Flip's strategy and system is keep shooting the ball, do not worry about the Defense. You hit all your shots, we will win. Just keep shooting.

If you push Gibson's minutes up to Parker's, he comes out with 22 points and 6 assists. Not too shabby for a fourteen year old. Why do I have the feeling Larry Hughes could be on the block sometime soon?

I only got to watch the first half last night after spending about six hours trying to get out of Chicago yesterday, but the Cavs were playing pretty well. They took a big Spurs hit and then came back only to see the Spurs go on another run.

Still hard to imagine they can win more than one.

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Did not watch the game much cuz I got to work (sucks!). However, looking at the boxscores I was wondering this: -

Spurs starting backcourt consist of Parker, Finley and Bowen. Other than Parker, both Finley and Bowen is way past 30 years of age. How can they be faster than our CBill, Rip and Prince when CBill is the only guy who just touch 30 years old? If their backcourt can play DEFENSE and stop both James and Boobie, I see no reason why our backcourt can't do that. In addition, only Bowen played 40 minutes.

Yet the Spurs were like toying with the Cavs all game and we struggled to hold a 5 point lead.

Could go on and on but I'm too frustrated after watching the Spurs beat the Cavs so easily. In summary, I still think our loss in the ECF 80% coaches (FLIP) and 20% players.

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San Antonio would probably have dismantled us.

You answered your own question. CS played 43.8 mins and Prince 44 in the Conf finals

On the other hand, there were only 15 PF called against SA... similar to the first game in the ECF and once again, the Cavs scored 76 points.

Let's see how SA fares when 35 fouls are called against them.

Is that a prediction or a prophecy? LOL............

Isn't the picture cute? it is on the NBA mainpage



I knew there was something about those two.

Why can't Rasheed be a little bit sensitive toward Rip? If he did the Piston would have won it all.

I saw at least two instances of Sheed yelling at Rip after misses on the offensive end. In the OT of game 5 when Rip did a couple of fakes at the basket and missed on a short jumper. On the other end after a time out, I reran my DVR and turned up the sound and Sheed yelled at Rip "stop all that fakin and just shoot the damn ball". Needless to say Sheed wanted to win and was upset at his team mates.. Rip just shrugged it off and walked away...yeah we lost ...

Didn't see the full game, Spurs contained LBJ with a great help side defense. Bowen + Duncan/Umberto. Ben would have been exactly what we needed in the Cavs series as he would not allowed LBJ open looks to pass the ball or drive without being fouled.