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Re: Wake up Call         


Author: wyzbang
Date: May 21, 2007 20:21

"Brian Matthews" ddd.com> wrote in message
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> No matter who the weak teams were that the Cavs played to get to the
> Eastern Finals, the fact they are here is cause for concern.
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> They played like demons tonight and could have a point to prove.
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> The Pistons were favored by 6 and won by 3.
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> The offensive rebounding, which Cleveland has been great at all year,
> reared it's ugly head tonight. It looked like the Pistons made an
> effort to stop the offensive boards in the 2nd half.
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> And the turnovers were killing the Pistons. Was it the Cavs defense or
> sloppy Detroit play?
>
> If Cleveland made their free throws, the outcome would have been much
> different. Of course, that has been the Cavs weakness this year.
>
> Much too close of a game and maybe Detroit will use this game as a ...
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Re: Wake up Call         


Author: jslater
Date: May 22, 2007 08:36

On May 22, 12:37 am, Brian Matthews ddd.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 21 May 2007 23:21:56 -0400, "wyzbang" yahoo.com>
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>>"Brian Matthews" ddd.com> wrote in message
>>news:phn453lpfci7g2t8d0j3e046p1sjqc95ts@4ax.com...
>>> No matter who the weak teams were that the Cavs played to get to the
>>> Eastern Finals, the fact they are here is cause for concern.
>
>>> They played like demons tonight and could have a point to prove.
>
>>> The Pistons were favored by 6 and won by 3.
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>>> The offensive rebounding, which Cleveland has been great at all year, ...
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Re: Wake up Call         


Author: SkippyPB
Date: May 22, 2007 08:50

On Tue, 22 May 2007 04:37:19 GMT, Brian Matthews ddd.com>
wrote:
>On Mon, 21 May 2007 23:21:56 -0400, "wyzbang" yahoo.com>
>wrote:
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>>"Brian Matthews" ddd.com> wrote in message
>>news:phn453lpfci7g2t8d0j3e046p1sjqc95ts@4ax.com...
>>> No matter...
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Re: Wake up Call         


Author: jslater
Date: May 22, 2007 11:52

There's a pretty good argument that the Cavs deserved to win. Detroit
committed 16 turnovers, got outrebounded (the Cavs offensive
rebounding was especially inpressive) -- those two stats led to the
Cavs taking 14 more shots than Detroit --got a couple of semi-lucky
shots on broken plays/long rebounds down the stretch, and barely
survived as Marshall missed a wide-open three with 'Sheed trying to
recover that must have had every basketball fan in the country
recalling Horry's big make in the finals a couple of years ago.

It was a strange and ugly game. When was the last time Chauncy had
more turnovers (7) than shot attempts (6)? Rip had an exellent game
(not just hot shooting, but also 7 assists), 'Sheed had a very solid...
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