Cleveland @ Charlotte

[LyXo]

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Charlotte Bobcats(20-53) VS Cleveland Cavaliers (43-29)

Sun, April 2nd, 2006
6:00pm ET
TV: FSN Ohio, NBALP
Charlotte Bobcats Arena

Head Coaches

Mike Brown / Bernie Bickerstaff

Probable Starters

Eric Snow / Brevin Knight

Ronald Murray / Raymond Felton

LeBron James / Jumaine Jones

Drew Gooden / Gerald Wallace

Zydrunas Ilgauskas / Primoz Brezec

Cavaliers Bench

Damon Jones/Sasha Pavlovic/Anderson Varejao/Donyell Marshall/

Bobcats Bench

Bernard Robinson/Matt Carroll/Jake Voskuhl/Melvin Ely​

lyXo's Keys to the Game

* Last game, we almost lost in overtime, as we were scorched, completely, by Raymond Felton. Now, they have Brevin Knight back in the mix. We must find a way to be able to defend this backcourt with physical play. They are quick but are also small... post up with Flip Murray, throw Steven Graham into the mix even to try to muscle them out of dribble penetration.

* We have a size advantage that we used perfectly last game... for the first half. Take out there starved bigs early by establishing Z in the post. Brezec, Voskuhl... not enough to stop the big guy. Get him the ball.

* Explode on them. LeBron probably has more fans there than the Bobcats do, because of his previous antics while playing there. Give them a show and soon they'll be on our side.

* LeBron James must be able to keep up with Jumaine Jones. He shot 4-13 from the arc last game. It could easily be 8-13 at the home court. We cannot allow him to chuck away, because if he has his mojo going, he'll scorch us.

* Drew Gooden must get involved. He has to prove himself against physical players in Gerald Wallace and Melvin Ely. If he can't hold his own and defeat these foes, then he might have the grand finale of his disappearing acts coming up pretty soon.

This is going to be another tight one. The Cavs will come through though, 108-104.

 

[cavincali]

Damon Jones will shut down Raymond Felton.

 

[cdt]

I hope to hell Felton doesn't play like he did against us last time, that was horrifying. He just carved us up like a butterball.

 

[highplainsdrifter]

The Bobcats play hard. If the Cavs come out sluggish, they could be in trouble. I think the Cavs will come out strong and win convincingly!

 

[PIP]

With Brevin Knight and more importantly GERALD WALLACE playing, this is going to be tough on a back2back..

 

[joma]

Put me under the list of "holy shit theres a game today??"

 

[Dungong]

Charlotte is going to be a team to look out for a few years down. They've had some good drafts, they got a ton of money. They just need a chance to develop a bit. After beating Dallas then Miami, this is the kind of game where good teams win. Can't have any more let downs against sub.500 teams, especially lotto teams without their best player.

 

[PIP]

THE BLACK TUNA is starting to stink again from the 3point line..

 

[cdt]

Hmm we have 30 points with 11 to go in the first according to FSN's scoreboard thing on the tv..

 

[cdt]

Capers is a hater, that was a pure dunk..no foul

 

[cdt]

That dunk was NASTY...whooweee

 

[PIP]

LeBron is damn good... BLACK TUNA not so much...

 

[cdt]

...awaits pip to explode after the donyell missed dunk..

 

[PIP]

Wtf Donyell ?

 

[PIP]

good call CDT :chuckles: