cleveland fans

The Cavs fans believe they have a chance for the same reason Spurs fans believe they don't.

If I were a Cavs fan, I'd think the team had a chance. Why bother watching if you don't think your team can pull off a miracle or rise to the occasion? Anybody with knowledge of sports knows that anything can happen in a game. If the Spurs come in thinking that they just need to show up and win their fourth title they'll probably end up losing. Fortunately they should be mature and smart enough not to let that happen, which is what the Spurs fans believe.

I will tell you why you don't need to worry about the Spurs coming in thinking they just need to show up.

1) they just watched the Pistons do that;
2) they already had the series where it should/could have happened: Utah.

Spurs look awfully focused to me, they just don't look like any team is going to beat them. They remind me of the Lakers back when Phil was taking them on that consecutive ring journey. I thought Utah tried valiantly, yet they only managed to win one game. Utah has a way better coach than Cleveland and there are theoretically better starting 5 players on the Jazz (although it appeared a couple of them had already planned their summer vacation, as Boozer noted), and they have Derek Fisher coming off the bench. That series might have been a little tougher for SA if Fisher did not have the distraction of his daughter's cancer. I did not observe the Spurs let up except maybe a little in the one game they lost, but it wasn't very much.

And lest they forget: Cleveland does not have a coach that runs the triangle offense, they don't have a Dennis Rodman, they don't have a Scottie Pippen, they don't have a Steve Kerr, they don't have a clone of Michael Jordan, and their coach's name is not "Phil Jackson". So stop thinking you are the reincarnation of the old Chicago Bulls.