Props to Infante from RCF for the preview. <font size="14"> VS</font> <font color="darkred">Cleveland</font> (12-7) @ <font color="gray">San Antonio</font> (16-5) When: Saturday, December 11th Where: SBC Center, San Antonio Time: 8:30 TV: FSOhio <font color="blue">Projected Starters:</font> <font color="darkred">Cleveland</font> Jeff McInnis Ira Newble LeBron James Drew Gooden Zydrunas Ilgauskas <font color="gray">San Antonio</font> Tony Parker Manu Ginobili Bruce Bowen Tim Duncan Rasho Nesterovic <font color="blue">Injury List:</font> <font color="darkred">Cleveland: </font> Robert Traylor Dajuan Wagner <font color="gray">San Antonio</font> Linton Johnson Romain Sato Sean Marks <font color="blue">Keys to the Game</font> *Get Z going early. He may have a hard time getting to a good rhythm against Duncan and Nester, so it would be smart to get him comfortable in the post as early as possible. Once again, the 2 man game. *Jeff McInnis needs to keep Tony Parker in front of him as much as he can. Tony's penetration will lead to the weakside coming in and trying to stop that pull-up, leaving their man open for an easy bucket. *Eric and Ira need to show up. Big road game here, our best defenders need to pick it up a notch and stop great offensive players like Manu and Tony Parker. Brucie Bruce and also hit the trey, so permeter D is also important. *LeBron needs to have a big game offensively. When he is explosive on offense, the others follow along. Engery is spreaded through Bron's play and inspires the team to do the same. When LeBron plays awful, so does the rest of the guys. Final Prediction. Although it would be great to see a win on a Saturday night, I believe the Cavaliers are on their way to another 2 game losing streak. The Spurs have lost 2 games in a row and will look at the Cavaliers as their next victom for a win. The saying "Good teams should beat teams that they should beat." This time, they are saying it for the Spurs. Spurs take this one in a double digit win. 106-92.
That Duncan crossover was serious. Malik Rose's dunk was nice too. I didn't see the game but, I saw some highlights on NBATV. I think the Cavs were just having a bad game. I don't think the score will be as lopsided next time.
I knew that the Spurs would hand us a loss, but I didn't think it would be this bad. We just had an off night on defense, and just didn't act like we wanted to be there...I highly doubt the Cavs will lose another one this bad this season...
