Cavaliers @ Hornets (Saturday, 8:00pm)

[ChicagoCavFan]

WELCOME TO NEW ORLEANS

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Saturday, December 29th EST
8:00 EST

INSIDE NEW ORLEANS ARENA

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MATCH UPS

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Head Coaches

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Byron Scott / Mike Brown

Starters

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Chris Paul / Larry Hughes

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Morris Peterson / Sasha Pavlovic

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Peja / LeBron James

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David West / Drew Gooden

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Tyson Chandler / Zydrunas Ilgauskas

Cavs Bench

Varejao / Gibson / D.Brown / Newble / Jones


Hornets Bench

Jackson / Butler / Pargo / Wright / Armstrong


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GAME NOTES

· Cleveland has won eight of the last nine meetings between the two teams including three of the last four meetings at the Hornets.

· Over his last six games against New Orleans, LeBron James has averaged 29.8 points on .520 shooting, 5.7 rebounds and 6.8 assists per game. He has scored over 30 points in four of the six games.

· Cleveland has held its opponents to an average of 81.5 points and .397 shooting from the field and .179 shooting from threepoint range in the last two games. On Thursday night at Dallas, Cleveland held the Mavericks to .365 (27-74) shooting which was the lowest opponent field goal percentage since March 17, 2007 versus Utah.

· Zydrunas Ilgauskas posted his 15th double-double of the season at Dallas on Thursday night. He finished with 18 points and 11 rebounds. On the season, Ilgauskas is averaging a career-high 9.9 rebounds per game.

· Larry Hughes put up 17 points and a season-high nine rebounds at Dallas on Thursday night. It marked his highest rebounding total in a game since Nov. 1, 2006 versus Washington when he also had nine boards.

· Cleveland posted a season-high 56 rebounds at Dallas on Thursday night. Since the 2006-07 season, the Cavaliers are 4-0 when grabbing 55 or more rebounds.

· In the fourth quarter of the last eight games, the Cavaliers have allowed an average of 19.9 points on .366 (52-142) shooting including .065 (2-31) from three-point range.

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New Orleans Cheerleaders

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[Rick Astley]

Daaaaaamn! Thumbs down! Thumbs down!

 

[ChicagoCavFan]

Hehe...no worries - I'm in the process of making it and my laptop crashed. I was searching for images and went to some weird site, killing Mozilla. I actually lost a bunch of work - kinda pissed.

Come on now....you know I wouldn't put up a bad preview, don't ya?

It'll be completed later. It usually takes me about 2 or 3 hours...

 

[PIP]

Know your Hornets !

Some Hornet legends.

Kelly, Super Dave and Kobe

 

[kookoo]

Kelly looks like Seinfeld

 

[Splitz]

Pretty nice starting five the Hornets have there.

 

[Karma]

The Hornets have an extremely good starting five. It rivals the best teams in my opinion. Injuries are their curse.

I dont expect a win here at all, but I didn't in Dallas either. The Hornets, like the Mavs play away the night before, which helps.

 

[Maximus]

The Hornets have an extremely good starting five. It rivals the best teams in my opinion. Injuries are their curse.

I dont expect a win here at all, but I didn't in Dallas either. The Hornets, like the Mavs play away the night before, which helps.

Unfortunately Charlotte isn't putting up much of a fight.

 

[Pioneer10]

I'm not looking forward to how we guard Chris Paul. We always have trouble with quick little PG's and Paul is an Isiah Thomas clone

 

[chiefwahoo]

I'm not looking forward to how we guard Chris Paul. We always have trouble with quick little PG's and Paul is an Isiah Thomas clone

Exactly - I see our huge 2 game streak coming to a screeching halt because of CP3 alone.

 

[TheAdmin]

This will be a challenge to our seemingly rediscovered defense. They are a great rebounding team thats tall and athletic. Throw in a speedy quick point guard and the Cavs will have their hands full.

 

[Maximus]

Chris Paul? I got two words for that puss ----> ERIC FREAKING SNOW!!! :headbang:

 

[Rick Astley]

^^ My thoughts exactly. CP3 (what a weak name) is going to get demolished. :boxer:

 

[Joe Henderson]

Pretty nice starting five the Hornets have there.

I was thinking the same thing. that's how you build a team and without spending out of your mind too. You can tell, each person was brought in with something specific in mind and how they complement each other.

They don't have a lot of depth, but with a front office that got this far, you have to like their chances to fix that too. They are probably two players away from the absolute elite, maybe just one.

And i still think the Cavs will win 93-89

 

[CavsRules]

Thus far this team is playing like shit, they have no heart whatsoever and we should be down by a lot more right now. I just love it how Chris Paul plays defense, he plays it like Larry Hughes used too.

Thanks Mike Brown, for you're great defensive system.