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Cleveland Cavaliers' defense is capable of dominating, writes The Plain Dealer's Bill Livingston


Sunday, May 18, 2008Bill Livingston
Plain Dealer Columnist
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- The Boston Celtics have lost three sev enth games at home in their history. They have won 15. None of the losses was close. The one that has the most relevance to the Cavaliers' task this afternoon is the most distant.
The 1972-73 New York Knicks were known for playing beautiful conceptual basketball, with coach Red Holzman's mantra of "Hit the open man." But they could defend as if the open man were a hoax, a basketball El Dorado for which opponents would search forever fruitlessly. The Knicks won the seventh game at Boston Garden, 94-78.




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Cleveland Cavaliers have LeBron James, Boston Celtics have history, writes The Plain Dealer's Terry Pluto

Celtics have history, Cavaliers have LeBron
Sunday, May 18, 2008
You're a Cavaliers fan, and your team is playing Game 7 . . . in Boston.
Your team is not supposed to have a chance. You know that. You know all about the Celtics winning 66 games, about the Celtics being the best team in the regular season, about the Celtics supposedly having some kind of divine entitlement to play for a title.
But LeBron James thinks it's his destiny, too. He thinks it's the Cavaliers, not the Celtics, who are the defending Eastern Conference champs. He thinks he lives for games like today, going into Boston and winning a game that makes all of New England weep - and doing it on national television.

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Time to shine
[FONT=Verdana,Times New Roman,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Today offers James chance on center stage[/FONT]
Sunday, May 18, 2008
BY Chris Beaven
REPOSITORY SPORTS WRITER

A packed arena. A hostile, loud crowd. An entire season at stake.

Everything that brings out the best in the NBA's great players awaits LeBron James today at Boston's TD Banknorth Garden. So it should come as no surprise that the Cavs' All-Star can't wait for Game 7 of their Eastern Conference semifinal series against the Celtics.

"It's going to be electrifying," James said after the Cavs won Friday night in Cleveland to force the decisive game. "We'll have to give it all we got."

That approach helped the Cavs stave off elimination Friday when they beat the Celtics, 74-69, in a game that pretty much defined a series where the home team has not lost. It was ugly, physical and defensive-minded ? the type of game the Cavs are becoming adept at playing.

"I have a team of guys that are resilient ... know how to play the game and aren't going to lay down at all," Cavs Head Coach Mike Brown said Saturday afternoon in a conference call with media before the team headed to Boston.

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Cavaliers Notebook: Don't count Brown as an NBA historian
Sunday, May 18, 2008
BY Chris Beaven
REPOSITORY SPORTS WRITER

Don't look for any long-winded speeches today on Game 7s past from Mike Brown as the Cavs prepare to play at Boston.

Looking back ? or ahead ? is never the Cavs head coach's style.

"I don't feel like going back and trying to think about them," said Brown, who has both won and lost Game 7s during his coaching career. "This is a different team, and I'm in a different situation in terms of coaching."

The most recent Game 7 for Brown and the Cavs was a loss at Detroit in the 2006 conference semifinals, ending his first season as head coach. But in 2005, when Brown was an assistant at Indiana, the Pacers won a Game 7 at Boston in the first round.

"The reality of it is I can't remember," Brown said of that Pacers' 97-70 win at Boston.

Brown said someone mentioned that win to him after the Cavs won Friday night's Game 6 to force this Game 7. Brown didn't know if the information was accurate.

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You know what? Fuck the Cavs. For all the shit I hear on this site regarding bandwagon bengals fans, I haven't heard a peep about bandwagon Cavs fans. Half the fucking Cavs fans I know were Bulls fans throughout the 90's. It's worse than the Bengals ever were.

Fuck Lebron. Though I really don't have any reason to hate him, other than the more I watch him, the more he reminds me of Vlade Divac with his pussy like flops.

I hope the Celtics win by thirty.
 
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I understand most likely the majority of the posters on this site are Cav fans.....I am not.......I am a LeBron fan.....I grew up when Boston was on top of the East every year and they had Bird.....the Cavs had World B. Free....enough said..

I am a huge Garnett fan, you have to respect a player who played for a franchise and did not complain for 10 years.....

I don't want to come off as a guy who complains about the officiating but I do not think I have never watched a basketball game where one player was at the line more than an entire team.....

I don't want to hear we shoot jumpshots.......game 6 we took it to the lane and did not get the calls.....I just wish it was more consistent when it comes to the officiating......

I feel like it will be a close game but Boston will get it done.....
 
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OSUBasketballJunkie;1165500; said:
I understand most likely the majority of the posters on this site are Cav fans.....I am not.......I am a LeBron fan.....I grew up when Boston was on top of the East every year and they had Bird.....the Cavs had World B. Free....enough said..

I am a huge Garnett fan, you have to respect a player who played for a franchise and did not complain for 10 years.....

I don't want to come off as a guy who complains about the officiating but I do not think I have never watched a basketball game where one player was at the line more than an entire team.....

I don't want to hear we shoot jumpshots.......game 6 we took it to the lane and did not get the calls.....I just wish it was more consistent when it comes to the officiating......

I feel like it will be a close game but Boston will get it done.....
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I grew up a Celts fan because my dad was. My favorite players though were Bird and Barkley. When Barkley was traded to Phoenix, I started really following the NBA, and the Suns.

I caught SO much shit for being a Celtics fan in grade school. Bulls fans constantly talked shit throughout the nineties. Where did all the Bulls fans go? They are still wearing #23 jerseys, just not MJ's.
 
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BUCKYLE;1165466; said:
You know what? Fuck the Cavs. For all the shit I hear on this site regarding bandwagon bengals fans, I haven't heard a peep about bandwagon Cavs fans. Half the fucking Cavs fans I know were Bulls fans throughout the 90's. It's worse than the Bengals ever were.

Fuck Lebron. Though I really don't have any reason to hate him, other than the more I watch him, the more he reminds me of Vlade Divac with his pussy like flops.

I hope the Celtics win by thirty.
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I can't argue with your reasons, other than your reasons to hate Lebron. I haven't figured out why, exactly, he gets so much hate from other fans. I can only guess that it is jealously... I know that's why I hated Michael Jordan growing up.
 
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OH10;1165509; said:
I can't argue with your reasons, other than your reasons to hate Lebron. I haven't figured out why, exactly, he gets so much hate from other fans. I can only guess that it is jealously... I know that's why I hated Michael Jordan growing up.
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:lol: Yeah, I'll give you that. The thing is, I really wanted to like him. It's just these jack-asses that used to be Bulls fans constantly telling me he's the next such and such. It's not Bron-brons fault.

I have noticed, though I admittedly don't watch alot of NBA, that for a 6'6", 260 lb. man, he...is moved...rather easily. Maybe I just don't watch enough, maybe I just see what I want to see. I don't know. He just seems to flop and yell. I guess it would be more Magic Johnson than Divac, but it irritates me.
 
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BUCKYLE;1165505; said:
I grew up a Celts fan because my dad was. My favorite players though were Bird and Barkley. When Barkley was traded to Phoenix, I started really following the NBA, and the Suns.

I caught SO much shit for being a Celtics fan in grade school. Bulls fans constantly talked shit throughout the nineties. Where did all the Bulls fans go? They are still wearing #23 jerseys, just not MJ's.
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Exactly. I haven't seen a "diehard" Bulls fan in years.

I grew up a Celts fan watching games with my Grandpa in the 1970s. My favorite player was Havlicek - Ohio boy, Buckeye grad, and Celtic. :bow:

After all the lean years since Bird it's nice to just be a contender again, but if the Celts go out today the season - and the trades - would've been a major disappointment. Gotta take this one from the Cavs.
 
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BUCKYLE;1165466; said:
You know what? Fuck the Cavs. For all the shit I hear on this site regarding bandwagon bengals fans, I haven't heard a peep about bandwagon Cavs fans. Half the fucking Cavs fans I know were Bulls fans throughout the 90's. It's worse than the Bengals ever were.

Fuck Lebron. Though I really don't have any reason to hate him, other than the more I watch him, the more he reminds me of Vlade Divac with his pussy like flops.

I hope the Celtics win by thirty.
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I hope this post is a joke and not serious...
 
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