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Originally Posted by OSUBasketballJunkie
Smith just walked and no call......that has been the story all night for Boston.....that is why they call it home court advantage I guess......
Good luck Sunday at Boston.......
And you root for Kevin Garnett?
Are you serious?
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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
Boston
- 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.
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.
Time to shine
Today offers James chance on center stage
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.
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.
