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Cavs Rewind + The Week Ahead

By Will

Looking back at last week

Pelicans, Celtics, Hawks

Cavs this week –

Nuggets, Spurs, Wizards, and Raptors

The Cavs finally looked like the sexy basketball machine we all expected last week. They finished the week 3-0 with wins over the Pelicans, Celtics, and Hawks.

Pelicans:

Ryan Anderson came out shooting like Reggie Miller from NBA Hangtime, straight fire, on the way to 21 points in the first half and the Cavs trailed by 5 at the break. LeBron and Kyrie did LeBron and Kyrie things in the 3^rd quarter and the Cavs finished strong with some Kevin Love three balls to win 118-111.

LeBron finished the game with a triple double but then the NBA stats guys went all Danny Ocean and stole an assist. Is 32-11-9 still good?

Side bar: Anthony Davis is basically the human version of the movie Avatar – dude is straight from planet Pandora. And his unibrow is like Sampson’s hair. When LeBron passes the torch of league’s best player it’s getting handed to the ‘Brow.

Celtics:

I was so pissed off for 75% of this game (the first three quarters). We got down by 18 to Tyler Zeller’s Boston Celtics. Pathetic. Then Kyrie got pissed too and scored 13 points in what seemed like 45 seconds to start the 4^th. LeBron scored 10 in the last six minutes and Rondo looked like a fat guy in a vegan restaurant (scared and uncomfortable) when he bricked the final shot to secure the W for the good guys. Love added 12 and 15 boards.

Hawks:

Total domination by the Cavs. We set a new NBA record for most made threes without a miss in a quarter (9 for 9) and actually made 11 straight before missing. We led by 28 at halftime and won by 33. Bron-Love-Kyrie combined for 65. Smokin’ Joe Harris – we’re making that a thing – had 12 big ones.

Yesterday we played like ass against the Nuggets. Zero defense. Zero offense aside from four players. Zero intensity. Zero sense of urgency. I think we got cocky after the win streak and walked out expecting to roll without any effort. It’s still the NBA, guys. Gotta bring it every night. (I’m blaming this loss 100% on LeBron’s sniffles)

(Cavs defense this season)

UPCOMING:

San Antonio comes to town Wednesday night. There is no way we come out flat against the defending champs. LeBron won’t let it happen after the way he got rolled in the finals. The Spurs have already started resting starters less than 10 games so they’ll be ready to play everyone vs. us. Kind of sucks knowing you get everyone’s best shot every night.

We go to Washington on Friday. I’d like to see this rivalry get renewed this year. It was always fun playing the Gilbert Arenas-Caron Butler-Antawn Jamison Wizards back in LeBron’s first stint. I think we knocked them out of the playoffs like 4 straight years. Paul Pierce and LeBron is always worth watching even if Paul Pierce has one foot in the grave at this point. I expect Dion to talk a lot of shit this game after Bradley Beal called him out in the offseason. Kyrie vs. John Wall is a matchup of 2 of the brightest young point guards in the league. I imagine John Wall will come out with something to prove because he was cut from the Team USA team (which Kyrie made)

The Cavs round out the week back home against the Raptors who are actually really good. I feel like it’s tough to be less intimidating than being from Canada AND having this guy as your #1 fan: