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March 14, 2010Happy Selection Sunday everyone! For your afternoon entertainment, we have two games starting at 3:30 pm featuring teams from the local area. The Cleveland Cavaliers (51-15) look to extend their winning streak with a home contest against the struggling Boston Celtics (41-23). Since being 23-5 on Christmas Day following an impressive road win against the Magic, Boston is an even 18-18 to fall to nine games below the Cavs in the Eastern Conference standings. The two teams still have one more game left against each other on Sunday, April 4th in Massachusetts.
The other basketball game for the NE Ohio folks today is Ohio State taking on Minnesota in the Big Ten championship. The Golden Gophers have all but secured their bid for the NCAA Tournament while a win today could possibly mean a #1 seed for the Bucks. Back-to-back thrillers against Michigan and Illinois have pulled the team within striking distance of a second straight conference title, but a limited bench might mean the team is finally out of gas.
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I mean do we really need to watch the Cavs game? I think its clear that (even if some miracle way, the Celtics upset us without Shaq and Z) we’re the better team. I mean if they won would anybody in Cleveland be worried? Now if Orlando came in here and beat us (without Shaq and Z) then a few people might be mad but Boston????
Do any Championship contenders take them seriously? They lost to New Jersey at home. Do we suppose to take them seriously? How does this game mean anything to us? Boston should be treating this like its a game 7 of the NBA Finals. This is for their respect amongst the upper echelon of the NBA.
This game means nothing to us and it should mean everything to them. So with that being said, i’ll be watching the Ohio State vs Minnesota Big 10 Championship Game. Oh, and Magic will kill the Bobcats today.
Very enjoyable fact: if the Bucks win today, they will complete the first ever Big Ten major sports quintet – conference championships in football, men’s basketball reg. season, women’s basketball reg. season, men’s basketball tourney, and women’s basketball tourney.
As long as Rondo gets fouled hard, I’m happy.
^what he said^
Mo Williams is not good at defense. Ohio State and Minnesota are not good at offense.
When did the Cavs become the Cleveland Masons?
Can someone break Big Baby’s face please?
Man do I hate JVG. I’m willing to endure it to get a chance to watch the game, but gawd is he terrible at every facet of his job.
Alex I totally agree with you….so sick of hearing all three of these guys gab like Desperate Housewives
I’d rather listen to JVG than Austin Carr any day of the week.
Even with their fashion discussion?
Yes. AND he mentioned the Oscars during that exchange.
I’d still rather hear that than listen to “mumble, grumble, KING JAAAMES, maubmenaeab… WEAK STUFF… outta HEEEEEReeERererEEE. Ha HAAAA!”
wow do these guys shoot free throws in practice? Everything else looks good so far except the charity stripe
Glen Davis is a POS.
Agreed Robbie…I love how they’re taking Davis’s side about how he didn’t mess with Shaq’s thumb after the foul…even though it’s on tape and been shown over and over and over….but yeah…he didn’t do anything….
Yahoo! Sports posted Kenny Smith’s “analysis” of Boston and Cleveland, with the question put to him being, does Boston still threaten Cleveland? As I had imagined, the man remains incorrigible. If Boston plays .500 ball, as Jacob points out they have for 36 games (!), Kenny, who apparently decided sometime years ago that he must… not… drop… his allegiance to the Celtics, now says, “The Celtics are not built for the regular season; teams with energy can beat them (!); but they are built for the playoffs.”
This curious formula raises a question: “don’t most teams play playoff games with energy?” More importantly, can anyone imagine Kenny making such a one-sided assessment of the Cavs had the Cavs lost 18 of 36 games?
I’d like to say that a victory here against the Celtics would be especially sweet in that it would make Smith eat his words, but even if Boston suffered a crushing defeat, I’d expect to be floored once again by the resourcefulness of Smith’s partisan rationalizations.
I get that some people don’t like Austin’s Carr’s phrases but the guy knows basketball. Mark Jackson? Jeff Van Gundy? Please.
Great to see Andy getting props today. It would be even better to see the Cavs break 50% from the free throw line.
David Lighty is straight explodin’ this second half.
I expect the Cavs’ defense to clamp down in the second half. Anyway, the Celtics are not built for the regular season, so the thinking goes, and it is still March.
If I had to find one complaint, missed free throws. This team should have to spend major extra practice time on free throws. If they improved that, they’d be exceptionally hard to beat.
No one is talking about Brady Quinn being traded to Denver?
How many times is JJ gonna fall for the same old single pump fake….he’s making Garnett look alot better than he is right now
sam – post just went up.
@mp34 — I agree. I love his catch phrases and shout them out-loud in is absence during these nationally televised games.
I’ve always liked Carr. Most of the national guys are horrible. Reggie Miller, Jeff Van Gundy, Marv Alberts so annoying.
Ahhhh… gotta love rubbing it in Boston’s face. Make it 30 pts, guys.
I don’t know Rondo’s stat line today but he has been a non-factor.
Keeping true to his six-year old mentality, Jeff Van Gundy clamors for a “diet based on M&M’s.” Please, don’t let that man near a playoff series…
Will the Celtics score in the 4th period?
This is the toughest time of the season for the Cavs, it seems that LeBron huffs and puffs more when the playoffs come around. I wonder if they have a sleep and diet strategy?
Did JVG just say he wanted to see Lebron race a dead guy? I think he did.
Rub it in. Boy, do I hate the Celtics.
Cabs should shoot free throws from the three point line this is terrible.
OSU got a raw deal with that draw. Should’ve been in Duke or Syracuse’s bracket.
The game wasn’t as close as the Cavs’ free throw shooting made it seem. Boston is no longer a powerhouse. They are barely competitive.
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Goodnight Cleveland. Can we catch Mo and Jamison hot at the same time? Damn, if those 2 can ever get hot together………. Make FTs Cavs.
52-15:
I laughed when Van Dummy said Jamison was an 80% free throw shooter with Washington and since he’s come to Cleveland he’s below 50%. The Coach of the Year should have an entire practice devoted to just free throw shooting.
@JaytheTruth’s comment that “Oh, and Magic will kill the Bobcats today.”
Apparently this was only an afterthought. Not sure if you felt so because the Bobcats were missing Wallace due to injury, or if this actually constituted rooting for the Magic. In either case, it ended up as a tough loss for Orlando, whose distance from the top team in the conference just widened.
Folks better start taking the Bobcats seriously, they have giant slaying powers.
Cavs game: no matter how many ‘throws they bricked, this one was never in doubt. Not for one second did it seem like Cleveland would give up control. But they better start hitting their throws. When Anderson Varejao is the best end-of-game free throw shooter the Cavs have problems.
Boston is actually terrible now, which is a delight. Sheed is just as embarrassing as a Celtic as he was the last year in Detroit, only people are paying attention.
Hate to break it to you Van Gundy haters but ABC has the rights to the Finals and guess who is ALWAYS calling games? Van Gundy.
@JM: that’s a harrowing thought, but better to hit us with it now. Maybe I can find one of those Greek-language sites or just watch with the mute button ready for every time JVG decides to pontificate about his jogging prowess, love of M&M’s, Andy’s “flops,” or whatever other juvenile enthusiasm overcomes him.