Game 33 | Cavaliers @ Wizards Jan 4th, 1:00PM (ET)

[ChicagoCavFan]

AT

Sunday, January 4th, 2009
1:00 pm ET, Verizon Center (aka, the Phone Booth), Washington, DC

TV: FSN Ohio HD, Radio: WTAM 1100

RECORDS
Cavs: 27-5 (1st in Central, 2nd in Eastern Conference)
Bullets: 6-25 (Last in Southeast, Dead Last in Eastern Conference)

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HEAD COACHES

Mike Brown
REGULAR SEASON
W 171 L 106 (.617)
POST SEASON
W 26 L 20 (.565)

Ed Tapscott
REGULAR SEASON
W 5 L 14 (.263)
POST SEASON
W 0 L 0 (.000)

PROBABLE STARTERS

Cavs          Wizards 

  PG   

  Mo Williams            Mike James

   SG   

Delonte West           Nick Young

   SF   

LeBron James           Caron Butler

   PF   

Ben Wallace            Antawn Jamison

   C   

Anderson Varejao   Dominic McGuire

BENCH

Cavs

Boobie Gibson|Tarence Kinsey|Sexiness|J.J. Hickson|Lorenzen Wright|Sasha

Bullets

Juan Dixon|Etan Thomas|DeShawn Stevenson|Darius Songaila|Andray Blatche|Javaris Crittenton|JaVale McGee

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Injury Report

Cavs

Eric Snow - PG, Knee, Soon to be retired

WIZ

Gilbert Arenas - SG, Perpetually Injured
Brenda Haywood - C, Surgery, Right Wrist, Out 4-6 weeks

Ladies of Washington

Game Notes

COMING SOON

ARTICLES

COMING SOON

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CCF'S PREDICTION
Cavaliers - 2009
Wizards - 0
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["MVP"]

It is amazing how in the NBA, you can have a great young team of Arenas, Hughes, and Jamison and be named coach of the year, the next year, still considered a top 3 coach in the NBA, the next year a top-10 coach, who everyone see's making a playoff comeback against the Cavs, who this is the third year they play them in the first round, losing that series, then getting fired. The NBA is a strange place. So basically, a great coach can turn into an awful coach in a matter of 3 years. I still respect Eddie Jordan, and hope that he finds a new place to coach in the NBA, but one without the ass-hole trio of Stevenson, Gaywood, and Blatche. Actually, there whole team are all jerks except Jamison, Butler, and JaVale!

Should be an easy win, but hopefully the Cavs don't have the same mentality they did last time against the Wizards.

 

[Adam]

Eddie Jordan is a reasonabe coach, but the FO in washington just scapegoated him as they messed up the personnel.

He runs a nice princeton style offense and generally does a good job dealing with the players egos

if he can get a good defensive assistant at his next gig his team should do well.

maybe he should phone up OKC?

 

[SanduskyCav]

I hope we can take note from the Celtics and beat this hell out of these guys and not have to scrap for a win this time.

 

[-Akronite-]

Forgot Z on the injury report.

 

[Mr. Glass]

McGuire at center? The 6'8" small forward Dominic McGuire? Oh man, that really makes me wish Z was healthy. I think we win this game with much more ease than on Christmas.

EDIT: Pretty sure they start Blatche at C unless something changed.

 

[abuC]

McGuire at center? The 6'8" small forward Dominic McGuire? Oh man, that really makes me wish Z was healthy. I think we win this game with much more ease than on Christmas.

McGuire has been playing great lately, he's almost like a younge poor man's Ben Wallace in a lot of ways.

 

[xAusT1n]

isnt Z still injured? or was it only one game

 

[King J]

isnt Z still injured? or was it only one game

Yes and he will be out 2-4 weeks.

 

[KU_216]

Let's not allow James to have a career game, please. And I'm certainly not talking about LeBron James.

 

[GilbertForPres]

No Deshawna Stevenson either. He is probobly faking the injury.

http://www.hoopsworld.com/TheWireStory.asp?id=15125

WASHINGTON (Ticker) -- Washington Wizards guard DeShawn Stevenson will miss Sunday's game against the Cleveland Cavaliers due to lower back pain.

Stevenson, who missed Friday's loss to Boston, is listed as day-to-day.

The nine-year veteran is averaging 6.9 points and 3.1 assists in 30 games.

 

[Mr. Glass]

McGuire has been playing great lately, he's almost like a younge poor man's Ben Wallace in a lot of ways.

Fair enough, Size isn't all that matters. Can't say I've watched any Wizards games lately, so I'll have to take your word for it.

 

[KIisKing]

Lets beat the crap out of these magic-less Wizards. Steveson must be faking the injury because he is too scared to play the Cavs.

 

[Da_James_Gang]

No Deshawna Stevenson either. He is probobly faking the injury.

http://www.hoopsworld.com/TheWireStory.asp?id=15125

Shit that can only help them.

 

[Shakalu M.D.]

Shit that can only help them.

Personally I'm thrilled he won't be playing, I can't stand to see him wave his hand in front of his face. Woo, look at me, I'm a career role player at best and I drained a 3. I better wave my hand in front of my face because nobody in this league can keep pace with me