Comments on: Cavs-Celtics Links

By: Tsunami

Tsunami — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 16:30:04 +0000

yeah that left handed floater he made in traffic after the steal brought me to my feet

By: Brandon Hoffman

Brandon Hoffman — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 01:00:41 +0000

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One of the best individual performances in recent memory. I was shaking my head at the mental replay hours later.

By: Brandon Hoffman

Brandon Hoffman — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 00:59:34 +0000

I don’t think Boston played well. They had their moments on offense, but their defensive rotations were a step slow all night.

Hats off to LeBron though. He dominated Boston on both ends. His 38 points were impressive, but his defense was incredible. He was everywhere.

By: Tsunami

Tsunami — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 00:30:42 +0000

I’m sort of surprised with the Celtics attitude towards this loss. Yes, it’s just another loss, and yes, they haven’t been playing well lately, but they played well last night. I mean they out rebounded the Cavs and their offense made the extra pass leading to lots of easy baskets.

The tone of the articles is sort of like, well, Boston’s been reeling, and Cleveland is SUPPOSED to win that game. Really? I didn’t know that the defending champs could chalk up losses to “well they were supposed to win…”

Here’s the scary thing for Boston: Cleveland didn’t even play THAT well on offense. They made shots, but really it was just the defense refusing to give any ground and LeBron refusing to be denied. I’m surprised more people aren’t pointing out how incredible LeBron was. That is probably the most complete game I have seen him play this season. Anyway, the Cavs have played much better all-around games this season, and are capable of a much better performance. Z is very important to the offense, and the Cavs still have the ability to add an all-star with Szczerbiak’s expiring deal. The celtics can’t even pull a deal to get JJ Redick.