Cavaliers @ Knicks Preview <div align="center"> <font color="DarkRed">Cleveland Cavaliers</font> (21-34) @ <font color="DarkOrange">New York Knicks</font> (26-30)</div> Sunday, Feb. 22, 1:00 pm Eastern Madison Square Garden, New York TV: ABC Vegas Line: Check back gameday Season Series: Cavaliers 2, Knicks 0 11.10.03 Knicks 80 @ Cavaliers 94 01.06.04 Knicks 96 @ Cavaliers 107 Previous Game Spurs 87 @ Cavaliers 89 Jazz 92 @ Knicks 78 Last 10 Games Cleveland: 4-6 (Won 1) New York: 6-4 (Lost 1) Head Coaches Paul Silas/Lenny Wilkens Probable Starters Jeff McInnis/Stephon Marbury LeBron James/Shandon Anderson Eric Williams/Tim Thomas Carlos Boozer/Kurt Thomas Zydrunas Ilgauskas/Dikembe Mutombo 6th Men Dajuan Wagner/Anfernee Hardaway Injury Update Cavaliers Ruben Boumtje Boumtje J.R. Bremer DeSagana Diop - out (ankle) Knicks Allan Houston Cezary Trybanski <div align="center">Players To Watch LeBron James/Stephon Marbury James: 20.6 points, 5.7 rebounds, 5.8 assists, 1.46 steals Marbury: 20.8 points, 2.9 rebounds, 9.4 assists, 1.43 steals</div> Keys To The Game <u>Cavaliers</u> Defense, all areas Contain Starbury, keep him out of the lane Feed Ilgauskas & s p r e a d the floor Make these Knicks shoot it Attack the basket, make freethrows, run the floor and don't turn the ball over <u>Knicks</u> Limit turnovers Must box out on both ends Double Ilgauskas, make him find the open guy Play that shadow defense on LeBron, get him out of the ball game Spread the floor, attack the basket, you know the drill The King's Take Well this is not the same Knicks team that we beat up 2 games to 0 this season. Sure we faced Marbury last time in his emotion Knick debut, but now his game is on point. Speaking of point, I would love to see McInnis give us 12-15 points and keep up this aggressive play as he showed against the world champion Spurs. James must not get jump shot happy and has to keep attacking the basket, the Knicks just have no one that can put a body on him. I don't believe Mutombo can slow Big Z down either, I want to start this game off attacking Deke to try and get him out of the game so players like McInnis, James, and Wagner can attack the basket. I'll call a tossup, let's hear what you guys think. <font size="1">Please visit NBA.com</font> <font size="1">Note: Danny Fortson did not play last game for Dallas, I am unsure about his status of yet.</font>
Its a winnable game. Luckily, Houston is not playing because we still have that problem of giving up open outside looks.
Close game can go any way. Let's see TimFlem flips a coin. Heads Cavs Tails Knicks. Heads. I say the Cavaliers take this one after a stop in earlier 4th. LeBron should lead his team to the W in this one.Cavs by 4.
After beating the defending champs i would say the cavs got this one by 12. And I actually get to watch it!!!!!!!!!!
This is going to be a fun game to watch. Matchups are pretty evenly balanced out. Cav's need another big win like this to start a good playoff push. I have confidence after last night's game. Cavs take it by 4 in free throw mahem.
I'm really excited about this game! The Knicks looked terrible against Utah but have been playing well for our man Lenny. They don't match up well against either Booz or LeBron. I hope Carlos bounces back from last night because he should be able to dominate Kurt Thomas. And I agree King James, I look for the Kid to come up big under the bright lights. I thought he was wearing down from too many minutes but in the open floor against the Spurs, he had that look... "get the $#%# out of my way!" On the other side, we don't match up well against Marbury. It could get ugly if we let him get to the hoop as easily as most guards have been doing against us lately. He'll finish strong or we'll see a steady diet of Kurt Thomas open jumpers. Either way I hope we see some scoring. NBA on ABC, LBJ in MSG. I can't wait!
i guess knicks will win this one... but it's a toss up... lebron's destined to have a huge game in the world's most popular gym... lebron: career night!
This game is going to be awesome , watch it .. MSG will be a sold out and you'll hear the OHHHHH AHHHHHHH UHHHH when LeBron does something but I think the Knicks take this one by 4 at the end of the game , It's going to be a close game.
Alan Houston being out is a plus for the Cavs, even though he shot the ball very poorly our last meeting. They key for the Cavs will be containing Marbury and keeping him out of the paint where he can get easy baskets or draw the defenders to him and dump the ball off to a big man for a dunk. If Lebron plays as well as he did against the Spurs and Boozer returns to his normal output I like the Cavs chances in this one. If Mcinnis and Battie come up a big again, I really like the Cavs chances. For some reason we seem to play the Knicks really well. Cavs by 6.
Im gonna take the Knicks by 3, Starbury will play big. The cavs will be psyched over their win against San Antonio and let there gaurd down.
In order to beat the Cavs, you need perimeter shooting. With Allen out we have a great chance to upset those New Yorkers.
