LOL Cleveland

[Daddy_Of_All_Trolls]

Both teams deserved the win tonight. East seems like a crapshoot to me. Bulls want to play Boston again. Hawks want to play Cleveland, Celtics/Cavs want to play the Magic..and so on.My guess? I have none. Not even in the west.

[LakerHater]

WTF happened!?!??
They were up 91-85 with 32.5!!!

[mystargtr34]

Wow a Cavs fan who actually shows some respect to the Celts.Say it ain't so.
I agree they won't stay healthy which will mean a much easier finals for the Lakers. You can't matchup with them like we can. The x-mas day game doesn't change that fact.

Why not? They smoked a full strength Laker team on their home floor. I understand Kobe's finger was attached to his hand with super adhesive and his back was probably being held to his lower body using 12 inch metal screws and rods... but it is what it is.

The Cavs match up very well with the Lakers... and i called it before the season began ... Nearly the entire board were bagging the Cavs (including you) saying the Magic and Celtics were 1 and 2 and the Cavs a distant 3rd and that they didnt stand a chance against the Lakers.

[HarlemHeat37]

Why not? They smoked a full strength Laker team on their home floor. I understand Kobe's finger was attached to his hand with super adhesive and his back was probably being held to his lower body using 12 inch metal screws and rods... but it is what it is.

The Cavs match up very well with the Lakers... and i called it before the season began ... Nearly the entire board were bagging the Cavs (including you) saying the Magic and Celtics were 1 and 2 and the Cavs a distant 3rd and that they didnt stand a chance against the Lakers.

[bostonguy]

Why not? They smoked a full strength Laker team on their home floor. I understand Kobe's finger was attached to his hand with super adhesive and his back was probably being held to his lower body using 12 inch metal screws and rods... but it is what it is.
The Cavs match up very well with the Lakers... and i called it before the season began ...

Orlando swept LA in the regular season last year. Pistons DOMINATED Miami during the 2005-2006 regular season. Cavs swept the spurs in the 2006-2007 regular season. How did those regular season winners fare in the playoffs? The xmas game doesn't change anything. Cavs need to prove they can do it during a 7 game series. Then I will admit I was wrong.

Nearly the entire board were bagging the Cavs (including you) saying the Magic and Celtics were 1 and 2 and the Cavs a distant 3rd and that they didnt stand a chance against the Lakers.

The xmas game still doesn't change my mind. After how the Cavs were so hyped up last year, they deserve to be bagged on. Want me to give them props, I will if they prove me wrong in the postseason and win the championship.

[The_Game]

Why not? They smoked a full strength Laker team on their home floor. I understand Kobe's finger was attached to his hand with super adhesive and his back was probably being held to his lower body using 12 inch metal screws and rods... but it is what it is.

The Cavs match up very well with the Lakers... and i called it before the season began ... Nearly the entire board were bagging the Cavs (including you) saying the Magic and Celtics were 1 and 2 and the Cavs a distant 3rd and that they didnt stand a chance against the Lakers.

credit to the cavs for beating L.A on xmas day but lakers will simply very poor you can't expect performances like that to happen again

cavs will struggle to beat L.A will Mo Williams as their 2nd option...he simply isn't good enough. They need another scorer to be able to beat L.A 4 out of 7games. having judt lebron isnt enough.

in a 7 game series the cavs don't match-up well with L.A...the lakers frontcourt is too strong.

[mystargtr34]

credit to the cavs for beating L.A on xmas day but lakers will simply very poor you can't expect performances like that to happen again

cavs will struggle to beat L.A will Mo Williams as their 2nd option...he simply isn't good enough. They need another scorer to be able to beat L.A 4 out of 7games. having judt lebron isnt enough.

in a 7 game series the cavs don't match-up well with L.A...the lakers frontcourt is too strong.

If the Cavs and Lakers went into a series... i would put my money on the Lakers - let me just make that clear. But i think that series goes a minimum 6 games. Im trying to find a post i made at the start of the season that was quite long i cbf typing it all out again ..

But the Cavs have things to put up against the Lakers that no other team has... mainly a super duper star who can go toe-to-toe with Kobe when things come down to the wire... no other guy can do that, not Wade, not Melo, not Dirk, not Duncan. Most importantly, the size factor. The Cavs might be the only team that can trot out a lineup where they have a size advantage over the Lakers. Shaq, Big Z, LeBron, Parker/Moon, Williams. The Lakers cant hurt the Cavs with speed like other teams when they put that lineup out on the floor.

Just sayin... they match up much, much better than they did last season - and it showed in the game they played this season. Obviously the Cavs arent a 20 point better team than the Lakers, not by any stretch. But the entire game (not just the result) was a world of difference from the two regular season meetings they had last season, where the Lakers battered them handily in the paint. The same way Dwight Howard did. That doesnt happen anymore with Shaq down there.

[mystargtr34]

Orlando swept LA in the regular season last year. Pistons DOMINATED Miami during the 2005-2006 regular season. Cavs swept the spurs in the 2006-2007 regular season. How did those regular season winners fare in the playoffs? The xmas game doesn't change anything. Cavs need to prove they can do it during a 7 game series. Then I will admit I was wrong.



The xmas game still doesn't change my mind. After how the Cavs were so hyped up last year, they deserve to be bagged on. Want me to give them props, I will if they prove me wrong in the postseason and win the championship.

Fair point, regular season doesnt mean everything. But sometimes the regular season excuse can be a cop out. Last season the Lakers won both games against the Cavs easily. They dominated from start to finish by pounding the Cavs in the paint and almost toyed with them, neither game was really a contest.

I agree the regular season doesnt mean for Cleveland because of what happened in those playoffs, but I still stand by my opinion that they are a much better team, match up better with the League's best, and a built more like a championship team should be. Alot people pointed to the Turkoglu/Lewis frontcourt that the Cavs couldnt matchup with... while that was true - Howard was the guy that was the difference, going of for something like 30-15 that series. Same thing against the Lakers, they got killed inside.. in the Cavs only real loss all season in Cleveland, Odom and Pau combined for 46 points, 29 rebounds and 8 assists in a double digit win. In the other game the Lakers won by 17, Pau and Bynum went for 36 and 19.

Thats not happening against this Cavs team.

[The_Game]

If the Cavs and Lakers went into a series... i would put my money on the Lakers - let me just make that clear. But i think that series goes a minimum 6 games. Im trying to find a post i made at the start of the season that was quite long i cbf typing it all out again ..

But the Cavs have things to put up against the Lakers that no other team has... mainly a super duper star who can go toe-to-toe with Kobe when things come down to the wire... no other guy can do that, not Wade, not Melo, not Dirk, not Duncan. Most importantly, the size factor. The Cavs might be the only team that can trot out a lineup where they have a size advantage over the Lakers. Shaq, Big Z, LeBron, Parker/Moon, Williams. The Lakers cant hurt the Cavs with speed like other teams when they put that lineup out on the floor.

Just sayin... they match up much, much better than they did last season - and it showed in the game they played this season. Obviously the Cavs arent a 20 point better team than the Lakers, not by any stretch. But the entire game (not just the result) was a world of difference from the two regular season meetings they had last season, where the Lakers battered them handily in the paint. The same way Dwight Howard did. That doesnt happen anymore with Shaq down there.

Good points

I agree the Cavs do match-up alot better...last year it wouldn't of been close in the playoffs but this time around it could be. Cavs problem is not having that extra 3rd scorer you need when the going gets tough.

Lebron has a perfect cast around him in terms of role players who can hit open shots.