Cleveland Cavaliers v. New Jersey Nets: Game Two - Second Half
Posted May 8th, 2007 by George Thomas
Cavs lead 48-45 courtesy of some serious rebounding.
They've won the battle of the boards in the first half 26-18 and have 11 second chance points to the Nets 2. Just like the first game you can expect this to be a ground it out kind of affair.
Second half starts and it's clear that the Nets want to get Vince Carter actually involved with this one as he hits his first shot.
Carter's cold and Jason Kidd begins to heat up, dropping a couple of treys inside 30 seconds.
67-64 Nets and Vince Carter, who had four points at halftime suddenly found his game and he's up to 13. And once again, the Cavs are willing to settle for outside shots.
Forgive the delay…I'm alternating between this and game notes. Deadlines will kill some of the writers tonight. Nationally televised gaems have a way of doing that. They tip-off a full hour later than regular home contests and heaven forbid we get overtime. And with the game staying close at 71-70 that isn't out of the realm of possibility here.
74-73 looks as if LeBron James is returning to what he did against the Nets in the last regular season meeting when he dropped 35 points on the Nets by attacking the basket. He's agressively taking it in here and it's paying off.
Again the Cavs are winning this game because of what they're doing on the boards. They have 37 rebounds to the Nets 25. Fourteen offensive rebounds to the Nets 2 and 13 second chance points to the Nets 2. What they don't lead is in shooting a stat that the Nets own 54 percent to 44.
The Nets are in the double digits in turnovers, right now it seems as if they're trying to give the game to the Cavaliers and they won't take it.
May 17th, 2007 at 3:17 pm
BLAME MIKE BROWN FOR HIS INEXPERIENCE
You can not blame Donyell Marshall for being rusty. Mike Brown is the blame for what ale's the Cavs. Marshall being one of the best 3 pt shooters in the league; has barely seen any playing time at all. Mike Brown is the blame for allowing Larry Hughs to keep taking those ridiculous
shots and not pulling him out the game. He was better off putting Damon Jones in who hasn't seen any playoff time at all instead of putting up with Hughs sub par play. Even the crowd could attest to that. You can only blame the coach when so much on one team goes bad.
May 17th, 2007 at 3:42 pm
From the looks of last nights game, it only confirms that, Larry Hughs is whack!! He is the biggest waste of Cavs money. Now it is obvious he needs to be traded. There is no room for selfish players on that team