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**remy23** · 04-24-2008, 05:26 PM

The Wizards are currently ahead. On Cleveland's side of things, they have managed to draw 2 offensive fouls which is nice.

**Brandname** · 04-24-2008, 05:27 PM

Again, our offense looks like it has no idea what's going on. No movement or direction. Sigh.

**remy23** · 04-24-2008, 05:35 PM

Cleveland was down by 9 points when the score was 12-21 and looked like they would be down by double-digits by the end of the quarter (due to the Wizards 11-0) run. But the Cavaliers made a decent stand at the end of the quarter to reduce Washington's lead.

After one quarter of play, Cleveland trails Washington by 4 points (17-21).

**remy23** · 04-24-2008, 05:43 PM

Now the Wizards go up by double-digits. Once again, Cleveland looks awful with James on the bench.

**remy23** · 04-24-2008, 06:26 PM

With Cleveland being down big, it feels like the Magic/Raptors game. At the half, the Magic were down by around 21 and are now down 11. Hopefully Cleveland can have a big 3rd quarter and cut the lead.

**Brandname** · 04-24-2008, 06:40 PM

Good thing we showed up just to roll over. ****.

**Pioneer10** · 04-24-2008, 06:43 PM

Some of our players are real chumps on the roads.

**Pioneer10** · 04-24-2008, 06:46 PM

Crap is AV hurt?

**Benedict_Boozer** · 04-24-2008, 08:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Pioneer10

Some of our players are real chumps on the roads.

Some = ALL OF THEM

Frankly this act of Lebron showing up and everyone else sucking is getting old. We need to get another all-star caliber player in here. It's just frustrating to watch.

Lebron really didn't even play well and he was about 10000x better than anyone else on this squad.

Z in particular. He's getting days off, so there is no excuse for him. He is our 2nd option scorer, if he is gonna mail it on the road we are ****ed.

**Pioneer10** · 04-24-2008, 08:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Benedict_Boozer

Some = ALL OF THEM

Frankly this act of Lebron showing up and everyone else sucking is getting old. We need to get another all-star caliber player in here. It's just frustrating to watch.

Lebron really didn't even play well and he was about 10000x better than anyone else on this squad.

Z in particular. He's getting days off, so there is no excuse for him. He is our 2nd option scorer, if he is gonna mail it on the road we are ****ed.

The team pre-trade was never this bad on the road. I just don't get it as Hughes and Gooden weren't exactly mentally tough.
But how does this team going from playing so good at home and to debacles on the road like Chicago and this Wiz game?

It's just pathetic: has West and Wally and even Boobie played a decent game on the road yet this year? It's not like these guys are green either. I have a feeling it's just we don't have very good players so the road/home thing effects them more (less calls, crowd energizing D etc) but still I don't remember us being us this bad on the road till the trade

**Benedict_Boozer** · 04-24-2008, 09:44 PM

Who knows with this team. When you really think about it, we have no true reliable 2nd option.

Z can be great one night and useless another
Wally is completely erratic
Boobie since his injury is not consistent and overall is not a guy you can count on to give you 15-20pts every night

Who else do we got now? Delonte? He has been invisible nearly the whole series. Joe Smith can score but he barely plays and if he is our 2nd option, that is sad.

I have ZERO confidence with this team on the road.

**remy23** · 04-26-2008, 11:58 AM

Game #4

VS

Cleveland Cavaliers (2-1) @ Washington Wizards (1-2)

Sunday, April 27, 2008
Time: 10:00am PT, 1:00pm ET
TV: ABC
Radio: WTAM 1100
Location: Verizon Center, Washington, D.C.

HEAD COACHES

ESPN's Cleveland Cavaliers vs. Washington Wizards Page | Yahoo's Cleveland Cavaliers vs. Washington Wizards Page

Quote:

No question, no rivalry, no problem

CLEVELAND: The question made LeBron James smirk. His eyebrows raised and he smirked. As if a bunch of white-shirt-wearing folks with a half-hearted chant had . . . gulp . . . gotten in his head.

That was what the questioner stated, at least, and James smiled ever so slightly.

Joe Average Cavs Fan might have been worried about his team after that Game 3 debacle Thursday night in the Verzon Center.

But had Joe Average Cavs Fan been present at James' news conference late Thursday night he would have left disappointed but not worried.

Because the last thing James seemed was worried.

The fun started close to midnight, after James had gotten through talking about how well the Washington Wizards had played and how poorly the Cavs had done.

Someone brought up the notion of James being ''affected'' by the crowd chanting ''O-ver-ra-ted'' to him.

Now, this Washington crowd cheers for its team, and it
wore white T-shirts and all that, but it's hardly among the louder ormore rowdy crowds in sports.

It's, shall we say, governmental.

Yes, they make noise.

Yes, they cheer. But the Roman Coliseum it isn't.

So when maybe one-half of a crowd of 20,000 — not sure if Colin Powell was chanting — yells overrated, it's pretty clever . . . in a governmental kind of way.

But when James heard the word ''affected'' about the chant his face changed immediately.

''Huh?'' he said, sounding startled.

Without turning his head, he rolled his eyes to his left to look at the questioner, a slight smile on his face.

The implication was pretty clear: This little piece of nail here that I didn't bite off during the game is bothersome. That chant . . . ''I've played in more hostile environments than this crowd,'' he said — politely.

''I've played in the Eastern Conference finals in Detroit. That's a lot more hostile than the crowd saying overrated. . . . It's no big deal. I have fun with the fans. It's no big deal.''

James missed a free throw when the chant first was heard, which really isn't all that unusual. He followed seconds later with a flying dunk, with a take off from Anacostia.

Of course, overrated came from DeShawn Stevenson's comment about James, and that led to James comparing Stevenson to Soulja Boy (a hip-hop guy some consider a one-hit wonder) and that led to Soulja Boy saying James disrespected him and sitting in the front row wearing the only other Stevenson jersey in the arena. During one timeout, the Wizards put Soulja Boy on the big screen and had him do his Crank Dat dance.

So someone asked James about Soulja Boy being disrespected — and that smile returned to James' face.

The question that followed: Does Soulja Boy being there make him think, ''I don't need Soulja Boy against me?''

''I know, for sure

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