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The Celtics have done such a great job at minimizing LeBron in this series, that he let out all of his frustration on a slam with about two minutes to go tonight that went over three Celtics including Kevin Garnett. It will be on every highlight reel tomorrow! The last three games of this series will be worth watching -- it's almost like hockey basketball! GO CAVS!!! :tu
RalphS
It was nice and all but I didn't think it was that nice. Maybe I have to see it a few more times. To me it was like most of his dunks. :shrug:
I guess you had to see the whole game to appreciate the significance of the dunk. But he was fouled twice seperately on the way to the rim, and he did blow over the NBA defensive player of the year nanoinches away from that dunk, so to me, it was that nice!!:) We should take a poll: Cavs or Celtics?
I guess LeBron's effort was overshaddowed by the Indians' game nobody watched going on about a thousand yeards away from the Cavs game' -- where Cliff Lee threw nine more innings of scoreless baseball (after 53 2/3 innings he's given up only 4 runs --- ERA: = 0.67) and Asdrubal (can you pronounce that?) Cabera had an unassisted tripple play! :w
RalphS
RalphS, was that on tv? I have a heck of a time catching any Tribe games... ESPN seems to show Boston and NYY almost exclusively nowadays.
The dunk was important to Cavs fans as a cap to the game. However, it wasn't great as far as dunks go.Quote:
Originally Posted by RalphS
I saw both of those on the ESPN highlight reels today. LeBron's dunk was nice (heck, I can't do that), but Cabrera's triple play was...well, weird. I first read about it online, so I flipped ESPN on to see if I could catch it. I was expecting lots of jumping and throwing and heroics, but other than that catch he made on the line drive, the rest was nonchalant. In that respect, it was really cool, actually!
Now let's hope that the Browns and the Buckeyes give us a good football season this year! Cleveland's due for a title! ANY title! PLEASE!!
Not frustrated at all...
I'm a NY Giants/NY Yankees/Michigan Wolverines/Chicago Bulls fan. In other words, I dislike anything Ohio. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by bad4dr
Well...it's been nice knowing you......of course you could appeal your upcoming departure to Don. Oh, maybe not, he lives in Ohio. How about Lynn? Hmmm, no again. He lives around the corner from Don. Guess you're out of luck, New Yawk. Papasmurf...take care of this guy will ya?!?:);)Quote:
Originally Posted by TstebinsB
LeBron didn't actually dunk on the Celtics. That was a media trick - they superimposed a year old replay onto the game coverage. It was the same people that made you think that the Indians were going to beat the Red Sox last year after going up 3-1 and that the Browns were going to beat the Broncos in that - I mean those - games back in the, um, eighies was it? Don't get your hopes up - you'll only be disappointed again. But now that the Browns have Belichek I'm sure they'll win a title.... :w
Both games were on TV, the Tribe was local though. Here's the news highlight from youtube . . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtpSq0HqiEg
Enjoy!
RalphS
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Originally Posted by skiblur
The dunk was not fancy it was the power and the moves to get there and then over the head of the defense player of the year he left them all in the dust grabbing for there shorts.
The dunk was absolutely amazing! I hope Lebron and the Cavs win the series against the Celtics so that the Pistons have a chance to get some revenge from last year's upset. Oh yeah, I'm a Deeetroit Pistons fan. :)
Say, I was at the bar a few weeks ago, and I struck up a conversation with the guy sitting next to me. His name is Kevin Elster, and he played on the '86 Mets. He says hi.Quote:
Originally Posted by loueedacat
P.S. You should see the sweet ring he has!
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Originally Posted by bad4dr
After two world series rings in four years, that just doesn't bum anyone out anymore. What did Kevin think of the Mets' collapse last year - that would be the year that the Red Sox won the World Series......again.
By the way, did anyone see that dunk by Pierce tonight on that one - two with Garnett? :tu
The odds are on the side of the CAVS! GO CAVS! :y
RalphS
I want to comment on this, but somehow feel it just wouldn't be right. :) Great series, great final game. But Pierce may have been the best player on the court yesterday. The one surprise for me in this series was the Celtics were able to address LeBron. Didn't stop him but he wasn't able to take over, and it rarely felt like he was ever going to explode, and that surprised me.Quote:
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If they get LeBron some real support next year he could do something.
Thanks for not rubbing anything in! :)
The CAVS are such a bi-polar team (no offense to any of our bi-polar members!). They played two or three play-off games like one of the best TEAMS of all time, then they played the rest of the games like they didn't deserve to be in the playoffs. LeBron was COLD in the Celtics series, and the Celtics were keying on him -- and we did not adjust. :nono:
Pierce was great -- but I think KG was the reason why the CAVS didn't win earlier in the series. While I think "the trade" was a good one., if we had Kevin Garnett we would be unstoppable.
RalphS
I think the way the Celtics shut down Billups (who granted is rusty) and Rasheed Wallace (who granted is erratic) made the way they "addressed" LeBron look legit. I have to confess that I wondered if their good defense in the regular season would hold up in the playoffs, and it looks like it is holding up, and if they continue to advance, it will be because of their D.Quote:
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I think (exposing myself to ridicule here) that the Celtics will actually handle the Pistons with more ease than expected, even in five games, particularly if Ray Allen remembers how to shoot (I fear his legs are just shot but we'll see), and that will showcase what Cleveland was able to accomplish in pushing it to the limit. But we'll see......I may be regretting saying that tommorrow night even. :eek:
GREIGHT GAME 5 Loudee - - but will somebody tell me why even playoff calibur teams regularly blow almost 20 point leads with only a quarter of a game to go? :shrug:
Despite the BB pundits - I think the NBA champions will be either Boston or Detroit, sorry Kobe!
RalphS
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Originally Posted by RalphS
I would tell you why they blew a 20 point lead, but it stressed me out so much I kept flipping the channel, so I don't really know what they were doing, and am a little surprised they actually held out. They have to address that or someone will get them when it hurts. I think Rondo is growing into a real star, and hopefully he'll handle the next college style press better. Feels like the Celtics really are being made to earn their way back into the spotlight. This has been another fun, interesting series.
loueedie - btw, do you like Lou Reedie?? I do! This time the Pistons blew the leadie!
I predict the Celtics in five games. What sayeth you? :hmmm:
RalphS
I like your thinking! The Lakers scare me, but the Celtics really handled them easily during the year, but of course that was a different Laker team. And the Celtics are a different team than they were a week ago. The truth is I don't really have a feel for this series, and the Lakers have "a guy" like the Cavs did, which creates issues, and Gasol is for real. But I actually will go out on a limb and say I think you are right - Celtics in 5 - because I think the Celtics are hitting a groove and the last two games will turn out to be the first two of several games where the Celtics finally got on a roll like they did during the season when they just ate everyone up.Quote:
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But I could also see this going seven. But in the end, I think the Celtics are just better than the other teams and finally are starting to believe it, and they have desperate veterans playing urgently like this is the most important thing in the world, whereas the Lakers aren't as desperate and maybe just a little to cool and young. I think the old guys will just want this too bad to let the Lakers even get a footing in the series.
We'll see................................