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"I'm getting ready for the playoffs"

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^^^I was not saying i don't want to be the #1 seed. If we are to have any legitimate shot against the Pistons, i think home court is a must. I was more stating that, whether we are the #1 or #2 seed, the Nets and Heat are teams I want to avoid. Ideally the Pistons and Heat meet in round 1, and one of the two teams I fear most are gone. The Nets always play well against us, and they are just about to get RJ back. That sounds scary in Round 1
 
LJ4MVP said:
I'm just wondering if Detroit is already out of reach, even if we go on a big run to close the season.

Detroit has a guaranteed win tonight against GS. Then they play us and go on the road for 5 straight...then come home to play Dallas and Phi. Then back on the road against Hou, Spurs, and Bucks. If we beat them Wednesday things could get real interesting if they struggle on the West coast. After us they have 8 of 10 on the road and one of the home games is Dallas...not an easy stretch.
We have to get back to our dominating ways at home. We also can't afford any giveaway games that have littered our schedule this year. I wouldn't say Detroit is out of completely out of reach. If we get everyone healthy and Lebron continues to dominate we got a shot.
 
it's critical that we win the next two - send Detroit out west with the added pressure of not being too far ahead of us and the possibility of dropping 3 of their next 6. They still have a back to back at houston and San Antonio later this month too.
 
Good read: didn't realize that the Pistons have a rough stretch ahead as well
 
If we could surpass DET with so many games on the road and get that #1 seed I'd be very happy with that outcome.

Isn't it nice having a Cleveland team be a contender every year?
 
Anybody who has been around an NBA clubhouse, knows that nothing goes unnoticed. Lebron may say he doesn't hear his critics ....doesn't know what maybe Wade may have said.

If he himself didn't, trust me, the 1st five people he met going to the morning shoot made sure he knew about it. It's just the nature of being in the show ...an internal soap opera exists that only is known to those on the inside. Some of the stuff that flies around is just brutal...brutal stuff that is a test to try and stay above.

Kobe is a testament to a player that went through nightmare of an indoctrination, and is finally coming out the other end, after some growing pains that became public,.,.intact.

I've gained alot of respect for Kobe, from knowing alot of what he went through ..at a very very young age. People, alot older, that should have been mentors to a very young kid,and helped to educate and protect him ..threw him under the bus.

Lebron has a group around him that truly does care, and that is his personal strength ...although, a few people he is influenced by I wish he would rise above.

Lebron will be fine ..but this team's construction, and level of coaching is probably too big an obstacle to overcome to get where we could have been this year... We will look back at this season as an opportunity lost, simply because what it would have taken to get a piece that could have helped considerably could have been gotten at a very reasonable cost.
 
"I've got to get to the rim, and I've got to go up there and make my free throws,'' said James, who entered Saturday making just 67.5 percent of his foul shots. "I did that tonight and I'm going to continue to do that.''

ahh....the quote I have been looking for.
 
Maximus said:
Detroit has a guaranteed win tonight against GS. Then they play us and go on the road for 5 straight...then come home to play Dallas and Phi. Then back on the road against Hou, Spurs, and Bucks. If we beat them Wednesday things could get real interesting if they struggle on the West coast. After us they have 8 of 10 on the road and one of the home games is Dallas...not an easy stretch.
We have to get back to our dominating ways at home. We also can't afford any giveaway games that have littered our schedule this year. I wouldn't say Detroit is out of completely out of reach. If we get everyone healthy and Lebron continues to dominate we got a shot.

Warriors humiliate the Pistons and win by 18 AT DETROIT!:chuckles:
The "Maximus Reverse Jinx" works to perfection. You're welcome Cavs fans.:thumbup:
 
Wine and Gold said:
Anybody who has been around an NBA clubhouse, knows that nothing goes unnoticed. Lebron may say he doesn't hear his critics ....doesn't know what maybe Wade may have said.

If he himself didn't, trust me, the 1st five people he met going to the morning shoot made sure he knew about it. It's just the nature of being in the show ...an internal soap opera exists that only is known to those on the inside. Some of the stuff that flies around is just brutal...brutal stuff that is a test to try and stay above.

Kobe is a testament to a player that went through nightmare of an indoctrination, and is finally coming out the other end, after some growing pains that became public,.,.intact.

I've gained alot of respect for Kobe, from knowing alot of what he went through ..at a very very young age. People, alot older, that should have been mentors to a very young kid,and helped to educate and protect him ..threw him under the bus.

Lebron has a group around him that truly does care, and that is his personal strength ...although, a few people he is influenced by I wish he would rise above.

Lebron will be fine ..but this team's construction, and level of coaching is probably too big an obstacle to overcome to get where we could have been this year... We will look back at this season as an opportunity lost, simply because what it would have taken to get a piece that could have helped considerably could have been gotten at a very reasonable cost.
Hey W&G: how much do you know about Lebron's relationship with William Wesley and how much do you think that has if any effect on his game?

TrueHoop has a running series on how Wesley becomes a mover and shaker with all these NBA players and described how he was so pissed at losing Lebron to Leon Rose that he moved in next door to him
 
Maximus said:
Detroit has a guaranteed win tonight against GS.

I expected the same but they got throttled by the Warriors, at home, 111-93 :chuckles:

Cavs only three games back now. Wednesday night would be a HUGE win if we could pull it off...
 
3 games back from Detroit. We can catch them if we play some good ball. But it will be tough. Detroit is the only team in the East that I am worried about come playoff time in a 7 game series.
 
Well we play them twice...two HUGE games if we are going to catch them.
 
I dont think Lebron could have tried any less for a vast majority of the year. For the last 2 years Lebron was one of the most dominating forces in the history of the game for 90% of the regular season games. This year? I would say he has dominated 10% of the time if that, if thats coasting your crazy thats just plain not showing up at all in comparision to his last 2 years.

I think even he underestimated how little he had tried through the year. I told a few friends a couple months ago that I thought Lebron was "coasting" and would save all his energy for the playoffs because he realises that he now has a team good enough to make it to the playoffs without him, but not good enough to win in the playoffs. They said he cant just turn it on and off like that. I figured he would pick and choose his games to dominate and get a high seed, but when he started coming alive a few weeks ago we all saw how rusty he was. He was air balling 3's, was not getting anywhere near on all those and 1's he usually has, was just terrible on free throws.

I think when he says "he is getting ready for the playoffs" he literally means HE is getting ready for the playoffs not that the team is getting ready, or making a push for 1st(even though that hopefully comes along with it). I dont think he believes his team is a contender without him dominating even more than he did in last years playoffs, and you saw that tonight in the Rockets game when he went away from sharing the ball as much as we have in the last few games.

But, when you factor in Hughes playing better than expected, Shannon Brown, Dan Gibson, Sasha, AV single handly giving us chances at miracle endings to games, that Z was hurt or atleast out of rhythm in the playoffs last year, that the west is going to eat its self alive in the playoffs, I really think we have as good of a shot as anyone to win the whole thing this year.
 
Pioneer10 said:
Hey W&G: how much do you know about Lebron's relationship with William Wesley and how much do you think that has if any effect on his game?

TrueHoop has a running series on how Wesley becomes a mover and shaker with all these NBA players and described how he was so pissed at losing Lebron to Leon Rose that he moved in next door to him


I know enough about him to know enough ... What I know I don't need to dig any deeper. Not a fan, and is an instance of the risk not being worth the gain, in my book.

I really don't care to go to deep into this guy, and the attraction... sometimes guilt by association is just that ...just simple association...

ok ?
 

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