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[cdt]

Cleveland Cavaliers (3-2) VS Boston Celtics(1-4)

Saturday, November 11th, 2006
7:30pm ET
Radio : WTAM 1100
Television: FSN Ohio
Quicken Loans Arena, Cleveland, OH

Head Coaches

Mike Brown / Doc Rivers


Probable Staters

Eric Snow / Sebastian Telfair

Larry Hughes / Paul Pierce

LeBron James / Wally Szczerbiak

Drew Gooden / Ryan Gomes

Zydrunas Ilgauskas / Kendrick Perkins

Cleveland Cavaliers Bench

Damon Jones/Sasha Pavlovic/Anderson Varejao/Donyell Marshall/Shannon Brown/David Wesley/Scot Pollard

Boston Celtics Bench

Brian Scalabrine/Tony Allen/Gerald Green/Rajon Rando/Allan Ray/Leon Powe

cdt's keys to vic-tor-y

• Maintain the intensity from the Bulls game. Come out and play your game, don't let your opponent dictate the tone of the game. Play to our level not theirs.
  
• Attack them inside. They are without Al Jefferson, and Kendrick Perkins is still very raw. Try to get them in foul trouble and really open up the middle down there. They have a glut of PF's but they aren't all the best interior defenders.
  
• Bench production. Paul Pierce is likely going to hang with LeBron. He's averaging 28 13 and 5 so far this season he's leading in every major category, so the other guys are going to have to step it up. Hughes Gooden..dare I say Z?

 

[Troy Wingate]

Re: Celtics @ Cavaliers

If Cleveland cannot beat Boston by atleast 15 against Boston IN Cleveland, I'll be very disappointed. Pierce will more than likely take LeBron, but I still expect LeBron to be LeBron. But Larry Hughes, Drew Gooden and Big Z should have a big night.

 

[Deadlock]

Re: Celtics @ Cavaliers

Must win. Have to beat these teams that aren't expecting much this year. We proved we can beat top teams now lets beat these sleepers.

 

[Troy Wingate]

Re: Celtics @ Cavaliers

Must win. Have to beat these teams that aren't expecting much this year. We proved we can beat top teams now lets beat these sleepers.

Losing to Charlotte and Atlanta didn't do that cause any good.

 

[Deadlock]

Re: Celtics @ Cavaliers

Losing to Charlotte and Atlanta didn't do that cause any good.

Yeah I know that's why I am stressing this is a MUST win game. We need to take out these teams we SHOULD beat. We hit our FT play as a team and hustle out there. We should win by 15 with ease.

 

[Troy Wingate]

Re: Celtics @ Cavaliers

The Cavs are lucky they don't have me as coach, coz I woulda been blasting them after losing to the Bobcats and Hawks.

We can beat the most elite team in the NBA in San Antonio on their home court, but we can't beat a pathetic little team like Charlotte and Atlanta?

Can't beat Boston by 15 plus, something is wrong. We need to be beating teams like Charlotte and Atlanta by 25 plus.

 

[TheAdmin]

Re: Celtics @ Cavaliers

Telfair, Damon Jones and Donyell Marshall may not play in this game. Telfair had bronchospasm's (can't breath) and was sent to the hospital last night. Damon Jones has a bad case of the flu and Marshall is complaining about his left wrist hurting (MRI was negative).

All three players will be in Cleveland its not known if they will play or not.

 

[Dungong]

Re: Celtics @ Cavaliers

Do not take the Celtics so lightly. This is no 15 point automatic win. The Celtics ALWAYS come out to play against the Cavs. The Lebron-Pierce duels from the last couple seasons have been some of the better matchups and more entertaining games. I could see this being a tight competitive one.

 

[Kypus]

Re: Celtics @ Cavaliers

Yeah, I see this being a venom-fest with Paul Pierce as usual. We should be able to beat them though, until Telfair went out they had been using FOUR PGs in their rotation. Heck, we've been rotating 3 PFs plus a 7'3 center :chuckles: They should NOT be able to deal with our size advantage.

No matter who starts at C, (Ratliff got his 1st start lastnight) we should be able to contain them. Kendrick Perkins is raw offensively, and a crappy FT shooter, so we should let Z and Gooden work on him early to get him in foul trouble. Ratliff has no offensive skill, plus he hasn't had any time to work into their system.

 

[Smooth]

Re: Celtics @ Cavaliers

Telfair, Damon Jones and Donyell Marshall may not play in this game. Telfair had bronchospasm's (can't breath) and was sent to the hospital last night. Damon Jones has a bad case of the flu and Marshall is complaining about his left wrist hurting (MRI was negative).

All three players will be in Cleveland its not known if they will play or not.

This is hard to say but, our PG situation just got worse... DJ has been the best PG to this point in the season.. He's also had a nice night agaisnt the Bulls were he hit some open shots...

Donyell has been our most consistent 3PT threat to this point and has really been in good shape.. Hopefully he can play, but if he can't, we're going to need Sasha to step up again and Pollard play some minutes..

Telfair will be a big loss for that team.. He was kinda the Energizer Bunny for that team and he has so far really kept them together..

The Cavs are going to have to contain either West or Rondo, whoever starts.. Both of them aren't easy guards and will defintely give us some trouble.

 

[kevolution]

Re: Celtics @ Cavaliers

A big win from the Cavs tonight would be great!
Let's make Doc hate us a little more.

By the way, up top above these posts on the team matchup, Delonte West's pic is listed with Telfair's name.

 

[The One]

Re: Celtics @ Cavaliers

I think Ilgauskas should get back into form tonight. Wally & Pierce will get their points but if we limit the other guys we should get a solid victory.

 

[kevolution]

Re: Celtics @ Cavaliers

I can't believe it's Saturday night and the only NBA game being nationally broadcasted is on NBA TV?!

Mehh, I guess I'm gonna sit at my computer refreshing Yahoo's box score!

 

[The One]

Re: Celtics @ Cavaliers

Yeh same Im watching Yahoo Gamecast

 

[cdt]

Re: Celtics @ Cavaliers

This team is pathetic...let's bring in Damon and Donyell so we can shoot some 3's because posting up is clearly out of the question..

Z getting abused offensively and defensively by Kendrick Perkins...god he's awful...