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I think the only team in the Western playoffs the Cavs are better than are the Lakers, other than that I would take any other team that made the playoffs in the West over them
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Milt (Omaha): You have to say the Spurs had the easiest road to the Finals. The Denver McNuggets, they Horry-ed themselves past the Suns, and then they were lucky enough to get the Jazz since the Mavs choked. Now, they get the Cavs!!! What are your thoughts, John?
SportsNation John Hollinger: (2:16 PM ET ) Um, o! The CAVS had the easiest road to the Finals. This is the fourth-best team San Antonio has faced in the postseason. Sorry.
Chris (Broadview Heights, OH): It appears you've picked the Spurs to win in 5 games. Only predicting the Cavs to win one so that's not much love there. I'm not saying you will be wrong or not but why do you believe this series will be so lopsided?
SportsNation John Hollinger: (2:17 PM ET ) Denver and Utah are at least as good as Cleveland, and the Spurs dismissed both in five. Not sure why the Cavs would be any different. Only potential X factor is if Boobie starts pumping in 25 every night.
I think the only team in the Western playoffs the Cavs are better than are the Lakers, other than that I would take any other team that made the playoffs in the West over them
But the question remains: if the Cavs are so bad, how did they beat Detroit? Of course theres plenty of opinions and answers, but the mere fact that they are in the Finals says something to me.
easy:
Flip Saunders head coach. Chris Webber starting forward.
Detroit looked like an absolute shadow of their former selves. I was not impressed by their execution on either end of the court as they looked lost and apathetic. It is the decline of the golden age of basketball in Piston-town and the Heat and Cavs are just the two teams to realize it first.
Right - I was not so surprised that the Cavs won against the Pistons as I was how badly the Pistons played in all 4 games. They could have easily lost 1 of both of the first 2 games. They really just don't look like the same team this playoffs, and I'm not sure why. Chauncey Billups doesn't have the same swagger, Sheed resorting to bad fouls and technicals - not sure what happened. Maybe they miss Ben Wallace's leadership. I mean, certainly they miss his defense and his presence in the paint, but that alone is not enough to explain the difference. But Ben and Chauncey seemed to me to be the emotional leaders of the team in 2005, and they miss something less tangible without Ben. Maybe they weren't hungry enough for it this year.
We shall find out...
I think the Cavs are a better team than Utah. I don't even see how that's arguable. LeBron by himself makes them better than Utah. We got Denver before they gelled..if they'd been together an entire season, we'd have had a lot more trouble with them...and they were still tough. Phoenix ended up being tougher than anyone expected, and they might have been the true best team in the NBA this year...but we still held a signifigant mental edge against them...they don't know how to beat the Spurs, and they came real close to figuring it out before Horry sidetracked them.
I think the Spurs had a tougher road than the Cavs...obviously, but that doesn't mean anything now...they match up with us well, and here they are. Matching this Spurs team up against previous champion
Spurs Teams reveals it to be the least of them to make it to the finals so far...I hope I am wrong.
I have not doubts the Spurs will win the Series.
And would you fnckers stop leaving off the third t? I see a lot of that going on these days and it's starting to make me mad.
Would you like it if I called you 101?
Thanks, in advance.
Stop yer in'. You can leave off the ! on mine all you want you egotistical
Billlups for the entire series had more turnovers than assists.
Good defense by the Cavs? Sure, but an awful lot of poor decsions by Billups and it still went 6 games.
How can Lebron by himself be better than the Jazz when Deron Williams is better than he is? Yeah I said it got, got a problem?
whot
-Mars
Sure thing whot.
Utah won more games in the West, have better coaching and better players
It appeared the Pistons weren't even interested in winning. I don't know if it is because Saunders has let the players take over the team or what. Maybe they just thought they could always turn it on and win in the end. But that Piston team certainly didn't look like the one I have watched in the past.
Lebron drove into the lane for a gamewinning layup in double OT of game 5 of the ECF.
No matter what team you play for, that takes some balls.
BeerIsGoo
yeah horry cast a spell making amare and boris forget the rules of leaving the bench during an altercation......... why the do you have the spurs as your favorite team, you are a ing hater
I like what Horry did...I don't think he had a doubt he was going to get suspended for that hit. It was a message to his teamates as much as it was to Steve Nash...and I don't know exactly what was going through his mind, but his intentions and message were pretty clear.
But anyway, back to the Cavs...you are guys are wrong about LeBron James...that dude is a stone cold killer...he's not some stupid young kid always putting his foot in his mouth. He knows what it takes to win...and he's smarter than his years. He's going to be the guy with the ball.
PS: I know a heck of a lot more about the Spurs than John Hollinger does.
My bad... WhottT
PSS: We've never faced a player in the finals as good as LeBron James.
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