Cleveland @ Miami

[cdt]

Game #64

Cleveland Cavaliers (35-26) VS Miami Heat(40-21)

Wednesday, March 12th, 2006
1:00pm ET
Radio : WTAM 1100
Television: ABC
American Airlines Arena, Miami, Florida

Head Coaches

Mike Brown / Pat Riley

Probable Staters

Eric Snow / Jason Williams

Ronald Murray / Dwyane Wade

LeBron James / James Posey

Drew Gooden / Udonis Haslem

Zydrunas Ilgauskas / Shaquile O'Neal

Cleveland Cavaliers Bench

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

Miami Heat Bench

Gary Payton / Derek Anderson / Shandon Anderson / Antoine Walker / Alonzo Mourning

CDT's Keys To Vic-Tor-Y

* Hack a Shaq, if he gets going early on pull Z immediately, save him for when Shaquille is out of the lineup. Throw Henderson AV and Gooden at him and foul him and let him brick FT's until they stop.

* Contest the 3 point shot. They have perimeter threats in Williams, Payton, Posey and Walker.

* Attack Shaq down low. Take it strong, get him out of the game it will directly effect their low post game and their perimeter game.

* Redeem the embarassing loss to the Magic with an impressive victory over a team nearly 20 games over .500.

CDT Prediction: Heat 104 Cavaliers 92​

 

[highplainsdrifter]

nice preview CDT!

Yeah who know what team will show up on Sunday. Hope LeBron is feeling better. If not Cavs are in big trouble.

Gotta bounce back from the Orlando loss. Will be a good test to how 'tough' the Cavs are........

 

[PIP]

one team will score 109

the other team will score 90

 

[cdt]

My theory is if we can't stop Arroyo and Darko how can we stop Wade and Shaq? Exactly we can't especially not in there place, aren't we like 0 for 50 on abc? we never win on abc, and the last time we played there we lost by like 35..plus lebrons sick I'm sleeping in tomorrow, late nights scouring browns boards

 

[PIP]

My theory is if we can't stop Arroyo and Darko how can we stop Wade and Shaq? Exactly we can't especially not in there place, aren't we like 0 for 50 on abc? we never win on abc, and the last time we played there we lost by like 35..plus lebrons sick I'm sleeping in tomorrow, late nights scouring browns boards

Browns board > Cavs board for the time being... :chuckles:

 

[cdt]

Amen to that

 

[The George]

except the Browns board is down....

 

[Kypus]

We're always bad on Nat'l TV. Maybe Flip will use this for a stage for his pending free agency. It'd be great if he came out blazing in the 1st, get us up by 15 and they start making stupid fouls.

 

[TheAdmin]

They need to keep Z out about 17 feet from the hoop, Shaq refuses to leave the paint. That little pick n pop that James and Z have should be lethal. This will be the first time that the Cavs have someone quick enough to guard Wade (not that Wade won't get his).

Make Wade a jump shooter, don't allow him to drive inside at will. The Cavs make horrid players look like all-stars with their lack of interior D. Wade will carve them up like a thanksgiving day turkey if they don't get the rotations figured out.

We really need Marshall and Jones to bring their A game if we have any chance of winning. Marshall is due to have a good game, he's going to get a lot of time against Walker who plays about the worst defense at the power foward position in the league.

 

[PIP]

We really need Marshall and Jones to bring their A game if we have any chance of winning

They don't have A games.

But try this one.... Hopefully they give it 110 % and leave it all out on the floor....

Also, the Z and LeBron pick and pop would work, except Z hasn't been hitting his shot since busting his digit in the last game in Miami... All of Z's buckets have mainly been coming in the paint...

 

[highplainsdrifter]

I cant predict a win for the Cavs, or a loss either. We know they seem to play better against the better teams. I think the Orlando loss was a one-time thing. Cavs will be ready. Just hope LeBron is feelin good.

 

[Kypus]

Game time! Lebron splits Haslem and Posey and the foul.

 

[Kypus]

Wade thru off the curl, way too easily.

Flip misses layup, Z tips. 5-2 Cavs.

 

[Kypus]

Uh oh, Z with a foul in the 1st 2 minutes already. Not good.

 

[Kypus]

Z misses hook shot, he's going right at Shaq, not going outside like we thought.

Z/Gooden strip Shaq on the way up, Haslem gets it but travels.