<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Drew Gooden is not feeling good. He's coughing and sneezing. The guy looks ill. "I've had this for three days," Gooden said after scoring a season-high 23 points and pulling down 14 rebounds in the Cavaliers' 99-84 victory over the Portland Trail Blazers on Friday night at The Q. As sick as Gooden looked afterward, he looked sicker seven and a half minutes into the game. Making Gooden look particularly sick was Portland's 6-9, 253-pound mobile power forward Zach Randolph. Randolph used pull-up jumpers, slam dunks and a finger roll to score nine points in less than eight minutes -- sending the Trail Blazers into a 16-11 lead. Randolph, who averaged 28.6 points in five previous games, looked like he was headed for 50 -- maybe more. "What was I thinking? I was thinking we had to make some adjustments," Gooden said. "Especially since I knew he would be getting a lot more touches than I would be getting." The adjustments were made. Gooden, getting double-team help from LeBron James and Zydrunas Ilgauskas, held Randolph to eight points over the last three quarters and the Cavaliers (37-29) snapped a three-game losing streak. Randolph, a five-year pro from Michigan State, went from scoring nine points in the first 7:12 to not scoring again until 8:37 was left in the third quarter. By then, the Cavaliers had taken control, 61-45. Randolph (17 points, six rebounds) was pulled with 8:03 left in the fourth quarter and the Cavaliers on top, 83-67. "It's hard to stay motivated when you're getting beat by 20 every night," Randolph said. "You get real frustrated when you're constantly getting beat bad." </div> Source
