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Whizzinators at Cavs Wed. April 30th - Supersized Edition

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Cavs can't close out games, haven't been able to all season. It's not the refs fault. LeBron holding the ball for twenty seconds and firing up a deep three every possession towards the end is not a great strategy. We needed a win here and we let it slip through our fingers because of piss poor execution and effort.

LeBron doesn't understand that he can get what he wants every time he drives yet it's constantly some stupid pull up from 17 feet or a 3.

On a side not if I saw Anderson Vareoscoop right now I'd kick him in the balls.
 
Sangalia turned around. He made no play on the ball and just turned around. Worst call ever.
 
Mike Brown and offense just don't mix.

It's not like he didn't have decent offensive players in there yet he ****ing draws up crappy play after crappy play. Was Eric Snow not around to tell him to get Lebron off the ball?


I just don't buy it. Lebron does that. If it is obvious to us that lebron should be off the ball, it has to be obvious to the 5 pro coaches on the bench that Lebron should be off the ball. Just doesn't seem like Lebron will allow it. What are the coaches going to do in response? take him out?

All I know is watching lebron iso like that makes the Cavs the most excruciating team to watch in the NBA. It's aesthetically awful.
 
I'll be calling for Mike Browns head as long as I have to watch Lebron pound the ball for 20 seconds at the end of games to eat up the clock, only to get a tough shot off. It's only because of Lebron being so incredible that this even works some of the time. Just pathetic end of game management. He should be ashamed of himself.
 
Sangalia turned around. He made no play on the ball and just turned around. Worst call ever.

exactly, thats why its a foul, if he stands there and holds his ground i can understand but he just got in the way and didnt even look at the ball.

also lets not forget... HE SHOULDNT HAVE EVEN BEEN IN THE GAME
 
lebron was like 35 8 and 7. i would hardly call that a terrible effort, however that 3 he took when they were up by 5 was very unwise. was he fouled on that last drive? Probably, but Butler was fouled on the drive that preceded that as well, and there was no call. The refs let these guys play it out like they should. lebron made bad plays down the stretch, but cavs are still up 3-2. it's nothing to get excited about.
 
I'm not worried. We can close this on Game 6.
 
it's nothing to get excited about.

You make great points but it is something to get excited about. We had the game in the bag and if managed correctly would have been an easy win. Now we risk another game where Lebron will take hard fouls and someone could possibly get injured. We don't play well on the road and they clearly are playing better basketball without Gilbert. Now there is a decent chance that this will go to 7 games.
 
Nice choke job by the Cavs. Pathetic performance.

I put all the blame on Mike Brown and LeBron. How much longer do we have to suffer with this BS grade school level offense before something is done. Defensively the Cavs played more than good enough to win this game.
LeBron continually stopped the offense all game long. Standing still and dribbling down the shot clock and stopping any movement. It led to poor shots and desperation shots. Move the damn ball!!
One thing to note is LeBron deserves some blame for the offensive problems we've seen the last 3 years. Stops the ball like he did tonight and doesn't always move or know how to play without the ball in his hands. Of course by now the coaching staff should work to correct these problems.

Blew a great chance to finish off this series and get rested and prepared for the next round. Cavs will win this series but just made the playoffs tougher for them then they had to be.
 
Look guys....This was a bad game....Pretty bad....We lost and my boy played awful.....But we need to fight back in next game....We are still up 3-2 and they think now that maybe can beat us....We will go forward and win in DC.....
 
Worst loss of the LeBron era BY FAR.

Cavaliers up 5 WITH the ball AT HOME with 1:30 to go and still lose...

Lets go over the last few possessions shall we?

Possession 1: Up 5 with 1:37 to go. Mike calls the infamous LeBron iso at the top. LeBron pounds the entire clock and shoots a contested 3 that badly misses.

Possession 2: Up 3 with 1:05 seconds to go. We run LeBron iso again. Again he pounds the clock down inside 5 seconds, drives right and kicks to a semi open Gibson who misses the 3. Smith fouls Daniels on the rebound.

Possession 3: Up 1 with 43 seconds to go. WE RUN LEBRON ISO AGAIN!!!!!!! LeBron drives it and kicks to the corner, ball gets passed around several times before finally going to Joe with about a second left on the clock. He has to hurry his shot and misses. Z tries about 8 tips instead of just grabbing the ball.

Cavs lose.

I'm sick.
 
Worst loss of the LeBron era BY FAR.

Cavaliers up 5 WITH the ball AT HOME with 1:30 to go and still lose...

Lets go over the last few possessions shall we?

Possession 1: Up 5 with 1:37 to go. Mike calls the infamous LeBron iso at the top. LeBron pounds the entire clock and shoots a contested 3 that badly misses.

Possession 2: Up 3 with 1:05 seconds to go. We run LeBron iso again. Again he pounds the clock down inside 5 seconds, drives right and kicks to a semi open Gibson who misses the 3. Smith fouls Daniels on the rebound.

Possession 3: Up 1 with 43 seconds to go. WE RUN LEBRON ISO AGAIN!!!!!!! LeBron drives it and kicks to the corner, ball gets passed around several times before finally going to Joe with about a second left on the clock. He has to hurry his shot and misses. Z tries about 8 tips instead of just grabbing the ball.

Cavs lose.

I'm sick.
We clearly had their defense guessing...
 
Mike Brown reminds me of this guy.
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I am confused.....

Do you guys really think Mike Brown calls those plays????

I suppose it is possible....but be serious....that would be like a finance professional only knowing how to do basic addition....it's highly unlikely.

If the argument against Mike B. is that Lebron WON'T run his offense, or listen to anything he says offensively, and therefore, in order to reel Lebron in so we run a fluid offense, we need a different coach, I hear you.....

After this game, I want to know what was said in those huddles w/ MB. You think MB won't let himself be "mic'd up" to hide his inadaqucies (sp?)?
 
no offense but this isnt like the lebron ISO doesnt work. maybe i missed something but im pretty sure the lebron iso the last 3 years in the playoffs has won the cavs 6 games against the wizards alone. they went with what works. lebron shoots 45% and he took two shots (meaning on average he hits one), and the other shot went to the 2nd best shooter on the court for the cavs (boobie). you can complain about the coaches and lebrons effort all you want but this comes down to the cavs not hitting their shots, joe smith being dumb, and the refs deciding at the end to not call anything after they called everything for about 5 minutes.
 

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