This should end well: Cavs @ Pistons
by Kevin Sawyer on Mar 16, 2010 7:02 PM EDT
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PrintCleveland Cavaliers at Detroit Pistons, Mar 16, 2010 7:30 PM EDT
Game Tips at 7:30 EST
Detroit Pistons: 23-44 (16-18 home)
Cleveland Cavaliers: 52-15 (23-11 away)
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Keys for Detroit
Watch the perimeter -- The old trick of packing the lane and making LeBron shoot jumpers is still valid, but the Cavs in general have become a very efficient three point shooting team. If you let them beat you from downtown, that is precisely what they will do.
Stop LeBron -- I mean, duh. Seriously, though, if the Pistons can make him give up the ball with some frequency, they should be able to stay competitive. The Cavs are light on weapons right now, and they can't count on 17 point from Varejao every time.
Play Daye - I'm going to cut and paste this for the rest of the season.
Question of the Game
With the number one seed in the bag, you have to think the Cavs will shift gears a bit. Will we see that tonight?
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Guess they were serious
with that “sore back” description last night
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by handsomerob1 on Mar 16, 2010 7:42 PM EDT up reply actions
guess so
must have been one hell of a stinger for how painful Tay made it look
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Chalk throw
Ready, set, vomit.
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by handsomerob1 on Mar 16, 2010 7:43 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
I've never understood
why sports broadcasts insist on showing injury replays over and over. Tay’s wasn’t too gruesome, but I don’t want to watch when a guy’s knee goes the wrong way several times over.
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Hickson almost stepped on Maxiell’s babies…
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That shot looked awkward
I wonder how many painkillers Tay is hopped up on right now.
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I have to pause the game to eat
So I will leave my screen paused on a close up of JJ. He’s so puuurty.
I'm just like a sports reporter, but without the insight or money.
Damn
never mind. Foul changed to Parker.
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by handsomerob1 on Mar 16, 2010 7:53 PM EDT up reply actions
Jerebko just got a superstar call over LeBron
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that's because
Jerebko is a superstar
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by handsomerob1 on Mar 16, 2010 7:55 PM EDT up reply actions
yes sir
check right under this game thread on front page for deets
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I'm pretty sure
Varejao is shooting over 70% lately because nobody pays him any mind on D because they know he won’t make anything but a layup or dunk.
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I'm out
Gotta go purchase supplies for tomorrow’s festivities. Keep up teh suck Cavs.
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ZOMG whip out your camera phones... it's LeBron
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by Packey on Mar 16, 2010 8:31 PM EDT reply actions 7 recs
haha stinky pits (i didn't know what color to go with for that)
I thought that guy’s face in there looks like he caught a whiff of something not nice.
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That's hilarious
But I’m still going to blame him for being such an arrogant douche in love with the smell of his own asshole.
by Shinons on Mar 16, 2010 9:47 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
the pistons lead by... wait let me calculate... 2!
that was funny shit.
I’d like to see the pistons beat the crap out of these snuggie wearing foul smelling homosepians.
dare I say Tayshaun is flirting with curly fries?
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can you hear the whistling guy during the free throws?
I had the pleasure of sitting a row in front of him at the Sac home game… I’m sure my hearing will come back one day…
Now that I filled out my bracket
and I can start to care about college BB, when does the whole thing start?
play in game was today
rest of the action is thursday
noon twenty? lol
anyways, is anyone else pissed that they only came out with a live Tournament games app for the iphone/itouch and nothing for the android os?
i'm more pissed that i don't have a iphone, itouch, or android.
or even texting, for that matter.
Way to suck the teat ref!
Just give em some more free points
how many in a row is that?
he’s averaging one over the last 6 games or something
I love streams without commercials
lol @ Special K discussing with Blaha in the background during the timeout
‘’I have never seen a continuation THAT far out!’’
Not that I ever get to watch these games,
but I do go through the box scores. Is it just me, or do Daye and Summers almost never miss shots? I swear, it seems like they are always 2-2, or 4-5, or 3-4.
Same comment, reverse-angle with Gordon.
by MrHappyMushroom on Mar 16, 2010 9:51 PM EDT reply actions
I feel like he had the right idea, because his man was off balance trying to go after the outlet, but he just didn’t execute it very well.
by Roll The Dyess on Mar 16, 2010 9:59 PM EDT up reply actions
Wasn't even close.
That and the continuation are pretty much the difference tonight.
Well
Cain Fitzgerald isn’t invited to my birthday party anymore
by JoeDip on Mar 16, 2010 9:58 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
isn’t there a rule about checking replays for points with less than 2 minutes?
by don'tworryaboutit on Mar 16, 2010 9:58 PM EDT reply actions
and then they complain!
What the HELL cleveland! show some sportsmanship
All the gods of Olympus will now feel my wrath for this loss.
Time to turn on the PS3
i know leban is going to bring it to the refs attention
that he goaltended. he gets upset with bad calls so i know he must be pissed about that one.
by andyfrombrooklyn on Mar 16, 2010 10:04 PM EDT reply actions
G-Elliot taught me how to photoshop
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by Packey on Mar 16, 2010 10:04 PM EDT reply actions 4 recs
Haha! I just found this now. Your MS Paint skills are impressive, Packey.
by garrettelliott on Mar 24, 2010 12:39 AM EDT up reply actions
The worst part is half the Palace is Cleveland fans
That just kills me. My own fault though I guess.
i really do hate lebun
so so much. what a dick. please let him be denied again this year. i will take it one year at a time.
by andyfrombrooklyn on Mar 16, 2010 10:06 PM EDT reply actions
i dont get it...
why does noone ever really guard lebron? seriously, get up in his face and guard his ass, dont give him 3 feet to just pull up and shoot an easy jumper. make him beat you off the dribble and hope your help defense is there to make him pass or take a bad shot.
he gets foul calls whenever he dribble drives.
your odds are sadly better letting him hit jumper after jumper.
by the89oracle on Mar 16, 2010 10:07 PM EDT up reply actions
anything worse than a slight grazing warrants a flagrant foul, and 30 seconds of Anderson Varejoke trying to stare you down
by the89oracle on Mar 16, 2010 10:15 PM EDT up reply actions 3 recs
are you suggesting
some old fashioned bad boys basketball?
I don’t think our coach or team has the balls to pull that off without wallace on the floor.
if i was any of the pistons
I wouldn’t mind being banished to Italy the rest of my basketball life for causing LeBron a serious injury with a hard foul.
Good. Bad. I'm the guy with the gun.
just bring some dude up from the d league, let him crush lebron on one play. he will earn instant infamy. like bob ford.
Let’s just have Wilcox hard foul Stern. He can dive out into the crowd when he’s at a game and break some ribs. That’ll learn’m
I wish wilcox had a spine
guy is a poster child and a disgrace to the game
Good. Bad. I'm the guy with the gun.
I do remember a series where Washington tried to constantly foul him hard.
Where in the world is Cheikh Samb?
i recall james posey doing that to him during the 2008 playoffs and he got called with a flagrant instantly just cuz lebron lied down crying
by don'tworryaboutit on Mar 16, 2010 10:30 PM EDT up reply actions
Bynum Layup Shot: Missed Block: James (1 BLK)
by andyfrombrooklyn on Mar 16, 2010 10:12 PM EDT reply actions
Nights like tonight make me think that Tim Donagy isn’t (totally) full of BS.
by brgulker on Mar 16, 2010 10:22 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
where there's smoke, there's fire
there was a shit ton of smoke around donaghy, and the league wouldn’t work so hard to thwart his publishing if there wasn’t something that could be true.
Good. Bad. I'm the guy with the gun.
Donaghy was right
He may be a snake, but for years he was David Stern’s snake.
I'm just like a sports reporter, but without the insight or money.
Not that ESPN would tarnish their mascot,
but no mention of the obvious goaltend or ridiculous continuation. C’mon do your homework ESPN, it’s only your job.
they allude to it when they interview bynum, but its a throwaway line. did you post on the “conversation” for that story casey?
Didn’t know it existed till you mentioned it, but of course I had to check it out. I hardly consider that place better than two cavemen grunting at each other. If I wanted to hear conversations like that I’d talk basketball at work with all the young guys that are Lakers and Cavs fans. At the same time.
watching the rebroadcast now
cant wait to see lebrons gather and shoot to see how much of a bullshit call it was. mark champion and rick mahorn were going nuts on the radio talking about how many bullshit calls lebron received tonite. i guess his “block” on bynum is pretty silly as well. cant wait to see it.
. from what i could gather without seeing it:
cv committed 3 fouls on 3 consecutive possessions early in the fourth putting us in the bonus by the 8 min mark or so. usually i would think this is just the refs deciding the give the cavs an advantage and let them shoot ft’s the whole quarter, but since it was cv im sure that he acutally was fouling dudes. i guess i can somewhat forgive him since it sounds like he kept us in the game during a run in the same quarter.
lebron makes me irrationally angry. i wish he would take up horse riding and christopher reeves it.
mike brown is such a joke of a coach.
i wonder how it was in the 90’s with phil jackson. did people view him as a fraud like mike brown?
he is a fruad
imo any better coach should have won a championship with the players they have had.
Its not much but you really don’t need that much around lebron.
chicago got mj, cleveland gets lebron, when does detroit get there perennial superstar/face of the nba player?
haha
try your hand at the recap thread when you’re done watching the rebroadcast.
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great start
And hopefully others take this fan dedication into account when voting: 23-44 team and you’re in here talking to yourself about the rebroadcast. 
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