Cavaliers @ Raptors

[cdt]

Game #62

Cleveland Cavaliers (35-26) VS Toronto Raptors(21-39)

Wednesday, March 8th, 2006
7:00pm ET
Radio : WTAM 1100
Television: FSN Ohio
Air Canada Centre, Toronto, Canada

Head Coaches

Mike Brown / Sam Mitchell

Probable Staters

Eric Snow / Mike James

Ronald Murray / Morris Peterson

LeBron James / Eric Williams

Drew Gooden / Charlie Villanueva

Zydrunas Ilgauskas / Chris Bosh

Cleveland Cavaliers Bench

Damon Jones / Sasha Pavlovic / Anderson Varejao / Donyell Marshall / Alan Henderson

Toronto Raptor's Bench

Joey Graham / Jose Calderon / Matt Bonner / Pape Sow / Rafael Araujo

CDT's Keys To Vic-Tor-Y

* Contain Chris and Mike. They did the most damage against the Cavaliers this Wednesday night, Bosh going 7-7 at one point. Keep James shooting from the perimeter and keep a hand in his face.

* Attack them down low. Gooden and Zydrunas should have their way down low with easy buckets against undersized Villanueva and Bosh.

* Keep the game in the high 80's low 90's if this turns into a shootout on the road against the 3rd best offensive team then it will register as a Loss.

* Beat a team we are supposed to beat. We have a cluster of games against sub .500 teams. We took 2 straight from Chicago now we need to finish off the 2 game sweep of the Raptors as well. We need all the wins we can get to surge into the playoffs

CDT Prediction: Cavaliers 94 Raptors 88​

 

[cavincali]

If Mike James and Chris Bosh dont go off like they did today the Raptors will have no chance.

 

[Karma]

Easy scouting report for this one. Keep feeding Ilgauskas and Gooden and tire Bosh and Villa. Dont get into a shooting contest as we will lose out. When LeBron sits, we must have Murray and Z in there. Defensively throw numbers at Bosh. He has turnovers in him with pressure.

 

[fsqp13]

cavs 95 raptors 85

 

[highplainsdrifter]

Nice to see CDT predict a Cavs victory! :chuckles:

Cavs gotta play good D tonite! Hopefully we can slow Bosh and MJames a little. We need LeBron to play better than last night. Maybe he should watch the game tape from when he scored 56 in Toronto!

Toronto doesnt seem to have a winning mentality, so id like to see the Cavs lead the whole game and squash any run by the Raptors. If we play from behind Cavs are in trouble.

Cavs win by 8+!!!

 

[Glen Infante]

Thanks for postin this up CDT. Reps.

Another Cavs win, another happy day.

 

[Maximus]

Sasha has played so little of late I didn't even recognize him in the photo above.....he looks A LOT tanner than I remember too. :chuckles:

 

[Karma]

Great 2nd quarter surge, that has even allowed LeBron to sit. Varejao inspirational!

 

[Karma]

Cavs pulled away without LeBron. Simply amazing!

 

[RuanuLaw]

Wow, this game like the last, keeps going back and fourth, and wount let you decide who might win.

 

[Karma]

We actually control Bosh to a certain extent, but man.....Mike James and Mo Pete tearing it up.

LeBron though looking dangerous.

 

[Kypus]

Why does it take a 5th foul on Gooden to get Z in the game in crunch time?!

 

[Kypus]

Wow, this game like the last, keeps going back and fourth, and wount let you decide who might win.

If we would play OUR game, establishing Z in the middle, we wouldn't have this yo-yo game. We're totally playing their game instead of our own. Z has taken 5 shots as of 7 mins left in the game.

 

[Kypus]

Wow, Bosh is killing us... rebounding all Lebron's misses as well the clutch scoring. 92-86, 3:09 left in the 4th.

 

[Kypus]

AV with 2 clutch free thows?! Who would have thought?
Who got that block for us?
Lebron pulls us to within 1 on the free throw. 94-93 down by 1!