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Game 75 Sixers @ Cavs March 31st 2017 7:30pm

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TheProdigy said:
Holmes and Okafor are going to eat us alive. And Saric is probably going take a shat on Love as well.
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Actually Okafor didn't make the trip. Injured, but he has a permanent chest cavity anyway. He had one game recently of 22 minutes and zero rebounds.

I am worried about Saric and Holmes.

I do think the Cavs will beat the Sixers, but it's sad that it's even a question given the overwhelming disparity in talent and numbers.
 
I think we will win, but its going to be a very close, and sad game to watch. Probably going to be up by 15 at the half, blow the 3rd quarter but still manage to pull it out in the 4th.
 
We better win this one although we're lost to lesser teams if you can imagine that.
 
Sixers' Justin Anderson looks to 'contain' Cavaliers' LeBron James
Updated: MARCH 31, 2017 — 3:15 PM EDT
@PompeyOnSixers | kpompey@phillynews.com
CLEVELAND – Very few players – if any – in the NBA envy Justin Anderson right about now.

That’s because the 76ers small forward will have the task of defending four-time league MVP LeBron James in Friday night’s game against the Cleveland Cavaliers at Quickens Loan Arena.

With a blend of size, strength and athleticism, James is one of the toughest players in the league to defend. He’s also a do-it-all type of player.

James ranks eighth in the league in scoring at 26 points per game. He’s sixth in the league in assists (8.8) and 18th in rebounding (8.4).

The 6-foot-6, chiseled 228-pound Anderson will try to use his strenght and quickness and a disrupting style to defend the 6-8, 250-pound James.

“He’s so strong,” Anderson said. “He’s so physical. He’s also tall … So he can also see over you sometimes.

“So my biggest thing is playing big tonight, having hands up for everything. I can just try to contain him.”

James is just as happy to pass the ball as shooting it, so it’s defending him is more than trying to stop him one-on-one.

“He gets past the first line of defense and puts pressure on other teammates, and he’s dropping it off for dunks and threes and things like that,” Anderson said. “So we have to obey our content and contain him and contain the other guys around him.”

Anderson feels doing that will be the biggest key to slowing James down. He doesn’t think there’s a stopper for a guy of James’ stature.

“Even the LeBron stoppers of the past, he still got through them,” Anderson said. “He’s going to do what he does. You have to do is do what you do and hope that you have the better night.”
 
If we don't win, we suck. If we do, woohoo we beat a bad team.

So this feels like a pre-season game to me.
 
Interesting takes on the Sixers pregame show - which has been all about the Cavaliers. They think the Cavs are bored with the regular season (dated take IMHO), that the roster changes have been an issue, but in the end they don't see any Eastern Conf teams beating LeBron in a seven game series.
 
lue hast lost the locker room and it will show today again
 
Tiago Splitter is available for limited minutes tonight. Sixers have 8 1/2 players dressed. Cavs better win this one or it will be utterly humiliating.
 
If we do not destroy this team we are in SERIOUS trouble. That is the worst starting 5 I have ever seen. They make JR Smith look like a superstar by comparison. COME ON CAVS. Make this the game you start working out all the kinks. DESTROY THEM!
 
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