Good thing I'm not on the Cavs. Unless I'm Damon Jones in disguise!
I'm not. And I do suck. But I figure since the Cavs, you know, advanced in the playoffs and are in line to play the regular season champs, I should probably add in my 2 cents.
As for the Wizards. Boy, they sure managed to add some drama to a series that was never in doubt, huh? Lebron said it best:
Cleveland is advancing. That speaks louder than me saying anything about the fans here or DeShawn Stevenson. It was a gruesome series, there were a lot of things going on in this series besides basketball and it was fun.
Now it's on to the Celtics. The suddenly-can't-win-in-a-hostile-environment-Celtics.
So what's it going to take for the Cavs to advance once more? Well, without getting into a full rundown of our earlier matchups, a look at the rosters, and an examination of how we're playing vs how they're looking (that's for tomorrow... when I have more than 4 minutes), let's just say the Celtics aren't looking so tough right now. Sure, they won Game 7 in a convincing fashion, but how shocked if everybody that the Hawks managed to take 3 games? By Game 6, nobody could excuse the Celtics the way they do the Pistons or Cavs, saying they were unfocused. This Celtics team is the one that played on full throttle for the first 82 games of the season; suddenly they're taking it easy in the playoffs?
Clearly, they're vulnerable. The biggest weakness in team defense was their inability to stop the great Joe Johnson. Only, good as he is, Joe Johnson pales in comparison to the bigger, stronger, just as fast, but a little worse from outside the paint Lebron James. With any help at all from the supporting cast, Lebron should be able to throw out his full assortment, keeping the Cavs close throughout each game and putting us over the top in crunch time, when nobody on the Celtics can match up.
I don't think anybody expects this to be a quick or easy series for either side. And for all the talk about the great western conference, is their a series this year that will garner more attention than this one? At the very least, if the Cavs fall behind in the series, we can expect Lebron to get to the line 30 times, but if we steal one early, we'll probably face the same uphill battle where everything goes against us.
Let's take a closer look tomorrow. For now, I'm pooped.
Go Cavs!
1 comments:
It's simple to me. All the Cavs have to do is win ONE game in Boston. That's it. One. If the Celtics can's win an environment packed with people that didn't even know who the Hawks were three weeks ago, how are they going to play in a rabid building filled with fans dying for a title???
Cavs in 6 after stealing game 1 and winning each game on our court.
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