L Wizards 102 Cavaliers 94

[Glen Infante]

Washington Wizards (27-25) at Cleveland Cavaliers (32-22)

Friday, February 24, 2006
7:30pm ET
Radio : WTAM 1100
TV: FSOhio
Quicken Loans Arena, Cleveland OH​

Probable Starters

Eric Snow / Gilbert Arenas

Sasha Pavlovic / Jared Jeffries

LeBron James / Caron Butler

Drew Gooden / Antawn Jamison

Zydrunas Ilgauskas / Brendan Haywood​

TEAM LEADERS:

Wizards - Arenas, 28.4 ppg and 5.9 apg; Jamison, 9.8 rpg.
Cavaliers - James, 31.1 ppg and 6.6 apg; Gooden, 8.8 rpg.

SEASON SERIES:

1-1.

LAST MEETING:

Feb. 10; Wizards, 101-89. At Washington, Jamison scored 28 points to back Arenas' near triple-double for the Wizards.

ROAD/HOME RECORDS:

Wizards - 8-16 on the road;
Cavaliers - 20-7 at home.
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[highplainsdrifter]

Re: Wizards @ Cavaliers

This game is HUGE! Washington is eyeing the 4th spot, and the Cavs gotta beat the Wizards to keep them at bay. A win tonite would give the Cavs a 2-1 lead in the season series. Would be great to have the tiebreaker over Wash.

We got a 4 game lead on the Wiz now, and theyre playing well. A loss would cut it to three games, with the back to back Detroit games next. Cavs cant afford a losing slide now, gotta bring it tonite and destroy the Wiz!!! The last game was very competitive, should be a great game!

 

[ChicagoCavFan]

Re: Wizards @ Cavaliers

Cool little CBS Sportsline board there - nice find. We'll have to incorporate that into all of the previews...

 

[cdt]

Re: Wizards @ Cavaliers

Is "Flip" available for this game? He should be since we got em last night and it will be more then 24 hours when it's gametime since the deal...

 

[Karma]

Re: Wizards @ Cavaliers

The Wizards are becoming an outside threat to our playoff seed, which includes homecourt. We need to solidify our position by beating rivals below us at home. We have had a days rest so should come out with plenty of energy, particulary after getting the boost of Murray coming to town.

 

[Cleveland56]

Re: Wizards @ Cavaliers

Better win today, because back to back against Detroit won't be fun....

 

[Karma]

Re: Wizards @ Cavaliers

Murray flew in last night and went through some plays with Coach Brown. He also participated in the morning shootaround. All pointing to Flip playing tonight.

 

[Dungong]

Re: Wizards @ Cavaliers

I'd say Flip comes in off the bench at SG or PG sometime tonight. Anyhow, this game is huge as said before. The Wiz are over .500 so that bodes well for the Cavs. We really need to contain Arenas and maybe annoying Jamison with AV for a bit. AV can't pick up 6 quick fouls, neither can Sasha, this one is going to be tight and things like getting into the penalty early will be killer. I want to see Lebron on Arenas early, he seems to step up his D to the level of his competition. Plus, his height will bother him, though Arenas is probably quicker offensively than James is defensively.

Offensively, let the inside game open up the outside shot. Someone, Sasha, Yell, or Damon, heck even Flip needs to be feeling it from outside. This one is probably going to be high-flying up tempo and high scoring.

 

[Glen Infante]

Re: Wizards @ Cavaliers

Sasha got a haircut!

 

[Glen Infante]

Re: Wizards @ Cavaliers

Down 10 already. Giving up too many 3's too early in the game.

 

[Glen Infante]

Re: Wizards @ Cavaliers

The Wizards are disecting our defense here.

 

[cdt]

Re: Wizards @ Cavaliers

Defense? Where!

Drew clanks a pair at the line

FLIP FLIP FLIP FLIP

 

[Glen Infante]

Re: Wizards @ Cavaliers

Everything is going Washington's way. Haywood, and 1.

 

[cdt]

Re: Wizards @ Cavaliers

5-0 run LeBron....CMON BOYS!

 

[Glen Infante]

Re: Wizards @ Cavaliers

WOW! LeBron coast to coast AND 1