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I'm actually not to upset with this game. Orlando is playing out of their minds right now and I doubt they will have a repeat performance like this. I think in the long run this game is important for the cavs. They needed a taste of humble pie after cruising through most of the games. We haven't won a championship yet folks and the sooner the cavs realise this the better they can become. In the grand scheme of things this is just another loss so the score doesnt really matter to me.
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They needed a taste of humble pie after cruising through most of the games. We haven't won a championship yet folks and the sooner the cavs realise this the better they can become. In the grand scheme of things this is just another loss so the score doesnt really matter to me.
Agreed, this should be a nice wake up call for them.
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This is just embarrassing, down by 34. We don't stand a chance in the playoffs is this keeps up. 
 Relax man, we are 36-1 at home and we barring LB going down for the season, we are gonna have home court locked up till the NBA Finals..
With the playoffs two weeks away, this team is having some serious mental lapses, something that is very common in the NBA, even with the elite teams..
This actually could be sort of a blessing since the playoffs do not start for two weeks. This will show the team they aint as great as they thought they were.. sometimes a team needs that dose of reality..
Next Friday we play at Philly.. I have a feeling that game is going to tell us a lot about our team...
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I understand the whole wake up call and all that, but the fact of the matter is that we have the best record in the NBA and are down 40 freakin points right now.
No team needs a wake up call that bad. I am so geeked about what we have done this season, but the last 2 nights have been absolutely embarrassing.
We have eaten up the weaker teams, but most of our losses have been against the elite teams of the NBA. That does not bode well for the playoffs.
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Rashard Lewis is a great shooter and he's had alot of open shots but he's not going to go 5/7 from 3 pt. range every night. It's just one of those nights, these things happen when you play 82 games.
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I keep tellin' u guys...Orlando's not the team we want in a 7 gamer...
We're just out of gas...Totally...Still don't change the fact Orlando's our toughest chore if they beat Boston...
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The problem is, this isn't a freak night. Orlando, and to a lesser extent, Boston and Los Angeles, match up with us perfectly to exploit our weakness: We can't stop a good center and we don't have strong post game against good centers. It's been our weakness all year.
LBJ is shooting 2:1 outside shots to lane shots. We will never win a championship if he tries to win it as a jump shooter.
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We have eaten up the weaker teams, but most of our losses have been against the elite teams of the NBA. That does not bode well for the playoffs.
Thats easy to say when you've only lost 15 games. Go back and look at our schedule, maybe half of our losses have been to elite teams. lost to Washington twice, Indiana once, Detroit once, Altanta once, Miami once, and Chicago once.
And let us not forget no team in the East has a better record against the West than the Cavs.
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I keep tellin' u guys...Orlando's not the team we want in a 7 gamer...
We're just out of gas...Totally...Still don't change the fact Orlando's our toughest chore if they beat Boston...
Agreed. Pray that match up round one with Detroit, who they can't seem to beat. 
We just don't have an answer for a dominant center like Howard. We have to double or triple him which leaves their 3 pt shooters open. And they can leave Howard to handle James in the paint and they don't have to leave our guys open outside, so they have more trouble knocking down shots.
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We have eaten up the weaker teams, but most of our losses have been against the elite teams of the NBA. That does not bode well for the playoffs.
That's kind of an odd statement... I mean, the team can't win every game, so are you saying you would rather have us blow some games we should win, then win a few that maybe we aren't favored to win on the road?
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We shot sub 40% 2 games in a row.
I ask all the critics when was the last time this team played like that? I understand it isnt a good thing that we played like that last night but in the geater scheme of things it will be a good thing. The thing that I dont not like is that MB thinks he can tinker with the rotation every night. Rookie or not, Hixson should have been getting more time getting ready for the playoff run. We miss Ben inside badly.
You cant beat a bad team shooting 35% let alone orlando. The Cavs board is a joke. Cleveland fans are ridiculous. Cant appreciate anything good because they are always ready to slit their wrists over a loss.
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We just don't have an answer for a dominant center like Howard. We have to double or triple him which leaves their 3 pt shooters open. And they can leave Howard to handle James in the paint and they don't have to leave our guys open outside, so they have more trouble knocking down shots.
No, doubling Dwight Howard is why we lose to Orlando. I'd much rather let Dwight get his points in the paint instead of giving up wide open threes all night. Our perimeter D isn't quick enough to double Dwight and then rotate to cover four guys spread out over 40-some feet of three-point arc.
Over the last couple months, we're getting beat down on D the worst when we try to double up guys and leave three-point shooters wide open.
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Finally this day has arrived... Cavs release G Snow CLEVELAND (TICKER) —The Cleveland Cavaliers on Sunday made what the team termed the medically necessary release of guard Eric Snow. Snow suffered what ultimately became a career-ending injury to his left knee just prior to the start of the 2007-08 NBA season. He has not practiced or played this season. “We appreciate all that Eric has done for the Cavaliers both on the basketball court and in the community. Eric is a tremendous competitor,” Cavaliers general manager Danny Ferry said. “He had a very successful playing career and I look forward to watching his broadcasting and coaching careers unfold.” Snow, who turns 36 later this month, averaged 6.9 points and 5.0 assists in 846 games with Seattle, Philadelphia and Cleveland. web page
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I'm glad this team got back on track after temporarily losing their minds for 2 games.
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ya know, for all the talk about how the west is so much better than the east, could the lakers have an easier road to the finals? seriously.
ginobili out for the year, if you haven't heard, playoffs included. their chances of shocking the nba world were slim to none anyways, but now there is absolutely no threat to the lakers until the finals come. book it, the los angeles lakers are your western conference champions.
and you can look at it 2 ways, depending on the source (lolz)
does their easy road come back to haunt them? if its cavs/lakers, the cavs will have a pretty intense, physical series with most likley boston or the magic, prior to the finals (or if the cavs don't make it, the mag/celts will have 2 battles, one with each other, one with the cavs)
or, you can say that the lakers get their rest and are ready to go for the finals.
guess it begs the question, would you rather get to the championship game, rested and healthy, or battle tested, and maybe a little sore and banged up (nobody missing any time, or anything)
i would take battle tested.
i think an intense series with boston would bode well if the cavs made the finals.
after the 7 game series with the cavs, the celtics were able to really cruise, win a few road games, and bring home the trophy.
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I don't think that's what he meant. I think he's looking at our record vs. the rest of the league compared to the other 3 elite teams (Celtics, Magic, and Lakers) and I believe our record against them is something like 1-4... For a team expecting to be competing for an NBA Title, let alone getting out of the East alive, we need to perform better on the road, but most importantly just overall against the rest of the NBA's elite...
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Doesn't really matter what was meant... The bottom line is that it's an NBA season, and the team is going to lose some games.. You have to decide, would feel better about the team blowing a higher number of games vs. teams they should beat, or lose the games against the tough teams?
I believe that right now, we have the 2nd best record in the league vs. teams with a +.500 record..
Its a very simple question... You should also look at Boston's run to the title as a great example.. If you don't remember, they didn't win on the road till their 3rd series of the postseason... The bottom line is that home court advantage is still the most important thing in this league... oh yeah, and if you some of you guys forgot, "playoff LB" is a whole different player...
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Doesn't really matter what was meant... The bottom line is that it's an NBA season, and the team is going to lose some games.. You have to decide, would feel better about the team blowing a higher number of games vs. teams they should beat, or lose the games against the tough teams?
I believe that right now, we have the 2nd best record in the league vs. teams with a +.500 record..
Its a very simple question... You should also look at Boston's run to the title as a great example.. If you don't remember, they didn't win on the road till their 3rd series of the postseason... The bottom line is that home court advantage is still the most important thing in this league... oh yeah, and if you some of you guys forgot, "playoff LB" is a whole different player...
the cavs, in general, are completely different in the playoffs. and that's the scary thing.
the whole record versus the lakers, celtics, and magic is just a reason to drop them in the power rankings. nothing more.
so most of their losses have come at the hands of the nba's elite, on the road? big deal? it takes a great team, at home, to beat us? wow. who would have thought?
it doesn't worry me one bit. mike brown ALWAYS has his guys ready for the playoffs. no run outs. no easy buckets. we take care of the ball, we look to score in the paint.
we saw cavs teams that would get blown out by the pistons in the regular season, only to see them really go toe to toe with them in the playoffs, when detroit was clearly the better team.
with that said, i want blood tonight. washington acted like they had won a playoff series last thursday.
seriously. you're a lottery team, start acting like it. wow, you beat the cavs, you're still not going to the playoffs. i really hate that team. there isn't a bigger set of whiny underachievers in the league. there really isn't. not even close. at least the clippers don't run their mouths.
as far as home court is concerned, i still think we are going to win it. la goes into portland on second night of back to back friday. keep your eyes on that one, although i have said i have a feeling the lakers will win. but they will drop one more before the season is over.
the only game left that scares me is at indiana, and that's because they have played us extremely tough twice this year, once coming away with a victory (even though we were jobbed)
we should beat boston, we should beat philly twice, washington tonight, and indiana i believe is the wild card, the biggest game left on our schedule.
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I agree ... any road game scares me at this point, and Indiana, for whatever reason, plays the elite teams tough. Not to mention, it comes a day after the Boston game for us. A big trap game for sure.
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It's too bad this wasn't the final game of the season. I've come to enjoy seeing the Wiz off to the off-season every year.  Now for the three games I'm worried about ... @ Philly, which should be TOO much trouble, but you never know with this team and away games. Home at Boston, although I think they are without KG still ... and then the @ Indy trap game.
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At this point, I don't think there's any way we lose home court, not with a 4 game lead with 4 left. I think it plays to our advantage to NOT have home court in the finals. With the 2-3-2 setup, if we can steal one of the first two and then home for three straight...I've never like that setup because it's too easy to lose home court.
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WOW, that is a really good point NDU  good post KING
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FYI, No team has ever won all three middle games...
Make no mistake about it, HC in the finals is HUGE...
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you can go either way on the homecourt for the finals.
i'm not a huge fan of the 2-3-2 setup, but i understand. it's probably better for the game that these guys aren't making cross-country flights before the biggest games of their lives.
the important thing is that we have homecourt over boston or orlando.
i still think we're gonna get it over LA too, but if we don't no big deal. it's not the end of the world, i have more confidence in us going into the staples center and winning a game than i do into the garden.
but how nice would it be to have game one of the nba finals in your own backyard? and having a game 7 at the q, in your back pocket, if you need it, as well.
i love some of these radio personalities who are pasting any fan or media person who wants homecourt.
brinda was all over anyone who mentioned cavs and homecourt...
he gave you the whole "well jordan didn't need it, if you're great you don't need it" while at the same time blasted someone at the station for mentioning the cavs in the same breath as some of the early bulls teams.
it may seem unimportant now, but when you lose like we did last year to boston, i don't know about anyone else, but i still have a bad taste in my mouth, like if that game had been played in the q, maybe pierce gets called for that loose ball foul, maybe pj brown doesn't knock down that clutch shot, who knows.
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Make no mistake about it, HC in the finals is HUGE...
I feel you. But there haven't been many teams in NBA history that are as good at home as we are.
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The bottom line is that we are the best home team in the NBA, thus if we can have 4 games at home in a series vs. 3, you take the scenario where you have more games at home, period.
Doesn't matter how you slice it, this team plays with a different confidence at the Q.. Also, with the way the NBA refs favor the home team, I think it is EXTREMELY important....
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Make no mistake about it, HC in the finals is HUGE...
I feel you. But there haven't been many teams in NBA history that are as good at home as we are.
miami won all 3 a few years ago. i believe dallas won games 1 and 2, and miami took the next 4.
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WOW, that is a really good point NDU good post
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Well, there you go. Even if it hadn't been done, I think we would've been the first. But since it has, that makes me feel a little better about it, if we do lose HC in the finals.
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I meant to say no "home team" has won all 3....
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I meant to say no "home team" has won all 3....
i believe they were the home team, that was the year dallas ran away with the best record.
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No you are right... Dallas had home court that year... Even though they were like the 4 seed or something, they had a better record than the Heat in the regular season...
07 was the year they won 67 games and lost to GS in round 1...
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Miami was at home for those three games
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No you are right... Dallas had home court that year... Even though they were like the 4 seed or something, they had a better record than the Heat in the regular season...
07 was the year they won 67 games and lost to GS in round 1...
that's right, i always get that confused, it's not often you choke like that.
but yeah, miami won all 3, even though the refs pretty much decided that one. it's funny how people whine about lebron but he doesn't get half the calls wade gets. game 4 might have been one of the worst officiated games in the history of the league.
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In a 2-3-2 HC IS HUGE...Make no mistake about it...Even if we "Steal" one in LA...We're guaranteed to go back to LA for games 6 and 7...Wouldn't get any harder than that...
We're both solid road teams...We can both win on the others court...Odom played over his head when they beat us in Cleveland...He might do that ONCE in a 7 gamer...
Yeah...We need HC as much as LA does...I LMAO at these ESPN guys spewin' the BS about it's MORE IMPORTANT for Cleveland to have HC...Bron & Kobe both know it and want it...
All I gotta say is Brown best not rest these guys before it's wrapped up...And if it's even whispered Bron best step in and stop it...If we need it come the last game...Bron and Mo go 45 a piece...NO QUESTIONS ASKED...
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I could not agree more DinD.... Winning a game 7 on the road at Staples would be more than a bear...
With the officiating the way it is in the NBA for home teams, as well as having Kobe on his home floor....
I just hope LB comes out aggressive tonite... When he comes out aggressive on the road, the rest of the team follows... This game tonite is huge... I really think that if we can snag tonite, the team's road confidence will be back where it needs to be.. No need for the BS relaxed approach where we try and flip the switch in the 2nd half...
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by monday night, we'll know where the cavs will be sitting for the playoffs...
at philly tonight, boston sunday, and at the pacers monday.
i'm gonna have my eye on the lakers/blazers game tonight too. portland is playing well, hopefully they can pull this out, they are a pretty tough team at home.
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