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Re: Cavaliers (4-2) @ Orlando (2-3)
The Magic inbounds the ball to Nelson. He dribbles but the ball is stolen and Marshall holds the ball and runs out the clock. Cleveland wins 108-100 in OT.
The Cavs outscored the Magic 20-12 in OT.
The Magic inbounds the ball to Nelson. He dribbles but the ball is stolen and Marshall holds the ball and runs out the clock. Cleveland wins 108-100 in OT.
The Cavs outscored the Magic 20-12 in OT.
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So this one started well. First off, credit to the Magic for playing hard down 17 and making the best of the players they got. I way underestimated Dwight Howard, who has improved a lot since last year, look for this kid to be good.
The second half was ugly, up 17 at the half, we should have seen a lot more off the bench, but nope, the Magic came back. It seems the Cavs went away from Lebron a bit in the 2nd half, and the team didn't really flow or click that well. On D, we gave up some 3 pointers yet again, the Magic finished 50% from beyond the arc.
It was nice to see the Cavs come up with the big play at crunch time and pull out a close one. Credit Mike Brown with going with the unconventional play to tie up the game, basically, he didn't go to Lebron. The play was pretty much perfectly executed to get Marshall the last shot. The non-Lebron thing continued in the OT, where he didn't touch the ball for the first few minutes, course the rest of the Cavs picked it up then for a relatively easy OT.
The second half was ugly, up 17 at the half, we should have seen a lot more off the bench, but nope, the Magic came back. It seems the Cavs went away from Lebron a bit in the 2nd half, and the team didn't really flow or click that well. On D, we gave up some 3 pointers yet again, the Magic finished 50% from beyond the arc.
It was nice to see the Cavs come up with the big play at crunch time and pull out a close one. Credit Mike Brown with going with the unconventional play to tie up the game, basically, he didn't go to Lebron. The play was pretty much perfectly executed to get Marshall the last shot. The non-Lebron thing continued in the OT, where he didn't touch the ball for the first few minutes, course the rest of the Cavs picked it up then for a relatively easy OT.
Larry Hughes is really looking confortable with his role. He jumps between off the ball with Snow, and more onball with Jones allowing. He is starting to excell there.
Drew Gooden struggled big time after a strong first half. Was benched for the minutes that mattered.
Donyell Marshall continued his steady play at each end, and hit the vital game tieing 3 late in the 4th.
LeBron James failed to take advantage of his matchups. Still was able to accumulate a nice game total, but took some bad options on the way.
Snow had a tough night trying to stay infront of Francis. He did though force Stevie to work hard and was able to make some valuable defensive plays that lead to easy transition baskets.
Ilgauskas was quiet in the first half as James, Hughes and Gooden paced the team. However as the 2nd half wore on he found his offense which was vital as others struggled. Timely early basket in overtime sealed our win.
Jones shot the ball quite well tonight, but again is found wanting on defense. Seen less minutes then expected, but he wasn't a good matchup on Francis.
Henderson and Jackson lacked any spark and therefor were only utitilised for limited minutes.
Pavlovic, Wilks and Hamilton recorder DNP's.
Drew Gooden struggled big time after a strong first half. Was benched for the minutes that mattered.
Donyell Marshall continued his steady play at each end, and hit the vital game tieing 3 late in the 4th.
LeBron James failed to take advantage of his matchups. Still was able to accumulate a nice game total, but took some bad options on the way.
Snow had a tough night trying to stay infront of Francis. He did though force Stevie to work hard and was able to make some valuable defensive plays that lead to easy transition baskets.
Ilgauskas was quiet in the first half as James, Hughes and Gooden paced the team. However as the 2nd half wore on he found his offense which was vital as others struggled. Timely early basket in overtime sealed our win.
Jones shot the ball quite well tonight, but again is found wanting on defense. Seen less minutes then expected, but he wasn't a good matchup on Francis.
Henderson and Jackson lacked any spark and therefor were only utitilised for limited minutes.
Pavlovic, Wilks and Hamilton recorder DNP's.
We should have had this one put away after the half with a 17 point lead. Man donyell came in in the clutch. Thats something that last years team couldnt do. This was larrys best game by far. He did awesome. And we did good in overtime, another thing we didnt do a lot last year
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Nice to manage to pull it out after blowing the big lead. Mike Brown should have called a time out much earlier in the 3rd quarter after the Cavs came out flat after halftime and Orlando was whittling down the lead.
Nice effort from Hughes although he did have a couple of bad unneccesary shot attempts.
What happened to Gooden? Started well than disappeared.
Snow ran the team well and his D helped keep the Cavs in the game.
Z came up big late and the interior D was much better when he was in despite a couple of Howard scores inside.
I don't think LeBron had the greatest game. I'm getting tired of the off balance long range jump shots early in the shot clock. Brown has to get those under control. LeBron's final numbers look good and he did have some big plays but disappeared at times on both ends and the shot selection has to improve. LeBron also played heavy minutes tonight. Guess it's not as easy to control his minutes when you don't have a 20 point lead.
Good teams pull out wins even when things aren't going perfectly so getting this win can be considered a positive.
Nice effort from Hughes although he did have a couple of bad unneccesary shot attempts.
What happened to Gooden? Started well than disappeared.
Snow ran the team well and his D helped keep the Cavs in the game.
Z came up big late and the interior D was much better when he was in despite a couple of Howard scores inside.
I don't think LeBron had the greatest game. I'm getting tired of the off balance long range jump shots early in the shot clock. Brown has to get those under control. LeBron's final numbers look good and he did have some big plays but disappeared at times on both ends and the shot selection has to improve. LeBron also played heavy minutes tonight. Guess it's not as easy to control his minutes when you don't have a 20 point lead.
Good teams pull out wins even when things aren't going perfectly so getting this win can be considered a positive.
Drew Gooden was playing really well, then he made about 3 mistakes in a row and got yanked in favor of marshall. I think the other bigs were playing well enough that Gooden was basically not needed. The thing with Lebron and the fadeaway jumper from 20 feet early in the clock is that its a shot he can hit. Now, we'd all rather see Lebron penetrate, but if he's given space, I have no problem with Lebron putting up the shot. He's shown he can hit it and teams are going to give it to him. And hey, they got W today so really thats all that matters in the end.