• Delonte West was having one of his bad nights. He was sort of out of it from the start and a couple of times just didn't even cover his man in transition. Once, Mike Brown called a timeout because he was so upset when Baron Davis just waltzed in to the basket and West was on the other side of the court. Delonte did not play at all in the fourth quarter and I did not see him after the game in the locker room. This week in a mailbag on Cavs.com, Delonte answered a fan and said that he is bipolar. At the start of the season when he went public in his battle with a mood disorder and depression many people thought that he was indeed bipolar, but as candid as he's been about his struggles this was the first time I had seen or heard Delonte actually say it. This is what he said responding to a question from a teacher who works with boys who have mood disorders:
"I don't get rattled because I practice my exercises to control my temper. I'm very familiar with what you're saying because I was the same type of student. Being bipolar and having anger issues growing up, I'm very familiar with what you're talking about.
You have to counsel your mind and basically, you have to grow up. Anger is always an easy emotion for a young man to revert back to if things aren't going their way. Anger's easy to understand. You have happiness - which you understand. And you have sadness and anger. A baby only understands how to cry when he's hurt or upset - that's the only expression he has."
So the point here is that Delonte is constantly fighting this battle and everyone on the team understands it. There are going to be good days and bad.