missing.

LeBron James doing his best Shaq impression at the line.

LeBron shot 75% in yesterday’s game, which is right at his playoff average and barely below his regular season average. Obviously, playing as many minutes as he does and needing to do everything in the game is going to tire him, which might explain why he shoots less than his regular season average, and also why he missed so many near the end of the game when he was so fatigued (after all, even Kobe missed some free throws at the end of the Lakers’ last game). In any case, it’s not like he hit only 14 of 24, which would actually be Shaq-like. The only reason you felt that he was shooting poorly was that he missed them at the end. I’m sure Magic fans were cursing the fact that he started out 12 of 13 at the line. He just happened to even out the percentages at the end of the game.

“Our defense continues to fail to get fourth-quarter stops.”

This is true. However, it’s even more true for the third quarter. Cleveland has been outscored by 11, 6, and 6 in the third quarters, as opposed to 5, 5, and 5 for the fourth quarters. And being outscored in the third quarter is usually a sign of halftime adjustments, whereas being outscored in the fourth is usually a sign of fatigue.

“Amway Arena was quieter than Walt Disney’s tomb for most of last night. We need to take advantage of it.”

How exactly does a team take advantage of a lack of crowd noise? I have to think that any number of other factors are more important than something professional players shouldn’t even be affected by at all.

“The Cavs continue to play as if they’re the underdogs in the series.”

Actually, I rather think this is something the Cavs should do. After all, if you give a team respect, you tend to play up to the level you perceive them to be at. You really want the players to think: “what a sissy name, the Magic, we should beat them easily”? The Magic are the underdogs in this series, at least in terms of perception, and they’re playing with a sense of being disrespected and it seems to be working for them.

“No one can stop us, and that’s a truth we collectively have to believe in.”

If you believe that no one can stop you, why would you try to play hard? After all, no one can stop you, right?

Tabler and Johnny P good posts, thanks for keeping it on track.

This Chinese deal. Hope they bring the cash to keep “the pride of St V”. If he leaves for the Evil Empire, I’ll have rancid feelings.

Anybody like West’s out of control blown lay up last night?

I feel bad for the guys, especially Z. He’s getting torched.

A couple of comments on your comments:

Mo Williams, Delonte West and Z continue to miss open looks: This was definitely true in game 3. I did not see games 1 and 2 so I will take your word for those games. What was alarming to me was that on most of these shots all of the Cavs were at least 12 feet from the basket and no Cav was in position for any inside shot opportunities or more importantly a rebound. This does not matter if the Cavs are hitting the outside shot, but like in game 3 when they were not, Orlando was getting easy defensive rebounds. Also there is no guarantee that the Cavs will start hitting the outside shot so the Cavs must come up with a different way to score instead of just chucking it up there and hoping it goes in.

One method might be to post up Z, Varejou, and Wallace more, feed them the ball, and have them do some shooting from the post. For as little scoring as they did in game 3 this strategy would not hurt much pointwise, it will help put them in the better rebound position, and if nothing else it may force Howard to play post defense rather than just being a rovering center like he is now.

The Cavs continue to play as if they’re the underdogs in the series: If LeBron does not hit the last second jumper, the Cavs are down 0-3. Of course you can say if Williams hits the last second jumper in game 1 the Cavs are up 2-1. The reality is the Cavs are down 1-2 and are not playing up to their potential as you stated. The Cavs are not out the series, but they have to start playing better on a more consistent basis.

Let’s hope they can beat history here. I dug up some numbers and threw them in a chart…. the outlook isn’t good. Lebron is scoring 37% of the cav’s points. Far too high a share compared to past NBA finalists.

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