Here are the problems... Lack of scoring options. Wagner is not ready and we can't expect Williams to give us large scoring games every night, he is what he is, an 11 PPG scorer. No outside shooting threats. Can't be Christmas every day for LeBron, he needs a consistent deep threat to find when he drive into traffic. Bremer is too scared and Kapono is not ready to play defense yet. Lack of pushing the basketball. Little unfair to put this on a rookie 19 year old, and Ollie has done a slightly better job with this, but they have got to find a better option. It drives me crazy when they walk the ball up the floor letting the defense get set to attack the ball handler (which is why we have so many turnovers) The Cavaliers must work on being more efficient. Not playing aggressive. Just seems to me that they are just out there playing like it's an open gym (well, there is actually more emotion displayed in the open gym that I go to) They just play too lackadasical/forgiving. This is the NBA, you show up and you take what is yours. I expect a deal to get done very soon, esp. because Dallas is having a lot of problems too.
<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Paul Pierce had 30 points, 12 rebounds and eight assists before sitting out most of the fourth quarter on Friday night and the Boston Celtics coasted to their 13th consecutive victory over Cleveland, beating the Cavaliers 107-82. Boston held LeBron James to 19 points on 7-for-19 shooting. But he was still the high scorer on a team that has five former Celtics -- a result of two trades in the past six months as the struggling franchise tries to rebuild around the top pick in last year's draft. Tony Battie had 10 points and 13 rebounds in the first game between the teams since the Dec. 15 trade that sent him to Cleveland with Eric Williams and Kedrick Brown for Ricky Davis, Chris Mihm and Michael Stewart. Cleveland opened the season 6-18 but has gone 5-7 since. On Thursday, Davis criticized Cleveland, calling the team and the city "the black hole." "It was terrible over there. The organization. No system. The town. Everything. The GM. All of it is kind of backward. It's good to be in a winning organization that has a system and knows what's going on," he told reporters. "(Boston is) a step up in everything ... class, coaches, owners, GMs, players, winning, tradition, everything."</div> Full Story Box Score
It looked to me that LBJ was afraid of RickyD. I don;t know why but thats what it seemed like. Most of LeBron's points came in the 4th quarter during that garbage period. Im telling you guys, we need a shooter. I don't care who it is. And if the Cavs don't get one soon then see us fall to last place in the east.
When the hell did Ricky learn to play D like that? Guess trying to make LeBron look bad made him play better.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting cArMeLo15:</div><div class="quote_post">When the hell did Ricky learn to play D like that? Guess trying to make LeBron look bad made him play better.</div> Ricky can play great one on one defense, but is a terrible team defender, not good in pick and role type situations. He locked up AI in a Cavs win earlier in the year. BTW, Ricky Davis left the court without a handshake, while every other Celtic thatw as on the court did so. Ricky started walking off a few sec. before the game ended. Nice eh?
to add to that, did anyone notice how he was locked up on "D" on LeBron during garbage time? He wouldn't let LeBron breath to get an inbound pass. And the Celts were up by 17! What a class act Davis is. He sure is a pro.
Cavaliers Cannot Compete <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">How bad were the Cavaliers on Friday night? Let's count the ways. They couldn't run the offense. They couldn't defend. They couldn't finish. They couldn't, for that matter, start. They couldn't pass. They couldn't catch. They couldn't shoot. They couldn't even be respectable. Add to that lovely mixture the fact that the Boston Celtics, especially Paul Pierce and one Tyree Ricardo Davis, better known to Cavaliers fans as Slick Rick, were on top of their games and it was a cocktail for a ruinous evening. The result was a 107-82 flogging, the Cavaliers' worst performance, by number and character, of the season. It likely ranks right up there with the worst losses in the never-ending losing streak to the Celtics, which has reached 13 games. ``This is the first game I think this year where I can say we really didn't compete,'' Cavaliers coach Paul Silas said. ``We weren't tough-minded, and we took a good whipping.''</div> Full Story
