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Winter Is Here
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Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
7:00 ET
Cleveland, Ohio
TV: FSN
Radio : WTAM 1100
HEAD COACHES
MIKE BROWN | STAN VAN GUNDY
POINT GUARDS
DANIEL GIBSON | JAMEER NELSON
SHOOTING GUARDS
WORTH LESS| KEITH BOGANS
SMALL FORWARDS
LEBRON JAMES | HEDO TURKOGLU
POWER FORWARDS
DREW GOODEN | RASHARD LEWIS
CENTERS
ZYDRUNAS ILGAUSKAS | DWIGHT HOWARD
CAVALIERS ROTATION
DAMON | DEVIN | DWAYNE | SIMMONS
MAGIC ROTATION
ARROYO| DOOLING | GARRITY | FOYLE
Cavalier Notes
• This team is a bit confusing right now. We're missing Varejao, we have a few new faces trying to crack the rotation. A few old ones that fell out of rotation getting back in. This team is hard to evaluate right now.
• Gibson still needs to shoot the ball more. He's one of the purest shooters in the game and his shot opens things up for LeBron slashing to the basket, as well as Z and Gooden working down low. He needs more attempts period. Run the guy a damn play or two.
• Control Dwight Howard. The guys is averaging 21 ppg 15 boards and 2.3 blocks, the guy is having a monster season and is an absolute tank down low. Rashard Lewis is down playing PF in a smaller lineup so we'll need Gooden to really do his part on Lewis and hope he can help Z a little bit with Howard.
Magic Notes
• They have 3 players hovering right at 20 points per game [Howard 21,Rashard 20, Hedo 19]. They might not be the caliber of Boston's Big 3 or even Washington's Big 3 but they're still putting up 60 ppg and leading this team.
• They have a unique squad, you look at them and they're a smaller team so you'd expect them to run and they definitely can. They're athletic from top to bottom, but with Howard such a dominant presence down low, they can really run and gun or slow it down into a half court game.
• They ride their starters hard. We need our bench players to really contribute. Whether it's Damon spreading the floor and putting up points. Newble coming in and D'ing up an assignment, or Devin putting up a solid all around game. We need a full team effort in this one.
CDTs Final Word
We can't afford to sleepwalk through any quarters in this game. They can score the basketball and they have some serious talent. I think we're a little undermanned right now with Sasha out, Larry completely worthless and we don't have a set rotation right now for success...we're doing a lot of experimenting.
I'm not sure if we have an answer for Howard down low...I see Rashard tearing Gooden up as well. We're going to need a big one from LeBron and solid games from multiple other guys and I just think the Magic are the better team. Orlando 109 Cavaliers 97
Prediction
Magic 109 Cavaliers 97