Game 67 | Cavaliers vs. Celtics | March 14, 2010 | 3:30 PM (EST)

[Lebron45]

lol rondo cant shoot

 

[di0p]

Great Job. Cavs by 8.

 

[ncf135]

Go Cavs Go !!!

 

[Vlad]

CONFLICT:

Cavaliers vs Celtics - 3:30
Ohio State vs Minnesota - 3:30

Gonna watch the Cavs on TV at first and find a stream of the OSU game.

Which ever game is more competitive I'll leave on the TV.

 

[wuck]

Windhorst with an early pregame blog:

Cleveland Cavaliers vs. Boston Celtics: Windhorst Beat Blog
By Brian Windhorst, The Plain Dealer
March 14, 2010, 9:25AM

CLEVELAND -- Pre-game from The Q:
Projected starting lineup
Celtics: Rajon Rondo, Ray Allen, Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett, Kendrick Perkins
Cavs: Mo Williams, Anthony Parker, LeBron James, Antawn Jamison, JJ Hickson

Officials
Dan Crawford, Sean Corbon, Tommy Nunez

• Jamison will start after missing Friday's game. The Celtics are fully healthy and that includes Pierce, who missed the last meeting with a thumb injury when the Cavs blew out the Celts in Boston. Speaking of thumbs, it will be interesting to see how the crowd reacts to Glen Davis. He drew ire after appearing to purposely try to hit Shaquille O'Neal's thumb after he had already severed a ligament hacking Shaq a few minutes before. The Cavs players sort of shrugged on the incident but fans have been upset.

• The Shaq injury ended up benefitting the Cavs in the short run against the Celtics. It is well known that Boston has trouble with athletic teams. Their defense, usually strong, seems to lose its teeth when it has asked to move a lot. When Boston can set its defense in the halfcourt they are still one of the league's best. In transition or in constant motion, holes open up. So look for the Cavs to really attempt to push the tempo. Hickson can have a big game if he moves well. While Perkins is a strong post up defender, he's got very slow feet and doesn't move well when he's got to chase. Same goes for KG, whose knee limits his lateral quickness these days.

• Showing how the Celtics have changed/aged over the last two years, Rondo is now the biggest danger to the Cavs. In the '08 playoffs, the Cavs didn't even cover Rondo and it was a strategy that was successfuly enough to get to underdog Cavs to Game 7. Now, it just looks like the Cavs don't cover Rondo at times. He's so fast that he often burns Williams. Playing smaller will help the Cavs on pick-and-roll defense, which is a problem with Rondo. The Cavs have to keep him from getting into the middle every time down the court.

http://www.cleveland.com/cavs/index.ssf/2010/03/cleveland_cavaliers_vs_boston.html

 

[Surge]

My only concern is Mo keeping up with Rondo. I hate this matchup for us... The only thing that should help is that he can play a few feet off of him...

Other than that, I'm as confident as a Cleveland fan can get...

 

[Triumph36]

Very nice thread & I wonder who is gonna be the lucky player to put fat boy Glen Davis on the the ground retaliation for the Shaq.

Probably nobody. We don't exactly have many enforcer-eqsue players other than Shaq and Jackson and Jackson will barely even play (if he plays at all). Gotta hope we meet the Celtics in the playoffs if you want to see a hard foul on him IMO.

CONFLICT:

Cavaliers vs Celtics - 3:30
Ohio State vs Minnesota - 3:30

Gonna watch the Cavs on TV at first and find a stream of the OSU game.

Which ever game is more competitive I'll leave on the TV.

Having two TVs comes in handy on days like these

The ACC & SEC tourney games will be a nice warm-up, too.

 

[moohead]

http://realcavsfans.com/showthread.php?t=25930

There is a postgame show after the game today.

Look for the Celtics to get overly aggressive and try to pound us in the paint and on the boards.
Perkins and Big Baby are going to try to get us to lose our cool by playing dirty basketball. This is a desperate Boston team on the verge of collapse. I really think they have anger management issues.

 

[Clinton91]

http://realcavsfans.com/showthread.php?t=25930

There is a postgame show after the game today.

Look for the Celtics to get overly aggressive and try to pound us in the paint and on the boards.
Perkins and Big Baby are going to try to get us to lose our cool by playing dirty basketball. This is a desperate Boston team on the verge of collapse. I really think they have anger management issues.

:chuckles:

 

[TAS]

I hope we crush them.

 

[BadLabDad]

Very nice thread & I wonder who is gonna be the lucky player to put fat boy Glen Davis on the the ground retaliation for the Shaq.

Extra love for each ligament snapped

 

[BadLabDad]

My only concern is Mo keeping up with Rondo. I hate this matchup for us... The only thing that should help is that he can play a few feet off of him...

Other than that, I'm as confident as a Cleveland fan can get...

Warning: This is a redundant observation.

You know the easy answer to this-we all do.

D-West. Bring the Red Mike Brown.

 

[The Oi]

If you see Darnell Jackson set foot on the floor today, you'll know the result has already been good or that it's just about to be good.

Either way, Big Baby is gonna be sent home from daycare crying.

 

[TheBigAristotle]

Looks like Perkins needs to motivate the Cavs some more

 

[Jay Rhoudi]

We need to do this. All game.