Game #78 - Toronto Raptors at Cleveland Cavaliers Game Night Open Thread
by John Bena (aka CavsBlogger) on Apr 6, 2010 5:00 PM CDT
in 2009 Game Day Thread
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2009/2010 NBA Regular Season
VS
38-38 60-17
April 6, 2010
Quicken Loans Arena
7:00PM et
Radio - WTAM 1100 / FSOhio
Probable starters:
Jose Calderon
PG
Mo Williams
Sonny Weems
SG
Anthony Parker
Antoine Wright
SF
LeBron James
Chris Bosh
PF
Antawn Jamison
Andrea Bargnani
C
J.J. Hickson
Could the Raptors and Cavalier be previewing the 1st Round of the Playoffs tonight at the Q? The next 7 days will tell the tale. Toronto has a 1-game lead over the Chicago Bulls for the 8th and final spot in the East. Needless to say Toronto needs this game much more than the Cavaliers do. As for the Bulls, they'll get their shot at the Cavs on Thursday Night in Chicago.
The Cavaliers are equal opportunity destroyers.....
3-in the Key
1. Cleveland owns the NBA‟s best overall record at 60-17 (.779), best home record at 34-4 (.895) and best road record (26-13, .667) and leads the league with highest point differential at +7.3. With the Lakers loss to the San Antonio Spurs on Sunday, the Cavaliers have clinched home court advantage throughout the 2010 NBA Playoffs.
2. The Cavs have won 17 of their last 20 games and is 34-9 (.791) in 2010, which is the best mark in that span, and is the only team to have fewer than 10 losses. The team has won 60-games for the second time in franchise history and became only the ninth different franchise (18 times done) in NBA history to have back-to-back 60 win seasons
3. After going a league-best 66-16 (.805) last season, the Cavaliers could 1.) become the first team since the Chicago Bulls in 1995-96 (72-10) and 1996-97 (69-13) and only the fifth team in the last 19 seasons to have sole possession of the best record in the regular season in consecutive years. The team can also potentially make more NBA history by 2.) holding the best home and road record in a season, 3.) winning 65 games in consecutive seasons and 4.) holding the best home record in consecutive seasons.
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There are some things money can't buy
The feeling I’ll get after this game is over isn’t one of them.
We've never clinched our best possible playoff spot this early, have we?
Our starters had better get an extended rest. Except maybe for the Orlando game. That will be a good opportunity to experiment how we match up with those punks without Shaq.
Why are we only playing an 8 man rotation in the third quarter of this game?
Who cares how this game turns out?
Why is Anderson Varejao playing?
He sat out the last game with a sore hamstring; he has no reason to play in this game
Bosh got injured in the first quarter?
The only thing to make this sadder is if the Raptors had locked up the 8th seed
The Cavs
look magnificent, but what else is new?
Brad James
by the new Bradfather on Apr 6, 2010 7:45 PM CDT reply actions
I Give the Raps
credit for not folding, though
Brad James
by the new Bradfather on Apr 6, 2010 7:51 PM CDT reply actions
If Chris Bosh is in the hospital right now
Then the Raptors are subsequently fucked for the rest of the season. There’s no kind way to say it.
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