Category: Cleveland Cavaliers (Page 17 of 88)

The Cleveland Cavaliers continued their trend of playing a bad second half of basketball. Last night, the Cavs went almost 5 minutes without scoring and finally lost 95-89 to the New Orleans Hornets.

Cleveland’s defense has been a problem all season and last night was no exception. The Hornets shot close to 55% from the field and Chris Paul put in 30 points against the Cavs. LeBron James was held to 15 points as New Orleans focused on stopping him and forcing others to score.

The Cavaliers, at times, looked very confused and uninspired playing on the road. This team needs to find an identity and play with pride if they want to go deep in the playoffs.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Coach Mike Brown needs to wake up and take control of this team if he wants to stay in Cleveland a long time.

The Cleveland Cavaliers continue to show that they’re a team with two faces. Tonight, the Cavalier “playoff contender” showed up and cruised to a 32 point victory over the Indiana Pacers.

The Pacers were without superstar Jermaine O’Neal for the second straight game with a pulled left hamstring. LeBron James led all scorers with 32 points and Donyell Marshall pulled down 17 rebounds.

This game was over early, as Cleveland held a 15 point lead by the end of the first quarter. The only question tonight was if Cleveland was going to stay focused and put the Pacers away. They finally played four quarters of inspired basketball and walked away with much needed win.

The Cavaliers used a big, fourth quarter run to charge ahead of the Toronto Raptors as they beat them 95-91 at the Q on Wednesday night. They bounced back from their dreadful 63-point performance against the Rockets last weekend and notched a much needed victory. The Cavs, wearing their retro orange uni’s once again, sank some big three pointers down the stretch. None was bigger than Donyell Marshall’s trey with less than 20 seconds left and the Cavs only up by one.

LeBron finished with 26 points and 10 assists, Marshall had 19 off the bench, and Daniel Gibson had 18 (3 0f 6 on three-pointers) in his first ever NBA start. The Cavs saw five players in double figures in points.

It’s obvious Mike Brown is trying anything possible to jumpstart the Hughes-less Cavaliers by juggling the lineup. The Gibson addition worked wonders for one night at least. I’ve been really impressed with this kid so far with this athelticism and ability to shoot the ball. Eric Snow has his good days, but when Larry returns, anyone opposed to starting Gibson at the point along with Larry at the two and having Snow come off the bench? Gibson is a good enough defender and is light years ahead of Snow offensively.

The Cavaliers still have 65 games left to play in their 2006-07 season but you can already book Saturday night as the worst performance of the entire season. After all, it can’t get any worse could it? I sure hope not. The Cavs’ 81-63 loss to the Rockets pretty much was the worst basketball you could play. LeBron was 7 of 22 from the field for 21 points, the Cavs shot 28 percent as a team, and were mighty close to tying a franchise record for fewest points in a game. Six of 23 from beyond the arc for the Wine and Gold. In a combined 57 minutes, Shannon Brown, Damon Jones, and Sasha Pavlovic together were 0-11 from the field and 0-6 from three for a whopping two points.

“You shoot 28 percent from the field, you don’t have a chance to win,” said James.

We are missing Larry Hughes more than ever as Mike Brown continues to tinker with the lineup and experiment with players in his absence.