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John Krolik, In Your Opinion Who Has The Advantage?
Cleveland Or Orlando?
Dwight Or LeBron?
Magic mean business, building up a lead
Cavs came back with 5 pts to close the quarter
How can anyone be aggressive with how unpredictable the refs have been during the series?
The CAVS are not getting on the perimeter and defending the three point line shooters. Worrying about Howard and getting burned and getting out rebounded at half time.
eu fui na disney e vi orlando madic e boston cestics e eu gostei bastatendo do basquete americano e pelo orlando
The stats are revealing of the CAVS inability to defend. It’s either defend Howard or defend the shooters. There is a half of basketball and from my experience this lead will be wiped out in the second half. Only if they hustle and rebound.
Cavs
FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A OREB REB AST STL BLK TO PF PTS
17-40 3-9 3-9 6 16 9 1 2 5 10 40
42.5% 33.3% 33.3%
Orlando
FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A OREB REB AST STL BLK TO PF PTS
22-41 7-13 7-9 7 25 13 2 0 6 8 58
53.7% 53.8% 77.8%
What do the CAVS have to do in the second half to get a call? Dwight Howard, while not intentionally, is playing dirty by throwing elbows. Someone please get Reggie Miller off the microphone, I can’t stand to listen to him anymore, especially not in his infomercials
the key to second half is to foul howard. and do not allow orlando easy three pointers.
10 personal fouls to 8 is not a huge disparity so i do not see a huge disparity to say can they get a call.
If Lebron James is the MVP of the league he will not allow is team to bow out without a fight.
Reggie Miller was once show time. A clutch shooter and a great performer. I have no problem with listening to Reggie Miller. He is an all-time great.
worst message board EVER!
so much for a MVP? I can’t belive lebron is being compared to kobe!
The Magic must continue to pressure the Cavs, they don’t need a repeat of game five by letting Lebron do what he wants to do. I am not watching the game but I am sure it’s exciting.
I think LA has seen an ORL prototype earlier in the playoffs: the Rockets.
If LA executes the way it did in the Denver series and the Lakers’ bigs play hard-nosed basketball for 48 mins, I don’t see any reason why LA will lose that series.
WHAT MORE DOES LeBron HAVE TO DO TO WIN A CHAMPIONSHIP? I said, “I guess he’ll have to fly”. COME ON CAVS LETS GET THIS..
Lebron James has very little talent on his team as oppose to the magic’s better shooting team. well it can be done. its all or nothing for Lebron….the mvp of the league….here comes the fourth quarter.
LeBron is a LIL over rated… if he having a bad nite he does not still help his tteam in a diferent way like kobe
the Cavs need is a big man to complement LeBron. they were swept by Duncan and the Spurs, were spent in a 7game series against DPY Garnett last year, and D12 manhandled CLE’s bigs this series.
If Cleveland gets Shaq like they were trying to do before the all star game, and quality point guard…would that make Lebron want to stay????
Lebron James can’t have a c ring in his life thats for sure
Looks like Cleveland’s season is over!!
they don’t even need to have a quality PG. they’re backcourt is fine. i think Shaq will be a nice addition, especially with a distributor like LeBron but health will be an issue.
Cleveland wasn’t that good, they just hadn’t played anybody who wanted to win. Detroit didn’t believe they could beat them, Atlanta was scared of Lebron.
lebron is 6’8 260 pounds he is the big man lebron needs to get a post game he’ll put mor epressure on a defense in the post he’s not championship caliber at the point forward
dear Lebron, get out of Cleveland ASAP! u will never win a ring as long as Z is your teams big man. he is TOO SLOW and TOO SOFT!!!
LeBron is doing more than any one player should have to do, when he supposedly have a team behind him!!
The problem with the Cavaliers is they’re asking the guards to do more than they can. Mo Williams is a career 15.6 pts/5 asst per game player. Delonte West is a career 10.6 pts/2 asst per game player. Now you asking Mo Williams to score 24 pts per game and West to pump out 20 pts per game. Combined during the regular season, they averaged 25 points per game now you expect them to score 40 points per game. NOT GOING TO HAPPEN!!! Verejo is a JOKE (Joakim Noah, anyone???) Ilgauskas is on his last leg too. He’s old and can’t guard D. Howard at all!! So what does Cleveland have to offer? If they were to make it to the finals, they would get beat in 6 games by a hungry determined L.A. team. Cleveland needs to get better quick or else they can say BYE BYE BRON this time next year!!!
The Cavaliers is taking a horibble beating/Just like the one they gave the Hawks.
Shaq played pretty good at the end of the year and waz healthy
Yeah I was looking forward to LeBron and Kobe meeing in the finals, but that is not gonna happen.
If he wants to be known as the best player in the game he should have to do a lot. What shouldn’t a player have to do on the court? When Mike retired Scottie Pippen lead the Bulls in every statistical category, did you see Kobe at the end of game 3 in Denver, he was barely able to stand, MJ enough said. To win a championship you do whatever it takes.
LeBron has to be thinking….
2007 – lost NBA Finals 4-0 to San Antonio Spurs
2008 – lost Eastern conference semi-finals 4-3 to eventual champions (1 seed) Boston Celtics
2009 – lost Eastern Conference championship 4-2 to 3rd seed Orlando Magic
What else does LeBron have to do to win a championship?? Dwayne Wade has a ring, Garnett and Pierce have rings, Kobe has 3 rings. Tony Parker has 3 rings. LeBron peaked in Cleveland and now he needs to move somewhere where he knows he can win a championship.
NIKE is kicking themselves in the grASS for all those stupid puppet commercials!! If you want to motivate an opponent’s team (by blantantly disrespecting them), make a series of brand commercials and watch the team you’re rooting for (and your marketing strategy) go up in smoke!!! LOL!!!!
Cle 79
Orl 98
Why do announcers hate Cleveland? Yes, Dwight Howard is good and is dominating the Cavs singlehandedly, but the Cavs earned their place in this series. Announcers need to stop hating all the time. We never win championships. Shut up Boston, your curse was WEAK!
what u all think of J.J Redick..think he will improve and be successful in the NBA
What a beating the Cavs are taking!
LA is in for a long 2 weeks. Orlando dominated them this season.
MAN CANT NOBODY SAY THEY DIDN’T CHEAT IT’S EVIDENT AND FOR THE RECORD THEY DIDN’T WIN SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The real MVP is in the Finals no King, the Black Mamba thats wats up
LeBron worked realy hard. He deserved better than what is is getting. He need to get the heck away from the Cav’s
LBJ – time to pack up and leave CLE. I’m sure the Magic would take you on board lol! Man, Monday is gonna be fun at work!
Are they trying to get LBJ to leave. Were is the help? Mo Williams was great in the reg. season but turned into a choke artist when in mattered most. He couldnt out shoot Lebrons puppet. Big Z looks like a big dud he couldn’t out run Charles Barkley in a race for Krispy Kreme. Another sad day for the MVP!
The Lebron isnt going to the Finals because he doesn’t have the team around him that can support him. And by support I don’t mean being his hype men on the bench I mean doing their part on the court. There were coaching mistakes and well as absolute awful play by the Cavs players. I don’t blame Lebron not one bit if he does leave Cleveland. They should have been traded Wally, Z should retire and Boobie with his toe and back spasms needs to go also. I guess Kobe will be getting his ring without Shaq after all. And no I won’t be watching the finals this year I dislike both the Lakers and the Magic.
So much for the “chosen” one. Ha!
Another year like this and it will be Lebron doin work for the Knicks.
Oh boy, the Lebron – NY thing is just going to get even bigger
Orlando sucks. They are just going to get POUNDED by the Lakers. Go home Magic fans. The dream is OVER
stir it up