Last night’s Cavs/Spurs game wasn’t pretty to watch as a Cavs fan, especially after watching OSU’s Evan Turner get blocked at the buzzer just an hour or two before. But no big deal I say, because the Lakers also lost last night to the Thunder in an ugly one.
Kobe and the rest of the Lakers combined to score just 75 points, shooting an awful 39% from the field. At least the Cavs can feel somewhat good about our loss to the Spurs because, A) we only lost by 5 points and B) were without Varejao the entire 2nd half.
Our frontcourt played a solid game against the San Antonio vets, with LeBron scoring 27 points/10 assists, Jamison putting up 24 points/9 rebounds, and Hickson adding 20 points/8 rebounds. Solid numbers considering most nights it’s only LeBron in that group who scores over 20. It was interesting to see some of the lineups we had last night since Z is back in the rotation. Powe is essentially a benchwarmer now, but still saw minor action last night. I saw Jamison playing the 3 spot at times last night, which I thought was interesting, and apparently effective since he put up above average scoring numbers as a Cavalier. I don’t know if that will always be the case, but Mike Brown seems to like sliding Jamison to the 3 and has spoken about doing that since day 1 of The Trade.
Varejao left the game pretty early on last night and didn’t return. It’s apparently a hamstring issue, and he’s been listed as questionable for tomorrow’s matinee game against the Kings at home. That game is also the first time Z will be playing at the Q since The Trade, and you can guarantee that the home crowd will go nuts for Z when he checks in that game. I can’t wait to see it.
As far as the frontcourt/backcourt balance in Cleveland is concerned, there needs to be more of it. Plain and simple. AP and Mo need to step it up on the offensive end if we want to get to the Finals. AP is basically just a spot up 3 shooter, nothing else in our offense. And Mo keeps putting up games of like 2-10 and 2-7 while scoring 6 points or something. That won’t get it done. I’m a huge Mo fan and I like AP, so I’m gonna stick with em and root for them to get out of their slumps, but it’s getting down to the wire and they really need to make it happen.
2K10 News: hated Garnett, too old and too slow. Varejao doesn’t translate to video games well at all. I traded them both for Greg Oden and Kurt Thomas, made Oden the starter at the 5 and made Jason Thompson my starter at the 4. 6-2 record right now. I’m liking it so far.
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